7

Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 81 died

6

Anna Nash (Gifford) 72
George Washington Braffett 71
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 61 died
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 83
Ann Pierson (Matson) 75
Noah Thomas Guymon 53
Sarah Davis (Russon) 77
John Southhall 49
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 68
Nancy Wilkeye (Wilson) 78

5

Albert Clements 71
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 71
Henry Dill Gifford 47
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 43
Bernard Snow 50
Alice Smith (Snow) 44
Jacob Killian 44
Susan Coons (Killian) 34
Stephen Chadwick Perry 54
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 55
George Brinton Matson 45
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 34
Lott Russon 43
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 42
George Wilson 47
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 47
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 40

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 46
Ada Clements (Lowe) 33
Joseph Jasper Powell 38
Almira Jane Gifford (Powell) 18
Bernard Snow (II) 16
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 12
John Sylvester Perry 20
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 15
Peder Pedersen 60
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 54
Anders Peder Jensen 47
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 44
Elijah Peck Sr. 22
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 21
Lawson Green Wilson 25
Elmina Green (Wilson) 19

3

William Nephi Lowe 3
Martin Peterson 7
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 11
Elisha Peck Jr. 1

General

Population: 1.31 Billion*

• Archaeology: Cuneiform tablet bearing Gilgamesh legend deciphered
• Entertainment: Writers include Samuel Butler, Alphonse Daudet, Nietzsche, Twain "Roughing It", Thomas Hardy, Turgenev, Jules Verne "Around the World in 80 Days", DF Strauss
  Art includes Bocklin's "Battle of the Centaurs", Cezanne and Pissarro at Auvers-sur-Oise, Whistler paints "The Artist's Mother", Monet (Impression, Fog)
  Music includes Bizet, Alexandre Lecocq, William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan write first light opera together Trial by Jury
• Medicine: Billroth makes first resection of esophagus
• Paranormal: The Mary Celeste found abandoned in the Atlantic – classic ghost ship
• Science: William Thomson later Lord Kelvin invents machine for taking depth soundings at sea
  Van Der Walls shows how to liquify "permanent gasses" of Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen – First two achieved
  Wilhelm Wundt publishes Foundations of Physiological Psychology
• Technology: Edison perfects the "duplex" telegraph
  Westinghouse perfects automatic railroad brake
  Double-strand barbed wire invented – patented next year
  Thomas Crapper develops new patent for flush toilet
• Deaths: Inventor Samuel FB Morse, Dramatist Franz Grillparzer, Artist Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, Revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, Author Theophile Gautier, Charles XV of Sweden

Africa

• Cape Colony: Self government
• South Africa: Constitution established
• Transvaal: TF Burgers elected President
• Zanzibar: Cyclone

Americas

Asia

• General: Marianas trench discovered
• Japan: Railroad opens
  Compulsory military service introduced
  Army reform begins
• Java: Mirapi on Java erupts

Europe

• General: League of Three Emperors – alliance between Germany Russia and Austria-Hungary
  Building of St. Gotthard Tunnel
  First international soccer game – England v. Scotland
• Germany: Jesuits expelled
  Prussian education nationalized to all Germans
• Great Britain: Ballot Act in Britain – voting by secret ballot
  CP Scott becomes editor of Manchester Guardian
  Dr. Spooner ordained at Oxford
  British ship Challenger starts study of oceans to 1876
• Italy: Elonora Duse's debut at age 14 in Verona as Juliet
  Vesuvius erupts
• Netherlands: Bakunin expelled from First International at the Hague conference
• Spain: Carlists defeated and Don Carlos escapes to France
• Sweden: Death of Charles XV - Oscar II King

Middle East

Pacific

• Australia: 630 pound gold (mixed) nugget found in New South Wales yielded over 187 pounds of gold
  Australian lumberjacks fell mountain ash 500 feet tall (reported)
  end of Anglo-Maori wars

President:

Pres: Ulysses S. Grant reelected over Horace Greely

General

• Crime: Crédit Mobilier scandal investigated - Railroad embezzlement plunges world into depression
• Culture: Susan B. Anthony fined for voting in presidential election $100 - never pays
• Finance: Elimination of US federal income tax
• Politics: Grant reelected in spite of public scandals
• Reconstruction: Civil Rights re-established for Southern rebels - US General Amnesty Act pardons most ex-confederates
  Congress ends Freedman's Bureau

East

• Connecticut: Mandatory education
• Maine: Tsunami
• Massachusetts: Boston fire kills 90 – 9 firemen - also horses used to pull fire engines were all sick due to east-coast horse illness
• New Hampshire: First US ski club founded at Berlin
• New York: Brooklyn Bridge opened

Midwest

South

• Louisiana: Pickney Benton Stewart becomes first African-American Governor (LA)

West and Pacific

• General: Modoc Indian War begins until 1873
• California: 7.2/4 quake in LinePine CA kills 27
• New Mexico Territory: Mandatory education
• Utah: End of Blackhawk War
• Washington: Cascades quake estimated at 7.3
• Wyoming: Yellowstone established

President

Pres: Brigham Young

Membership: 98,152

Temples: 0

Other

• First periodical published by Mormon women Women's Exponent until 1914
• Brigham Young arrested
• Woodruff calls down wrath on Grant – has vision of tattered flag, etc.
• Saints lobby for statehood
• Grant calls for end to polygamy
• Garfield records that he dines with "G.Q. Cannon – Mormon Apostle"
• Garfield stops in Salt Lake and attends meeting, meets with leadership
• United Order proposed