“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– 1932	Era of great emigration from Europe to the Americas and Asia.
		1848	Spontaneous revolution throughout Europe.
		1849	California Gold Rush.
1850– 1854	Church begins numerous missions in Europe; also missions in Pacific, India, South America.	1850– 1855	Taiping Rebellion in China.
1852	Doctrine of plural marriage publicly announced.
		1853– 1856	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– 1865	Civil War in U.S.A.
		1864	Pasteurization developed
		1865	First antiseptic surgery.
1867	Tabernacle completed	1866	Prussian-Italian war vs. Austria
		1868– 1912	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– 1871	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.