1847 |
First party of Mormon pioneers arrives in Great Salt Lake Valley; communal irrigation organized. |
1848 |
Sea gulls stop invasion of crickets; Mexico cedes Utah to United States in Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. |
1849 |
Mormons organize State of Deseret; capital, Salt Lake City |
1850 |
University of State of Deseret (later University of Utah) chartered at Salt Lake City; Territory of Utah created; capital, Salt Lake City (Fillmore, 1851-56; Parowan, 1858-59); governor, Brigham Young |
1852 |
Mormons avow plural marriage as rule of church |
1853 |
Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City begun; completed in 1893; Walker War with Ute Indians begins over slavery among Indians; settled in 1854 |
1854 |
First of grasshopper plagues endangers crops |
1856-60 |
Pioneers travel with handcarts to Utah |
1857 |
President James Buchanan removes Young from governorship; Mormons attack United States troop trains; peace made in 1858, before troops reach Utah |
1862 |
Congress rejects new State of Deseret constitution |
1863 |
Mining of silver and lead begins in Bingham Canyon Dry farming succeeds near Bear River City |
1865-68 |
Ute Black Hawk War last major Indian conflict in Utah |
1869 |
Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads complete transcontinental line at Promontory |
1887 |
Edmunds Act (1882) continues attack on Mormons; church disincorporated |
1890 |
Wilford Woodruff , Mormon church president, forbids polygamy; Public school system established |
1896 |
Utah becomes 45th state, January 4; capital, Salt Lake City; governor, Heber Wells |