“Chronology of Church and World History, 1847–77,” Tambuli, Oct. 1979, 48
Chronology of Church and World History, 1847–77
Church |
World | ||
1847 |
Pioneers reach Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young, 2nd Church President. |
1846– |
Era of great emigration from Europe to the Americas and Asia. |
1848 |
Spontaneous revolution throughout Europe. | ||
1849 |
California Gold Rush. | ||
1850– |
Church begins numerous missions in Europe; also missions in Pacific, India, South America. |
1850– |
Taiping Rebellion in China. |
1852 |
Doctrine of plural marriage publicly announced. | ||
1853– |
Crimean War. | ||
1857 |
U.S.A. Army troops to Utah. | ||
1859 |
Charles Darwin publishes his work “On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection.” | ||
1861 |
Emancipation of Russian peasants | ||
1861– |
Civil War in U.S.A. | ||
1864 |
Pasteurization developed | ||
1865 |
First antiseptic surgery. | ||
1867 |
Tabernacle completed |
1866 |
Prussian-Italian war vs. Austria |
1868– |
Meiji era in Japan; Westernization, modernization. | ||
1869 |
Young Ladies’ Retrenchment Association (later YWMIA) organized |
1869 |
Suez canal opened. America’s first transcontinental railroad completed at Promontory Summit, Utah. |
1870 |
Italian unification completed. | ||
1870– |
Franco-Prussian War. Germany unified, 1871. | ||
1874 |
United Orders established. | ||
1875 |
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association organized. Brigham Young Academy (later Brigham Young University) founded at Provo, Utah. | ||
1876 |
Telephone invented | ||
1877 |
Brigham Young dies. |