The Times of the Prophets

	Arts	Inventions, Discoveries	Social Conditions	Politics	Exploring	Sports	World Events	Church Happenings
1800	Beethoven composes Moonlight Sonata Beethoven composes Pastoral Symphony	Locomotive (Great Britain) Fulton’s steamship (US)	Morphine, narcotic analgesic		Pyrenees and Mont Perdu explored	Bare-knuckle boxing held openly in England, secretly in US
1810	Constable paints The Hay Wain	Stethoscope (France)		Napoleon abdicates	First ascent of Jungfrau in Switzerland		Greatest North American continental earthquake; war between Great Britain and US Tomboro erupted twice in Java
1820	Nash designs the Royal Pavilion Beethoven composes Ninth Symphony Mendelssohn composes Midsummer Night’s Dream Rossini composes William Tell Overture	Quinine for Malaria Braille type (France)	College fraternities and sororities founded			Skiing introduced	US Monroe Doctrine declared	Prophet’s first vision; visitations of Moroni; visits to Hill Cumorah; plates, Urim and Thummim given to Joseph Smith; translation of Book of Mormon begins; Aaronic, Melchizedek priesthoods restored
1830	Turner paints Burning of House of Parliament Berlioz composes Romeo and Juliet	Colt revolver; daguerreotype	Morse code in use; English socialists revolt against industry; slavery abolished in British Empire	Victoria Queen of England; Revolution in France; first British reform bill gives vote to middle class	Antarctica explored by many countries; David Livingstone in Africa; land discovered south of Australia (Bellany Islands); great Boer trek to Transvaal, South Africa	Horses Edwin Forrest and Sally Miller hold trotting records; John C. Stevens, R. B. Forbes, champion yachtsmen	Battle of Alamo; Belgium awarded independence from Netherlands; Opium War between China and Britain	Organization of church; Book of Mormon published; Saints move from New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Missouri, from Missouri to Illinois; Kirtland, Nauvoo temples built; missionaries sent to Europe, South Seas
1840	Schumann composes Symphony no. 4 Wagner composes Lohengrin Mendelssohn composes Elijah Oratorio	Sewing machine; ether for anesthetic Planet Neptune discovered		Disraeli, Gladstone, Bismarck in power	Saints arrive in Salt Lake Valley	First regular baseball diamond laid out in New York	South American countries developing Communist Manifesto written	Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
1850	Paxton designs Crystal Palace, London Berlioz composes Symphonie Fantastique Handel’s Messiah performed in Salt Lake	Bicycle; typewriter; dynamite	Atlantic cable laid	Maximillian overthrown by Juarez in Mexico	Great westward expansion in America	First Kentucky Derby	Origin of Species published	Brigham Young Academy in Provo started
1860	Great period of Victorian writing—Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, Tennyson; “Dixie” composed Whistler paints Little White Girl Verdi composes Aida	Chewing gum; Sweden’s mechanical cream separator	Suez Canal finished Slavery in US abolished US transcontinental railroad completed	National Women’s Suffrage Association formed	Ruins of Troy uncovered; gold discovered in California	Ice hockey introduced in Ontario	Crimean War Alaska bought from Russia for two cents an acre	Temple building; colonization throughout intermountain area
1870	Mussorgsky composes Pictures at an Exhibition Renoir paints Moulin de la Galette Rodin sculpts The Thinker	Edison’s phonograph Telephone Microphone				Nine-pin bowling banned in New England for gambling	Chicago fire	Martin Harris rebaptized
1880	Dr. A. Conan Doyle creates Sherlock Holmes Ben Hur written Seurat paints A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte	Edison’s incandescent lamp; Scotland’s first automobile “tyre”; Robert Koch discovers tuberculosis germ German scientist discovers X-ray	Telephone comes to church headquarters; National Geographic Society formed; Canadian Pacific Railway spans Canada Eiffel Tower opens	Alexander II of Russia assassinated; military conscription in Japan; assassination of US president Garfield Wilhelm II kaiser of Germany	Gold rush to Alaska	Amateur Athletic Association formed in England	Missionary movement expands to far-distant countries; first world skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories!)	MIA Contributor published; golden jubilee of founding of Church celebrated; “God Be with You” favorite new hymn
1890	First film studio built in Hollywood; Tabernacle Choir concert at Chicago Exhibition Tiffany table lamp Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher, gains prominence	First automobile (Benz) on display at Paris Exposition; Italy’s Marconi makes wireless telegraphy practical Radio- telegraphy becomes trans-Atlantic	First gasoline car manufactured; player piano on market; Brazil frees slaves Diphtheria antitoxin perfected; adrenaline heart stimulant discovered	Cuban Republic inaugurated; Winston Churchill prisoner in Boer War	Gold discovered in western Australia	Basketball devised by YMCA instructor; John L. Sullivan wins boxing heavyweight championship; first modern-day Olympics in Athens Henry Vardon takes US Open in golf; World heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries	Largest meteorite, weighing 37 1/2 pounds found in Greenland Spanish- American War	Manifesto signed discontinuing polygamy; Salt Lake Temple completed after 40 years; first issue Improvement Era Teaching of and emphasis on law of tithing; Japanese Mission opened
