8

Azor Nash 93
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 74

7

Thomas Hopper 82
John Williamson 66
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 61
Johan Mathias Noah 88
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 80
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 74
Thomas Guymon 61
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 57
Charles Alexander Durham 75
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 76
Henry Etters 80
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 63
Zachariah Earls 54
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 64

6

James H Clements 68
Lucy Owens (Clements) 67
Charles M. Powell 63
Anna Nash (Gifford) 48
George Washington Braffett 47
Ebenezer Snow 64
Polly Hayes (Snow) 60
Ralph Smith 59
Mary Walsh (Smith) 57
John Killian 52
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 37
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 36
Asahel Perry 64
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 59
Charles Hulet 58
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 54
Ann Pierson (Matson) 51
Noah Thomas Guymon 29
Niels Eriksen 74 died
Thomas Russon 53
Sarah Davis (Russon) 53
John Southhall 25
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 44
John Wilson 74
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 54
William Clark 54
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 52
William H. Green 40
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 39
Jacob Etters 40

5

Albert Clements 47
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 47
Levi Jasper Powell 42
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 42
Henry Dill Gifford 23
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 19
Bernard Snow 26
Alice Smith (Snow) 20
Jacob Killian 20
Susan Coons (Killian) 10
Stephen Chadwick Perry 30
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 31
George Brinton Matson 21
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 10
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 60
Elisha Peck I 32
Phebe Turner (Peck) 37
Lott Russon 19
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 18
George Wilson 23
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 23
Jonas Green 20
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 16

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 22
Ada Clements (Lowe) 9
Joseph Jasper Powell 14
Peder Pedersen 36
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 30
Anders Peder Jensen 23
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 20
Lawson Green Wilson 1

General

Population: 1.23 Billion*

• Entertainment: Art includes Millais "Ophelia", Millet "The Winnower" Millais and Rossetti found Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, end of Biedermeir art style
  Writers include Emile Augier, Chateaubriand, Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lowell, Henri Murger, Jakob Grimm (history of German language), Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto, Macaulay (history of England), JS Mill,
• Medicine: First appendectomy by Hancock
• Politics: Publication of Communist Manifesto
• Science: Owen describes homologies in wings hands and flippers
  William Thompson (Lord Kelvin) establishes absolute zero at -459.67 degrees
• Technology: Bottger creates first safety matches
• Deaths: John Quincy Adams, Author François de Chateaubriand, Julie Mme. Recamier - Napoleon's opponent, Chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius, Inventor George Stephenson, Mathematician Bernhard Bolzano, Novelist Frederick Marryat, Composer Gaetano Donizetti, Novelist Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, Sculptor Ludwig von Schwanthaler, Christian VIII of Denmark,

Africa

• Egypt: End of reign of Mohammed Ali
  Ibraham Viceroy of Egypt dies and Abbas rules
  Cholera outbreak

Americas

• General: End of Mexican-American War as California and New Mexico ceded to US
• Canada: Ice jam stops flow of Niagara Falls for half an hour
• Martinique: Slavery abolished
• Mexico: Republic of Yucatán rejoins Mexico

Asia

• India: Second Sikh War begins
  Khaki uniforms issued to British troops

Europe

• General: "Year of Revolutions"
  Sardinia declares war on Austria and wins battles of Goito and Pastrengo – Austrians victorious at Vicenza and Custozza – Armistice signed and Sardinia troops forced to leave Venice
  Free states of Mento and Roquebrune secede from Monaco and are placed under Sardinian protection
• Austria: Serfdom abolished
  Revolution - Metternich resigns
  Second rising in Vienna – Emperor Ferdinand I flees to Innsbruck
  Third revolution in Vienna – emperor abdicates in favor of nephew who becomes Emperor Francis Joseph I
• Belgium: Communist Manifesto written
• Czechoslovakia: Pan-Slav congress in Prague leads to Czech revolts – suppressed by Austrians
• Denmark: King Christian VIII dies and Frederick III rules
  New Constitution
• France: Revolution - Louis Philippe abdicates worker uprising in Paris and Louis Napoleon elected President of French republic
• German States: Revolutions
  Bismarck founds the "Neue Treussische Zeitung"
  Attempt to unite 38 German states into one nation
  Sebastian Kneipp introduces cold-water cures at Worrishofen
  Middle classes rebel
• Great Britain: First public health act
  Chartist party demonstration
  Irish potato famine
  Insurrection in Tipperary Ireland put down
• Hungary: Lajos Kossuth proclaimed president of Committee for National Defence
  Riots in Budapest
• Italian States: Revolt in Rome – Count Rossi the papal premier assassinated – Pius IX flees to Gaeta
  Revolt against the Austrians fail - Garibaldi flees to America
• Netherlands: New constitution
• Romania: Uprising in Wallachia Romania suppressed by Russia
• Switzerland: Becomes federal state with new constitution
  End of Swiss civil war with Constitution of 1848 guaranteeing Swiss neutrality

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Fire in Constantinople Turkey kills at least 2500
• Persia: Accession of Shah Nasir ud-din ablest of the Kajar dynasty

Pacific

• Hawaii: King Kamehameha III gives peoples shares in the islands
• New Zealand: First settlers arrive

President:

Pres: James K. Polk
Pres: Zachary Taylor elected over Lewis Cass

General

• Culture: Meeting in Seneca Falls New York calls for Women's rights
• Land: Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago ends the war between Mexico and the U.S., incorporating CA, NV, UT, AZ (most) and parts of NM, CO, WY and TX
• Medicine: Cholera outbreak for next 18 years
• Military: End of Mexican-American War with treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Natives: Cayuse War until 1855
• Politics: Free Soil Party organized to stop spread of slavery
• Religion: Spiritualism becomes popular in US
• Science: American Association for Advancement of Science established

East

• New York: Cholera outbreak kills 4000 in New York City
  First women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
  NY News Agency founded (after 1856 the Associated Press)

Midwest

• Illinois: Chicago gets first rail service
• Wisconsin: Statehood as #30
  Blacks disenfranchised

South

West and Pacific

• General: End of Mexican War
• California: Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo gives California to US
  Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill
• New Mexico: Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo gives New Mexico to US
• Oregon: Named US territory

President

Pres: Brigham Young

Membership: 40,447

Temples: 0

Other

• Nine members of Mormon Battalion part of the group that discovered gold in California at Sutter's Mill
• Millions of crickets descend into the Valley and seagulls save remnants
• Thanksgiving feast in valley
• Manchester England Conference attended by more than 17,000
• High council at Kanesville, IA votes to accept Oliver Cowdery back into the Church
• Nauvoo temple destroyed by arsonists in 1848 and later razed by tornado
• Polk picks out own people for governing Deseret – Brigham Young condemns him for this
• Saints throw support behind Z. Taylor – he offers them a printing press, but LDS will support "press or no press"
• Oliver Cowdrey re-enters Church and is rebaptized