CHRONOLOGY OF THE TAYLOR FAMILY HISTORY
and Also Notable Events in Mexican, LDS Church, U.S.A., and World History
Compiled by Daniel Pierce Taylor with additions by Lucy Brown Archer

Fourteen+ Generations of the Taylor Line:
1)Robert Taylor I born 1540 in Hatherleigh, England, married Joan Call they had a son, (2)Robert Taylor II in 1566 in Spreyton, Devonshire, England, married Agnes Downe and had (3)Robert Taylor III in 1595 in Spreyton, Devonshire, England, who married Thomasyne Smallridge and had (4)Stephen Taylor Sr., born about 1620 in England, died 1688 in Windsor, Conn., married Sarah Hosford in 1642 and bore (5)Stephen Taylor Jr., 11 Mar 1644 in Windsor, Conn., married Joanna Porter 8 Nov 1676, who bore (6)William Taylor Sr., 24 Mar 1689 in Windsor, Conn., died by June 1742 after fathering with Sarah Davis (7)William Taylor, Jr. about 1719 in Coventry, Conn., married Jane, he died after 1761, after fathering (8)James Taylor, 13 Mar 1750, married Sarah Wright 20 May 1774, who bore him a son (9)Jesse Taylor, who married Lucy Parker in 1804, they had a son, (10)Benjamin Franklin Taylor born in 1805 in Pittsfield to Ann Mennell.had a son named (11)NormanTaylor and with Lydia Forbush Taylor had a son named (12)Ernest Leander Taylor who married Hannah Skousen in 1884 and they had a son, (13)Harvey H. Taylor, born in San Bernardino, California, August 8, 1852. Harvey, along with his three wives, Lenora McCray Holladay, Mary Magdalene Arnesen, and Johanne Marie "Hannah" Skousen, had thirteen children, seven were sons and many grandsons.

The Pittsfield, Connecticutt ancestry goes back to the 1770's when two brothers from Coventry, Connecticut, James Taylor and Thomas Taylor, migrated as young single men to Pittsfield. They soon married into the Wright and Wheeler families respectively and proceded to raise families there. Possibly other siblings moved there as well. We don't know what either James or Thomas did for a living, but do know that Thomas enlisted in Oliver Root's company to serve in the New York campaign that year, but became ill or injured in the war and James volunteered to serve in his brother's place. Remarkably, James met up with Root's company just prior to the retreat from Long Island in the Winter of 1776-77 and marched with that outfit to Fort Washington and fought in the Battle of White Plains. James mustered out in the spring of 1777, but later was drafted into service again, this time serving under John Brown's command. James served with distinction and was promoted from Corporal to Sergeant. All of the above is documented in pension records filed by James in 1832. James resided in Pittsfield until his death on 15 Jan 1836. James and Sarah Wright Taylor had 12 children all of whom were born in Pittsfield,. Their son, Jesse D, Taylor who migrated to Ohio in 1820, died there at the relatively young age of 41.

James Taylor (parents William Taylor and Jane Robinson) was born 13 Mar 1750 in Coventry, Windham, Connecticut. He died 15 Jan 1836 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

1760 10 Aug - Hans Nissen is born in Vester Vandrup, Vejle, Denmark. He marries Kirstine Margrethe Nielsen, and fathers Neils Hansen Kabel.

1764 26 Dec - Birth of Jens Sorensen Skousen, who marries Margrethe Jensen, both from Tyvkyar, Vejle, Denmark. Father of Johanne Jensen Skousen,

1767 - EL MARQUEZ DE CROIX, Viceroy of New Spain, prints the decree of Charles II, King of Spain, which deported the Jesuits from Mexico, also states: For once and for all the subjects of the great monarch who occupies the throne of Spain should understand that they were born to keep quiet and not to discuss and express their opinions about important matters of state.

1776 - American Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Penn.

1778 - The CABALLERO DE CROIX, Intendente of Nueva Galicia, publishes in Durango the Bando that creates 5 enormous ejidos including that of Casas Grandes, which included 64 square leagues centered on the church in Old Town.

1783 21 Oct - Birth of Jesse Taylor in Pittsfield, Mass., father of Benjamin F. Taylor who married Lucy Parker.

1783 - End of American Revolution; peace with Great Britain.

1786 02 Apr - Birth of Crispin Mennell in Norton, Yorks, England, Father of Ann Mennell, who became the paternal great-grandmother of Harvey H. Taylor.

