Timeline December 1877

Events in December 1877 3

• 1819 – 1877 Gustave Courbet Realism · France Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French Realist painter who rejected academic idealism in favour of ordinary subjects painted with unflinching directness. He was a key figure in the Paris Commune of 1871.
• 1877 Siege of Plevna Ottoman forces hold out for months during the Russo-Turkish War Ottoman troops under Osman Pasha withstood repeated Russian and Romanian assaults at Plevna in present-day Bulgaria for nearly five months. The eventual Ottoman surrender on 10 December 1877 was a turning point that opened the road to Constantinople. The siege was one of the longest and costliest engagements of the Russo-Turkish War.
• 1877 Edison invents the phonograph First machine to record and play back sound Thomas Edison recorded and played back the first known sound recording of a human voice, reciting 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,' in late November 1877. He filed a patent for the phonograph on 24 December 1877. The invention launched the recorded sound industry.