- 1877 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1877 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Benjamin Disraeli , ConservativeEvents
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1 January - Queen Victoria proclaimedEmpress of India by theRoyal Titles Act 1876 , introduced byPrime Minister of the United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli .cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1877|title="1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.|accessdate=2007-05-26]
*12 March - Britain annexesWalvis Bay inSouth Africa .
*14 March - Former Argentine dictatorJuan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile inSouthampton .
*15 March - The firstTest cricket match takes place betweenEngland andAustralia .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*24 March - For the first and only time in history, theBoat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
*12 April - Britain annexes theSouth African Republic violating theSand River Convention of 1852 causing a new Xhosa War.
*9 July -All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
*21 July - The Cabinet decides to declare war onRussia if it occupiesConstantinople in the Russo-Turkish War.
*24 November -Anna Sewell 's novel "Black Beauty " published. [cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1877/literature|title="1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.|accessdate=2007-05-26]Undated
* American suffragettes
Victoria Woodhull andTennessee Claflin come toEngland due to criticism of their behaviour. [cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1877/human-rights-social-justice|title="1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.|accessdate=2007-05-26]
* SixScotch whisky distilleries combine to formDistillers Company Limited . [cite web|url=http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1877/food-drink|title="1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.|accessdate=2007-05-26]Births
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7 February -G. H. Hardy , mathematician (died 1947)
*7 June -Charles Glover Barkla , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
*19 July -Arthur Fielder , cricketer (died 1949)
*1 August - Charlotte Hughes, longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom (died 1993)
*27 August -Charles Rolls , motorist and aeronaut, co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
*1 September -Francis William Aston , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
*2 September -Frederick Soddy , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
*4 October -Razor Smith , cricketer (died 1946)
*10 October -William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield , philanthropist and founder of theMorris Motor Company (died 1963)
*27 October -George Thompson , cricketer (died 1943)
*15 November -William Hope Hodgson , author (died 1918)
*25 November -Harley Granville-Barker , actor, playwright and critic (died 1946)Deaths
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2 January - Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1811)
*24 March -Walter Bagehot , businessman, essayist and journalist (born 1826)
*14 July - Richard Davies, Welsh poet (born 1833)
*27 July - John Frost, Chartist leader (born 1784)
*8 August -William Lovett , Chartist leader (born 1800)
*17 September -William Fox Talbot , photographer (born 1800)
*7 November -Calvert Jones , painter and pioneer photographer (born 1804)References
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