History

Century

Charles-Auguste Paillard © MHE

History of Watchmaking

Invention of the palladium balance-spring by Geneva's Charles-Auguste Paillard.


World history

1877. Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
The Italian engineer Enrico Forlanini flew a model helicopter at a height of 13 metres.
Thomas Edison filed a patent for the first phonograph.


World history

Tchaikovsky presented Swan Lake at the Bolshoi in Moscow.