1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: An earthquake in Romania and the Balkans kills 1,578 people; Atari releases Atari 2600; a military conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia is fought; two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport, killing 583; the Andhra Pradesh cyclone kills 10,000 people; Elvis Presley dies due to cardiac arrest; Apple release its successful microcomputer; George Lucas release Star Wars which became a cultural phenomenon.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1977 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1977
MCMLXXVII
Ab urbe condita2730
Armenian calendar1426
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԶ
Assyrian calendar6727
Baháʼí calendar133–134
Balinese saka calendar1898–1899
Bengali calendar1384
Berber calendar2927
British Regnal year25 Eliz. 2 – 26 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2521
Burmese calendar1339
Byzantine calendar7485–7486
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4674 or 4467
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4675 or 4468
Coptic calendar1693–1694
Discordian calendar3143
Ethiopian calendar1969–1970
Hebrew calendar5737–5738
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2033–2034
 - Shaka Samvat1898–1899
 - Kali Yuga5077–5078
Holocene calendar11977
Igbo calendar977–978
Iranian calendar1355–1356
Islamic calendar1397–1398
Japanese calendarShōwa 52
(昭和52年)
Javanese calendar1908–1909
Juche calendar66
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4310
Minguo calendarROC 66
民國66年
Nanakshahi calendar509
Thai solar calendar2520
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2103 or 1722 or 950
    — to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
2104 or 1723 or 951
Unix time220924800 – 252460799

Events

January

February

March

April

 
April 11: UK Silver Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver)

May

June

 
Flag of Djibouti

July

August

September

October

November

 
November 19: Anwar Sadat meets Menachem Begin in Israel.
 
November 22: TCP/IP links 3 of 111 ARPANET nodes.

December

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

 
Orlando Bloom
 
Leigh Whannell
 
Jerry Trainor

February

 
Shakira
 
Daddy Yankee
 
Floyd Mayweather Jr.

March

 
Chris Martin
 
Ronan Keating
 
Robin Thicke
 
Jessica Chastain

April

 
Michael Fassbender
 
Jonathan Erlich
 
Sarah Michelle Gellar
 
John Cena

May

 
Maryam Mirzakhani
 
Samantha Morton
 
Melanie Lynskey
 
Richard Ayoade

June

 
Sarah Wayne Callies
 
Zachary Quinto
 
Kanye West
 
Kaja Kallas

July

 
Liv Tyler
 
Milo Ventimiglia
 
Chiwetel Ejiofor
 
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

August

 
Edward Furlong
 
Tom Brady
 
John Green

September

 
Ludacris
 
Tom Hardy

October

 
Dudu Aouate
 
Jyothika
 
Birgit Prinz

November

 
Brittany Murphy

December

 
Oxana Fedorova
 
Emmanuel Macron
 
Psy

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

 
Anthony Eden
 
Peter Finch

February

 
Alia Al-Hussein

March

 
Fannie Lou Hamer
 
Marien Ngouabi

April

 
Carlos Prío Socarrás

May

 
Joan Crawford

June

 
Wernher von Braun

July

 
David Toro

August

 
Elvis Presley
 
Groucho Marx

September

 
Marc Bolan
 
Maria Callas

October

 
Bing Crosby

November

 
Kurt Schuschnigg

December

 
Sir Charlie Chaplin

Nobel Prizes

 

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