Timeline July 1877

Events in July 1877 3

• 1877 Wimbledon 1877 Men: Spencer Gore First Wimbledon Championships held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club, Worple Road, London. Spencer Gore won the inaugural men's singles. Women's singles would not begin until 1884.
• 1877 Great Railroad Strike of 1877 First nationwide labor strike in United States history Rail workers walked out after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year, and the strike spread to cities across the country. Violent clashes with state militias and federal troops killed dozens of workers before the strike was suppressed. It marked the first large-scale labor uprising in American industrial history.
• 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.