1877
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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.

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Events
- Asaph Hall discovers the two moons of Mars.
Births
- 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
- October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan
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