* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American businesswoman ( d. 1967 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician ( d. 1952 )

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater ( d. 1949 )

* 1877 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna ( d. 1941 )

* 1877 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish engineer ( d. 1935 )

* 1877 – Albert Bartha, Hungarian military officer and politician ( d. 1960 )

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

1865 – 1877.

* 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer ( d. 1959 )

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

* 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman ( d. 1877 )

* 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author ( d. 1950 )

* 1877 – Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat ( d. 1949 )

Phobos was discovered by astronomer Asaph Hall on August 18, 1877, at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C., at about 09: 14 Greenwich Mean Time ( contemporary sources, using the pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, give the time of discovery as August 17 at 16: 06 Washington mean time ).

* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moons Deimos and Phobos

In 1877, Asaph Hall reported two moons of Mars and Giovanni Schiaparelli found the surface of Mars to be adorned with continents, seas, and channels, and a very suitable habitat for life.

Asaph Hall III ( October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907 ) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877.

On August 28, 1877, a few days after Asaph Hall discovered the moons of Mars Deimos and Phobos, he claimed to have found a third satellite of Mars.

Allen's rule is a biological rule posited by Joel Asaph Allen in 1877.

Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the characters Phobos ( panic / fear ) and Deimos ( terror / dread ) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle.

With the composer Alfred Cellier, Beckett wrote the operetta Two Foster Brothers ( St. George's Hall, 1877 ).

As well as the Hall, Waterhouse built a new range of rooms, Red Buildings ( 1871 – 2 ), in French Renaissance style, designed a new Master's Lodge on the site of Paschal Yard ( 1873, later to become N staircase ), pulled down the old Lodge and the south range of Old Court to open a vista to the Chapel, and finally built a new Library ( 1877 – 8 ) in the continental Gothic style.

She made her first public appearance as a lecturer at St. James's Hall in London on December 4, 1877.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

Hall also discovered Deimos, Mars's other moon, on August 12, 1877 at about 07: 48 UTC.

He became a member of the Royal Institution and later, replaced Dr. John Hall Gladstone in the role of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in 1877.

With the Liberal Party actively opposing Disraeli's foreign policy during the Russo-Turkish War, Gladstone addressed approximately 30, 000 people at Bingley Hall on 31 May 1877 to found the National Liberal Federation, a federation of the country's Liberal Associations.

Burges also started the redecoration of the Hall in 1877, but the work remained uncompleted at his death, and in 1966 Wyatt's designs were restored.

Wycliffe Hall was founded in 1877 to train Christian workers as pastors and missionaries, especially as clergy within the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion.

Wycliffe Hall was established in 1877 and started in No. 54, adding No. 52 in 1883.

In 1873, Dartmouth was incorporated as a town and a Town Hall was established in 1877.

Teaching started in September 1877 at rooms in Balliol Hall, located in St Giles ', central Oxford, under A. E. Clarke.

** Gordon Hall Gerould, philologist ( born 1877 )

These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Bains Wing ( designed and built by Alfred Waterhouse ), the School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed.

Healy Hall, built in Flemish Romanesque style from 1877 to 1879, is the architectural gem of Georgetown's campus, and is a National Historic Landmark.

The Old Town Hall ( left ), built in 1877 and a 17th-century building ( right )

* Abbot Hall ( 1877 ), containing The Spirit of ' 76 by Archibald MacNeal Willard

Their works included the state capitol in New Haven, the city hall and Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, the capitol buildings of Indiana ( 1831 – 1840, demolished 1877 ), and North Carolina ( 1833 – 1840 ), and the U. S. Custom House, now Federal Hall, in New York City ( 1833 – 1842 ).