* 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 – 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 )

* March 5 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest-civil engineer ( b. 1877 )

The first official census in the Philippines was carried out by the Spanish government pursuant to a royal decree calling for the counting of persons living as of the midnight of December 31, 1877.

In Darwin's lifetime, Origin was published in Swedish in 1871, Danish in 1872, Polish in 1873, Hungarian in 1873 – 1874, Spanish in 1877 and Serbian in 1878.

Cristóbal Oudrid ( 1825 – 1877 ), one of the founding fathers of Spanish musical nationalism, was born here, son of the resident military bandmaster.

* Marie Eugenie de Morny ( 1857 – 1883 ), who married a Spanish noble, José Ramón Gil Francisco de Borja Nicolás Osório y de Heredia, Noveno Conde de La Corzana ( 1854 – 1919 ), in 1877 in Madrid, and had a son:

She added Spanish to her languages, and in 1877 undertook the writing of a large number of the lives of early Spanish ecclesiastics for the Dictionary of Christian Biography edited by Dr William Smith and Dr. Henry Wace.

In May 1877, President Hayes, an admirer of The Biglow Papers, sent William Dean Howells to Lowell with a handwritten note proffering an ambassadorship to either Austria or Russia ; Lowell declined, but noted his interest in Spanish literature.

Together with thirty ( 30 ) other datus, Datu Mampaalong accepted Spanish dominion and embraced Christianity on June 15, 1877, ending the long standing war between them.

His Wrestlers ( 1875 ) and Fan and Dagger ( 1882 ; a defiant Spanish woman ) were in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are The Beheading of St John the Baptist ( 1877 ), The Sphinx ( 1883 ), Acis and Galatea ( 1885 ), Old Woman and Child ( 1886 ) and In the Bull Slaughter-House.

* Niceto Alcalá-Zamora ( 1877 – 1949 ), president of the Second Spanish Republic

He published Rumores de los pinos in 1877, a compilation of 21 poems in Galician and Spanish, which would become the basis for Queixumes dos pinos ( 1886 ).

Estrada Palma was captured by Spanish troops on October 19, 1877.

In the United States, Connecticut purchased c. 1871 – 72, 2. 000 Spanish Model rifles, Massachusetts 2, 941 rifles and South Carolina purchased c. 1877 350 carbines.

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres ( 6 July 1877 – 18 February 1949 ) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served, briefly, as the first premier minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then — from 1931 to 1936 — as its president.

His more important works included the historical pictures, The Retreat of the Spanish Armada ( 1871 ) and The Loss of the Revenge ( 1877 ).

They took joint possession of the abandoned Elk Mountain Mission fort near Moab after 1877, and each controlled part of the Spanish Valley.

Fernán Caballero ( 24 December 1796, Morges, Vaud – 7 April 1877 ) was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber.

For many years she was the most popular of Spanish writers, and the sensation caused by her death at Seville on the 7th of April 1877 proved that her truthfulness still attracted readers who were interested in records of national customs and manners.

The new Cabagan came to exist because the Spanish government decreed in January 25, 1877 that the old Cabagan or San Pablo now be transferred from its old site to the one it is presently occupying.

Originally named San Miguel de Masantol and a part of the town of Macabebe, Pampanga, three of the town's leading patriarchs-Manuel Fajardo, Gregorio Bautista, and Juan Lacap-filed a motion on June 26, 1877 to separate the barrios of Bebe, Bulacus, Caingin and Nigui from Macabebe thereby creating a new Spanish pueblo called San Miguel.

* Ramón Cabrera y Griñó ( 1806 – 1877 ), Spanish Carlist military officer

Following Sylvia Mérante choreographed Le Fandango, a ballet-pantomime that premiered November 26, 1877 and had as librettists for the mimed action the team of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who provided librettos to Offenbach and had recently delivered a libretto on a similarly Spanish theme to Georges Bizet — Carmen.