1786 - The famine that the poor experience each 11 years is unusually severe. Scarce rain and early frosts bring on the Great Hunger that kills some 100,000 people and causes the poor to eat roots and sell their children.

1787 - Draft of U. S. Constitution.

1788 12 Jul - Birth of Rufus P. Forbush Sr. in Royalston, Vermont; father of Lydia Forbush, paternal grandmother of Harvey.

1789 16 May - Birth of Neils Hansen Kabel in Vester Vamdrup, Vejle, Denmark, who married Johanne Jensen Skousen. Father of James Neils Skousen.

1789 - French Revolution begins.

1791 15 May - Birth of Elizabeth Wellburn in Fimber, Yorkshire, England; paternal great-great-grandmother of Harvey.

1791- U. S. Bill of Rights is adopted. 1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.

1793 - The Viceroy learns of an uprising planned by 200 criollos backed by Juan Antonio de Montenegro in Guadalajara.

1794 - A plot is discovered in Mexico City led by an accountant named Juan Guerrero. 1795 - When Spain goes to war against England, ships of many countries supply Mexico (for the first time) and local industry supplies many things previously imported from Spain. 1799 - The Conspiracy of the Machetes is discovered.

1803 - Alexander de Humboldt, the young German, on his visit to Mexico finds it large and rich, the biggest gold and silver producer in the world but having the greatest differences among people in both wealth and culture.

1803 - Thomas Jefferson arranges purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon.

1805 04 Aug - Birth of Benjamin Franklin Taylor in Pittsfield, Mass.; great grandfather of Harvey.

1805 23 Dec - Birth of Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont.

1810 15 Sep - Grito de Dolores by Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's War of Independence.

1812 20 Oct - Ann Mennell is born in Fimber, Yorks, England; the paternal greatgrandmother of Harvey.

1815 22 Dec - Morelos is executed and leaves the battle for independence as a widely dispersed guerrilla movement.

1818 - Guadalupe Victoria hides in the south, only Vicente Guerrero and Pedro Ascencio are left as guerrillas.

1820 - In the early spring, Joseph Smith receives the First Vision in Palmyra, New York. 182121 Jul - Iturbide is crowned Emperor of Mexico.

1821 24 Aug - The Cordoba Treaty between Iturbide and O'Donoju is signed. Mexico is freed from Spain.

1823 21 Sep - The Angel Moroni visits Joseph Smith three times.

1823 - The Monroe Doctrine is proclaimed.

1824 - General Guadalupe Victoria is named President and Nicolas Bravo Vice President of Mexico. A new Constitution is formulated, and death is ordered for Iturbide. 1825 - The first railway line opens in Britain. The beginning of the railway boom.

1825 - John Quincy Adams is elected President of the U.S.

1826 23 Aug - Birth of Sidsel Marie Pedersen in Laasby, Skanderborg, Denmark, maternal grandmother of Harvey.

1827 - Benjamin Franklin Taylor marries Ann Mennell, who bore Norman Taylor. 1827 Sep - Joseph Smith receives the Gold Plates from the Angel Moroni.

1828 15 Sep - Birth of Norman Taylor in Grafton, Ohio; grandfather of Harvey.

1828 3 0 Sep - Birth of James Niels Skousen in Herslev, Vejle, Denmark; maternal grandfather of Harvey.

1829 07 Apr - Joseph Smith begins the translation of the Book of Mormon. 1829 - The first discovery of oil in the United States.

1829-37 - Andrew Jackson is President of the U.S.

1830 05 Jan - Birth of Lydia Forbush in Underhill, Vermont; paternal grandmother of Harvey.

1830 06 Apr - Organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1830-44 - Joseph Smith is President of the Church until his martyrdom in 1844. The membership grows from six to some 4,000.

1830 - The Industrial Revolution spreads from England to the European continent and to New England.

1831- The Saints move to Kirtland, Ohio.

1831 27 Dec - Voyage of the Beagle, with Darwin as geologist.

1832 - The Saints begin to establish Zion in Jackson County, Missouri. 1833 - McCormick patents his horse-drawn reaping machine.

1835 18 Feb - Organization of the first Quorum of Twelve Apostles. 1836 27 Mar - Dedication of the Kirtland Temple.

1836 06 Mar - Santa Anna's army kills all of 150 Texas militia (birth of "Remember the Alamo" sentiment).

