1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1877th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 877th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1877, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1877 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1877
MDCCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita2630
Armenian calendar1326
ԹՎ ՌՅԻԶ
Assyrian calendar6627
Baháʼí calendar33–34
Balinese saka calendar1798–1799
Bengali calendar1284
Berber calendar2827
British Regnal year40 Vict. 1 – 41 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2421
Burmese calendar1239
Byzantine calendar7385–7386
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4574 or 4367
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4575 or 4368
Coptic calendar1593–1594
Discordian calendar3043
Ethiopian calendar1869–1870
Hebrew calendar5637–5638
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1933–1934
 - Shaka Samvat1798–1799
 - Kali Yuga4977–4978
Holocene calendar11877
Igbo calendar877–878
Iranian calendar1255–1256
Islamic calendar1293–1294
Japanese calendarMeiji 10
(明治10年)
Javanese calendar1805–1806
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4210
Minguo calendar35 before ROC
民前35年
Nanakshahi calendar409
Thai solar calendar2419–2420
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2003 or 1622 or 850
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2004 or 1623 or 851
April 24: Start of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

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Births edit

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Edmund Landau
 
Pascual Ortiz Rubio

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James Montgomery Flagg

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Hermann Hesse
 
George Hackenschmidt
 
John Latham
 
Frederick Soddy
 
Edward Ellington

October–December edit

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

January–June edit

 
Cornelius Vanderbilt
 
Henrietta A. Bingham
 
J. L. Runeberg
 
Sophie of Württemberg

July–December edit

Date unknown edit

References edit

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  10. ^ "Pascual Ortiz Rubio" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  11. ^ "Kansanedustajat: Ville Kiviniemi" (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Parliament of Finland. Archived from the original on March 15, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
  12. ^ "Plutarco Elías Calles" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
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Further reading edit

  • 1877 Annual Cyclopedia (1878) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1877; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 827 pp
  • Bellesiles, Michael A. (2010). 1877: America's Year of Living Violently. New York: New Press. ISBN 9781595584410.
  • Bruce, Robert V. (1957). 1877: Year of Violence. I.R. Dee. ISBN 9780929587059. online
  • Lloyd, John P. "The strike wave of 1877" in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (2009) pp 177-190. online
  • Piper, Jessica. "The great railroad strike of 1877: A catalyst for the American labor movement." History Teacher 47.1 (2013): 93-110. online