page_title: 1877 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1877 in the United Kingdom / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Manchester Town Hall seen from Lloyd Street, Manchester, England, UK. Čeština: Radnice v Manchesteru z Lloyd Street
context_page_description: Events from the year 1877 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 January – Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876.
  March – The Nineteenth Century magazine is founded in London.
  12 March – Britain annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa.
  14 March – former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton.
  15 March – the first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia.
  22 March – the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings is established by William Morris and others meeting in Bloomsbury.
  24 March – for the only time in history, the Boat Race between the Cambridge University and Oxford University Boat Clubs is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
  10 April – the first human cannonball act in the British Isles (and perhaps the world) is performed by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter ("Zazel") at the London Royal Aquarium.
  12 April – Britain annexes the South African Republic, violating the Sand River Convention of 1852 causing a new Xhosa War.
  24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.
  30 April – the Diocese of St Albans is founded within the Church of England from part of the Diocese of Rochester. St Albans Abbey, which is undergoing extensive restoration at this time, is elevated to become St Albans Cathedral and on 12 June Thomas Legh Claughton is enthroned first Bishop of St Albans, an office he holds until 1890.
  9–19 July – All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club stages its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon. Spencer Gore becomes first gentlemen's singles champion (the final having been delayed by rain).
  10 July – St. John Ambulance Association established in England.
  12 July – Prison Act 1877 transfers responsibility for provision of prisons from counties to the Home Office.
  21 July – the Cabinet decides to declare war on Russia if it occupies Constantinople in the Russo-Turkish War.
  10 August – the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act removes most restrictions limiting fellowships in colleges of the ancient universities to clergy of the Church of England and permits fellows to marry.
  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 October – W. S. Gilbert's farce Engaged, starring Marion Terry, opens at London's Haymarket Theatre.
  22 October – Blantyre mining disaster kills 207, Scotland’s worst-ever mining accident.
  24 November – Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty published.
  4 December – American suffragette Victoria Woodhull delivers her first public lecture in London after she and her sister Tennessee Claflin settle in England following their involvement in sensational legal cases in the United States.
caption: Manchester Town Hall
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