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Skirmish between China and Britain ends and ports reopen to Britain, death of Italian composer Luigi Cherubini, death of US Statesman James Barbour, death of German poet Clemens Brentano, death of French novelist Stendhal, death of US Secretary of Navy Samuel L Southard, death of English educator Thomas Arnold, Glinka composes in St. Petersburg, death of American lawyer who wrote “Hail Columbia” Joseph Hopkinson, Lortzing composes in Leipzig, Meyerbeer named general director of Royal Opera House in Berlin. New York Philharmonic Society founded by Ureli C Hill and other musicians, Wagner composes in Dresden, death of Scottish anatomist Sir Charles Bell, Austrian physicist CJ Doppler publishes regarding Doppler effect regarding binary stars, Joseph Henry discovers oscillating electric discharge, American physician Crawford W Long uses ether to produce anesthesia, American naval officer Matthew F Maury begins research in oceanography, German physicist Julius Robert von Mayer publishes paper starting thermodynamics, death of French chemist and codiscoverer of strychnine and quinine Pierre Joseph Pelletier, death of English heroine and savior of nine in shipwreck Grace Darling, Czech dance – the polka – comes into fashion, Boston and Albany connected by rail, Queen Victoria makes her first rail journey, Death of Corsican-born Russian diplomat Count CA Pozzo di Borgo, death of Napoleon’s companion on St. Helena Count EAD de Las Cases, Webster-Ashburton Treaty defined Canadian border, Riots and strikes in industrial areas in N England, Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War between Britain and China and confirms cession of Hong Kong to Britain, death of British statesman and governor of India Marquis Wellesley, death of liberator of Chile Bernando O’Higgins, Orange Free State set up by the Boers, death of Irish writer John Banim, Publication of Balzac’s works begins, Bestseller is Eugene Sue’s “The Mysteries of Paris”, Bulwer-Lytton writes, Fanny Burney’s diary published posthumously, death of Lady Callcott the British author, death of Allan Cunningham Scottish poet, Charles Dickens writes “American Notes”, death of Spanish poet Jose de Espronceda, First part of Gogol;s novel “Dead Souls” published, George Washinton Harris (forefunner of Twain) begins publishing, American author Washington Irving named ambassador to Spain, Longfellow writes, Samuel Lover writes, death of Irish man of letters William Maginn, Viennese farce performed later made into Thornton Wilder play, Poe writes “Masque of the Red Death”, Eugene Scribe writes, death of Stendhal the French novelist, death of American author Samuel Woodworth, death of English educator and headmaster of Rugby Thomas Arnold, Macaulay writes about ancient Rome, Martin Tupper writes about philosophy, death of Swiss historian Jean Simonde de Sismondi, death of English painter John S Cotman, death of French portrait painter Marie Anne Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, China - Treaty of Nanking ends Opium war - British gain Hong Kong, Lincolns dine with Willard Richards and other Saints, Schuylkill bridge (first suspension) opens, Fax machine invented by Bain, Ether first used as anesthetic by Long , Webster-Ashburton treaty reaffirms Atlantic boundaries between US and Can, Second Seminole War ends, removing tribes from Florida Baptisms for the dead further revealed Sep 1,2, Britain gets control of Hong Kong for 155 years, Britain defeats China in Opium War (Treaty of Nanking), Second Seminole War ends, Mexico takes San Antonio twice, Frederick Douglass begins lecturing, China opens ports to western nations, MA declares legal right to strike, have unions, Aug 6 Joseph Smith prophesied that the Saints will be driven to the Rockies, May 4, - temple endowment introduced, Mar 17 Relief Society organized, Mar 1 Articles of Faith in the Wentworth letter, Queen Victoria receives Book of Mormon, Wagner, Verdi compose, Ashburton Treaty defined southern limits of Quebec and New Brunswick, Articles of Faith published in Times and Seasons, England at brink of war due to demands of the people against aristocracy - settled peacefully, Canada US borders for NE US redrawn; end of Opium War as peace restored

