Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

Frederick Soddy ( 2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956 ) was an English radiochemist and monetary economist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

Ernest de Sarzec began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello ( ancient Girsu, capital of the state of Lagash ) in 1877, and published the first part of Découvertes en Chaldée with transcriptions of Sumerian tablets in 1884.

Caricature of Ernest PicardLouis Joseph Ernest Picard ( 24 December 1821 – 13 May 1877 ) was a French politician.

* A large leopard seal attacked Thomas Orde-Lees ( 1877 – 1958 ), a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 – 1917 when the expedition was camping on the sea ice.

* Caryl Ernest Bagot, 6th Baron Bagot ( 1877 – 1961 )

Edward Ernest Hughes ( 7 February 1877 – 23 December 1953 ), the first professor of history at University College, Swansea, was born in Tywyn, the son of a local policeman.

" This was the flaxen-haired blue-eyed William Ernest Mather ( 1877 – 99 )-second son of Sir William Mather-a pupil of his at Rydal Mount School 1888-90, who died young after being thrown from his horse A photograph of Nicholson with Ernest, taken at Llandudno in June 1889, was published in The Book Collector ( Summer 1978 ).

The riding has been represented by a number of notable Members of Parliament ( MPs ), including Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( 1877 – 1919 ), senior Cabinet member Ernest Lapointe ( 1919 – 1941 ) and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent ( 1942 – 1958 ).

On August 20, 1877 Modjeska debuted at the California Theatre in San Francisco in an English version of Ernest Legouvé's Adrienne Lecouvreur and also made her New York debut.

Ernest Martin Hopkins ( November 6, 1877 – August 13, 1964 ) served as the 11th President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945.

Ernest Cherrington ( 1877 – 1950 ) was a leading temperance journalist ( see temperance movement ).

J. Desaulx suggested in 1877 that the phenomenon was caused by the thermal motion of water molecules, and in 1905 Albert Einstein produced the first mathematical analysis of the motion.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

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.

Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

But it was not a secret that Bulgaria's target was the fulfilment of the never materialized Treaty of San Stefano signed after the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

The first mention of the stolen base, in a statistical sense was in the 1877 scoring rules adopted by the National League which noted credit toward a player's total bases when a base is stolen.

He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.

The estate was first known as Bletchley Park during the ownership of Samuel Lipscomb Seckham, who purchased it in 1877.

When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1877, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.

In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

As another example, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1877, held that a Michigan statute that established rules for solemnization of marriages did not abolish pre-existing common-law marriage, because the statute did not affirmatively require statutory solemnization and was silent as to preexisting common law.

At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other powerful members, who continued the practice of polygamy despite opposition by the United States Congress.

On April 20, 1877 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

Cadillac was incorporated as a city in 1877.

This was the explanation given in the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, dated 1877.

As early as 1877, Princeton University was known to have a " Princeton Cheer ", documented in the February 22, 1877, March 12, 1880, and November 4, 1881, issues of the Daily Princetonian.

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.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

A Crown Colony government was installed in 1877, a Legislative Council created in 1925, and universal adult suffrage granted in 1951.

* 30 January 1877 — Bell's U. S. patent 186, 787 is granted for an electromagnetic telephone using permanent magnets, iron diaphragms, and a call bell.

The marriage soon collapsed ; both had affairs and de Caux was granted a legal separation in 1877 and divorced in 1885.

The Leeuwenhoek Medal, established in 1877 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, ( KNAW ), in honor of the 17th-and 18th-century microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade.

The coat of arms was granted in 1877 and the symbols represent local industry.

Nain Singh Rawat died of a heart attack in 1895, while visiting his Jagir, a plains village granted to him by the British in 1877.

* 30 January 1877: Bell's US patent No. 186, 787 is granted for an electro-magnetic telephone using permanent magnets, iron diaphragms, and a call bell.

Likewise in 1877 authority was granted to the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway ( L & EGR ) for the construction of a line between these towns, roughly parallel to the ‘ Cuckoo Line ’.

In 1877, Abduh was granted the degree of Alim and he started to teach logic, theology and ethics at al-Azhar.

He attended the Delhi Durbar in 1877 and was granted a personal gun salute of 15-guns.

The franchise was granted in 1877 to the Metropolitan Street Railway of Toronto, but it began service on Yonge Street in 1885, starting just north of the city limits.

In 1877 Hargraves was granted a pension of £ 250 per year by the Government of New South Wales, which he received until his death.

In 1877 Yale & Towne was granted a patent for a padlock that housed a stack of levers and had a shackle that swung away when unlocked.

On 2 July 1877 was the first German patent was granted on 1 July 1877 for a " method for producing a red ultramarine colour ", invented by Johannes Zeltner.

The first decree of approbation was granted June 7, 1867, and ten years later, May 16, 1877, a decree approving the institute and constitutions was issued by the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars.

It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877 and granted town status in 1938.

On 22 December 1877 he started 18 months leave on a medical certificate granted under GGO number 1144.