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1877 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

8 March In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
11 April In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
30 November Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey MP
Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads.
Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (now part of Stepaside Heritage Park).
Opening of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.

Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Football Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
Rugby union
- 8 November Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

2 May Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
6 June Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (born in Guernsey) (died 1969)
9 June George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
1 July Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
19 August John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
17 September Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
26 September Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
5 October Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
27 October David Harris Davies Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
November Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (died 1916)
7 November Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
2 December John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)