* 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 )

After the death of his wife Abby May on November 25, 1877, Alcott never returned to Orchard House, too heartbroken to live there.

A resolution of the Grand Council, on 15 May 1877, granted citizens ' rights to the members of the Jewish communities of those places, giving them charters under the names of New Endingen and New Lengnau.

He was too conservative for the Chamber of Deputies and Simon was forced to resign on 16 May 1877, setting the stage for the " Crisis of the Sixteenth of May.

The 16 May 1877 crisis eventually led to the resignation of royalist Marshal MacMahon in January 1879.

* 1877 – 16 May 1877 political crisis in France.

Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to " play back " recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by telephone.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

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* May 7 – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer ( b. 1877 )

* May 17 – Montague Love, British actor ( b. 1877 )

* May 31 – Walter Little, Canadian politician ( b. 1877 )

* May 16 – The May 16, 1877 political crisis occurs in France.

* May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur ( d. 1877 )

* Monaco: 13 May 1877, National Theatre, Monte Carlo

The cost of the case, together with huge debts from building his residence (" The White House " in Tite Street, Chelsea, designed with E. W. Godwin, 1877 – 8 ), bankrupted him by May 1879, resulting in an auction of his work, collections, and house.

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen ( 26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968 ), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves.

With the Liberal Party actively opposing Disraeli's foreign policy during the Russo-Turkish War, Gladstone addressed approximately 30, 000 people at Bingley Hall on 31 May 1877 to found the National Liberal Federation, a federation of the country's Liberal Associations.

He returned with his family and Reverend H. B. Stuart-Martin in May via the St. Johns, arriving at Daytona May 15, 1877.

It was named after William G. Greene of nearby Tallula Precinct, because he convinced the railroad to come through the town: located on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, Greenview was incorporated by a special act of the Illinois General Assembly on May 6, 1869, then re-incorporated under the new general municipal laws of the state in March 7, 1877.