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→Significant Dates and Events in the Lifetime of Brigham Young: 1846-1850
''The following became states: [[Florida]], [[Iowa]], California, [[Oregon]], [[West Virginia]], [[Nebraska]], [[Texas]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Minnesota]], [[Kansas]], [[Nevada]], [[Colorado]].''
''The following became states: [[Florida]], [[Iowa]], California, [[Oregon]], [[West Virginia]], [[Nebraska]], [[Texas]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Minnesota]], [[Kansas]], [[Nevada]], [[Colorado]].''
1846 Brigham directed exodus of Saints from Nauvoo, February. [[Nauvoo Temple]] was [[dedicated]], May 1. [[Mormon Battalion]] organized, July 16. Nauvoo Temple captured by mob, September.
1846-47 Brigham formulated policy for treatment of [[Indians]]: "It is cheaper to feed the Indians than to fight them."
:''[[Donner]] Party, westbound settlers, suffered disaster in the Sierra Nevadas when caught by snow; 47 survived out of 487.''
1846-48 ''United States at war with Mexico.''
1847 Brigham received [[revelation]] giving instructions for westward exodus of the Saints, January 14. First [[pioneers]] left [[Winter Quarters]] April 5, arrived in Salt Lake Valley, July 24. Mormons began [[irrigation]] of land in Utah. Brigham selected site for [[Salt Lake Temple]], July 28; organized Salt Lake Stake, October 3; was [[sustained]] President of Church at [[general conference]] on the [[Missouri River]], December 27.
1847-69 85,000 pioneers made trek to Utah.
1848 [[Seagulls]] saved crops from destruction by [[crickets]], June 5.
: ''Mexico ceded Utah to U.S. in [[Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo]]. [[Communist Manifesto]] was written.''
1848-49 ''[[Revolutions]] swept Europe.''
1849 Church organized [[provisional]] [[State of Deseret]] and adopted first [[state constitution]]. First [[Sunday School]] in [[Rocky Mountains]] was started, December. [[Gold rush]] to California made Utah a national highway to [[gold]] fields, established a number of [[non-Mormon]] [[merchants]] in Salt Lake City.
1849-73 ''[[David Livingstone]], [[African explorer]], discovered source of [[Zambezi River]], [[Victoria Falls]], [[Lake Ngami]].''
1850 University of Deseret was established (now [[University of Utah]]). [[Perpetual Immigration Fund]] was incorporated to assist in gathering of Saints. [[Congress]] approved organizing [[Territory of Utah]], and Brigham Young became [[governor]]. ''[[Deseret News]]'' was established. [[Sugar beet]] industry was started in Utah in 1850s.
=Quotations from Brigham Young=
=Quotations from Brigham Young=