1877 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

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March 8 In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
April 11 - In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
November 30 - Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey, MP
Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads.
Opening of Stepaside village school (now part of Stepaside Heritage Park).
Opening of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.

Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

June 6 - Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (born in Guernsey) (d. 1969)
August 19 - John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
September 17 - Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
September 26 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
November - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (d. 1916)
November 7 - Maurice Parry, footballer (d. 1935)