Events in the year 1877 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India Queen Victoria

Events

Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India.

• Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India. This led to great celebrations in Darbars in India while millions of Indians perished in the famine that was going on then.

Births

• 9 November Muhammad Iqbal, poet of the East (d.1938).
• 24 November Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).

Deaths

• 30 August Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).

no:1877 i India