Timeline September 1877

Events in September 1877 6

• 1797 – 1877 Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) Died 3 September 1877, aged 80 Adolphe Thiers served as the first President of the French Third Republic from 1871 to 1873, overseeing the suppression of the Paris Commune and the recovery from the Franco-Prussian War. He was also a prolific historian and had earlier served as a minister and briefly as prime minister under the July Monarchy. He remained an influential political figure until his death.
• 1828 – 1877 Saigo Takamori (1828-1877) Died 24 September 1877, aged 49 Saigo Takamori was a samurai leader who helped restore imperial rule in the Meiji Restoration before breaking with the new government over its modernization policies. He led the Satsuma Rebellion against the government he had helped create and died by suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Shiroyama. He is remembered in Japan as an emblem of samurai loyalty and honor.
• 1877 Satsuma Rebellion Samurai uprising against the Meiji government Disaffected samurai in southwestern Japan, led by Saigo Takamori, rose against the modernizing Meiji government's abolition of samurai privileges. Imperial conscript forces defeated the rebels after months of fighting, culminating in the Battle of Shiroyama. The rebellion was the last major armed challenge to the new Japanese state and ended the samurai class as a military force.
• 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 – 1959 Edmund Gwenn (1877-1959) English actor, the Santa Claus of Miracle on 34th Street.
• 1877 Edmund Gwenn born in London Edmund Gwenn is born in London.