1851.—January 9. Salt Lake City was incorporated.
January 13. The first settlers of Iron County, U.T., arrived on Centre Creek, near where the city of Parowan now stands.
1852.—August 29. The revelation on the law of Celestial Marriage was first made public.
September 3. The first company of P. E. Fund emigrants from Europe arrived in Utah.
December 13. The Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory met, for the first time.
1853.—January 25. Elders O. Spencer and J. Houtz, missionaries, arrived in Berlin, Prussia, and were banished from there on the second of February following.
February 14. The Temple Block in Salt Lake City was consecrated.
March 7. The first missionaries to Gibraltar arrived there.
November 1. The first number of the "Journal of Discourses" was published in England.
1854.—May 23. Patriarch John Smith died.