1900	Ravel composes Rapsodie Espagnole Charlie Chaplin introduced as new film talent Kandinsky paints Blue Mountain	The Curies isolate radium Netherlands invents electro- cardiograph; aspirin; Novocaine Germany develops flat phonograph discs	Hershey bars and Kellogg’s cornflakes; horseless carriage clocked at 15 miles per hour; Boy Scouts started in England	Teddy Roosevelt US president Commonwealth of Australia established	Wright Brothers fly Admiral Peary reaches North Pole	Jack Johnson world boxing champion; cricket great, W. G. Grace, dies	McKinley assassinated First international arbitration court opens at Hague San Francisco earthquake does $500,000,000 damage	First issue of the Children’s Friend; Apostle Reed Smoot seated in Senate after overcoming opposition; dedication of Joseph Smith Monument
1910	Stravinsky composes The Rite of Spring Mondrian paints Composition in Blue	Mercurochrome		Nicholas II of Russia shot; Turkish-Italian War; World War I	Schweitzer starts African work Panama Canal		Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage Sun Yat-sen leads Chinese Revolution	Expansion of building program including erection of Church Office Building; work begun on Alberta and Hawaii temples
1920	Frank Lloyd Wright designs Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Ravel composes Bolero Caruso makes last appearance—at New York Met	Insulin Radar Nylon Holland, vitamin B	League of Nations formed; technicolor; television	Mussolini dictator of Italy; Irish Free State founded; Finland a republic	Lindberg flies monoplane nonstop across Atlantic; Queen Elizabeth ocean liner sails	Man O’ War and Seabiscuit winners at the track	Devastating earthquake in Japan Stock market crash and depression	Church Welfare Program starts
1930	Talking pictures change film industry; big bands for ballroom dancing craze Prokofiev composes Peter and the Wolf Grant Wood paints American Gothic	Artificial heart developed Sulfa drugs Uranium atom split Britain discovers penicillin, vitamin A	Trans-Atlantic radio; jet engine			Sonja Henie figure skating champion; Joe Louis and Max Schmeling tops in boxing; Dizzy Dean, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth famous in baseball	Hitler’s blitzkrieg Edward VIII abdicates British throne World War II	Tabernacle Choir broadcast over CBS begins; assistants named to Council of the Twelve
1940	Rockwell paints The Four Freedoms Swedish monaural sound brings long-playing records; soap operas, comic books, Disney characters big hits	Antibiotics advance medicine; cortisone discovered	Drive-in everything— movies, laundries, banks, and eateries	Ireland gains independence; post WW II Allied occupation underway; US cold war in Korea	Flying saucers in the news; Sons of the Utah Pioneers reenact 1847 Mormon trek across plains	Babe Ruth honored by fans in Yankee Stadium	Atomic bomb Henry Ford dies; General Douglas MacArthur relieved of Far-East command	Idaho Falls Temple dedicated Church welfare helps feed starving Europe
1950	Promised Valley produced for Church’s centennial Niemeyer designs Palace of the Dawn, Brasilia Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II televised	Air conditioning for cars; vaccine for polio and measles; cancer and cigarettes linked	Swiss women given vote; jetliner service between London and Africa	Rockefeller provides New York property for UN Mid-East crisis; Charles de Gaulle French Prime Minister	Sputnik I launched by Russia; Nautilus crosses North Pole under ice pack	Mt. Everest conquered by Hillary of New Zealand	St. Lawrence seaway links Great Lakes and Atlantic
1960	Church film “Man’s Search for Happiness” a hit at New York World’s Fair; stereo sound produced Saarinen designs CBS Building, New York Fuller designs American Pavilion Expo ’67		Alaska and Hawaii new US states	Kennedy brothers assassinated in US; Vietnam war	Communications satellite orbits and conference heard worldwide Astronauts plant US flag on moon; primitive tribe found in Philippine jungle			Quota system on missionaries; Church correlation, family home evening emphasis; membership growing from two to three million
1970	The Beatles and mod look in clothes, arts, crafts; posters on every conceivable subject; obscenity rampant	Cassette recorders, tape decks for cars; laser light, keystone to future technology; Boeing’s 747 superjet launched	Campus unrest; racism; pollution; consumerism; women’s lib	US withdrawal from Vietnam; civil war in Ireland; China recognized in UN		World jogs in fitness kick; all-Church athletics replaced by regional events	Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, marries in US; exchange students, travel groups shrink world	Three magazines replace old ones; Ensign (adults), New Era (youth), Friend (children); new church skyscraper in Salt Lake