In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

Serbia had gained substantial territory during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, while Greece acquired Thessaly in 1881 ( although it lost a small area back to the Ottoman Empire in 1897 ) and Bulgaria ( an autonomous principality since 1878 ) incorporated the formerly distinct province of Eastern Rumelia ( 1885 ).

After 1860, terbia was renamed erbia and after 1877 what had been known as erbia was renamed terbia.

She had three children, Louisa ( 1873 – 1943 ), Margaret ( 1874 – 1875 ), who died of meningitis, and Alan ( 1877 – 1952 ).

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

In 1877, as a student at the Tokyo-Kaisei school ( soon to become part of the newly-founded Tokyo Imperial University ), Kano learned that many jujutsu teachers had been forced to pursue alternative careers, frequently opening.

In 1877, Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a wealthy widow who had heard of his difficulties, invited him to stay at her plantation of Beauvoir near Biloxi, Mississippi.

Another important act was the 1870 Public School Law, which increased literacy, thereby the demand for libraries, so by 1877, more than 75 cities had established free libraries, and by 1900 the number had reached 300.

* 1877 – U. S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U. S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.

Up until the fourth tour in 1877, led by Lillywhite, touring teams had played first-class games against the individual colonial sides, but Lillywhite felt that his side had done well enough against New South Wales to warrant a game against an All Australian team.

In 1877 she had remarried — to a French military officer named Charles Zieger.

In 1877, both her entries were rejected, and for the first time in seven years she had no works in the Salon.

Cros's paleophone was intended to both record and reproduce sound but had not been developed beyond a basic concept at the time of Edison's successful demonstration of the Phonograph in 1877.

An account of his invention was published on October 10, 1877, by which date Cros had devised a more direct procedure: the recording stylus could scribe its tracing through a thin coating of acid-resistant material on a metal surface and the surface could then be etched in an acid bath, producing the desired groove without the complication of an intermediate photographic procedure.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

Thomas A. Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877.

Wine merchant Friedrich Karl Christian Huth, whose great-grandfather had been kellermeister ( cellar-master ) to King Friedrich II back in 1769, had founded the firm in 1871 and taken over the former building in Potsdamer Straße on 23 March 1877.

Running right through the block into Link Straße, this new Weinhaus Huth was designed by the architects Conrad Heidenreich ( 1873 – 1937 ) and Paul Michel ( 1877 – 1938 ), and opened on 2 October 1912, and contained a wine restaurant on the ground floor, and wine storage space above, so it had to take a lot of weight.

These Great Reforms spurred industrialization and modernized the Russian army, which had successfully liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1877 – 78 Russo-Turkish War.

At the insistence of the Ottoman leader Talat Pasha, all lands Russia had captured from the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned.

In 1838 a specimen was named Dasyurus laniarius by Richard Owen, but by 1877 he had relegated it to Sarcophilus.

By this time the torpedo boat, the first of which had been built at the shipyards of Sir John Thornycroft in 1877, had gained recognition for its effectiveness, and the first torpedo boat destroyers ( later simply destroyers ) were built to counter it.

Test cricket began in 1877 when Grace was already 28 and he made his debut in 1880, scoring England's first-ever Test century against Australia.

" However Sir Bartle Frere had already been in to the Cape Colony as governor and high commissioner since 1877 with the brief of creating a Confederation of South Africa from the various British colonies, Boer Republics and native states and his plans were well advanced.

These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Bains Wing ( designed and built by Alfred Waterhouse ), the School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed.

Ironically, this provoked open conflict, although with the elimination of samurai rice stipends in 1877, tensions were already extremely high.

In addition to ornithology he did valuable work in mammalogy ; his book Fur-Bearing Animals ( 1877 ) being distinguished by the accuracy and completeness of its description of species, several of which were already becoming rare.

In August 1877, all Bosnian Muslims men from 15 to 70 were ordered to fight, although there was already 54 battalions, each with 400-700 men.

Since the Paris obelisk was already described as " l ' Aiguille de Cléopâtre " by 1877, before either the London or New York needles were erected, it appears to be the origin of the nickname.

Ironically, this provoked open conflict, although with the elimination of samurai rice stipends in 1877, tensions were already extremely high.

In any case, whether by an informal deal or simply reassurances already in line with Hayes's announced plans, talks with Southern Democrats satisfied the worries of many and so prevented a Congressional filibuster that had threatened to extend resolution of the election dispute beyond Inauguration Day 1877.

Another lands were purchased near by the Pederneiras Farm and in 1877, other people that were already living there, they donated land for the construction of the Chapel of Saint Sebastian of Joy.

