6

Anna Nash (Gifford) 79 died
George Washington Braffett 78
Ann Pierson (Matson) 82
Noah Thomas Guymon 60
Sarah Davis (Russon) 84
John Southhall 56
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 75

5

Albert Clements 78
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 78
Henry Dill Gifford 54
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 50
Bernard Snow 57
Alice Smith (Snow) 51
Jacob Killian 51
Susan Coons (Killian) 41
Stephen Chadwick Perry 61
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 62
George Brinton Matson 52
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 41
Lott Russon 50
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 49
George Wilson 54
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 54
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 47

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 53
Joseph Jasper Powell 45
Almira Jane Gifford (Powell) 25
Bernard Snow (II) 23
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 19
John Sylvester Perry 27
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 22
Peder Pedersen 67
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 61
Anders Peder Jensen 54
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 51
Elijah Peck Sr. 29
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 28
Lawson Green Wilson 32
Elmina Green (Wilson) 26

3

William Nephi Lowe 10
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) born
Martin Peterson 14
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 18
Elisha Peck Jr. 8
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 3

General

Population: 1.38 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Ibsen writes "A Doll's House", Henry James, Meredith, RL Stevenson, Strindberg, Juan Valera, FT Vischer, AJ Balfour, Henry George, Robert Giffen (finance), Herbert Spencer, Treitschke (history), Dostoyevsky
  Art includes Bastien-Lepage paints portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, Renoir paints "Mme Charpentier and Her Children", Rodin sculpts "John the Baptist"
  Music includes Millocker, Suppe, Tchaikovsky
• Exploration: End of journeys of Livingstone and Stanley
• Food: Fahlberg and Remser discover saccharin
• Religion: St. Thomas Aquinas proclaimed a Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church
• Science: Scandium discovered by LF Nilson
  Ordovician named by Sedgwick and Murchison as boundary
• Technology: Early lightbulbs invented by Edison in US and Swan in GBR
  Crookes demonstrates cathode rays
  Lewis Latimer invents the electric filament bulb (African American)
• Deaths: Penny postage guru Rowland Hill, Architect Gottfried Semper, Artist Honore Daumier, POet Charled de Coster, Chemist James Clerk Maxwell, French Prince Imperian and son of Napoleon III (KIA),

Africa

• Egypt: Ismail deposed and succeeded by Tewfik
  Britain and France assume joint control
• Congo: Stanley (of Livingstone fame) sent back to Congo
• South Africa: Zulu war with British ends with British defeated in one area but victorious – Zulus under Cetewayo massacre British in Isandhlwana and defeated at battle of Ulundi

Americas

• General: War of the Pacific begins between Chile, Peru and Bolivia

Asia

• General: N Chinese and Indian famines kill total of 23 million from 1876
• China: Release of Ryukyu kingdom after Meiji restoration
• Japan: Ryukyu Islands become part of imperial Japan
• Korea: Start of empire

Europe

• General: Otto Von Bismarck negotiates German-Austrian alliance
• Belgium: Compulsory education
• Bulgaria: Alexander of Battenberg elected Prince Alexander I
• France: Panama Canal CO. under Ferdinand de Lesseps organized
  Anti-Jesuit Laws introduced
• Germany: Alsace-Lorraine declared part of Germany
  First electric tram exhibited by EW Siemens at Berlin Trade Exposition
  High tarriff law passes - free trade policy abandoned
• Great Britain: Major storm off coast of Scotland produces waterspout that destroys bridge and train - Collapse of Tay Bridge in Scotland
  London's first telephone exchange established
  British churchman WL Blackley proposes scheme for old-age pensions
  Public granted unrestricted admission to British museum
  Knights of Labor (Irish Union) founded
  Irish Land League formed by Charles Stewart Parnell calls for land to be returned to Irish people
• Norway: First large-scale skiing contest at Huseby Hill
• Spain: Cave art discovered but thought to be a falsehood due to quality of work

Middle East

• Afghanistan: Treaty of Gandamak – Britian occupies Khyber Pass but British legation in Kabul massacred - end of second Afghan War
  British occupy Kabul

Pacific

• Australia: Frozen meat from Australia on sale in London
• Samoa: Britain established naval station

President:

Pres: Rutherford B. Hayes

General

• Business: Beginning of era of monopolies with Standard Oil Trust
• Law: Hayes asks Congress to not allow power to polygamists
  Reynolds case comes before Supreme Court, sustaining anti-polygamy laws
• Politics: USGS created
• Religion: Christian Science Church founded with Mary Baker Eddy as pastor
• Technology: Edison develops electric light
  First telephone call is made

East

• Massachusetts: Massive waterspout off Barnstable
  Law prohibits women and children from working more than a 60 hour week
• New Jersey: Thomas Edison burns electric light for 13.5 hours in Menlo Park

Midwest

• Kansas: Two tornadoes two minutes apart flatten Irving
• Nebraska: Ft Robinson Massacre as Northern Cheyenne tribe tries to escape confinement – only about 50 survive
• Wisconsin: Education made mandatory

South

West and Pacific

• Utah: Meeker Massacre as Utes attack and kill 11, and then 13 later - start of Ute War

President

Pres: Quorum of Twelve led by John Taylor

Membership: 128,386

Temples: 1

Other

• Supreme Court tries Reynolds Case, upholding ruling against bigamy (anti-bigamy laws of 1862)
• First edition of YMMIA magazine The Contributor published
• Women Saints petition Hayes not to de-legitimatize children of polygamy, and to not tear families apart
• Hayes meets with Saints and proposes amnesty for former polygamists, but Taylor rejects it in fear that it will lead to further persecution and an end to polygamy
• Hayes asks European nations to prevent Saints from emigrating to America
• Anti-polygamy legislation upheld by Supreme Court
• Missionary Joseph Standing killed in GA
• Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants reissued