1836 21 Apr - Texas militia under Sam Houston defeats Mexican army and captures Santa Anna.

1836 - Texas wins its independence from Mexico, elects David Burnet, President.

1837 Jan - Anastacio Bustamante becomes President of Mexico.

1837 - Morse invents the telegraph in New York City. 1837 - Steel is first used to face ploughshares.

1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy is murdered by a mob at Alton, Ill. for advocating the abolition of slavery.

1838 - The Saints leave Missouri and establish Nauvoo, Ill. 1839 - Goodyear discovers the vulcanization process.

1840 12 Apr - Benjamin Franklin and Ann Mennell Taylor are baptized by Zebedee Coltrin (see D&C 52:29).

1840 06 May - First postage stamp is issued in Great Britain.

1841 Jul - Santa Anna stages a military revolt, and in October is made Provisional President.

1844 02 Jan - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico. 1844 01 Mar - Annexation of Texas by the U.S.

1844 27 Jun - Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage, Ill.

1844 Dec - Santa Anna is deposed and Jose Joaquin Herrera is named President of Mexico.

1844-77 - Brigham Young is President of the Church. The membership grows to 85,000.

1846 - Outbreak of Mexican-U.S. War.

1846 09 Mar - U.S. Navy invades port of Veracruz, Mexico.

1846 - Dedication of Nauvoo Temple and Saints leave for the West.

1846 - Benjamin Franklin Taylor leave Illinois with Saints who move to Pottawatomie, Iowa. He helps build Winter Quarters, and lives there until 13 Jun 1850.

1847 22 Jul - Norman Taylor drives the second wagon into Salt Lake Valley and 4 weeks later returns with Brigham Young to Winter Quarters and marries Lurana Forbush.

1847 24 Jul - Arrival of Brigham Young in Salt Lake Valley.

1848 02 Feb - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between Mexico and U.S. Mexico receives $15,000,000 and loses 6 states and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

1848 Feb - Karl Marx and Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. 1848 26 Aug - Armistice of Maimo between Denmark and Germany. 1848 - Invention of breach loading rifle.

1848-49 - Discovery of gold in California.

1848-51- Jose Joaquin Herrera is President of Mexico. 1848-58 - 500 miles of railway are laid in Spain.

1849 05 Jun - New Constitution in Denmark.

1849 09 Dec - First Sunday School is held in the LDS Church. 1849-50 - Zachary Taylor is President of the U.S.

1850 09 Jul - Zachary Taylor dies and is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.

1850 02 Aug - Convention of London between Britain, Denmark, France, Russia and Sweden, guarantees Danish integrity.

1850 22 Nov - Marriage of Norman Taylor and Lydia Forbush in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1850 - Utah organized as a U.S. territory; it is refused statehood because of the Mormon practice of polygamy.

1850-60 - 200,000 miles of railway laid in the U.S., principally in the North. 1851- Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor of France.

1852 08 Aug - Birth of Ernest Leander Taylor, in San Bernardino, California; father of Harvey.

1853 06 Apr - Laying of the cornerstone for the Salt Lake Temple. 1853 - Santa Anna returns to power in Mexico until 1855.

1853 - William Walker declares Lower California and Sonora to be an independent republic.

1853-57 - Franklin Pearce, a Democrat, is President of the U.S. 1854 Mar - Plan de Ayutla is issued in Mexico.

1854 - Guerrilla bands organized by Juan Alvarez roam southern Mexico.

1855 Aug - Santa Anna leaves for Colombia, never to return to power in Mexico.

1855 Nov - The Liberals headed by Juan Alvarez take Mexico City and install him as President.

1855 Dec - Ignacio Comonfort is named President of Mexico. 1855 - Bessemer develops the blast furnace for steel production. 1855-76 - Period of "La Reforma" in Mexico.

1857 05 Feb - A Liberal Constitution promulgated in Mexico; civil war ensues; the conservatives hold Mexico City; Benito Juarez, liberal leader, retires to the country; Ignacio Comonfort is reelected President.

1857 18 Apr - Lydia Forbush Taylor and two sons, Ernest and Edwin leave for Utah in wagon train led by Amasa M. Lyman, arriving 46 days later.

1857-58 - Invasion of Utah by Johnston's Army.

1857-61- James Buchanan, a Democrat, is President of the United States.

1858 Jan - Two Presidents and two governments in Mexico: Felix Zuloaga in Mexico City, followed shortly by Miguel Miramon; Benito Juarez rules the outlying areas.

