8

Azor Nash 84
John Gordon 85 died
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 65

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 81
Reuben Davis 75
Thomas Hopper 73
John Williamson 57
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 52
Johan Mathias Noah 79
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 71
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 65
Thomas Guymon 52
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 48
Palle Pallemon Fix 99
Charles Alexander Durham 66
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 67
Henry Etters 71
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 54
Zachariah Earls 45
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 55

6

James H Clements 59
Lucy Owens (Clements) 58
Charles M. Powell 54
Nancy Smith (Powell) 54
Alpheus Gifford 46
Anna Nash (Gifford) 39
George Washington Braffett 38
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 41
Ebenezer Snow 55
Polly Hayes (Snow) 51
Ralph Smith 50
Mary Walsh (Smith) 48
John Killian 43
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 28
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 27
Asahel Perry 55
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 50
Charles Hulet 49
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 45
Ann Pierson (Matson) 42
Noah Thomas Guymon 20
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 25
Niels Eriksen 65
Thomas Russon 44
Sarah Davis (Russon) 44
John Southhall 16
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 35
John Wilson 65
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 45
William Clark 45
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 43
William H. Green 31
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 30
Jacob Etters 31
Trythena Earl (Etters) 31

5

Albert Clements 38
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 38
Levi Jasper Powell 33
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 33
Henry Dill Gifford 14
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 10
Bernard Snow 17
Alice Smith (Snow) 11
Jacob Killian 11
Susan Coons (Killian) 1
Stephen Chadwick Perry 21
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 22
George Brinton Matson 12
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 1
Thomas Jensen 63
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 51
Elisha Peck I 23
Phebe Turner (Peck) 28
Lott Russon 10
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 9
George Wilson 14
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 14
Jonas Green 11
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 7

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 13
Ada Clements (Lowe) born
Joseph Jasper Powell 5
Peder Pedersen 27
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 21
Anders Peder Jensen 14
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 11

General

Population: 1.19 Billion*

• Archaeology: American traveler John Lloyd Stephens examines antiquities of the ancient Maya culture with Frederick Catherwood
• Entertainment: Writers include Jared Sparks Life of Washington, Longfellow (poetry), Poe Fall of the House of Usher, Stendhal publishes Charterhouse of Parma
  Art includes Karl Spitzweg "The Poor Poet"
  Music includes Schumann, Berlioz, Chopin, Mendelssohn conducts Schubert's symphony
• Language: German philologist Franz Bopp identifies Celtic as part of Indo-European language family
• Politics: French political leader Louis Blanc publishes essay which included "to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities"
• Science: Schonbein discovers and names ozone
  Lanthanum discovered by Carl Gustav Mosander
  Schleiden and Schwann proposes cells as basic unit of life
  Schwann promotes cell-growth theory
  Murchison and Sedgwick name Devonian System
• Technology: Charles Goodyear discovers vulcanization of rubber
  Moritz Jacobi of Russia announces process of electrotyping and makes duplicate plates for relief printing
  Steinheil builds first electric clock
  WH Fox Talbot claims invention of photography before Daguerre and submits evidence to Royal Society
  Daguerrotypes invented in France
  Nasmyth invents steam hammer
• Travel: Two British ships Erebus and Terror set out on cross-Antarctic voyage
  First bicycle constructed by Scottish inventor Kirkpatrick Macmillan
• Deaths: Painter Joseph Anton Koch, Frederick IV of Denmark, Sikh Ranjit Singh, Politician Stephen Van Rensselaer, Novelist John Galt, Poet WM Praed, Author James Smith, Cardinal Jospeh Fesch (half uncle of Napoleon), Geologist William Smith, Painter SIr William Beechey, Death of Lady Hester Stanhope the English eccentric who settled among the Druses of Lebanon

Bloodless Honey War,

Africa

• Gabon: France annexes Gabon (W Africa)
• Natal: Independent republic of Natal founded by the Boers

Americas

• General: End of Peru-Bolivian Confederacy
  "War of Pork and Beans" between Maine and New Brunswick – bloodless
• Brazil: Juliana Republic dissolved in War of the Farrapos
• Canada: Lord Durham, governor of British North America plans a unified state
  Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada
• Uruguay: War declared against Argentina

Asia

• China: Imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu sent to Guangzhou to stop Opium trade
  China confiscates opium from British - British withdraw to Macao
  Start of first Opium War until 1842 over trade restrictions
• India: Death of Ranjit Singh founder of Sikh kingdom - end of Sikh uprising
  Cyclone hits killing over 300,000 – 5th worst disaster ever

Europe

• General: Treaty of London settles the dispute between the Dutch and former Belgian subjects
• Austria: Vienna Philharmonic founded
• Belgium: Independence from Netherlands
  Permanent neutrality guaranteed in Treaty of London
• Denmark: Death of Frederick IV King of Denmark – nephew Christian VIII rules
• German States: Prussia restricts juvenile labor to a maximum of 10 hours per day
• Great Britain: Albert arrives in England – Victoria finds him beautiful
  Samuel Cunard starts British and North-American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
  First Grand National run at Aintree England
  British Parliament rejects the first People's Charter
  Anti-corn Law League protest high wheat prices due to tariffs

Middle East

• Aden: (Yemen) British occupy Aden as part of Anglo-Afghan War
• Afghanistan: First Afghan War with British starts until 1842 - trying to quell Russian influence
• Ottoman Empire: Sultan Abdul Majid starts the "Tanzimat" program for modernization and rules Turkey
• Syria: Turks invade Syria - Battle of Nesib – Turks defeated by Mehmet Ali of Egypt

Pacific

President:

Pres: Martin Van Buren

General

• Abolition: George D Weed publishes antislavery pamphlet
• Law: US investigates reports of Canadian injustices
  Women in US given legal control of property
• Sports: American army officer Abner Doubleday lays out first baseball field and conducts first game

East

• Massachusetts: Lowell institute in Boston founded to provide free lectures by scholars
• New York: Liberty (Anti-slavery) Party established
  New York Philharmonic founded

Midwest

• Michigan: Detroit Boat Club formed

South

West and Pacific

President

Pres: Joseph Smith

Membership: 16,460

Temples: 0

Other

• Brigham Young and 12 create plan to remove Saints from Missouri
• Joseph Smith receives revelations in Liberty Jail (See D&C 121-123)
• Joseph Smith and 4 others allowed to escape
• Last of Saints leave Far West
• Saints gather at Quincey, then Commerce IL, the latter to be renamed Nauvoo
• Quorum of 12 go on missions to England
• Joseph Smith begins to write History of the Church
• Joseph Smith goes to Washington to redress grievances
• Times and Seasons published
• President Van Buren refuses to help Saints
• Legislator Lincoln writes about "strange new sect" - may have met with Joseph Smith in Springfield
• Healings from ague (malaria) in Nauvoo and Montrose
• First Scottish missionaries