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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
In the first U.S. Army victory since the disaster at the Little Bighorn, a punitive expedition led by George Crook destroys an Oglala Lakota village led by Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes in present-day South Dakota. [161] 1877: Apr: The Homestake lode is discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory.
March 4, 1877 – After only two days as president-elect and vice president-elect, Hayes becomes the 19th president and Wheeler becomes the 19th vice president; 1877 – Reconstruction ends; 1877 – Nez Perce War; 1878 – Bland–Allison Act; 1878 – Morgan silver dollars first minted; 1879 – Thomas Edison creates first commercially viable ...
September 1 – 3: On the first school day in Russia, a group of Chechen terrorists held students, parents and teachers hostage in Beslan school, in North Ossetia–Alania. During three days under attack, 334 people died. October 23 – 27: Boston Red Sox wins the World Series for the first time since 1918, ending the Curse of the Bambino.
1772–1795: The Partitions of Poland end the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and erase Poland from the map for 123 years. 1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history. 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China. 1773: 16 December, the Boston Tea Party.
The Battle of Fallen Timbers, which occurred on August 20, 1794, was a significant military clash between the United States and the Northwest Indian Confederation along the Maumee River near present-day Toledo, Ohio. Following two major defeats suffered by the U.S. at the hands of the confederation, Major General Anthony Wayne assumed command ...
The following are timelines of modern history, from the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] ... For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, ...
1877: Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical definition of entropy. 1880s: John Hopkinson develops three-phase electrical supplies, mathematically proves how multiple AC dynamos can be connected in parallel, improves permanent magnets, and dynamo efficiency, by the addition of tungsten, and describes how temperature effects magnetism ( Hopkinson effect ).