1877 in the United Kingdom

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.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 annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa.
* 14 March - Former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton.
* 15 March - The first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia.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, 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.
* 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 on Russia if it occupies Constantinople 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 and Tennessee Claflin come to England 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]
* Six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers 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

* 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

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