* 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 )

These Great Reforms spurred industrialization and modernized the Russian army, which had successfully liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1877 – 78 Russo-Turkish War.

* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.

The first of these was Prince Alexander of Battenberg who, in 1877, was agreed upon by the Great Powers as the best candidate for the new throne of Bulgaria.

Thus the 1867 – 68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the Great North China Famine of 1877 – 78, caused by drought across northern China, was a catastrophe.

On June 25, 1876 the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne achieved a major victory over army forces under General George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but the Great Sioux War ( 1876 – 1877 ) ended in the defeat of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies.

After the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which was put down only with the intervention of federal troops, Congress passed the Arbitration Act of 1888, which authorized the creation of arbitration panels with the power to investigate the causes of labor disputes and to issue non-binding arbitration awards.

The reinforced US Army defeated the Lakota bands in a series of battles, finally ending the Great Sioux War in 1877.

North American general strikes include the 1877 Saint Louis general strike, which grew out of the events of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 across the United States, the 1892 New Orleans general strike, the Seattle General Strike of 1919, and the Winnipeg General Strike later the same year.

* 1877-St. Louis general strike, St. Louis, Missouri, an outgrowth of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the United States

These circumstances led to the outbreak known as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.

In the 1877 Shamokin Uprising, starvation wages and miserable working conditions prompted railroad workers and miners to join the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.

On 22 August 1877 Brigham Young issued a formal call for settlers to locate in Castle Valley, the last such directive from the " Great Colonizer " before his death on 29 August.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began July 14, 1877 in Martinsburg and spread nationwide.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

During the planet's " Great Opposition " of 1877, he observed a dense network of linear structures on the surface of Mars which he called " canali " in Italian, meaning " channels " but the term was mistranslated into English as " canals ".

The modern seaside resort developed as a result of the arrival of the St Ives Bay branch line from St Erth, part of the Great Western Railway in 1877.

The line was opened in 1877 by the St Ives branch railway, but became part of the Great Western Railway in 1878.

Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876 – 1877.