1843 Sojourner Truth begins abolitionist work, National Negro Convention in NY results in “Call to Rebellion” speech, Idea for fax machine conceived by Bain in Scotland, Britain takes over Natal from Boers and adopts it as British colony, Great Disruption in Scotland results in Evangelicals forming Free Church of Scotland * Joseph Smith polls candidates on their attitude toward the Saints – also writes to Van Buren and is ignored, Joseph Smith receives fake letter supposedly from President Tyler accusing him of high treason, Joseph Smith asks for protection to the Saints as they go west to Oregon, Mary Todd Lincoln attends Joseph Smith’s extradition hearing, American lexicographer Noah Webster dies, Mar - "The Great Snowstorm" hits from Maine to Gulf of Mexico, death of U.S. jurist Smith Thompson, death of German poet Friedrich Holderlin, death of English author Robert Southey, death of German romantic poet Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque, death of Viennese waltz composer Joseph Lanner, Military revolt in Spain drives General Espartero from power and Isabella II (age 13) declared Queen of Spain, Maori revolts against Britain in New Zealand, Serbian Skupstina summons Prince Alexander Karageorgevich to the throne, Daniel Webster retires as Secretary of State, Andrew Johnson elected to congress, Jefferson Davis enters politics as delegate of Atlanta to Democratic State Convention, WH Ainsworth writes novel, Robert Browning writes, Bulwer-Lytton writes, death of Casimir Delavigne the French poet and dramatist, Dickens writes – including “A Christmas Carol”, DD Emmett produces first minstrel show, death of German romantic author Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque, death of German poet Friedrich Holderlin, Thomas Hood creates “Song of the Shirt” in “Punch”, RH Horne writes, William H Prescott writes, death of English poet laureate Robert Southey, Tennyson writes including “Morte d’Arthur”, William Wordsworth appointed English poet laureate, George Borrow writes about the Bible in Spain, death of English reformer Richard Carlile, Thomas Carlyle writes, Liddell and Scott writes Greek-English lexicon, John Stuart Mill writes “Logic”, death of American lexicographer Noah Webster, death of US painter and writer Washington Allston, John Ruskin collects “Modern Painters”, death of US painter John Trumbull, MW Balfe composes “The Bohemian Girl”, Donizetti composes, Mendelssohn composes to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Schumann composes secular oratorio, Wagner composes “The Flying Dutchman”, British Archaeological Association and Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland founded, John C Fremont crosses Rocky Mountains to California, death of Samuel CS Hahnemann founder of homeopathy, Oliver Wendell Holmes writes about contagiousness of “Puerperal Fever”, Alexander von Humboldt writes about central Asia, English physicist James Prescott Joule determines how much work is required to produce unit of heat, Metallic element erbium discovered by CG Mosander, Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping London built, Slave population of Cuba estimated at 436000, American social reformer Dorthea Six reveals in a report to the MA legislature the conditions in prisons and asylums, London weekly financial paper “The Economist” founded, Guy’s Hospital Football Club founded in London, S.S. Great Britain crosses Atlantic as first propeller-driven ship, Congress grants SFB Morse money to build first telegraph between Washington and Baltimore, World’s first nightclub opens in Paris, death of Sequoya the Cherokee Indian leader and alphabet creator, Conjoined (Siamese) twins Chang and Eng Bunker marry Sarah and Adelaide Yates, Beginning of skiing as sport in Norway, Arkansas quake est. 6.3, British conquer Natal, defeat Boers, Joseph Smith polls candidates on their attitude toward the Saints – also writes to Van Buren and is ignored, Joseph Smith receives fake letter supposedly from President Tyler accusing him of high treason, Joseph Smith asks for protection to the Saints as they go west to Oregon, Mary Todd Lincoln attends Joseph Smith’s extradition hearing, Know-Nothings (pro-native's anti-immigrant) party forms American Republican Party when they unite with Whigs (Whiggamors - cattle drivers - names after Scottish Presbyterians who opposed King Charles I), Dickens A Christmas Carol published, Noah Webster dies "New and Everlasting Covenant" (Plural marriage) revealed Jul 12, First telegraph line built, Belle renames self Sojourner Truth, Fort Bridger is built, John C Fremont enters Utah, Jul 12, Joseph Smith receives D&C 132 regarding marriage, First impeachment resolution in congress rejected. Wagner composes, Kierkegaard publishes, India forcibly annexes Sind and the Punjab, Victoria, Vancouver founded; Isabella of Spain forces to abdicate

1844 Cambodia becomes Thai protectorate, First effective Factory Act in Britain, Cyclone in Mexico * Saints call on former President John Quincy Adams, he refers to them as a new fanatical religious sect, but listens kindly, Missouri senator Thomas H Benton makes a deal with Van Buren that if he is reelected, he would wipe out the Mormons and abolitionists, Joseph Smith decides to run, Democratic party rejects Van Buren, Joseph Smith denounces Tyler in political papers – Smith prophesies that Tyler would not win the next election – Tyler denied Whig nomination, but he is made a third-party candidate, Joseph Smith pleads for help in escaping mobs in Nauvoo – Calhoun persuades the saints not to – it’s useless – LDS support for Polk is great, Lincoln writes briefly about strife in Nauvoo – Lincoln wants to be kept abreast of the Mormon situation, death of Charles XIV of Sweden – originally Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, death of John Dalton founder of chemical atom theory, death of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, death of U.S. political and military leader Peter B. Porter, death of US financier Nicholas Biddle, death of Napoleon’s jailer at St. Helena Sir Hudson Lowe, death of French marshal and hero of war in Algiers JB Drouet d’Erlon, death of Charles XIV King of Swedin and Norway – son succeeds to the throne as Oscar I, death of French financier and statesman Jacques Laffitte, death of Joseph Bonaparte brother of Napoleon, Dumas writes “Le Comte de Monte Cristo”, Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes, death of British poet Thomas Campbell, death of English translator of Dante Henry Francis Cary, Dickens writes, Disraeli writes, Friedrich Hebbel writes, Heinrich Heine writes, Emerson writes, Bishop Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig the Danish poet and educator founds first institute for adult education, J.S. Mill writes about economy, death of Charles Bulfinch the US architect, Berlioz composes, death of French composer HM Berton, Flotow composes in Hamburg, Mendelssohn composes, Herman Gunther Grassmann creates calculus of extension, death of English astronomer Francis Baily, death of English chemist and physicist John Dalton, First public bath and wash houses open in Liverpool, death of English eccentric William Beckford, Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers founded (start of modern cooperative movement), German humorous weekly paper started in Munich, Wood pulp paper invented by Friedrich Gottlob Keller, Treaty of Tangier ends French war in Morocco, james Knox Polk elected #11, Military revolts in Mexico – Jose Joaquin de Herrera head of military, Karl Marx meets Friedrich Engels in Paris, Revolts of the weavers in Silesia, China and US sign first treaty of peace and commerce, Texas annexation plan rejected by US senate, Saniel O’Connell found guilty of political conspiracy against British rule of Ireland, Attempt on the life of Frederick William IV King of Prussia, death of Ivan Andreyevich Krylov the writer, Charles Lever writed, James Russell Lowell writes, Coventry Patmore writes, death of British poet John Sterling, WM Thackeray writes, death of Edmund Rich the Irish founder of Christian Brothers, AP Stanley writes, death of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen the Danish sculptor, Turner paints “Rain Steam and Speed”, Verdi composes, death of German naturalist KF Kielmeyer, AW Kinglake writes, SFB Morse’ telegraph first used, Fustaf Pasch of Sweden proposes safer matches by moving