1858 Mar - Benito Juarez makes Veracruz his capital.

1858 - Norman Taylor settles his families in Santaquin, Utah.

1859 - Laws of Reform issued by President Benito Juarez of Mexico. 1859 - Commercial petroleum exploitation begins in Pennsylvania. 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes his Origin of the Species.

1860 13 Sep - Birth of John J. Pershing in Laclede, Missouri, son of John F. and Ann Thompson Pershing.

1860 06 Nov - Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, is elected President of the United States for a four-year term.

1860 - Benito Juarez takes Mexico City and becomes the sole President of the country. 1861 12 Apr - The Confederates attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina harbor, and the Civil War begins.

1861 Jul - Benito Juarez suspends all foreign debt. 1861-65 - The U.S. War Between the States.

1861- Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate States of America. 1861-74 - The Paris Opera House is built.

1862 Jan - A French expeditionary force lands at Veracruz, Mexico. 1862 05 May - The French are defeated at the Battle of Puebla.

1862 02 Aug - Birth of Hannah Marie Skousen, mother of Harvey, while traveling to Utah, on the north side of the Platte River in Nebraska.

1862 - An anti-bigamy law is passed in the United States. 1865 - Lister initiates the use of antiseptic surgery.

1866 - Completion of the first Atlantic cable.

1869 10 May - With the placing of the "Golden Spike", railroads come to Utah. 1869 28 Nov - First Young Women's organization in the LDS Church.

1869 - Opening of the Suez Canal.

1875 10 Jun - First Young Men's organization in the LDS Church. 1876 07 Jan - First LDS missionaries arrive in Mexico.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

1876-80 - Pershing teaches school at Laclede and Prairie Mount, Missouri to pay for normal school education.

1877 06 Apr - Dedication of the St. George Temple.

1877-87 - John Taylor is President of the LDS Church; membership grows to 150,000. 1878 05 Jun - Birth of Doroteo Arango, son of Agustin Arango & Micaela Arambula at La Coyotada, Municipio of San Juan del Rio, Durango. His father was an illegitimate son of Jesus Villa. Doroteo takes his last name on becoming an outlaw and becomes Francisco (Pancho) Villa.

1878 25 Aug - First Primary organization in the IDS Church.

1879 05 Nov - The LDS Mexican Mission is established with Moses Thatcher, President. 1879 - Thomas Alva Edison perfects the incandescent lamp.

1880 - Pershing receives his A.B. degree at Normal School.

1881 06 Apr - Dedication of Mexico for the preaching of the gospel by Moses Thatcher. 188111 Sep - August H. F. Wilcken is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1881- Pasteur discovers the principle of immunization.

1883 15 Apr - Anthony W. Ivins is named President of the Mexican Mission. 1884 27 Mar - Helaman Pratt is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1884 11 Apr - Marriage of Ernest L. Taylor and Hannah Marie Skousen in St. George, Utah.

1885 - First LDS colonists enter Mexico.

1885 06 Jun - Birth of Maud Mary Taylor in a covered wagon in San Jose, Chih. (very near Casas Grandes), sister to Harvey. She marries Joseph C. Bentley.

1885 - Hertz discovers radiowaves.

1886 27 Feb - Purchase of Colony lands in Chihuahua, Mexico for LDS people. 1886 - First Spanish edition of the Book of Mormon.

1886 - Daimler invents the gasoline internal combustion engine.

1886 - John J. (Blackjack) Pershing graduates from West Point as senior cadet captain, the highest honor conferred.

1886-90 - Pershing, 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Cavalry, takes part in Apache campaigns in Arizona and New Mexico.

1887 02 May - Horace H. Cummings is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1887 29 Sep - Loren LeRgy Taylor, brother to Harvey, is born in Colonia Juarez, Chih. He marries first Flora Hermosa McDonald; then Lillian Hatch; and lastly LaVetta Cluff. 1887 06 Oct - Henry Eyring is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1887 - The Edmunds-Tucker Law is passed which disenfranchises the LDS Church and the U.S. government takes over Church properties.

1887-98 - Wilford Woodruff is President of the LDS Church; membership grows to 200,000.

1888 21 Dec. - Henry Eyring released as President of Mexican Mission; no new president named.

1889 03 Jun - Mexican Mission closed. Total baptisms in 10 years' existence: 241.

