Timeline August 1877

Events in August 1877 2

• 1801 – 1877 Brigham Young (1801-1877) Died 29 August 1877, aged 76 Brigham Young led the Latter-day Saints west after the death of Joseph Smith, founding Salt Lake City and directing the settlement of Utah. He served as the first governor of Utah Territory and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for three decades. He oversaw the church's rapid expansion and the colonization of much of the Mountain West.
• 1877 Phobos and Deimos discovered Asaph Hall identifies Mars's two moons American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars's two small moons using the US Naval Observatory's refracting telescope, finding Deimos on 12 August 1877 and Phobos six days later. He named them after the mythological attendants of the war god Ares. They remain the only known natural satellites of Mars.