some chemicals to the striking surface, British railroad mileage reaches over 2200 miles, French missionaries Huc and Gabet journey from China to Tibet, YMCA founded in England by George Williams, Morse patents telegraph in US, Saints call on former President John Quincy Adams, he refers to them as a new fanatical religious sect, but listens kindly, Missouri senator Thomas H Benton makes a deal with Van Buren that if he is reelected, he would wipe out the Mormons and abolitionists, Joseph Smith decides to run, Democratic party rejects Van Buren , Joseph Smith denounces Tyler in political papers – Smith prophesies that Tyler would not win the next election – Tyler denied Whig nomination, but he is made a third-party candidate, Joseph Smith pleads for help in escaping mobs in Nauvoo – Calhoun persuades the saints not to – it’s useless – LDS support for Polk is great, Lincoln writes briefly about strife in Nauvoo – Lincoln wants to be kept abreast of the Mormon situation, First telegraph message sent over long distances, James K Polk elected, May 11 - Council of 50/political, , Jan 29 Joseph Smith nominated as candidate for president, June 7 - Nauvoo Expositor publishes and declared a nuisance Jun 10 and paper is shut down. Jun 11 Joseph Smith changed with riot - cleared in Nauvoo but asked to be tried in Carthage, June 22, Joseph and Hyrum try to flee West, but as Ill gov. Thomas Ford promises safety and by the pleadings of others, they return. Joseph Smith and Hyrum killed June 27, (54-40 or fight)#11, Samuel Morse sends long-distance message May 24, LDS Church led by Brigham Young, Aug 4 Sidney Rigdon advocates guardian for the Church, Aug 8 the meeting where Brigham Young received mantle, Verdi and Mendelssohn compose, Dumas writes The Three Musketeers and first telegraph message sent, France and US sign trade agreements with China

1845 Eruption and mudflow at Nevado del Ruiz, Earthquake and tsunami in south Peru, Sikh wars with Britain begin until 1849, The Great Hunger in Ireland (potato famine) until 1847/8 * Saints call upon future president Buchanan for help – no response, they call on Polk for help – no response, death of German author August Wilhelm von Schlegel, death of #7 Andrew Jackson, death of English author Sydney Smith, Disenfranchisement of blacks in TX, Macon Allen – first African lawyer in MA, Frederick Douglass publishes first autobiography, Henry David Thoreau begins journal at Walden Pond, TX and FL become states, James K Polk inaugurated I11, New Spanish constitution, Maori rising against British rule in New Zealand, death of Andrew Jackson #7, Anglo-Sikh War begins, Swiss Sonderbund for protection of Catholic Cantons formed, Balzac writes, Disraeli writes, Dumas writes sequel to “The Three Musketeers”, Hertz writes romantic play, Prosper Merimee writes “Carmen” Poe publishe “The Raven and Other Poems”, death of Norwegian author Henrik Wergeland, Thomas Carlyle writes Cromwells letters and speeches, Friedrich Engels writes about the working class in England, Sir Austen H Layard begins excavations in Nineveh, John Henry Newman becomes a Catholic, Max Stirner writes about philosophy and anarchy, First artistic photo portraits by David Octavius Hill, JT Huve completes Madeline Church in Paris, Ingres paints portrait of Countess Haussonville, Portland Vase – famous Greecian urn that was maliciously destroyed is restored, American opera by WH Fry “Leonora” produced at Philadelphia, Lortzing’s opera “Undine” performed, Wagner composes Tannhauser, Sir William G Armstrong patent hydraulic crane, American inventor EB Bigelow constructs power loom for creating carpets, Arthur Cayley writes about theory of linear transformations, First submarine cable laid across English Channel, French inventor Joshua Heilman patents machine for combing cotton and wool, Humboldt writes “Cosmos”, German chemist Adolf Kolbe synthesizes acetic acid, Brittish engineer William M’Naught develops compound steam engine, Knickerbocker Baseball Club codifies rules of baseball, US Naval Academy in Annapolis MD opened, Oxford-Cambridge boat race transferred from Henly-on-Thames to Putney, Irish potato famine, Poe's "The Raven" published, Saints call upon future president Buchanan for help – no