1877 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1877 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative
[edit] 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]
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- 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]
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
- ^ "1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
- ^ "1877." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006.. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
