1877 in the United Kingdom

1877 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1877 English cricket season

1876–77 in English football

Events from the year 1877 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister — Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)

Events

• 1 January — Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli.^[1]
• 12 March — Britain annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa.^[1]
• 14 March — Former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton.^[1]
• 15 March — The first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia.^[2]
• 24 March — For the only time in history, the Boat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
• 12 April — Britain annexes the South African Republic violating the Sand River Convention of 1852 causing a new Xhosa War.^[1]
• 9 July — All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.^[2]
• 21 July — The Cabinet decides to declare war on Russia if it occupies Constantinople in the Russo-Turkish War.^[1]
• 23 August The Merchandise Marks Act obliges exporters to indicate the place of manufacture of their goods
• 13 September — New Manchester Town Hall, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, officially opened.^[3]
• 22 October — Blantyre mining disaster kills 207, Scotland’s worst-ever mining accident.
• 24 November — Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty published.^[4]

Undated

• Responsibility for provision of prisons is transferred from the counties to the Home Office.^[5]
• Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, as the Freethought Publishing Company, publish for the first time in the UK Charles Knowlton's birth control manual Fruits of Philosophy, for which they are prosecuted (18 June) under the Obscene Publications Act 1857.
• American suffragettes Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin come to England due to criticism of their behaviour.^[6]
• Jesse Boot takes over the family shop in Nottingham, the foundation of Boots the chemists.^[7]
• Six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.^[8]
• Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings established.

Births

• 7 February — G. H. Hardy, mathematician (died 1947)
• 7 June — Charles Glover Barkla, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
• 19 July — Arthur Fielder, cricketer (died 1949)
• 1 August — Charlotte Hughes, longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom (died 1993)
• 27 August — Charles Rolls, motorist and aeronaut, co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
• 1 September — Francis William Aston, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
• 2 September — Frederick Soddy, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
• 4 October — Razor Smith, cricketer (died 1946)
• 10 October — William Morris, founder of Morris Motors LImited and philanthropist (died 1963)
• 27 October — George Thompson, cricketer (died 1943)
• 15 November — William Hope Hodgson, author (died 1918)
• 25 November — Harley Granville-Barker, actor, playwright and critic (died 1946)

Deaths

• 2 January — Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1811)
• 24 March — Walter Bagehot, businessman, essayist and journalist (born 1826)
• 25 March — Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian (born 1808)
• 15 June — Caroline Norton, campaigner for married women's rights (born 1808)
• 14 July — Richard Davies, Welsh poet (born 1833)
• 27 July — John Frost, Chartist leader (born 1784)
• 8 August — William Lovett, Chartist leader (born 1800)
• 17 September — William Fox Talbot, photographer (born 1800)
• 7 November — Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer (born 1804)

References

See also