response, they call on Polk for help – no response, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) dies, Potato Famine begins in Ireland, FL in union #27 Feb Congress votes to annex Texas, Dec 28th state, Thoreau publishes Walden, New York Knickerbocker Club started Sep 23, Sep 22, IL natives requests that the Saints leave, Sep 9 Church leaders talk about moving to the Rockies, Jan Charter of Nauvoo revoked, Dec 10 - begin of massive push to receive endowments, accused murderers of Joseph Smith acquitted, Liszt and Wagner compose, Dumas writes The Count of Monte Cristo, Texas re-admitted into US; Democrats resume power in US with Polk; work on railroads resumes

1846 Mexican-American War begins, Irish Potato famine * Polk calls on Saints to form Mormon Battalion, Saints meet with Secretary-of-State Buchanan, “Buffalo” William F. Cody born in Kansas, death of English antislavery agitator Thomas Clarkson, death of English painter B.R. Haydon, death of German political economist Friedrich List, “The Raven” written by Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Witter publish poetry, Henry David Thoreau lives at “Walden Pond”, PT Barnum stages shows, “Jim Crack Corn” sung as new American folk song, Elias Howe demonstrates new sewing machine, telegraph lines being strung between Washington and Baltimore, ether used in operations, “Lightning press” patented in New York City running ten thousand sheets per hour, portable ice cream freezer invented in New Jersey, Saxophone patented by Adolphe Sax, Disenfranchisement of blacks in IA, East India Company defeats Sikhs at Aliwal and Sobraon, Treaty of Lahore ends First Sikh War, Revolts in Poland, Austrian and Russian troops enter Krakow Austria annexes Krakow, Negotiations between US and Mexico fail – troops move in and US formally declares war, Louis Napoleon escapes from fortress of Ham to London, Iowa becomes state, Hans Christian Andersen writes autobiography, Balzac writes, Dostoevsky writes “Poor Folk”, Jokai writes, Keller writes, Edward Lear writes “Book of Nonsense”, Longfellow writes, Herman Melville writes, George Sand writes, Ebangelical Alliance founded in London, death of Pope Gregory XVI – succeeded by Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti as Pope Pius IX, Friedrich T VIscher writes, Theodor Waitz writes about psychology, William Whewell writes about morality, saints leave Nauvoo IL, Propylaea in Munich built by Franz Klenze, Millet paints “Oedipus Unbound”, GF Watts paints Paolo and Francesca, Berlioz composes “Damnation de Faust” cantata, Electric arc lighting at Paris opera, Lortzing composes, Mendelssohn composes, death of German astronomer FW Bessel, American inventor John Deere constructs plow with steel moldboard, FGJ Henle writes about pathology, Sewing Machine patented by Howe, death of German economist Friedrich List, German botanist H von Mohl identifies protoplasm, American dentist WT Morton uses ether as anesthetic, Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero prepares nitroglycerine, English newspaper “Daily News” appears with Charles Dickens as editor, First painted Christmas card designed by John C Horseley, Famine in Ireland causes by failure of potato crop, Smithsonian Institution in Washington founded, Optical factory of Carl Zeiss founded in Jena, British Corn Laws repealed, Lt. Harry Lumsden dies cotton pajamas tannish and Khaki (Hindi word for cotton) born, Polk calls on Saints to form Mormon Battalion, Saints meet with Secretary-of-State Buchanan, Mexican war begins - Famine of Bengal era, Semmelweiss introduces antiseptics in surgery, By Feb 7 5000 receive endowments, boundary w/CAN west of Rockys established, MT. Pisgah, Council Bluffs and Winter Quarters Sep 17 - remaining Saints driven from Nauvoo, Sir Robert Peel stops being Prime Minister, Repeal of English Corn (Tariffs) Laws, Mexican War begins April War declared May 9, May 13 war declared by congress, Taylor fights Mexico, Elias Howe patents sewing machine, IA in union, #29, Oregon boundary dispute settled, CA declares independence from Mexico and annexed, Nauvoo temple dedicated May 1, Mormon migration from Nauvoo begins Feb 4, That same day Brooklyn sets sail. Mississippi River frozen, Angel vane