* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

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

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

* 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 )

A theory of statistical inference was developed by Charles S. Peirce in " Illustrations of the Logic of Science " ( 1877 – 1878 ) and " A Theory of Probable Inference " ( 1883 ), two publications that emphasized the importance of randomization-based inference in statistics.

* Charles Boutell ( d. 1877 )

* 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral ( d. 1877 )

In 1877 she had remarried — to a French military officer named Charles Zieger.

In 1877 Charles Darwin dabbled in archaeology at the stones, experimenting with the rate at which remains sink into the earth for his book The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.

* August 30 – Charles Coburn, American actor ( b. 1877 )

* July 12 – Charles Stewart Rolls, British aviator and automobile manufacturer ( b. 1877 )

* June 4 – Charles William Beebe, American oceanic pioneer ( b. 1877 )

Charles Stewart Rolls ( 27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910 ) was a motoring and aviation pioneer.

Charles " Buddy " Bolden ( September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931 ) was an African-American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.

Randomization is a core principle in statistical theory, whose importance was emphasized by Charles S. Peirce in " Illustrations of the Logic of Science " ( 1877 – 1878 ) and " A Theory of Probable Inference " ( 1883 ).

It was sold by Charles Newdigate Newdegate in 1877.

William was the brother of Lt .- Col. John Charles Tufnell of Bath ( leased Lackham House, Laycock in Wiltshire in 1877 ), banker, m. 1796 Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell ( d. 29 / 1 / 1848 ) daughter of John Fowell of Bishopbourne ).

* Charles Almon Dewey ( 1877 – 1958 ), American judge

Pastoralists arrived in the area shortly afterward with Charles Brockman setting up Boolatha Station in 1877 and the region experienced success in wool production until the 1930s when the overgrazing, drought and the great depression caused most businesses to fail.

In 1877 Charles Thomas Cruttwell produced the first English work along the same lines.

The first U. S. mail service was inaugurated in Grovetown on September 28, 1877 with Charles Clifford as postmaster.

Charles Clifford was made the town's first postmaster on Sept 28, 1877, and served until 1934, when he died as one of the nation's oldest postmasters in tenure.

Charles W. Pickford from Ontario, Canada first settled here on the Munuscong River in 1877.

A post office named Lake Station was established on February 28, 1877, with Charles Howard Bates as the first postmaster.

* Charles Croswell, seventeenth Governor of Michigan, 1877 – 1881

Charles Frederic ' Freddy ' Ingalls, ( November 1, 1876 – August 27, 1877 in South Troy, Minnesota ), the little brother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born in Walnut Grove.

John E. Butler, Charles W. Brown, John B. Kelly, and Charles C. Kelly of Rock Falls, Iowa, in July 1877.