8

Azor Nash 90
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 71

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 87
Thomas Hopper 79
John Williamson 63
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 58
Johan Mathias Noah 85
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 77
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 71
Thomas Guymon 58
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 54
Charles Alexander Durham 72
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 73
Henry Etters 77
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 60
Zachariah Earls 51
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 61

6

James H Clements 65
Lucy Owens (Clements) 64
Charles M. Powell 60
Anna Nash (Gifford) 45
George Washington Braffett 44
Ebenezer Snow 61
Polly Hayes (Snow) 57
Ralph Smith 56
Mary Walsh (Smith) 54
John Killian 49
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 34
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 33
Asahel Perry 61
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 56
Charles Hulet 55
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 51
Ann Pierson (Matson) 48
Noah Thomas Guymon 26
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 31 died
Niels Eriksen 71
Thomas Russon 50
Sarah Davis (Russon) 50
John Southhall 22
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 41
John Wilson 71
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 51
William Clark 51
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 49
William H. Green 37
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 36
Jacob Etters 37
Trythena Earl (Etters) 37

5

Albert Clements 44
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 44
Levi Jasper Powell 39
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 39
Henry Dill Gifford 20
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 16
Bernard Snow 23
Alice Smith (Snow) 17
Jacob Killian 17
Susan Coons (Killian) 7
Stephen Chadwick Perry 27
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 28
George Brinton Matson 18
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 7
Thomas Jensen 69
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 57
Elisha Peck I 29
Phebe Turner (Peck) 34
Lott Russon 16
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 15
George Wilson 20
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 20
Jonas Green 17
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 13

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 19
Ada Clements (Lowe) 6
Joseph Jasper Powell 11
Peder Pedersen 33
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 27
Anders Peder Jensen 20
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 17

General

Population: 1.22 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Henry David Thoreau (journal at Walden), Frederick Douglass (autobiography), Balzac, Disraeli, Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Hertz, Prosper Merimee Carmen, Poe The Raven and Other Poems, Thomas Carlyle (Cromwell's letters and speeches), Engels (working class), Max Stirner (philosophy and anarchy)
  Art includes David Octavius Hill's artistic photo portraits, Ingres (portrait of Countess Haussonville)
  Portland Vase – famous Greecian urn that was maliciously destroyed is restored
  Music includes WH Fry "Leonora", Lortzing "Undine", Wagner "Tannhauser", Liszt
• Science: Cayley writes about theory of linear transformations
  Humboldt writes "Cosmos"
  Kolbe synthesizes acetic acid
  Adams works out position of Neptune
• Technology: Armstrong patents hydraulic crane
  Bigelow constructs power loom for creating carpets
  First submarine cable laid across English Channel
  Heilman patents machine for combing cotton and wool
  M'Naught develops compound steam engine,
• Deaths: Author August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Andrew Jackson, Author Sydney Smith, Author Henrik Wergeland, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)

Africa

Americas

• Brazil: War of Farrapos reunites Riograndense Republic with the rest of Brazil
• Peru: Earthquake and tsunami in south Peru

Asia

• China: Fire in Canton theater kills 1670
• India: Sikh wars with Britain begin until 1849 - Punjab annexed

Europe

• France: JT Huve completes Madeline Church in Paris
• Great Britain: The Great Hunger in Ireland (potato famine) begins until 1847/8
  Mass migrations of Irish to US over 15 years
  Within three years, about one million die of famine
  Oxford-Cambridge boat race transferred from Henly-on-Thames to Putney
  Yarmouth England – suspension bridge collapses when spectators gather to see in a clown in a boat pulled by geese – 250 die
  Massive telescope built by Earl of Rosse in Ireland – mistook spiral galaxies for Catherine wheels
• Spain: New Spanish constitution
• Switzerland: Sonderbund for protection of Catholic Cantons formed

Middle East

• General: Sir Austen H Layard begins excavations in Nineveh

Pacific

• New Zealand: Anglo-Maori war to 1872 with rebellion against British rule

President:

Pres: John Tyler
Pres: James K. Polk inaugurated

General

• Culture: John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) dies
• Medicine: J Marion Sims "father of gynecology" experiments on enslaved African women without anesthesia
• Transportation: Work on railroads resumes

Eruption and mudflow at Nevado del Ruiz, , , *

East

• Maryland: US Naval Academy opened in Annapolis
• Massachusetts: Macon Allen – first African lawyer
• New York: New York Knickerbocker Club forms as first basketball organization - rules codified

Midwest

• Illinois: Citizens request Mormons leave
• Wisconsin: Milwaukee Bridge War

South

• Florida: Statehood as #27
• Texas: Disenfranchisement of blacks
  Texas voluntarily annexed to the US – admitted as state which triggers Mexican-American War
  Statehood #28

West and Pacific

President

Pres: Quorum of the 12 Apostles with Brigham Young presiding

Membership: 30,332

Temples: 1

1. Nauvoo Illinois (operational, but not dedicated fully until 1846)

Other

• Illinois legislature repeals Nauvoo's charter
• Joseph and Hyrum's murderers acquitted
• Limestone baptismal font replaces wooden one in Nauvoo Temple
• Church leaders establish intent to move to Rocky Mountains
• Mass meeting in Quincey requests Saints to move
• 5,000 Saints receive endowments in the Temple prior to the exodus (to 1846)
• Saints call upon future president Buchanan for help – no response, they call on Polk for help – no response
• IL natives requests that the Saints leave
• 302 Emigrate from Britain to join Saints
• Texas Saints refuse to return to Nauvoo and leader Lyman Wight excommunicated