8

Azor Nash 91
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 72

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 88 died
Thomas Hopper 80
John Williamson 64
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 59
Johan Mathias Noah 86
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 78
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 72
Thomas Guymon 59
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 55
Charles Alexander Durham 73
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 74
Henry Etters 78
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 61
Zachariah Earls 52
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 62

6

James H Clements 66
Lucy Owens (Clements) 65
Charles M. Powell 61
Anna Nash (Gifford) 46
George Washington Braffett 45
Ebenezer Snow 62
Polly Hayes (Snow) 58
Ralph Smith 57
Mary Walsh (Smith) 55
John Killian 50
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 35
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 34
Asahel Perry 62
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 57
Charles Hulet 56
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 52
Ann Pierson (Matson) 49
Noah Thomas Guymon 27
Niels Eriksen 72
Thomas Russon 51
Sarah Davis (Russon) 51
John Southhall 23
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 42
John Wilson 72
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 52
William Clark 52
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 50
William H. Green 38
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 37
Jacob Etters 38
Trythena Earl (Etters) 38 died

5

Albert Clements 45
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 45
Levi Jasper Powell 40
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 40
Henry Dill Gifford 21
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 17
Bernard Snow 24
Alice Smith (Snow) 18
Jacob Killian 18
Susan Coons (Killian) 8
Stephen Chadwick Perry 28
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 29
George Brinton Matson 19
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 8
Thomas Jensen 70
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 58
Elisha Peck I 30
Phebe Turner (Peck) 35
Lott Russon 17
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 16
George Wilson 21
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 21
Jonas Green 18
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 14

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 20
Ada Clements (Lowe) 7
Joseph Jasper Powell 12
Peder Pedersen 34
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 28
Anders Peder Jensen 21
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 18

General

Population: 1.22 Billion*

• Communication: First painted Christmas card designed by John C Horseley
• Entertainment: Writers include Poe The Raven, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Witter, Henry David Thoreay lives at Walden Pond, Hans Christian Andersen (autobiography), Balzac, Dostoevsky Poor Folk, Jokai, Keller, Edward Lear Book of Nonsense, Herman Melville, George Sand, Friedrich T Vischer, Theodor Waitz (psychology), WIlliam Whewell (morality)
  Art includes Millet "Oedipus Unbound", GF Watts paints "Paolo and Francesca"
  Music includes Berlioz "Damnation de Faust", Lortzing, Mendelssohn, Saxophone patented by Adolphe Sax
• Medicine: Ether used in operations and dental work by Morton
  FGJ Henle writes about pathology
  Semmelweiss introduces antiseptics in surgery
• Religion: Death of Pope Gregory XVI – succeeded by Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti as Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti Senigallia)
  First Vatican Council opened
• Science: H von Mohl identifies protoplasm
  Sobrero prepares nitroglycerine
  Remnants of primitive man discovered by Boucher de Perthes
  Leidy identifies parasite that causes trichinosis
• Technology: Sewing Machine patented by Howe
  Optical factory of Carl Zeiss founded
• Deaths: Abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, Artist BR Haydon, Economist Friedrich List, Pope Gregory XVI, Astronomer FW Bessel

Wilmot Proviso presented,

Africa

• South Africa: First act of segregation in South Africa with Zulu reserves in Natal
  War between Kaffirs (Bantu) and British in South Africa – Bantu defeated

Americas

• Brazil: Height of slave trade with Africa
• Canada: Boundary west of Rockies established
• Mexico: Mexican-American War begins

Asia

• China: Famine
• India: East India Company defeats Sikhs at Aliwal and Sobraon
  Britain annexes Sind and Punjab
  Treaty of Lahore ends First Sikh War
  Lt. Harry Lumsden dies cotton pajamas tannish and Khaki (Hindi word for cotton) born
  Famine in Bengal
• Japan: US attempts to open trade with Japan - fails

Europe

• Austria: Propylaea in Munich built by Franz Klenze
• France: Louis Napoleon escapes from fortress of Ham to London
  Electric arc lighting at Paris opera
• Great Britain: Irish Potato famine
  Evangelical Alliance founded
  British corn laws repealed
  Growth of anti-British movement in Ireland
  End of Sir Robert Peel as Lord John Russell serves as Prime Minister of England
  English newspaper "Daily News" appears with Charles Dickens as editor
• Italian States: Pope begins losing Papal States to Italy through 1878
• Poland: Revolts in Poland
  Austrian and Russian troops enter Krakow - Austria annexes Krakow
  End of Republic of Kraków

Middle East

Pacific

President:

Pres: James K. Polk

General

• Entertainment: PT Barnum stages shows
  "Jim Crack Corn" sung as new American folk song
• Land: Oregon boundary set with Canada
• Military: Mexican-American War declared
  USS Shark deployed and sinks – settling border disputes with Canada around Oregon
  Illinois Volunteers capture Santa Anna's wooden leg in Mexican-American War
• Technology: American inventor John Deere constructs plow with steel moldboard

East

• General: Telegraph lines being strung between Washington and Baltimore
• New Jersey: Portable ice cream freezer invented
• New York: "Lightning press" patented in New York City running ten thousand sheets per hour
• Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution founded

Midwest

• Iowa: Blacks disenfranchised
  Statehood as #29

South

• Florida: Key West hurricane
• Texas: Republic of Texas annexed

West and Pacific

• General: Mexican-American War
• California: One month independence of California
  Annexation of California after surrender of Mexico in Mexican War
  Donner Party delays and becomes snowbound in the Sierra Nevada range of California
  Alta California (South) revolts and defeats American force – to 1848
  Record snows in Sierra Nevadas
• Oregon: Boundary with Canada set at 49th Parallel

President

Pres: Quorum of the 12 Apostles with Brigham Young presiding

Membership: 33,993

Temples: 1

1. Nauvoo Illinois

Other

• Nauvoo temple dedication and final endowments - 5000 by Feb 7
• Angel wind-vane placed on Nauvoo temple
• Mormon migration from Illinois begins
• Temporaty Church selltement in Iowa, then in Nebraska
• Mormon Battalion volunteers gathered
• The Brooklyn sails from New York and arrives in San Fransisco (Yerba Buena)
• Battle of Nauvoo takes place when straggling Saints are forced from the city in a siege
• Saints meet with Secretary-of-State Buchanan
• Mississippi River frozen
• MT. Pisgah, Council Bluffs and Winter Quarters created
• Only 50 members emigrate from Britain this year
• Miracle of the quail
• Mormon Battalion fights wild bulls near Tucson