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