1890 05 Jun - Harvey Hyrum Taylor is born in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, son of Ernest L. Taylor and Hannah Skousen. (Harvey was born on Villa's birthday but was 12 years younger; about four years before Villa turns outlaw.)

1890 16 Dec - Ma Alice Pierce (Harve 's first wife) is born in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Brigham Horace Pierce and Martha Alice Thornton.

1890 - Wilford Woodruff's Manifesto is published. 1890-91- Pershing is in Sioux camp in South Dakota.

1891-95 - Pershing is military instructor at University of Nebraska, and is promoted to First Lieutenant.

1892 11 Dec - Birth of Marinda Taylor (Rinda) in Colonia Juarez, Chili., sister to Harvey. She marries Moroni Lehi Abegg.

1893 06 Apr - Dedication of Salt Lake Temple.

1893 - Beginning of economic depression in the United States.

1894 - Villa defends his sister's honor and flees from the Hacienda of Gogojito, Municipio of Canatlan, Durango.

1895 09 Dec - Organization of the Juarez Stake, with Anthony W. Ivins as President. 1896 20 Jan - Rhoda Clark (Harvey's second wife) is born in Centerville, Utah to Edward Barrett Clark and Alice Randall.

1896 - Pershing is in charge of rounding up the Cree Indians and deporting them to Canada.

1896 - Marconi patents the wireless telegraph.

1897 10 Jan - Uncle Edwin and Aunt Sis Taylor (Alice) are accepted as members in Colonia Juarez. (Harvey is just over six years old. He drove a wagon for them from Palomas to Colonia Juarez.)

1897 20 Sep - Opening of the Juarez Stake Academy.

1897-98 - Pershing is Instructor in Tactics in the U.S. Military Academy.

1898 - U.S. Spanish American War. The U.S. annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Hawaiian Islands.

1898-1903 - Pershing is in Santiago, Cuba and the Philippines.

190011 Apr - Death of Lydia Forbush Tßyl=r in Colonia Juarez, Harvey's grandmother. 1900 - Founding of Regeneraci=n, the revolutionary journal of Ricardo Flores Magon in Mexico City. It later moved to San Antonio, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles, California.

190101 Jun - The Mexican Mission is reopened, with Ammon M. Tenney as President. 1901-18 - Joseph F. Smith presides over the LDS Church and the membership grows to 250,000.

1903 08 Feb - H. S. Harris is named President of the Mexican Mission. 190414 May - Talma E. Pomeroy is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1904 05 Nov - Flores Magon's revolutionary paper Regeneraci=n reappears in San Antonio, Texas.

1905 25 Aug - H. S. Harris is again named President of the Mexican Mission. 1906 Jun - First revolutionary attempt, the Cananea, Sonora strike.

1907 29 Sep - Rey L. Pratt, son of Helaman Pratt and Victoria Billingsley, is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1907 - Bloody repression of the Rio Blanco strike in Veracruz, Mexico.

1908 06 Jun - Francisco Ignacio Madero is arrested in Monterrey for a seditious speech made in San Luis Potosi.

1908 - Second revolutionary attempt. Madero publishes his The Presidential Succession of 1910.

1909 07 Oct - Harvey Hyrum Taylor marries Mary Alice Pierce in the Salt Lake Temple. To help pay for the trip he borrowed money from Don Luis Terrazas, the latifundista.

1910 17 Nov - Abraham Gonzalez instructs Villa to go to "la Sierra" under Castulo Herrera, and he obeys. By now Villa idolizes Francisco I. Madero and Abraham Gonzalez. 1910 18 Nov - Aquiles Serdan is captured and shot in Puebla, the first martyr of the Revolution.

1910 19 Nov - Madero enters Mexico from the U.S., and is disappointed when his uncle, Catarino Benavides, does not arrive until late afternoon of Nov. 20 with only 4 men instead of the 500 planned for. Disappointed, Madero returns to San Antonio, New Orleans, San Antonio and eventually El Paso, Texas.

1910 20 Nov - The first action in Chihuahua is initiated by the following local rebels: Pascual Orozco at San Isidro; Jose de la Luz Blanco at Santo Tomas; Francisco Villa at San Andres; Guillermo Baca at Parral (all from the "Longitude of War").

1910 Dec - Pascual Orozco takes Cd. Guerrero, the first important victory.

1911 11 Jan - Harvey's first child Harvey LeRoy Taylor is born in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

1911 05 Feb - Orozco is unable to take Cd. Juarez but takes Bauche.

