6

George Washington Braffett 82
Ann Pierson (Matson) 86
Noah Thomas Guymon 64
John Southhall 60

5

Albert Clements 82 died
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 82
Henry Dill Gifford 58
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 54
Bernard Snow 61
Alice Smith (Snow) 55
Jacob Killian 55
Susan Coons (Killian) 45
Stephen Chadwick Perry 65
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 66
George Brinton Matson 56
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 45
Lott Russon 54
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 53
George Wilson 58
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 58
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 51

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 57
Joseph Jasper Powell 49
Almira Jane Gifford (Powell) 29
Bernard Snow (II) 27
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 23
John Sylvester Perry 31
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 26
Peder Pedersen 71
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 65
Anders Peder Jensen 58
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 55
Elijah Peck Sr. 33
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 32
Lawson Green Wilson 36
Elmina Green (Wilson) 30

3

William Nephi Lowe 14
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 4
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 2
Martin Peterson 18
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 22
Elisha Peck Jr. 12
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 7

General

Population: 1.42 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra", Olive Schreiner, Bjornson, Maupassant, Renan, Berhaeren, Zola, Lester Ward, JR Seeley, FH Bradley, Robert Louis Stevenson creates Treasure Island
  Art includes Cezanne, Renoir, Chabrier
  Music includes Delibes, Brahms
• Medicine: Koch describes method of preventive inoculation against anthrax
• Science: William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) writes about the size of atoms
  Extinction of the Quagga
  Galton publishes "Eugenics"
• Technology: Edison invents marketable light bulb
  HS Maxim invents machine gun
  Carl Gustav de Laval develops impulse steam turbine
  Swan produces synthetic fiber
  Daimler patents auto motors
• Deaths: Poet Edward Fitzgerald, Composer Friedrich von Flotow, Righard Wagner, Composer Robert Volkmann, Karl Marx, Author Ivan Turgenev, French heir Comte de Chambord (last Bourbon), Illustrator Gustave Dore, Painter Deouard Manet, Historian JR Green

Africa

• General: French culture imposed on African colonies
• Egypt: France withdraws giving control to Britain in return for wuling Morocco
• Madegascar: French begin conquest
• South Africa: Paul Kruger named President of South African Republic
• Sudan: Britain evacuates the Sudan
• Tunisia: Franch gain control of Tunis

Americas

Asia

• General: Tsunamis follow Krakatoa eruption
• Indonesia: Tsunamis hit
• Krakatoa: Deadly eruption and tsunami combination – kills 36,000 – skies around the world show red skies until Feb 1884 and sun appears blue briefly
• Vietnam: Treaty of Hué leads to creation of French protectorates in Annam and Tongking

Europe

• France: Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul makes first run
• Germany: Bismarck introduces sickness insurance
• Great Britain: Fabian Society founded in London
  Royal College of Music in London founded
  Hailstones 5 inches long by 3 wide hits Barton
  Panic causes stampede at Victoria Hall killing 200
• Netherlands: World Expo in Amsterdam
• Spain: Antoni Gaudi creates Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona in Art Nouveau
• Switzerland: Major landslide

Middle East

• Turkey: Earthquake in Anatolia kills thousands in huge crevasses
  Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul makes first run

Pacific

• Hawaii: Rebellion leads to temporary occupation

President:

Pres: Chester A. Arthur

General

• Business: Reform of US Civil Service begins
• Culture: George Washington Williams publishes "History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880"
• Entertainment: Bill Cody (Buffalo Bill) starts performing "Wild West" show – not well received at first
  BF Keith creates Boston Museum (Vaudeville) featuring "Baby Alice the Midget Wonder"
  Ladies Home Journal magazine started,
• Finance: Pendleton Act establishes US Social Service System
  Begin small depression in US economy (2 years)
• Natives: Supreme Court passes Dawes act, re: private ownership of Indian land
• Politics: End of the Spoils System in US
• Transportation: Northern Pacific Railroad Line completed

East

• New York: Metropolitan Opera House opens
  Brooklyn Bridge NY opens for traffic
• Rhode Island: Mandatory education

Midwest

• General: Drought hits US Northern Plains
• Dakota Territory: Education made mandatory
• Illinois: First skyscraper built in Chicago - 10 stories
  Education made mandatory

South

• Alabama: Yellow Fever outbreak

West and Pacific

• Hawaii: Rebellion leads to temporary occupation
• Montana Territory: Education made mandatory

President

Pres: John Taylor

Membership: 151,593

Temples: 1

Other

• Council House - first Salt Lake public building - destroyed by fire
• Permanent Branch among Maoris established
• Death of Thomas L. Kane, friend of the Church in Philadelphia