8

Azor Nash 79
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 84 died
John Gordon 80
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 60
John Dudley 66

7

Peter Clements 87 died
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 76
Reuben Davis 70
Thomas Hopper 68
John Williamson 52
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 47
Abiel Perry 80 died
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 71
Johan Mathias Noah 74
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 66
Aaron Mattson 89
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 60
Thomas Guymon 47
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 43
James Dudley 52
Palle Pallemon Fix 94
Charles Alexander Durham 61
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 62
Henry Etters 66
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 49
Zachariah Earls 40
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 50

6

James H Clements 54
Lucy Owens (Clements) 53
Charles M. Powell 49
Nancy Smith (Powell) 49
Alpheus Gifford 41
Anna Nash (Gifford) 34
George Washington Braffett 33
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 36
Ebenezer Snow 50
Polly Hayes (Snow) 46
Ralph Smith 45
Mary Walsh (Smith) 43
John Killian 38
Lydia Ann Hopper (Killian) 39 died
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 23
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 22
Asahel Perry 50
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 45
Charles Hulet 44
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 40
Ann Pierson (Matson) 37
Noah Thomas Guymon 15
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 20
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 71 died
Niels Eriksen 60
Anne Jensdatter (Eriksen) 55
William Peck 46 died
Ann Kinger (Peck) 43 died
Thomas Russon 39
Sarah Davis (Russon) 39
John Southhall 11
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 30
John Wilson 60
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 40
William Clark 40
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 38
William H. Green 26
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 25
Jacob Etters 26
Trythena Earl (Etters) 26

5

Albert Clements 33
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 33
Levi Jasper Powell 28
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 28
Henry Dill Gifford 9
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 5
Bernard Snow 12
Alice Smith (Snow) 6
Jacob Killian 6
Stephen Chadwick Perry 16
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 17
George Brinton Matson 7
Thomas Jensen 58
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 46
Elisha Peck I 18
Phebe Turner (Peck) 23
Lott Russon 5
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 4
George Wilson 9
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 9
Jonas Green 6
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 2

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 8
Joseph Jasper Powell born
Peder Pedersen 22
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 16
Anders Peder Jensen 9
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 6

General

Population: 1.16 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Balzac, George Bancroft (history of US), Victor Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii, Disraeli, Leigh Hunt, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Moore Irish Melodies, Alfred de Musset, Pushkin, Leopold von Ranke (Roman Popes)
  Art includes Igres "Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian",
  Music includes Adolphe Adam, John Barnett, Berlioz, Konradin Kreutzer
• Medicine: End of world cholera pandemic
• Science: Arago writes about popular astronomy
  Faraday publishes "Law of Electrolysis"
  Christian Leopold von Buch publishes "Theory of Volcanism"
  FF Runge discovers phenol (carbolic acid)
  Wheatstone uses revolving mirror to measure speed of electric discharge in a conductor
  Whewell coins term "scientist"
  Alberti names Triassic period
• Sports: Robin Carver's "Book of Sports" first mentions baseball
• Technology: Babbage invents "analytical engine" (proto-computer)
  Colt invents revolver
  Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
• Deaths: General Lafayette, Economist Thomas R. Malthus, Theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, Poet Samuel Taylor Colerige, Attorney General William Wirt, Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu, Essayist Charles Lamb, Statesman Lord Grenville, Writer William Blackwood, Lithographer Rudolph Ackermann, Lithograph inventor Aloys Senefelder, Illustrator Thomas Stothard, John Mytton – eccentric in England who rode bears to parties and hunted naked
  David Douglas Scottish botanist falls into pit trap along with a bull - crushed

Africa

• Egypt: Cholera outbreak
• South Africa: Sixth Kaffir War for a year – severe clashes between Bantu people and white settlers on eastern frontier of Cape Colony
  Dutch farmers of the Cape Colony begin to settle in country north of Orange River
  Boers of South Africa begin to migrate in order to keep slaves

Americas

• General: First indentured Indian laborers replace slave labor in W Indies
• Canada: Canada under Papineau draws up 92 resolutions against Britain
• Dominican republic: Cyclone

Asia

• China: Monopoly of the China trade by East India Company abolished – friction between China and Britain

Europe

• General: Lord Palmerston the British Foreign Secretary contrives quadruple alliance with France Spain and Portugal to safeguard governments on Iberian peninsula
• Austria: The Munich Glyptothek (sculpture gallery) designed
• Brussels: University of Brussels founded
• France: Fanny Elssler the Austrian ballerina makes her debut at Paris Opera
• German States: Customs union (Zollverein) begins to operate - stimulates trade
  Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner appointed professor at Berlin U – founder of synthetic geometry
  Bavarian civil servant Franz Xaver Gabelsberger publishes system of German shorthand
• Great Britain: Parliamentary houses and many political building of Britain burned (Westminster)
  Daniel O'Connell's motion to repeal Union with Great Britain defeated 523 to 38
  Viscount Melbourne becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain followed by Sir Robert Peel in December
  William Wilkins begins National Gallery
  William IV dismisses ministry in England following Melbourne's Irish church policy
  Two-wheeled one-horse hansom cabs designed by JA Hansom introduced
  Poor Law Amendment Act decrees that no able-bodied man in Great Britain shall receive assistance unless he ethers a workhouse - sadly causing many businesses to lower wages - workhouses established
  "Tolpuddle Martyrs" in England – six Dorset labourers transported to Australia for trying to form union
• Portugal: Maria II ascends throne
• Spain: Spanish Inquisition finally suppressed
  Carlist Wars begin to 1839
  Pretender Don Carlos attempts to gain Spainish throne

Middle East

Pacific

• Australia: South Australia Act allows establishment of colony there
  Trade Unionists exiled to Australia
  South Australia and Victoria settled
• Tuamotu Island: French Catholic Missionaries arrive in Mangareva in Tuamotu Islands in South Pacific

President:

Pres: Andrew Jackson

General

• Finance: Dollar shifts from silver to gold standard
• Natives: Indian territory created by act of Congress
• Politics: President Jackson censured by Senate for removing funding from Bank of the US
  National Republicans of US become Whigs - anti-Jackson named for party in England who opposed tyrrany of George III

Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed by Robert Owen but collapses before end of year, Lloyd's Register of Shipping placed under control of Lloyd's Register Society,

East

• New York: David Ruggles opens first black bookstore and publishing company
  Castle Garden Boat Club Association organized
  Walter Hunt of New York constructs one of the first sewing machines
  Cholera outbreak

Midwest

• Illinois: Abraham Lincoln (age 25) enters politics as assemblyman in IL legislature

South

• South Carolina: Alligator falls from sky near Charlestown

West and Pacific

President

Pres: Joseph Smith

Membership: 4,372

Temples: 0

Other

• First Stake created in Kirtland, second in Missouri
• Zion's Camp begins its march from Ohio to Missouri
• LDS Messenger and Advocate published
• Revelation regarding United Order
• First High Council organized
• Church named "Church of the Latter-day Saints" in conference
• Government ignores Saints petition in MO - Saints appeal to president Jackson, no response – shows sympathy for "the persecuted people" but refuses to send help
• School of the Elders organized
• Oliver Cowdery becomes assistant president