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1911 13 Feb - Madero crosses at Isleta and meets Jose de la Luz Soto with 137 men. They move to Villa Ahumada, then to San Buenaventura where their forces increase to 500. 191105 Mar - Madero camps at the Hacienda del Refugio (upper farm) in the outskirts of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.

1911 06 Mar - Madero attacks and takes Casas Grandes. He is shot in the right arm and Eduardo Hay in his right eye. They are forced to flee when Col. Samuel Garcia Cuellar arrives with reinforcements. Madero sets up operations at Hacienda de Bustillos, Mpio. de Cuauhtemoc, Chili.

1911 12 Apr - Madero returns to Casas Grandes.

1911 19 Apr - Madero sets up command northwest of Cd. Juarez, across the river from the smelter.

1911 08 May - Shooting starts under the command of Captain Reyes Robinson. 191110 May - Cd. Juarez capitulates to Madero's forces.

1911 13 May - Madero has a showdown with Pascual Orozco.

1911 21 May - The Federal troops evacuate Cuernavaca, Morelos and Emiliano Zapata and his followers move in.

1911 26 May - Porfirio Diaz and others leave Mexico City for Veracruz and exile.

1911 07 Jun - An early morning quake kills 207 people in Mexico City. Madero's train arrives at noon; in an open carriage accompanied by Eduardo Hay and Giuseppe Garibaldi he begins a slow trip to the National Palace, where he is received by Francisco Leon de la Barra, Interim President.

1911 06 Nov - Madero assumes the Presidency three weeks before the official date, after winning 99% of the vote in the election.

1911 27 Nov - Emiliano Zapata publishes his "Plan de Ayala" and disavows Madero.

1912 Feb - Jose Ines Salazar takes over Terrazas' horses, and orders the expulsion of the Mormons.

1912 03 Mar - Pascual Orozco rebels and heads for Mexico City; he defeats General Jose Gonzalez Salas at Rellano. The latter returns to Torreon and commits suicide. Victoriano Huerta takes the place of Gonzalez Salas.

1912 Mar - Villa is ordered to report to Huerta and serves in 3 battles. He is ordered executed by Huerta but is saved by Madero. Villa is sent to the military prison of Santiago Tlaltelolco in Mexico City.

1912 10 Jul - Death of Hannah Skousen, Harvey's mother, in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

1912 25 Jul - General Jose Ines Salazar insists that the colonists turn over their guns; several hundred women and children leave Colonia Dublan that night. They are the first to leave in the "Exodus:'

1912 26 Jul (Sunday) - The first of two trainloads of women and children from Colonia Juarez leave Pearson for Cd. Juarez and El Paso, Texas.

1912 09 Aug, 6:20 p.m. - The men on horseback cross the border into the U.S. about 3 miles east of Dog Springs, New Mexico.

1912 28 Oct - Birth of Harvey's second child Mennell Hyrum Taylor in El Paso, Texas. 1912 - Huerta defeats Orozco at Rellano, Bachimba, Berme, illo, Chihuahua, Cd. Juarez and finally Ojinaga in early Sept. Orozco takes refuge in the U.S., then Canada. Returns to Chihuahua in December.

1912 - Felix Diaz resigns his army post and rebels, making Veracruz his stronghold. Within a week he and his staff are captured and sent to Santiago Tlaltelolco, where General Bernardo Reyes and Pancho Villa are held.

1912 27 Dec - Francisco Villa escapes from the prison in Mexico City and travels north up the west coast to the U.S.

1912 - Beginning of the First Balkan War.

1913 09 Feb (Sunday) - The rebellion leading to the Decena Trßgica begins.

1913 18 Feb - Madero and Pino Suarez are taken prisoners at the National Palace and Victoriano Huerta assumes the presidency of the republic.

1913 19 Feb - Venustiano Carranza denounces the military coup by Huerta.

1913 09 Mar - Francisco Villa crosses the Rio Grande near El Paso with eight men and at Estacion Bustillos attacks Col. Jesus Mancilla, who retreats to San Andres after an hour's fight.

1913 Mar - Villa attacks the Orozquistas at Casas Grandes, a force of 400, which he liquidates.

1913 Jun & Jul - Villa occupies these months in the organization of the "Villa Brigade", assisted by Col. Juan Medina. This brigade is the embryo of the famous Division del Norte Northern Division). All this in Ascencion, some one hundred miles north of Casas randes.

