1977 in the United Kingdom:

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1977 British Grand Prix

1977 English cricket season

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1977 in British music

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977

Events from the year 1977 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
• Prime Minister - James Callaghan, Labour

[edit] Events

• 3 January - Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.^[1]
• 6 January - Record company EMI sacks the controversial British punk rock group the Sex Pistols.^[2]
• 4 February - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released, featuring songs that include "The Chain", "Don't Stop", and "Go Your Own Way".
• 10 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits American Samoa.
• 11 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
• 14 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
• 16 February–17 February - Queen Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
• 22 February–7 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
• 28 February - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 7 March–30 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia.
• 8 March - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 12 March - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• 17 March–23 March - Prince Charles visits Ghana.
• 23 March - Government wins a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons after James Callaghan strikes a deal with the leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel.^[3]
• 23 March–25 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea.
• 31 March - Queen Elizabeth II visits Muscat.
• 2 April - Red Rum wins Grand National for the third time.^[4]
• 8 April - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.
• 11 April - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
• 3 May - HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 5 May - Silver Jubilee review of the Police at Hendon by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 7 May - Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.
• 13 May - The Silver Jubilee Air Fair is held at Biggin Hill.
• 17 May - Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
• 18 May
  • The UK is among 29 signatories of a convention banning the use of the weather as a weapon of war.^[5]
  • Queen Elizabeth II visits Cumbernauld and Stirling.
• 19 May - Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
• 23 May–27 May - Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
• 27 May - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
• 28 May - Climax of Windsor celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II visits the town during her Silver Jubilee tour.
• 30 May - A gala performance for the Silver Jubilee is held at the Royal Opera House, London.
• 6 June–9 June - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
• 20 June - Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary "Alternative 3". It enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
• 4 July - Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sensationally sacked by the club's directors due to his affair with the wife of the club's physiotherapist.^[6]
• 11 July - Gay News found guilty of blasphemous libel in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association.^[7]
• 10 August - the Queen visits Northern Ireland as part of her Jubilee celebrations under tight security.^[8]
• 13 August - Battle of Lewisham: an attempt by the far-right National Front (NF) to march from New Cross to Lewisham in southeast London leads to counter-demonstrations and violent clashes.^[9]
• September - Ford launches the second generation of its popular Granada top-of-the-range model.
• 27 October - former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe denies allegations of attempted murder of and having a relationship with male model Norman Scott.^[10]
• 28 October - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the UK.
• 14 November - Firefighters go on first ever national strike.^[11]
• 22 November - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• 10 December
  • James Meade wins the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with the Norwegian Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."^[12]
  • Nevill Francis Mott wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Philip Warren Anderson and John Hasbrouck van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems".^[13]
• 12 December - Chrysler Europe announces its new Horizon range of five-door front-wheel drive hatchbacks, which will be built in Britain as a Chrysler and France as a Simca. It will give buyers a more modern alternative to the Avenger range of rear-wheel drive saloons and estates.
• 16 December - The Queen opens a £71million extension to the London Underground which runs to Heathrow Airport.^[14]
• 27 December - The much-acclaimed Star Wars film, which has been a massive hit in America, is screened in British cinemas for the first time.^[15]

[edit] Publications

• Bruce Chatwin's travel book In Patagonia.
• Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel book A Time Of Gifts.
• John Fowles' novel Daniel Martin.
• Paul Scott's novel Staying On.
• J. R. R. Tolkien's collection The Silmarillion (posthumous).

[edit] Births

• 7 January - Michelle Behennah, model
• 13 January - Orlando Bloom, actor
• 5 February - Ben Ainslie, sailor
• 10 March - Colin Murray, radio DJ
• 13 May - Samantha Morton, actress
• 30 May - Rachael Stirling, actress
• 31 May
  • Debbie King, TV presenter
  • Joel Ross, DJ
• 3 August - Angela Beesley, internet entrepreneur
• 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer
• September 8 - Gavin Meadows, freestyle swimmer
• 1 November - Alistair Griffin, singer/songwriter
• 4 November - Kavana, singer
• 15 November - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, son of Anne, Princess Royal
• 22 November - Michael Preston, footballer
• 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer
• 23 December - Matt Baker, television presenter

[edit] Deaths

• 14 January
  • Anthony Eden, former Prime Minister (born 1897)
  • Peter Finch, actor (born 1912)
• 19 February - Anthony Crosland, Politician (born 1918)
• 26 March - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (born 1923)
• 17 April - William Cardinal Conway, clergyman (born 1913)
• 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931)
• 3 June - Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
• 19 June - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Chief Girl Guide (born 1889)
• 4 August - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
• 13 August - Henry Williamson, author (born 1895)
• 29 August - Edward Sinclair, actor (born 1914)
• 6 September - John Edensor Littlewood, mathematician (born 1885)
• 13 September - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (born 1882)
• 16 September - Marc Bolan, musician (born 1947)
• 30 November - Terence Rattigan, playwright (born 1911)
• 12 December - Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (born 1885)
• 25 December - Charlie Chaplin, comedian (born 1889)

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