1848.—May. Presidents B. Young and Heber C. Kimball left Winter Quarters, the second time, for Great Salt Lake Valley.
September 20. Presidents B. Young and H. C. Kimball arrived, the second time, in Great Salt Lake Valley.
November 19. The Nauvoo Temple was burned.
1849.—October 6. The organization of the P. E. Fund Company was commenced.
1850.—June 14. The first missionaries to Scandinavia landed in Copenhagen, Denmark.
June 15. The first number of the "Deseret News" was published.
August 12. The first baptisms in Denmark, by legal authority, in this dispensation, took place.
September 9. The "Act" for organizing the Territory of Utah became a law.
October 13. The first company of P. E. Fund emigrants arrived in Salt Lake City, from the United States.
December 7. The first branch of the Church, in France, was organized at Paris.