8

Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 78

7

John Williamson 70
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 65
Thomas Guymon 5
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 61
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 80
Henry Etters 84
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 67 died
Zachariah Earls 58
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 68

6

James H Clements 72
Charles M. Powell 67 died
Anna Nash (Gifford) 52
George Washington Braffett 51
Ebenezer Snow 68
Polly Hayes (Snow) 64
Ralph Smith 63 died
Mary Walsh (Smith) 61
John Killian 56
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 41
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 40
Asahel Perry 68
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 63
Charles Hulet 62
Ann Pierson (Matson) 55
Noah Thomas Guymon 33
Thomas Russon 57 died
Sarah Davis (Russon) 57
John Southhall 29
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 48
John Wilson 78
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 58
William Clark 58
Jacob Etters 44

5

Albert Clements 51
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 51
Levi Jasper Powell 46
Henry Dill Gifford 27
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 23
Bernard Snow 30
Alice Smith (Snow) 24
Jacob Killian 24
Susan Coons (Killian) 14
Stephen Chadwick Perry 34
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 35
George Brinton Matson 25
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 14
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 64
Elisha Peck I 36
Phebe Turner (Peck) 41
Lott Russon 23
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 22
George Wilson 27
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 27
Jonas Green 24
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 20

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 26
Ada Clements (Lowe) 13
Joseph Jasper Powell 18
John Sylvester Perry born
Peder Pedersen 40
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 34
Anders Peder Jensen 27
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 24
Elijah Peck Sr. 2
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 1
Lawson Green Wilson 5

General

Population: 1.25 Billion*

• Archaeology: Leopold Delisle begins study of modern paleography
• Entertainment: Writers include Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sir Edward Creasy (battles), Charles Dickens Bleak House, Dumas, Theophile Gautier, Hebbel (plays), Charles Reade, Thackeray, Turgenev, Kuno Fischer (philosophy), Ranke (history of France)
  Art includes FM Brown "Christ Washing Peter's Feet", William Holman Hunt "The Light of the World", John E Millais "Ophelia"
  Music includes Robert Schumann's "Manfred"
• Medicine: Dutch army surgeon Mathysen combines bandages with plaster
  Worldwide cholera outbreak to 1860
• Science: Gerhardt writes "New Theory of Organic Compounds"
  Herbert Spencer first uses the term "evolution"
  James Sylvester writes "Calculus of Forms"
• Technology: Giffard invents steam engine aircraft
• Deaths: Writer Xavier de Maistre, Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, Poet Thomas Moore, Pedagogue Friedrich Frobel, Louis Braille, Author Nikolai Gogol,

Africa

• General: Tukolor leader al-Hajj Umar launches jihad along Senegal and upper Niger rivers to establish Islamic state in Africa
  David Livingstone explores Zambezi
• Transvaal: Britain recognizes Transvaal's independence at Sand River Convention (South African Republic ruled by Boers)

Americas

• Canada: Niagara Falls suspension bridge created

Asia

• Burma: Outbreak of Second British-Burmese War – British forces annex Pegu reducing Burma to inland state

Europe

• France: Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III - start of Second French Empire
  New constitution
  Orleans family banished from France
• Great Britain: New Westminster created in old gothic style after burned in 1834 – hated and described as too "Tory"
  Saltwater aquarium in London
  Paddington Station in London designed by Brunel and Wyatt
  First Congress of Co-operative Societies meets in London
  Formation of United All-English Cricket Eleven
  Convocation of Church of England revived
  End of first term of John Russell as Prime Minister
  Victoria and Albert Museum in London
• Montenegro: Turkish forces withraw from Montenegro under Russian pressure

Middle East

• Persia: Nasid-ud-Din takes personal power and promotes major reforms

Pacific

• New Zealand: New constitution
  Imperial Act creates united New Zealand but Maori wars continue

President:

Pres: Millard Fillmore
Pres: Franklin Pierce elected over Whig candidate Winfield Scott

General

• Business: Wells Fargo and Co. founded
• Finance: Foreign prospectors taxed
• Natives: Treaty with Apache tribe
• Science: America imports swallows from Germany as defense against caterpillars
• Transportation: National road completed

East

• Maryland: Ice so thick on Susquehanna River that cars could be hauled across ice
  First Plenary Council of American Roman Catholics held in Baltimore
• Massachusetts: Education made mandatory

Midwest

South

• Louisiana: Yellow Fever outbreak with 8000 dead in New Orleans

West and Pacific

• California: First major wave of African-American migration

President

Pres: Brigham Young

Membership: 52,640*

Temples: 0

Other

• Missionary work in India, China, Siam, Cape of Good Hope, Prussia, Gibraltar, West Indies
• Adobe tabernacle built in current location of Assembly Hall
• Doctrine of Plural Marriage publically announced for the first time
• Members vote to build Salt Lake temple
• Saints meet with President Fillmore