8

Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 79

7

John Williamson 71
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 66
Thomas Guymon 66
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 62
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 81
Henry Etters 85
Zachariah Earls 59
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 69

6

James H Clements 73
Anna Nash (Gifford) 53
George Washington Braffett 52
Ebenezer Snow 69
Polly Hayes (Snow) 65
Mary Walsh (Smith) 62
John Killian 57
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 42
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 41
Asahel Perry 69
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 64
Charles Hulet 63
Ann Pierson (Matson) 56
Noah Thomas Guymon 34
Sarah Davis (Russon) 58
John Southhall 30
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 49
John Wilson 79
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 59
William Clark 59
Jacob Etters 45

5

Albert Clements 52
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 52
Levi Jasper Powell 47
Henry Dill Gifford 28
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 24
Bernard Snow 31
Alice Smith (Snow) 25
Jacob Killian 25
Susan Coons (Killian) 15
Stephen Chadwick Perry 35
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 36
George Brinton Matson 26
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 15
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 65
Elisha Peck I 37
Phebe Turner (Peck) 42 died
Lott Russon 24
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 23
George Wilson 28
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 28
Jonas Green 25
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 21

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 27
Ada Clements (Lowe) 14
Joseph Jasper Powell 19
John Sylvester Perry 1
Peder Pedersen 41
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 35
Anders Peder Jensen 28
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 25
Elijah Peck Sr. 3
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 2
Lawson Green Wilson 6
Elmina Green (Wilson) born

General

Population: 1.25 Billion*

• Archaeology: Biot discerns the pyramid was sundial, calendar, and other timekeeper
• Entertainment: Writers include Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Gustav Freytag (comedy), Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Kingsley, CM Yonge, Johann Herzog (protestantism), Mommsen (history of Rome), Hippolyte Taine, Poe, William Wells Brown
  Music includes Verdi "Il Trovatore" and "La Traviata", Wagner, Steinway's piano company founded
• Medicine: Pravaz invents hypodermic and Alexander Wood uses hypodermic syringe for subcutaneous injections
• Technology: Samuel Colt revolutionizes manufacture of small arms
  Dancer produces the microdot
• Transportation: First successful flight of a dirigible
• Deaths: Naval officer Mahlon Dickerson, Poet Ludwig Tieck, Sculptor Pierre Fontaine, Maria II of Portugal

Africa

• General: Dr. David Livingstone crosses Africa following the Zambezi River and reaches Victoria Falls 1856
• Cape Colony: Becomes British Crown Colony

Americas

Asia

• General: Britain annexes Mahratta State of Nagpur
• Burma: Able King Mindon Min reigns
  Peace with Britain
• China: Fall of Nanking
• India: Telegraph system established
  First railroad in India opens in Bombay
  Famine
• Japan: End of shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyoshi
  End of Japan's isolation with arrival of Commodore Perry
• Philippines: Mt. Mayon erupts

Europe

• General: Crimean War begins with Russia fighting Turkey, Britain, France and Sardinia to 1856
  First railroad through Alps
• Austria: Attempts to solve Crimean conflict
• Belgium: First International Statistical Congress held in Brussels
• France: France annexes New Calcedonia
  Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo
  Haussmann begins reconstruction of Paris
• German States: Oldenburg and Hanover join Zollverein (customs union)
• Great Britain: Cholera outbreak in London for 10 years
  Rebuilding of Balmoral Castle
  Vaccination against smallpox made mandatory
  Queen Victoria allows chloroform to be administered during birth of seventh child – starts a trend
• Portugal: Death of Maria II (Maria Christina) - son Pedro V rules
• Romania: Russians occupy Moldavia and Wallachia
• Russia: Crimean War - Czar Nicholas I orders occupation of Danubian principalities – they are invaded

Middle East

• General: End of Anglo-Kaffir War (?)
• Ottoman Empire: Turkey enters Crimean War
  Russians destroy Turkish fleet of Sinope
• Yemen: Plague outbreak

Pacific

• General: Mt. Niuafou erupts between Samoa and Fiji
• Australia: Melbourne U founded

President:

Pres: Millard Fillmore
Pres: Franklin Pierce inaugurated

General

• Culture: First African-American novel by William Wells Brown
• Land: Gadsen Purchase of Mesilla Valley
• Natives: Treaty with Comanche Kiowa and Apache tribes
• Transportation: Rails connect NY and Chicago
  John W Gunnison surveys railroad route across the US and is killed by Indians

East

• New York: First US state agricultural college founded
  NY Central Railroad founded

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• General: $10 million Gadsen purchase finalizes border on continent
  Drought in Southwest
  Gunnison Massacre as surveyors killed by Natives
• California: Wellingtonia gigantean largest tree discovered in California
  "Ox Incident" results in death of many Indians in Tulare
  Levi Strauss starts peddling pants in San Francisco – runs out of canvas and switches to serge de Nimes (denim)
• Utah: Walker War with Native Americans begins to 1854

President

Pres: Brigham Young

Membership: 64,154*

Temples: 0

Other

• Ground broken for Salt Lake Temple, Cornerstones laid
• Walker War begins near Payson, UT, involving settlers and Indians, ending next year
• Young expresses optimism at appointment of President Pierce
• Deseret Alphabet created