1913 26 Aug - Reinforced by Col. Toribio Ortega, Villa attacks Felix Terrazas at Estacion Creel, capturing his first two 75mm. Saint Chammon Mondragon cannons. Only the cannoneers are kept to operate these artillery pieces.

1913 01 Oct - Villa finally takes Torreon after 4 days of battle. 1913 27 Oct - Villa retakes Camargo, Chihuahua.

1913 05 Nov - Villa attacks Chihuahua and after 4 days retreats before the defense of Gen. Salvador Mercado, the Federal general and Governor of Chihuahua.

1913 14 Nov - Villa takes Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua.

1913 23 Nov - The Battle of Tierra Blanca, which finishes on the 25th. General Rodolfo Fierro's valor is outstanding and Villa's fame brings him the name of "Centaur of the North."

1913 08 Dec - Pancho Villa is elected Provisional Governor of the State of Chihuahua. 1914 10 Jan - Francisco Villa personally reinforces Panfilo Natera at Ojinaga and in less than an hour routes the forces of General Mercado, leaving Chihuahua free of Huertistas and Orozquistas.

1914 16 Feb - William Benton, a stubborn Scotsman, who ranched near Sueco, is killed after an altercation with Villa in Cd. Juarez.

1914 Feb - Gustavo Bauch, a U.S. citizen, is detained, accused of spying for Huerta, and executed.

1914 Mar - Interviews with the American press, especially the New York Herald, cause trouble for Villa with Carranza and distract him from running the State of Chihuahua.

1914 02 Apr - Villa takes Torreon and General Velazco takes his Division del Nazas to San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila.

1914 13 Apr - Villa takes San Pedro de las Colonias and Velazco retreats to Saltillo, uniting there on April 23rd.

1914 17 Apr - Villa attacks Paredon against Generals Mu±oz, Alvarez, Osorno and Gomez Linares.

1914 20 Apr - Villa orders Gen. Robles to occupy Saltillo, which he does without resistance. Gen. Maass retreats from Saltillo to San Luis Potosi, not arriving until June 1st. 1914 21 Apr - American troops disembark at Veracruz, Mexico.

1914 23 Jun - Zacatecas falls to Villa. Medina Barron and others retreat to Aguascalientes.

1914 14 Jul - Victoriano Huerta abandons Mexico, he resigns on the 15th and a few days later he leaves the country on the German ship "Dresden" from Coatzacoalcos.

1914 23 Jul - Harvey's third child Lynn Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico.

1914 20 Aug - Venustiano Carranza enters the Federal District and the next day sends Alvaro Obregon to Chihuahua to form an agreement with Villa and his generals.

1914 28 Aug - Villa and Obregon travel to Sonora to see Maytorena and return to Chihuahua the 31st.

1914 16 Sep - Obregon is again in Chihuahua to settle difficulties. Villa opts to shoot him and orders Gen. Benjamin Hill to Casas Grandes in Obregon's name. Obregon countermands the order and returns to Mexico City the 26th.

1914 10 Oct - Villa sends 39 delegates to the Convention of Aguascalientes with Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez as Provisional President.

1914 06 Dec - Villa and Emiliano Zapata enter Mexico City and banquet with the Interim President Gutierrez.

1914 - Opening of the Panama Canal. Beginning of the First Warld War. 1915 07 Apr - Villa loses the first battle of Celaya, Guanajuato.

1915 15 Apr - Villa loses the second battle of Celaya and retreats to Leon, Guanajuato. 1915 03 Jun - Obregon loses his right arm and Benjamin Hill takes over.

1915 05 Jun - General Francisco Murguia defeats Villa, who retreats to Aguascalientes. 1915 12 Jun - Defeated at Aguascalientes, Villa returns to Torreon and on 22 Aug takes Durango without Urbina. From Chihuahua decides to go to Sonora and sends Fierro to Gallego, Las Varas, San Buenaventura, to meet him at Casas Grandes, where Villa arrives overland from Cd. Juarez.

1915 15 Oct - Fierro drowns in the Round Lake in the Casas Grandes valley.

1915 19 Oct - The U.S. recognizes Carranza's as the de facto government of Mexico. 1915 01 Nov - Villa attacks Agua Prieta and is defeated, goes to Hermosillo, is again defeated and returns to Chihuahua.

