8

Azor Nash 88
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 69

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 85
Thomas Hopper 77
John Williamson 61
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 56
Johan Mathias Noah 83
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 75
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 69
Thomas Guymon 56
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 52
Charles Alexander Durham 70
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 71
Henry Etters 75
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 58
Zachariah Earls 49
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 59

6

James H Clements 63
Lucy Owens (Clements) 62
Charles M. Powell 58
Anna Nash (Gifford) 43
George Washington Braffett 42
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 45
Ebenezer Snow 59
Polly Hayes (Snow) 55
Ralph Smith 54
Mary Walsh (Smith) 52
John Killian 47
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 32
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 31
Asahel Perry 59
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 54
Charles Hulet 53
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 49
Ann Pierson (Matson) 46
Noah Thomas Guymon 24
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 29
Niels Eriksen 69
Thomas Russon 48
Sarah Davis (Russon) 48
John Southhall 20
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 39
John Wilson 69
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 49
William Clark 49
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 47
William H. Green 35
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 34
Jacob Etters 35
Trythena Earl (Etters) 35

5

Albert Clements 42
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 42
Levi Jasper Powell 37
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 37
Henry Dill Gifford 18
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 14
Bernard Snow 21
Alice Smith (Snow) 15
Jacob Killian 15
Susan Coons (Killian) 5
Stephen Chadwick Perry 25
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 26
George Brinton Matson 16
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 5
Thomas Jensen 67
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 55
Elisha Peck I 27
Phebe Turner (Peck) 32
Lott Russon 14
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 13
George Wilson 18
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 18
Jonas Green 15
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 11

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 17
Ada Clements (Lowe) 4
Joseph Jasper Powell 9
Peder Pedersen 31
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 25
Anders Peder Jensen 18
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 15

General

Population: 1.21 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include WH Ainsworth, Robert Browning, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens A Christmas Carol, RH Horne, William H Prescott, Tennyson Morte d'Arthur, Wordsworth named English poet laureate, George Borrow (Bible), Reformer Richard Carlile, Thomas Carlyle, Liddell and Scott write Greek-English lexicon, JS Mill Logic, Alexander von Humboldt (central Asia), Kierkegaard
  First Christmas Card created
  Music includes MW Balfe "The Bohemian Girl", Donizetti, Mendelssohn "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Schumann (secular oratorio), Wagner "The Flying Dutchman"
  DD Emmett produces first minstrel show
  John Ruskin collects "modern painters"
  Thomas Hood creates "Song of the Shirt" in "Punch"
• Science: Oliver Wendell Holmes writes about contagiousness of "Puerperal Fever"
  Joule determines how much work is required to produce unit of heat
  Erbium discovered by CG Mosander
• Deaths: Lexicographer Noah Webster, Jurist Smith Thompson, Poet Friedrich Holderlin, Author Robert Southey, Poet Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque, Composer Joseph Lanner, Poet Casimir Delavigne, Poet Robert Southey, Artist Washington Allston, Artist John Trumbull, Sequoya, Homeopath Samuel CS Hahnemann,

Africa

• Natal: (South Africa) Britain takes over Natal from Boers and adopts it as British colony

Americas

• Canada: Victoria, Vancouver founded
• Cuba: Slave population estimated at 436000

Asia

• India: India forcibly annexes Sind and the Punjab
• Java: Guntur in Java erupts

Europe

• France: World's first nightclub opens in Paris
• Great Britain: Idea for fax machine conceived by Bain in Scotland
  Great Disruption results in Evangelicals forming Free Church of Scotland
  British Archaeological Association and Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland founded
  London weekly financial paper "The Economist" founded
  Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping London built
  Guy's Hospital Football Club founded in London
  S.S. Great Britain crosses Atlantic as first propeller-driven ship
• Italian States: Michelangelo's David has toe broken after rough cleaning with hydrochloric acid
  Mt Etna erupts
• Norway: Beginning of skiing as sport
• Poland: Countess Rosa Branicka of Poland performs her own breast cancer surgery and lives to be 82
• Serbia: Skupstina summons Prince Alexander Karageorgevich to the throne
• Spain: Military revolt drives General Espartero from power and Isabella II (age 13) declared Queen
  Isabella of Spain forced to abdicate

Middle East

Pacific

• New Zealand: Maori revolts against Britain in New Zealand

President:

Pres: John Tyler

General

• Abolition: Sojourner Truth begins abolitionist work - renamed self from "Belle"
• Culture: Conjoined (Siamese) twins Chang and Eng Bunker marry Sarah and Adelaide Yates
• Natives: Death of Sequoya the Cherokee Indian leader and alphabet creator
• Politics: Impeachment hearings started in Congress. President Tyler charged with corruption, but motion was rejected
  Daniel Webster retires as Secretary of State
  Andrew Johnson elected to congress
  Know-Nothings (pro-native's anti-immigrant) party forms American Republican Party when they unite with Whigs (Whiggamors - cattle drivers - names after Scottish Presbyterians who opposed King Charles I)

East

• General: William Miller of New England predicts the end of the world – in 1844 – start of Adventists
  Congress grants SFB Morse money to build first telegraph between Washington and Baltimore
  "The Great Snowstorm" hits from Maine to Gulf of Mexico in March
• Massachusetts: American social reformer Dorthea Dix reveals in a report to the MA legislature the conditions in prisons and asylums
• New York: National Negro Convention in NY results in "Call to Rebellion" speech

Midwest

South

• General: "The Great Snowstorm" hits from Maine to Gulf of Mexico in March
• Arkansas: Quake estimated as 6.3
• Georgia: Jefferson Davis enters politics as delegate of Atlanta to Democratic State Convention

West and Pacific

• General: John C Fremont crosses Rocky Mountain, enters Utah, travels to California
• Wyoming: Fort Bridger is built

President

Pres: Joseph Smith

Membership: 25,980

Temples: 0

Other

• Articles of Faith published in the Times and Seasons after request from John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat
• Nauvoo Neighbor begins publication
• Illinois agents arrest Joseph Smith, who was released on writ of habaeus corpus
• Revelation on plural message (D&C 132) recorded specifying eternal marriage and "new and everlasting covenant"
• Joseph Smith arrested at Dixon Illinois and released July 1
• Joseph Smith polls candidates on their attitude toward the Saints – also writes to Van Buren and is ignored
• Joseph Smith receives fake letter supposedly from President Tyler accusing him of high treason
• Joseph Smith asks for protection to the Saints as they go west to Oregon
• Mary Todd Lincoln attends Joseph Smith's extradition hearing
• 789 emigrate from Britain to join saints
• Mission to Tahiti opens