In 1877 – 1878, Russia fought a victorious war with the Ottoman Empire and attempted to impose the Treaty of San Stefano on it.

In a meeting with Zulu notables at Blood River in October 1877, Shepstone attempted to placate the Zulu with paternal speeches, however they were unconvinced and accused Shepstone of betraying them.

On June 10, 1877 six torpedo boats, five of which were armed with spar torpedoes, attempted to attack four ironclads of the Turkish Navy.

Darwin held Gray in high esteem: he dedicated his book Forms of Flowers ( 1877 ) to Gray and he wrote in 1881 " there is hardly any one in the world whose approbation I value more highly than I do yours " Gray, considered by Darwin to be his friend and " best advocate ", also attempted to convince Darwin in these letters that design was inherent in all forms of life, and to return to his faith.

The US Government attempted to force the removal of the Nez Perce in 1877 ; however, this angered the natives who choose instead to raid the settlers, leading to the Nez Perce War.

Robert Peel's Gaols Act of 1823 attempted to impose uniformity in the country but local prisons remained under the control of magistrates until the Prison Act of 1877.

He became a journalist in 1883, and published his first books A Summer Holiday In Scandinavia ( 1877 ) and Bird Life In England ( 1887 ) before writing his first novel The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, the adventures of a warrior who goes in and out of an unexplained state of suspended animation in order to be a witness to invasions or attempted invasions of England.

In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, resisting relocation from their traditional lands to a reservation in west-central Idaho, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains onto the Great Plains.

In June, 1877 Russian forces attempted a siege of Kars but were driven off by an Ottoman army at the Battle of Kizil-Tepe.

Illimani was first attempted in 1877 by the French explorator Charles Wiener, J. de Grumkow, and J. C. Ocampo.

Immediately south of the Beartooth Highway, the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway ( Wyoming Highway 296 ) follows the old trail in which Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe attempted to flee the U. S. Cavalry in 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.

During this period, before the start of Test cricket in 1877, Gentlemen v Players was the most prestigious fixture in which a player could take part.

Russia preparing to let slip the " Dogs of War ," its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) | conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( United Kingdom | Britain ) warns Russia to take care.

With a shortage of sufficient land and water in Sanpete County and a strong desire by LDS Church leaders to acquire unoccupied land in the region before non-Mormons did, young families began moving into Castle Valley in the fall of 1877 to take up homesteads in what would become the settlements of Huntington, Ferron, Castle Dale, and Orangeville.

The then Bishop of Rochester, the Right Revd Dr Thomas Legh Claughton, elected to take the northern division of his old diocese and on 12 June 1877 was enthroned first Bishop of St Albans, a position he held until 1890.

Accordingly he was pleased when, despite his relative inexperience in legitimate theatre, he received a letter from Arthur Sullivan in November 1877 inviting him to take a part in his new piece with W. S. Gilbert: The Sorcerer.

Again during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 the Greeks were keen to join in with the objective of territorial expansion, but Greece was unable to take any effective part in the war.

However, Burriel died on December 24, 1877 before any trial could take place.

In 1876, he was elected governor of Illinois and served in that office from 1877 – 1883, when he resigned to take office as a US senator.

As the U. S. Constitution specifies that the President shall take the oath of office " before he enter on the execution of his office ", Ferry always believed be had served for one day as President of the United States: March 4, 1877.

In 1877, she collapsed and had to take a break of several months from her work.

Returning to military service Elphinstone served as an Aide-de-camp to the Queen in 1877 and was promoted to Colonel at the end of 1881 and was appointed as Officer Commanding Royal Engineers in Mauritius, a post he was reluctant to take up, so much so that he was prepared to resign from the army ; however under customs then allowed in the British Army, a posting could be avoided if an other officer was prepared to take the posting instead.

He did not take a degree at Cambridge, but was gazetted in 1876 and joined 74th Highlanders in 1877.

The first organisation to take advantage of the new legislation was the College of Physicians of Ireland, but before Jex-Blake applied to them, she passed the medical exams at the University of Berne where she was awarded an MD in January 1877.

In February 1877 he attended the George and Dragon in his position as treasurer and persuaded the village labourers, who were suffering from wage cuts and a threat to their jobs in a farm slump, not to disband the Friendly Society and take the proceeds, but to keep some protection for their longer term security by keeping the books open while distributing their surplus funds.

As the gang continued to commit similar crimes, police decided to take action and by 1877 most of the gang had been arrested.

Caspar Phair ( died 1933 ) was one of Lillooet, British Columbia's early settlers, arriving about 1877 to take up the role of the village's school teacher ..

However, two of his photographs demonstrate that he was in Hanoi at the end of 1875 and from November 1876 to January 1877 Gsell was able to take many views of Tonkin ( now Northern Vietnam ).

George Alfred Wilson ( 5 April 1877 – 3 March 1962 ) was an English cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman who was the first man to take a wicket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club after they attained first-class status for the 1899 season.

The coming-in of the Farnell ministry in 1877 gave the main contestants time to take breath and consider the position, and in December 1878 a coalition was made between Parkes and Robertson which led to a ministry which lasted for over four years and did some really useful work.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

In 1877 the name was changed into the current one, which changed KTH's status from Institute ( institut ) to College ( högskola ), and some courses were extended from three to four years.

From 1877 until 1948 reigning monarchs added the letter I to their signatures, for imperator or imperatrix ( emperor or empress in Latin ), due to their status as Emperor or Empress of India.

The name Katoomba was adopted in 1877 and the town achieved municipality status in 1889.

The Finnish Guard fought in Poland in 1830 and participated in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ), after which it gained the status of Old Guard of the Russian Emperor.

Despite its new university status, USB continues to be affiliated with the University of Manitoba, which it helped establish in 1877.

It gained borough status in 1877.

In common with all the other full members of the I. C. C., Zimbabwe had a cricket team before it achieved Test status ( disregarding the fact that England and Australia did not achieve Test status, as they in effect invented it with the first-ever Test on 15 March 1877 in Melbourne, Australia ).

At about this time, Sternberg published two articles in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (" An Inquiry into the Modus Operandi of the Yellow Fever Poison ," July 1875, and " A Study of the Natural History of Yellow Fever ," March 1877 ) which gained him status as an authority on yellow fever.

Following its purchase by the town in 1553 it was then a parish church until its elevation to cathedral status in 1877 when the diocese was created from the diocese of Rochester under Queen Victoria by the Bishopric of St. Albans Act 1875.

Founded in 1877 as the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain, its role was to focus on qualifications and the professional status of chemists, and its aim was to ensure that consulting and analytical chemists were properly trained and qualified.

It was an abbey church ( part of St Albans Abbey ) prior to its dissolution in 1539, and then a parish church ( purchased by the town in 1553 ) until its elevation to cathedral status in 1877.

On October 10, 1877 Ludwig IV, Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein ( Grand Duke of Hesse ), named the Polytechnic School Technische Hochschule zu Darmstadt ( Darmstadt Polytechnic ) and thereby raised the status of this educational institution to that of a university so that the Abitur ( diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation ) became the basis for admission.

Following the Proclamation of Empire in 1877, when the British Crown took over from the East India Company the administration of British India, Queen Victoria was considered to have gained Imperial status and assumed the title Empress of India.

It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877 and granted town status in 1938.

La Unión was elevated to municipality status in 1877 and was part of the District of Salamá.