8

Azor Nash 86
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 67

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 83
Reuben Davis 77 died
Thomas Hopper 75
John Williamson 59
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 54
Johan Mathias Noah 81
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 73
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 67
Thomas Guymon 54
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 50
Charles Alexander Durham 68
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 69
Henry Etters 73
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 56
Zachariah Earls 47
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 57

6

James H Clements 61
Lucy Owens (Clements) 60
Charles M. Powell 56
Alpheus Gifford 48 died
Anna Nash (Gifford) 41
George Washington Braffett 40
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 43
Ebenezer Snow 57
Polly Hayes (Snow) 53
Ralph Smith 52
Mary Walsh (Smith) 50
John Killian 45
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 30
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 29
Asahel Perry 57
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 52
Charles Hulet 51
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 47
Ann Pierson (Matson) 44
Noah Thomas Guymon 22
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 27
Niels Eriksen 67
Thomas Russon 46
Sarah Davis (Russon) 46
John Southhall 18
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 37
John Wilson 67
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 47
William Clark 47
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 45
William H. Green 33
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 32
Jacob Etters 33
Trythena Earl (Etters) 33

5

Albert Clements 40
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 40
Levi Jasper Powell 35
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 35
Henry Dill Gifford 16
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 12
Bernard Snow 19
Alice Smith (Snow) 13
Jacob Killian 13
Susan Coons (Killian) 3
Stephen Chadwick Perry 23
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 24
George Brinton Matson 14
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 3
Thomas Jensen 65
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 53
Elisha Peck I 25
Phebe Turner (Peck) 30
Lott Russon 12
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 11
George Wilson 16
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 16
Jonas Green 13
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 9

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 15
Ada Clements (Lowe) 2
Joseph Jasper Powell 7
Peder Pedersen 29
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 23
Anders Peder Jensen 16
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 13

General

Population: 1.20 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Carlyle (history), Emerson, Ludwig Feuerbach (Christianity), Robert Browning, James Feinmore Cooper The Deerslayer, Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop, Jeremias Gotthelf (folk tales), Victor Hugo elected to Academie Française, James Russell Lowell, Frederick Marryat (adventure), Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue, Charles Sealsfield (Texas),
  London humorous periodical "Punch" debuts
  Music includes Rossini, Schumann,
  Adolphe Sax invents Saxophone in Belgium,
• Finance: List writes about economics
• Medicine: Dorthea Dix tours correctional institutions and advocates for mentally ill, reforms prisons
• Science: von Kolliker describes sperm and contributes evidence about neuron doctrine
  Bessel deduces the ellipticity of earth
  Braid discovers hypnosis
  Murchison names Permian System
  John Phillips proposes geologic eras as Paleozoic Mesozoic and Cainozoic (Cenozoic)
• Sports: American boxer Tom Hyer becomes first recognized champion
• Technology: Petzval produces higher-speed photo lens
  Whitworth proposes standardized screw threads
  First issue of George Bradshaw's railway guide
  Fritzsche shows how to get oil from indigo by using potassium hydroxide
  John Griffiths designs clipper ship
  Morse works on telegraph
• Deaths: Sculptor JH von Dannecker, William Henry Harrison, Secretary of State John Forsyth, Architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Artist David Wilkie, Poet Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Surgeon Sir Astley Cooper, Philosopher Johann Friedrich Herbart, Architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Artist Sir David Wilkie, Musician TJ Dibdin, Botanist Austin de Candolle, Revolutionist Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac, Humorist Theodore Hock, Religious poet Joseph Blanco White,

Door War until 1842,

Africa

• Egypt: Governorship made hereditary in Mohammed (Mehemet) Ali's line in Convention of Alexandria - confirmed by Sultan of Turkey
• West Africa: Ibadan empire expands

Americas

• Bahamas: USS Creole carrying slaves from Virginia to Louisiana seized by slaves and sails into Nassau where they become free
• Costa Rica: Quake kills 4000 - about a quarter of the population
• Mexico: Republic Rio Grande resorts back to Mexico – mostly
• Puerto Rico: Earthquake

Asia

• China: Cyclone in Hong Kong
  Britain claims sovereignty over Hong Kong
• Sarawak: (Malaysia) Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke
• Vietnam: End of reign of Minh Mang

Europe

• General: Straits Convention among Britain Austria Russia Prussia and France – Dardanelles and Bosporus to be closed to foreign ships in peacetime
• Great Britain: English travel agent Thomas Cook arranges first excursion to a temperance meeting
  Lord Melbourne (Whig) resigns as British Prime Minister – Sir Robert Peel (Tory) leads
• Hungary: Nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth founds Hungarian liberal reform newspaper - becomes nationalist leader
• Spain: General Baldomero Espartero becomes Regent

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Turkey's sovereignty guaranteed by five Great Powers

Pacific

• New Zealand: Becomes British colony

President:

Pres: Martin Van Buren
Pres: William Henry Harrison inaugurated and dies
Pres: John Tyler

General

• Abolition: Frederick Douglass delivers anti-slavery speech
• Culture: First university degrees granted to women in America
• Medicine: Yellow Fever outbreak
• Politics: Tyler becomes first president due to death of Harrison of pheumonia
  Tyler's cabinet resigns but Daniel Webster remains as Secretary of State

East

• Massachusetts: "October Gale"
• New York: New York Tribune appears
  Barnum opens "American Museum" with exhibition of freaks and curios

Midwest

South

• Florida: Hurricane in St. Jo
• Texas: Sam Houston reelected president of independent republic of Texas

West and Pacific

President

Pres: Joseph Smith

Membership: 19,856

Temples: 0

Other

• Plan for Nauvoo temple received and baptisms for dead introduced (D&C 124)
• Hyrum Smith ordained as Patriarch of Church, replacing his father, who died the previous year
• Nauvoo Legion organized with Joseph Smith as general
• Orson Hyde dedicates Palestine
• Baptisms for the Dead performed at Nauvoo Temple site
• Tyler president and lists anti-Mormons as some asking for his attention
• Nauvoo election, Nauvoo Mayor John C. Bennett proposes "Spiritual wifery" and plots to assassinate Joseph Smith. Excommunicated and by 1842 becomes anti
• Democratic Judge Stephen A Douglas dismisses case against the Saints
• 12 in conference in Manchester ENG
• Queen Victoria and Prince Albert given Book of Mormon by Lorenzo Snow
• 1135 emigrate from Britain to join Saints
• Call to gather saints to America