1849. March 5. At a convention held in Great Salt Lake City the Constitution of the State of Deserét was drafted, and the Legislature was elected under its provisions.
July 2. Delegates sent to Washington petitioned for admission into the Union as a free, sovereign, and independent state.
August. Captain Stansbury and Lieutenant Gunnison, Topographical Engineers, by order of the federal government, surveyed Great Salt Lake Valley.
Sept. 9. A bill organizing Utah Territory was signed by President Fillmore. The Perpetual Emigration Fund was organized. Five Yutas were killed in battle by Captain John Scott and his Mormons.
1850. April 5. The Assembly met, and Utah Territory was duly organized.
May 27. The walls of the Temple at Nauvoo were blown down by a hurricane.
June 14. The first missionaries to Scandinavia landed in Copenhagen, Denmark.
June 15. The first number of the “Deserét News” appeared under the editorship of Dr. Willard Richards.
Aug. 12. The first baptisms in Denmark by legal authority in this Dispensation took place.
Sept. 9. The “Act” for organizing the Territory of Utah became a law. Mr. Brigham Young was appointed Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah Territory by President Fillmore, who signed the act. The judges, Brocchus, Day, and Brandeburg, and Mr. Secretary Harris, arrived at Great Salt Lake City.