6

George Washington Braffett 83
Ann Pierson (Matson) 87
Noah Thomas Guymon 65
John Southhall 61

5

Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 83
Henry Dill Gifford 59
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 55
Bernard Snow 62
Alice Smith (Snow) 56
Jacob Killian 56
Susan Coons (Killian) 46
Stephen Chadwick Perry 66
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 67 died
George Brinton Matson 57
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 46
Lott Russon 55
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 54
George Wilson 59
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 59
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 52

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 58
Joseph Jasper Powell 50
Almira Jane Gifford (Powell) 30
Bernard Snow (II) 28
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 24
John Sylvester Perry 32
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 27
Peder Pedersen 72
Marianne Thompson (Pedersen) 66
Anders Peder Jensen 59
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 56
Elijah Peck Sr. 34
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 33
Lawson Green Wilson 37
Elmina Green (Wilson) 31

3

William Nephi Lowe 15
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 5
Charles Eben Snow born
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 3
Martin Peterson 19
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 23
Elisha Peck Jr. 13
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 8

General

Population: 1.44 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include D'Annunzio, Jean Moreas, Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn), Berlaine, Daudes, Ibsen, Sienkiewicz, Kropotkin, Herbert Spencer, Oxford English Dictionary begins publication
  Geroge Bernard Shaw becomes member of the Fabian Society
  Art includes Seurat (Bathers at Asnières in Pointilist style), Burne-Jones, Rodin
  Music includes Brahms, Bruckner, Cesar Franck, Massenet, CV Stanford, GUstav Mahler, Viktor Nessler,
• Medicine: Pasteur inoculates against rabies
• Science: Mechnikov writes phagocyte theory
  Nicolaier discovers tetanus bacillus
  Lodge discovers electrocal precipitation
• Technology: Parsons invents practical steam turbine engine
  Maxim perfects first true machine gun
  First electrically powered dirigible
• Deaths: Dramatist Heinrich Laube, Poet Emanuel Geibel, Gregor Mendel, Composer Bedrich Smetana, Poet CS Calvertey, Economist Henry Fawcett, Artist Hans Makert, Fashioneer Amelia Bloomer,

Africa

• General: Berlin conference of 14 nations on African affairs – Europe divides Africa
  Germans occupy southwest Africa plus Togoland Cameroons
  Samori Toure proclaims Islamic theocracy in Africa
• Bechuanaland: (Botswana) Becomes British protectorate to 1966
• Congo Free State: Acquired by King Leopold II of Belgium to 1908
• German South-West Africa: (Namibia) Becomes German colony to 1915
• Sudan: General CG Gordon reaches Khartoum – Mahdi refuses to negotiate and occupies Omdurman
• Transvaal: London convention
  Gold discovered in the Transvaal – rise of Johannesburg - Boers prepare to fight to keep self-rule

Americas

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

Asia

• China: Dowager Empress Cixi sacks grand council
  Chinese-French War to 1885 - fighting over Annam (Vietnam)
• New Guines: Germany annexes northern New Guinea and the Bismark Archipelago
  British annex southeast

Europe

• France: French law excludes members of former dynasties from presidency
  Divorce reestablished
  "Le Matin" in Paris issued
  Organization into trade unions permitted
  Statue of Liberty created
• Germany: Bismarck pursues imperialistic powers
  Provision passed in case of factory accidents
• Great Britain: Parson's steam turbine
  First deep tube (underground railroad) opens in London
  Britain's Third Reform Act gives male farm workers and domestic servants the vote
  Eccentric Welshman William Price was prosecuted for cremation – illegal – overturns illegality of cremation
• Italy: Sacconi creates monument to King Victor Emmanuel II in Rome
  Greenwich Mean Time created
• Spain: Earthquake

Middle East

• General: Russia proceeds to colonize

Pacific

• Business: Knights of Labor win Union Pacific strike
• Hawaii: US agrees on non-interference policy

President:

Pres: Chester A. Arthur
Pres: Grover Cleveland elected over James G Blaine

General

• Business: Failure of brokerage firm of Grant and Ward leads to panic on Wall Street and failure of 15 other firms – Grant is son of former president and this leads to former president's bankruptcy
• Entertainment: Annie Oakley and husband work for circus for the year
• Natives: Navajo reservation created
• Politics: End of Greenback Party in US
  US Grant begins writing war memoirs

East

Midwest

• General: Bad year for tornadoes
• Illinois: Skyscraper first started in Chicago
• North Dakota: Twi steamers crushed by ice

South

• General: 60 tornadoes in South especially South Carolina in February
• Georgia: Davidsboro cyclone
• Tennessee: Cane Cree Massacre (See LDS History)
• South Carolina: Vicious outbreak of tornadoes

West and Pacific

• Colorado: Crested Butte mine disaster kills 59
• Hawaii: U.S. adopts resolution to not interfere in Hawaii
• Utah: Butch Cassidy – age 18 leaves Circleville

President

Pres: John Taylor

Membership: 158,242

Temples: 2

2. Logan Utah

Other

• The "Cock Pit" building in London falls - used by emigrants and missionaries
• Saints meet with Arthur, but he sends out harsh prosecutor
• Turkish and Palestine missions open
• Cane Cree Massacre in TN results in death of two missionaries