Timeline March 1877

Events in March 1877 5

• 1869 – 1877 Grant presidency 18th President — 1869 to 1877 Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877. He vigorously enforced Reconstruction and civil rights for Black Americans, but his administration was marred by corruption scandals.
• 1877 The Age of Bronze — accused of casting from life Rodin exhibits 'The Age of Bronze' at the Paris Salon of 1877 — a life-size male figure of such anatomical precision that critics accuse him of casting directly from a living model rather than sculpting from observation. The accusation is the opposite of intended praise: it means Rodin has no artistic merit, merely technical trickery. Rodin is devastated and angry. He commissions photographs of his working process and gathers testimony from the Belgian soldiers who had modelled for him. The controversy is eventually resolved in his favour — and the realism it condemned becomes his trademark.
• 1877 Swan Lake premieres in Moscow Tchaikovsky's first ballet debuts at the Bolshoi Theatre Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 4 March 1877. The original production and choreography were poorly received by contemporary critics. It was only revived successfully after the composer's death and later became one of the most performed ballets in the world.
• 1877 – 1881 Hayes presidency 19th President — 1877 to 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes served as the 19th President from March 5, 1877 to March 4, 1881. He ended Reconstruction, withdrew federal troops from the South, and began civil service reform.
• 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as US president Takes office after the disputed 1876 election Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th President of the United States on 5 March 1877, following a bitterly contested election resolved by a special Electoral Commission. His inauguration followed the informal Compromise of 1877, under which Democrats accepted his presidency in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.