* 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 )

* Matsudaira Tsuneo ( 1877 – 1949 ), son of Matsudaira Katamori, ambassador to the U. S. and UK.

She was the daughter of Matsudaira Tsuneo ( 1877 – 1949 ), Japanese ambassador to the United States ( 1924 ) and later to Great Britain ( 1928 ), and still later, Imperial Household Minister ( 1936 – 45, 1946 – 47 ) and his wife, the former Nabeshima Nobuko.

* 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician ( d. 1877 )

The first known Japanese immigrant to Canada, Manzo Nagano, landed in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1877.

* 1877 – Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna ( b. 1802 )

* 1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion

In 1877, Kiro Kunitomo, a Japanese citizen, graduated from the academy.

File: WLA vanda Lidded incense burner. jpg | Japanese Incense Burner, Signed ' Dai Nippon, Koko Sei ', Patinated bronze inlaid with gilt bronze and other soft metal alloys c. 1877

The term jōmon means " cord-marked " in Japanese ; the English term was actually the first to be used, by the American scholar Edward S. Morse who discovered sherds of Jōmon pottery in 1877.

The Japanese Ministry of Justice opened the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1877 ( changed to Imperial University in 1886 ).

* Kichisaburo Nomura ( 1877 – 1964 ), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor

* Ryūsaku Tsunoda ( 1877 – 1964 ), lecturer of Japanese studies at Columbia University

Imperial Japanese Army officers of the Kumamoto garrison, who resisted Saigō Takamori's siege, 1877

In 1877, a mission headed by Kim Gwang-jip was commissioned by Gojong and his Queen Consort to study Japanese westernization and its intentions for Korea.

Kim Gi-su noted that only 50 years before, Seoul and Busan of Korea were metropolitan centers of East Asia, dominant over underdeveloped Japanese cities ; but now, in 1877, with Tokyo and Osaka westernized, Seoul and Busan looked like vestiges of the ancient past.

Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Satsuma Rebellion ( Garrison of Kumamoto, 1877 ).

Beginning with his first at Auburndale ( 1881, demolished 1960s ), Richardson drew inspiration for these station buildings from Japanese architecture that he learned about from Edward S. Morse, a Harvard zoologist who began traveling to Japan in 1877, originally for biological specimens.

* Japanese corvette Hiei ( 1877 ), a Corvette of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Akiyama entered the Rikugunshikangakkō ( the forerunner of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy ) in 1877.

In return, Mitsubishi supported the new Japanese government and transported troops who defeated the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877.

* Japanese Canadian Timeline from arrival of first Japanese person in 1877 ( Japanese Canadian National Museum ).

* Kido Takayoshi ( 1833 – 1877 ), was a prominent Japanese politician of the Meiji Government