3rd » Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
5th » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota people known as Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel (United States) e.g Colonel Nelson Miles.
6th » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
9th » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies named Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
9th » A 1877 Iquique earthquake named magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
16th » 16 May 1877 crisis called May 1877 political crisis in France.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1877
3rd » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
20th » Patrick Leahy (athlete) named Pat Leahy, Irish jumper (d. 1927)
25th » Billy Murray (singer) known as Billy Murray, American singer and actor (d. 1954)
27th » Isadora Duncan, American-French dancer (d. 1927)
Famous Deaths for May 1877
6th » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet (b. 1804)