History
Century
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.


