1852. June. Fifteen Frenchmen baptized in Paris.
Aug. 29. The revelation on the celestial law of marriage, alias polygamy (bearing date 1843), was published by Mr. Brigham Young.
Sept. 3. The first company of Perpetual Emigration Fund converts from Europe reached Great Salt Lake City.
Dec. 13. The Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory met for the first time. The judges and the Secretary of State appointed by President Pierce came to hand.
1853. Jan. 17. The Deserét Iron Company was chartered by the Legislature of Utah Territory.
Jan. 25. The missionary elders O. Spencer and J. Houtz arrived in Berlin, Prussia, and were banished on the 2d of February.
Feb. 14. Temple Block was consecrated, ground was broken for the foundation of the Temple, and the excavations began.
March 7. The first missionaries to Gibraltar arrived there.
April 6. Corner-stone of the new Temple laid with religious rites.
In the summer (July) and autumn of this year were serious Indian troubles. At 6 A.M., Oct. 26th, Lieutenant J. W. Gunnison and eight men of his party, including the botanist, M. Creutzfeldt, were massacred on the border of Sevier River, twenty miles north of Lake Sevier.