Events in the year 1877 in India.
Incumbents
Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Events Celebrations in darbars are held in India now that Queen Victoria is Empress of India. 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded. Gilgit Agency was formed. First suspension bridge in India was opened in Punalur, Travancore (now in Kerala). Jowaki Expedition against the Afridi tribe.
Law Limitation Act East India Loan Act (British statute) Code Of Civil Procedure
Births 2 November – Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, The Founders and the First Permanent President of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). (Death, 11 July 1957). 9 November – Sir, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, The Poet of The East, Presenter of the Idea of Pakistan (died, 21 April 1938 in Lahore, Pakistan). 24 November – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).
Deaths 30 August – Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).
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