on temple Jan 30 Wilmot Proviso presented, Howe patents sewing machine, Pope Gregory XVI dies 1 Jun, Pope Pius IX appointed 16 Jun (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti Senigallia) Opened First Vatican Council; lost the Papal States to Italy (between now and 1878), Jul 13 Mormon Battalion volunteers begin, Donner Party travels through Utah, Stuck in the Sierras, Mormon Battalion begins trek to CA, Temple: Nauvoo IL 30 Apr formally, Berlioz, Mendelssohn compose, Ether first used as anesthetic, Howe's sewing machine patented, Smithsonian founded, Slave trade at height between Africa and Brazil, Britain annexes Sind and Punjab in w India, Oregon treaty signed and Pacific coast frontier of US and CAN extended along 49th parallel, Corn Law repeal in Britain begins free trade era, remnants of primitive man discovered by Boucher de Perthes, End of Sir Robert Peel's term, Lord John Russell serves as Prime Minister of England, British repeal Corn Laws providing for cheaper food (in part after Irish famines), US and Canada redraw NW boundaries, Mexican-American War; sewing machine patented; US attempt to open trade with Japan fails; US gets Oregon area

1847 End of Algerian resistance to France lead by Abd-al-Kadir, Civil war in Switzerland, Antiseptics used in surgery by Semmelweiss, Anesthetic properties of chloroform discovered, Irish Potato famine last year * Dolley Madison attends charity dinner for beleaguered Latter-day Saints held by Sarah Polk, saints meet with Secretary Buchanan who gives ten dollars to the saints, death of John Franklin the English naturalist and navigator, Professor Marla Mitchell discovers telescopic comet, death of German composer Felix Mendelssohn, Japan quake kills 8300 est 7.4, tsunami hits India, Disenfranchisement of blacks in NJ, Anti-slavery Newspaper “North Star” published, Liberia proclaimed independent republic, US forces capture Mexico City, Sonderbund War in Switzerland – Catholic cantons refuse to dissolve union, The Bronte sisters writes Jane Eyre (Charlotte) and Wuthering Heights (Emily), Heinrich Hoffmann publishes,, Marryat writes, WH Prescott writes about Peru, George Sand writes, Thackeray writes “Vanity Fair”, American preacher Henry Ward Beecher named minister at Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn, Karl Marx attacks Proudhon’s philosophy of poverty, Salt Lake City founded, Leopold von Ranke writes, Friedrich von Flotow composes, death of Mendelssohn, Verdi composes “Macbeth” opera, George Boole writes about math, Evaporated milk first made, first Swiss railroad between Zurich and Baden, Helmholtz writes about energy conservation, IT Semmelweis of Hungary discovers connection between childbed fever and puerperal infection, Juston von Liebig produces meat extract, British Factory Act restricts working day for women and children to 10 hours, First Roman Catholic working men’s club in Cologne Germany, Gold discovered in CA, founding of Hamberg-America line, founding of electrical firm of Siemens and Halske, births of both Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, Brontë sisters publish in Britain, Elias Howe sells sewing machine manufacturing rights to England, Dolley Madison attends charity dinner for beleaguered Latter-day Saints held by Sarah Polk, saints meet with Secretary Buchanan who gives ten dollars to the saints, 1847 restoration of the Hagia Sophia by Sultan Abdulmecid until 1849, President Young publishes the will of the Lord (D&C 130), Mormon Battalion arrive in CA Jan 27, LDS Pioneers leave Winter Quarters, arrive in Utah, Winfried Scott takes over Mexico City Sep, Maria Mitchell discovers comet, Lucy Stone begins to speak on women's rights, 28 Jul, Mormon pioneers meet native people, Dec - epistle to gather to Utah, Dec 5 Brigham Young officially named as leader, Jul 28 SL temple site selected, Jul 16 Battalion disbanded at LA, Verdi composes, Revolts begin throughout Europe, banquets forbidden; Canadian Lord Elgin becomes governor and demands the executive able to override legislation, Prussia achieves constitution, Swiss civil war between Catholics and Protestants; Longfellow publishes Evangeline; rotary press invented



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