1877 in the United Kingdom
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1877 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879

Sport

1877 English cricket season

1876-77 in English football

Events from the year 1877 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative

Events

• 1 January - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli.^[1]
• 12 March - Britain annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa.^[1]
• 14 March - Former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton.^[1]
• 15 March - The first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia.^[2]
• 24 March - For the first and only time in history, the Boat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
• 12 April - Britain annexes the South African Republic violating the Sand River Convention of 1852 causing a new Xhosa War.^[1]
• 9 July - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.^[2]
• 21 July - The Cabinet decides to declare war on Russia if it occupies Constantinople in the Russo-Turkish War.^[1]
• 24 November - Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty published.^[3]

Undated

• American suffragettes Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin come to England due to criticism of their behaviour.^[4]
• Six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company Limited.^[5]

Births

• 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 the Morris 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

• 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

See also