1877
year
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: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1874 1875 1876 – 1877 – 1878 1879 1880 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1877 MDCCCLXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2630 |
| Armenian calendar | 1326 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6627 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 33–34 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1798–1799 |
| Bengali calendar | 1284 |
| Berber calendar | 2827 |
| British Regnal year | 40 Vict. 1 – 41 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2421 |
| Burmese calendar | 1239 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7385–7386 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4573 or 4513 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4574 or 4514 |
| Coptic calendar | 1593–1594 |
| Discordian calendar | 3043 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1869–1870 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5637–5638 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1933–1934 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1798–1799 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4977–4978 |
| Holocene calendar | 11877 |
| Igbo calendar | 877–878 |
| Iranian calendar | 1255–1256 |
| Islamic calendar | 1293–1294 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 10 (明治１０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1805–1806 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4210 |
| Minguo calendar | 35 before ROC 民前35年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 409 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2419–2420 |
| 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 |
Events
change- Asaph Hall discovers the two moons of Mars.
Births
change- October 29 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer
- November 9 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
- Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin, OBE, British Indian judge, legislator and philanthropist (d. 1939)
- November 24 – Alben W. Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
Deaths
change- October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan