8

Azor Nash 94 died
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 75

7

Thomas Hopper 83
John Williamson 67
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 62
Johan Mathias Noah 89 died
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 81 died
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 75 died
Thomas Guymon 62
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 58
Charles Alexander Durham 76
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 77
Henry Etters 81
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 64
Zachariah Earls 55
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 65

6

James H Clements 69
Lucy Owens (Clements) 68
Charles M. Powell 64
Anna Nash (Gifford) 49
George Washington Braffett 48
Ebenezer Snow 65
Polly Hayes (Snow) 61
Ralph Smith 60
Mary Walsh (Smith) 58
John Killian 53
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 38
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 37
Asahel Perry 65
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 60
Charles Hulet 59
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 55
Ann Pierson (Matson) 52
Noah Thomas Guymon 30
Thomas Russon 54
Sarah Davis (Russon) 54
John Southhall 26
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 45
John Wilson 75
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 55
William Clark 55
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 53
William H. Green 41 died
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 40 died
Jacob Etters 41

5

Albert Clements 48
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 48
Levi Jasper Powell 43
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 43
Henry Dill Gifford 24
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 20
Bernard Snow 27
Alice Smith (Snow) 21
Jacob Killian 21
Susan Coons (Killian) 11
Stephen Chadwick Perry 31
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 32
George Brinton Matson 22
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 11
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 61
Elisha Peck I 33
Phebe Turner (Peck) 38
Lott Russon 20
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 19
George Wilson 24
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 24
Jonas Green 21
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 17

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 23
Ada Clements (Lowe) 10
Joseph Jasper Powell 15
Peder Pedersen 37
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 31
Anders Peder Jensen 24
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 21
Lawson Green Wilson 2

General

Population: 1.24 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Matthew Arnold, Dickens' David Copperfield, Dostoevsky sentenced to death but commuted to servitude in Siberia, Charles Kingsley, Scribe (drama), Kemble (history of Saxons), "Who's Who" begins publication
  Art includes Courbet, Delacroix (ceiling of Salon d'Apollon at Louvre), John Ruskin "The Seven Lamps of Architecture"
  Music includes Liszt, Meyerbeer, Otto Nicolai "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Schumann, Bruckner, Wagner takes part in Dresden revolt and flees to Zurich,
• Fashion: Amelia Bloomer begins women's dress reform
• Science: Fizeau measures speed of light
  Frankland isolates amyl
• Technology: Safety pins manufactured by Walter Hunt who sells rights for $100
  Monier produces reinforced concrete
• Deaths: Artist Katsushika Hokusai, Statesman Albert Gallatin, Johann Strauss, Edgar Allen Poe age 40, Composer Otto Nicolai, Composer Frederic Chopin, Poet Alexander Petofi, Julie "Madame" Recamier

Africa

• General: David Livingstone crosses Kalahari Desert and discovers Lake Ngami
• Cape Colony: Cape Colony forbids landing of convicts

Americas

Asia

• China: Famines
• India: End of Sikh wars with Britain annexing Punjab with treaty with Maharajah of Lahore - defeat of Sikhs in battle of Gujerat

Europe

• General: Revolutions in Hungary and Italy crushed
• Austria: Austrian victory at Novara – Vienna submits
  Austria defeats Sardinia and crushes revolution in Hungary with Russian help
• Denmark: End of Denmark's repressive measures against liberals when Frederick VII grants a constitution
• German States: National Assembly passes constitution and makes Frederick William IV of Prussia "Emperor of the Germans"
  Frankfurt Parliament collapses
  Revolts in Dresden and Baden
• Great Britain: Disraeli becomes leader of Conservative party
  Bedford College for Women founded in London
  Repeal of Navigation Act of England
  End Irish Potato famine
• Hungary: Hungarian Diet proclaims independence – Kossuth governs
  Capitulates to Austria at Vilagos
  Russian troops are sent to crush Hungarian liberals
• Italian States: Abdication of King of Sardinia-Piedmont Charles Albert in favor of son Victor Emmanuel II
  Rome declared republic under Guiseppe Mazzini - French enter to protect Pope
  Peace of Milan ends war
  French enter Rome and restore Pope Pius IX
  Creation and end of Roman republic
• Norway: Heavy storms kill 500
• Russia: Petropavlosk founded in Siberia

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Hagia Sophia reopened

Pacific

• New Zealand: Maoris refuse to sell lands to Europeans

President:

Pres: James K. Polk
Pres: David Rice Atchison (one day)
Pres: Zachary Taylor inaugurated

General

• Culture: Astor Place Riot marks class division in entertainment between low and high entertainment
  Harriet Tubman escapes slavery, helps with Underground Railroad
  Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman doctor in W Hemisphere
• Fashion: Amelia Jenks Bloomer in US introduces namesake clothing
• Land: Taylor proposes allowing Deseret into the Union to offset Texas
• Politics: Due to inauguration day falling on Sunday and Zachary Taylor refusing to take office that day, Senate president pro-tem David Rice Atchison is president for one day, most of which he slept throughdue to overexerting at inaugural party the night before - never took Oath of Office
• Technology: William Hunt in US invents safety pen
• Transportation: Overland stage begins

East

• General: Hurricane sweeps Eastern US from New York to New England

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• California: Height of gold rush
  Constitution drawn up and petition to join Union as free state
• Oregon Territory: 49th paralell increased over Oregon territory
• Utah: John W Gunnison and Howard Stansbury survey Great Salt Lake
  Application for statehood
  Battle of Fort Utah in Provo sees settlers fighting with Native Americans until 1850

President

Pres: Brigham Young

Membership: 48,160

Temples: 0

Other

• First local money "Valley Currency" issued - first printing in the valley
• Salt Lake divided into 18 wards of nine blocks each
• Provisional State of Deseret created and petitions made to U.S. Government
• Captain Stansbury and Lt. Gunnison arrive to survey the Great Salt Lake area
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund established until 1887
• Sunday School started
• Taylor proposes allowing Deseret into the Union to offset Texas
• VP Fillmore allows LDS to speak to the senate
• Gospel preached in Denmark
• State of Deseret established
• Mission in France opened
• Battle of Fort Utah in Provo sees settlers fighting with Native Americans until 1850