* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American businesswoman ( d. 1967 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician ( d. 1952 )

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater ( d. 1949 )

* 1877 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna ( d. 1941 )

* 1877 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.

* 1877 – Albert Bartha, Hungarian military officer and politician ( d. 1960 )

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

1865 – 1877.

* 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer ( d. 1959 )

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

* 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author ( d. 1950 )

* 1877 – Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat ( d. 1949 )

* Adolph M. Christianson ( 1877 – 1954 ), justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court

Following a failed 107-day cigar-makers ' strike in 1877, Gompers assisted president Adolph Strasser in radically restructuring the Cigar Makers ' International Union ( CMIU ) in 1879.

Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr ( September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877 ) was a German-Brunswick army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer, and author, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War.

In 1877, Likiep Atoll was purchased by Georg Eduard Adolph Capelle, a German trader and partner with whaler Anton Debrum in the trading firm Capelle & Co, which traded extensively in copra and marine products throughout Micronesia.

* February 18 – Louis M. Goldsborough, United States Navy admiral ( d. 1877 )

Ruskin, who had been a champion of the Pre-Raphaelites and J. M. W. Turner, reviewed Whistler's work in his publication Fors Clavigera on July 2, 1877.

A Middle River Train Station first appears on the 1877 G. M.

* John M. Whitall ( 1800 – 1877 ), glass manufacturer and philanthropist.

* John M. Whitall ( 1800 – 1877 ), sea captain, businessman and philanthropist, was born in Woodbury.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

By George P. Monagon and George M. Liscombe published in 1877

In 1877, the village was incorporated, the first Mayor being J. M. McLaughlin ; the second and present Mayor, George W. McBee.

* B Kugler, Albert von Aachen ( Stuttgart, 1885 ); M Pigeonneau, Le cycle de la croisade et de la famille de Bouillon ( Paris, 1877 )

** M. Kähler, A. Tholuck, ein Lebensabriss ( 1877 )

* Edward M. Beers ( 1877 – 1932 ), US Congressman from Pennsylvania

First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H. M. S.

He created all nine of the lead comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous Savoy Operas in London from 1877 to 1889, including the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, in H. M. S.

According to a review by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, the term " social Darwinism " was first used in an English-language academic journal in an 1895 book review by the Harvard economist Frank Taussig ( it had been used as early as 1877 in Europe ).

* Silas M. Burroughs ( Class of 1877 )-Co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome and Company, which is now part of GlaxoSmithKline.

# Almon M. Clapp ( 1876 – 1877 )

Work considered foundational to the discipline of Comparative Literature include Transylvanian Hungarian Hugo Meltzl de Lomnitz's scholarship, also the founding editor of the journal Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( 1877 ) and Irish scholar H. M. Posnett's Comparative Literature ( 1886 ).

Mary Ketcham Gilman died in 1869, and Daniel Coit Gilman married his second wife, Elisabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of John M. Woolsey of Cleveland, Ohio, and niece of Yale president Theodore Dwight Woolsey, in 1877.

** M. Niethammer ( Kerner's daughter ), Justinus Kerners Jugendliebe und mein Vaterhaus ( 1877 ; Stuttgart, 1887 )

** R. R. M. Carpenter ( Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Sr .; 1877 – 1949 ), American executive and member of the board of directors of DuPont

In 1877, M. Monnier, a French gardener, suggested that concrete could be used for making ties for railway track.

See the edition ( 1877 ) of her Mémoires by M. de Lescure.