8

Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 92 died
Azor Nash 73
Anna Crandall (Coons) 83
Joseph Crandall 78
Zachariah Sickels 75
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 78
John Gordon 74
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 54
John Dudley 60
Margaret Cansler or Gensler (Tevebaugh) 69

7

Peter Clements 81
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 70
Reuben Davis 64
Thomas Hopper 62
John Williamson 46
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 41
Abiel Perry 74
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 65
Johan Mathias Noah 68
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 60
Aaron Mattson 83
Isaac Pierson 61
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 54
Thomas Guymon 41
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 37
James Dudley 46
Palle Pallemon Fix 88
Peter Green 73
Charles Alexander Durham 55
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 56
Henry Etters 60
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 43
Zachariah Earls 34
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 44

6

James H Clements 48
Lucy Owens (Clements) 47
Charles M. Powell 43
Nancy Smith (Powell) 43
Alpheus Gifford 35
Anna Nash (Gifford) 28
George Washington Braffett 27
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 30
Ebenezer Snow 44
Polly Hayes (Snow) 40
Ralph Smith 39
Mary Walsh (Smith) 37
John Killian 32
Lydia Ann Hopper (Killian) 33
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 17
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 16
Asahel Perry 44
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 39
Charles Hulet 38
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 34
Ann Pierson (Matson) 31
Noah Thomas Guymon 9
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 14
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 65
Niels Eriksen 54
Anne Jensdatter (Eriksen) 49
William Peck 40
Ann Kinger (Peck) 37
Thomas Russon 33
Sarah Davis (Russon) 33
John Southhall 5
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 24
John Wilson 54
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 34
William Clark 34
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 32
William H. Green 20
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 19
Jacob Etters 20
Trythena Earl (Etters) 20

5

Albert Clements 27
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 27
Levi Jasper Powell 22
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 22
Henry Dill Gifford 3
Bernard Snow 6
Alice Smith (Snow) born
Jacob Killian born
Stephen Chadwick Perry 10
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 11
George Brinton Matson 1
Thomas Jensen 52
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 40
Niels Christensen 21 died after this time
Kirstine Marie Nielsdatter (Christensen) 21 died after this time
Elisha Peck I 12
Phebe Turner (Peck) 17
George Wilson 3
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 3
Jonas Green born

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 2
Peder Pedersen 16
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 10
Anders Peder Jensen 3
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) born

General

Population: 1.12 Billion*

• Archaeology: Muller publishes treatise on Etruscan antiques
• Entertainment: Writers include James Feinmore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas Les Trois Mousquetaires (Three Musketeers), Washington Irving (Christopher Columbus), Bulwer-Lytton, Scott, Napier begins History of the War in the Peninsula
  American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster
  Art includes Delacroix "Faust" lithographs, Samuel Jones "Promethian Match" - glass bead containing acid
  Music includes Auber, Marschner "Der Vampire", Rossini, Schubert
• Science: Abel begins study of elliptic functions
  Wohler's synthesis of urea begins organic chemistry
  Karl Ernst von Baer founds laws of embryology
  Brongniart publishes on fossilized plants
• Technology: Cap and ring spinning machine invented by (respectively) Danforth and Thorp
• Deaths: Shaka the Zulu leader, Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon, Artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Diplomat Thomas Pinckney, Printer Luke Hansard, Artist Gilbert Stuart (Washington painter), Grand Duke Karl August, Composer Franz Schubert, Politician Alexander Ypsilanti, Politician De Witt Clinton, Philosopher Dugald Stewart, Artist Richard P Bonington, Phrenology founder Franz Joseph Gall, Inventor genius William Hyde Wollaston

Africa

• East Africa: Drought at horn
• Egypt: Mehmet Ali agrees to Britain's demand to quit Greece
  Egyptian fleet destroyed at Battle of Navarino
• South Africa: End of reigh of Zulu ruler Shaka (Chaka) - assassinated by half-brother Dingane
• West Africa: Basel mission to Ghana (Gold Coast)

Americas

• General: End of two decades of independence movements in South America
• Canada: Reform party wins assembly
• Mexico: Liberal revolt – Vicente Guerrero becomes president
• Uruguay: Independent of Brazil following Treaty of Rio de Janeiro

Asia

• India: Hindu Raja Ram Mohan Roy founds reforming Hindu society "Brahmo Samaj"

Europe

• General: Persian-Russian War ends as Russia captures Tabriz
• German States: Boy of 16 named Kaspar Hauser appears having been housed with indifference all his life kept in 6x4x5 room, and having seen one other human was drugged occasionally and left unable to walk – bore resemblance to Grand Duke of Baden – may have been a changeling with a dead child – Brought before Nuremburg - stabbed five years later in the heart
• Gibraltar: Fever which resembles plague breaks out
• Great Britain: Daniel O'Connell becomes member of parliament of Britain in spite of ban on Catholics
  University College in London opened
  Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister
  Henry Peter Brougham delivers the longest recorded speech in the House of Commons
  Thomas Arnold appointed headmaster of Rugby school
  British Test and Corporation Acts repealed – Catholics and Nonconformists may hold public office, London weekly periodicals "Athenaeum" and "The Spectator" issued
• Greece: War of independence with Ottomans
• Portugal: Maria II deposed and Dom Miguel proclaimed King
  Miguelite wars
• Russia: War declared on Turkey

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Russia declares war on Turkey

Pacific

• Arctic: John Franklin publishes account of his Arctic explorations
• Australia: Smallpox outbreak

President:

Pres: John Quincy Adams
Pres: Andrew Jackson elected over Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams

General

• Finance: Tariff of Abominations passed by US Congress curtailing imports
• Language: Webster publishes "American Dictionary of the English language"
• Natives: First Cherokee newspaper published
  Cherokee ask for rights
  Treaty with Potawatami tribe
• Politics: Calhoun and States Rights people thought states should be able to ignore tariffs, Daniel Webster argues that it wasn't a collection of independent states, but a union
• Transportation: Age of railroads begins with first passenger railroad

East

• Maryland: Charles Carrol of Carrollton (Richest American) inaugurates construction of the Baltimore
• New York: Working Men's Party founded

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

Events

• Book of Mormon translation continues
• Joseph Smith meets Martin Harris
• Martin Harris takes partial translation to Professor Charles Anthon
• Lucy Harris shown plates in a dream but still ransacks Smith's home and demands to see manuscript
• Harris borrows 116 pages which are lost
• Joseph Smith regains gift of translation