Following Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 78, the Treaty of San Stefano and the Treaty of Berlin recognized the full independence of the new Kingdom of Romania ( the principalities that formed it had already been de facto independent for half a century ), but transferred the territories subject to the 1856 re-configuration again to the Russian Empire.

GTR sought to put together a route by acquiring three railroads it had already been sending some of its Chicago bound trains on since 1877.

The highly cultured scion of a wealthy Odessa Jewish family, Spivakofsky had an academic education and was already a well-traveled young man who, by Jacob Adler's account " acted with talent and taste in Russian amateur theatricals " and " recited the poetry of Pushkin with something close to genius " ( Adler, 1999, 60 ) when he was sent in 1877 to Bucharest, Romania as a foreign correspondent for an Odessa newspaper, to cover the Russo-Turkish War.

Most of the items in this alleged " Compromise of 1877 " were either never acted on ( calling into question whether they were ever agreed to ) or had already been the established position of Hayes from the time of his accepting the Republican nomination ( hence not a sudden " compromise " at all ).

The first use of this term is usually attributed to Karl Möbius in 1877, but already in 1825, the French naturalist Adolphe Dureau de la Malle used the term societé about an assemblage of plant individuals of different species.

In 1877, five Alpini mountain artillery batteries were formed and, in the following year, the Alpini had already grown to 36 companies of mountain infantry organized into 10 battalions.

By this time, Zinaida Gippius had already studied for two years at a girl's school in Kiev ( 1877 — 1878 ) and for a year at Moscow's Fischer gymnasium where, because of her chronically sad disposition, she was remembered as a " tiny troubled creature ".

Sometime between the age of seven to nine, probably in February 1877, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders, who already had kidnapped her elder sister two years earlier.

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

Before 1877, the name was written Christianssund, from 1877-1888 it was spelled Kristianssund, and since 1889 it has had its present spelling, Kristiansund.

Prior to 1877, the name was spelled Frederiksstad, then from 1877 – 1888 it was written as Fredriksstad, and finally since 1889 it has been spelled in its current form: Fredrikstad.

The Wandering Jew is the title of a poem in four cantos by Shelley written in 1810 but unpublished until 1877.

Aesthetically not much has changed of this unique landscape, written about in 1877, the following passage is still valid today, ' Such rough and tumble experience, climbing mountains, falling over rocks, exploring wild ravines, diving into coal mines, and riding on every description of conveyance which it has entered into the mind of man to run on.

This is a classic Danish lullabies, written in 1920 by the Danish novelist, playwright and poet, Harald Bergstedt ( 1877 – 1965 ), with music composed by classical composer, Carl Nielsen ( 1865 – 1931 ).

An article on the Paleophone was published in " la semaine du Clergé " on October 10, 1877, written by l ' Abbé Leblanc.

The role of Dalila was written for Pauline Viardot ( 1821 – 1910 ) but the singer was too old to assay the role for the 2 December 1877 Weimar premiere and the role was entrusted to Auguste von Müller.

La jeunesse d ' Hercule ( 1877 ) was written closest in style to Liszt.

The name was written " Christian ( s ) sand " ( for " Christians sand " – meaning en: " Christian's Sand ") until 1877 – then, according to an official spelling reform ( that changed ch to k ), the form was changed to " Kristianssand ".

" Abdul Abulbul Amir " is a poem written in 1877 ( during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 )) by Percy French and later set to music.

Her only book was Black Beauty, written between 1871 and 1877 in their house at Old Catton.

Shortly after the dedication of the St. George Temple, and before his death in 1877, Young became concerned about the possibility of variations in the ceremony within the church's temples and so directed the majority of the text of the endowment to be written down.

In 1987, Warlow also performed a one-man show originally written for John Reed, called A Song to Sing, O, about George Grossmith, the comedian who originated the principal comic roles for Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 through the 1880s.

biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois ( 1877 ); and Vie de Charles Gleyre ( 1877 ), written by his friend, Charles Clement, and illustrated by 30 plates from his works in Hersent's studio, in Suisse's academy, in the galleries of the Louvre.

Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Rumi ( 13th century ) and Hafiz ( 14th century ), the Azeri poet Fuzûlî ( 16th century ), as well as Mirza Ghalib ( 1797 – 1869 ) and Muhammad Iqbal ( 1877 – 1938 ), both of whom wrote ghazals in Persian and Urdu.

It was written in 1877 by the British composer Euphemia Allen under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli.

2, which was written in 1877, three years before Dvořák ’ s Symphony no.

In his first will, of 1877, written at the age of 23, he expressed his wish to fund a secret society ( known as the Society of the Elect ) that would advance this goal:

One of the book's poems was Tikvateinu (" Our Hope "); its very first version was written yet in 1877 in Iaşi, Romania.