1915 10 Dec - At Madera Villa tells his men to disband except for his Dorados as a bodyguard.

1915 - Sinking of the Lusitania.

1916 10 Jan - Villa's men assault a train 8 kms. west of Santa Isabel, Chihuahua and execute 18 Americans.

1916 09 Mar - Villa attacks Columbus and seeks the Jew Rabel who was away in El Paso due to a tooth ailment.

1916 15 Mar - Pershing enters Mexico at Palomas, Chihuahua and sets up headquarters at Col. Dublan.

1916 12 Apr - American troops are attacked at Parral; three Yanks are killed and seven wounded.

1916 17 May - Harvey's fourth child and first girl, Elizabeth Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1916 20 Jun - Captain Boyd and General Felix U. Gomez both die in the battle at Carrizal, Chihuahua.

1917 07 Nov - Death of Harvey's father, Ernest Leander Taylor in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua.

1917 01 Dec - Birth of Harvey's fifth child, Rinda Beatrice Taylor in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua.

1917 - Villa continues his uerrilla activities against General Francisco Murguia. 1917 - The U.S. joins the lies in World War I.

1918 11 Nov - The Armistice ends World War I.

1918 - Villa makes raids in Chihuahua, Durango and southern Coahuila.

1918-45 - Heber J. Grant presides over the LDS Church and the membership reaches 500,000 in 1928 and goes on to 1'000,000.

1919 10 Aug - Harvey's sixth child Martha Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua. 1919 26 Nov - General Felipe Angeles is executed in Chihuahua after failing to take Cd. Juarez.

1919 - First transatlantic airplane flight by Charles A. Lindbergh. First meeting of the League of Nations; and regularly scheduled radio broadcasting starts.

1920 Apr - Plutarco Elias Calles issues the Plan of Agua Prieta and disavows Venustiano Carranza.

1920 30 Apr - Alvaro Obregon issues a manifesto giving up his campaign in a democratic posture, and takes up arms against V. Carranza.

1920 21 May - Venustiano Carranza is murdered at Tlaxcalantongo, Puebla, apparently by Rodolfo Herrero.

1920 24 May - Adolfo de la Huerta is elected Provisional President.

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1920 22 Jul - Villa and his men take Sabinas, Coahuila, and by telegraph he is conciliated with the new government.

1920 Jul & Aug - Accepting amnesty, Villa and his men return to Parral on horseback after visiting Cuatrocienegas (V. Carranza's home), San Pedro, Coahuila (Madero's home), and Parral, where he is photographed embracing Generals Martinez and Gonzalo Escobar and tells of his intentions at the Hacienda de Canutillo in northern Durango near the Chihuahua border and close to Parral.

1920 30 Nov - Alvaro Obregon becomes the twelfth President of Mexico in less than ten years.

1922 14 May - Harvey's seventh child and fourth girl Maudie Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1923 20 Jul - Francisco Pancho) Villa is assassinated in Parral, Chihuahua.

1923 25 Nov - Death o Maudie Taylor in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, while Harvey is away on a trip in Utah.

1924 22 Mar - Harvey's eighth child and fourth son Daniel Pierce Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1924 01 Dec - Plutarco Elias Calles is inaugurated as President of Mexico. 1924 - The World Depression starts. Lenin, Russian Communist leader, dies. 1926 - The first talking pictures are shown in the United States.

1927 24 Feb - Joseph Brigham Tailor, Harvey's ninth child, is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1927 23 Oct - Dedication of the Arizona Temple in Mesa, Arizona.

1928 Jul - Alvaro Obregon is reelected On 17 Jul he is assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral.

1928 29 Aug - Harvey's tenth child Mary Alice Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1928 01 Dec - Emilio Portes Gil is installed as Provisional President of Mexico. On this same date Plutarco Elias Calles and friends announce the organization of the official party: Partido Nacional Republicano. (PNR)

1929 30 Nov - Pascual Ortiz Rubio is installed as the newly elected President of Mexico. 1929 - The U.S. stock market crashes.

1930 - Adolf Hitler announces the rearmament of Germany.

1931 29 Aug - Harvey's eleventh child Ethel Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chili. 1931 Apr - Antoine R. Ivins is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1932 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio resigns as President of Mexico and is replaced by Abelardo Rodriguez to finish the Obregon six-year term.

1933 19 Apr - Harvey's twelfth child Claudius Moroni Taylor is born in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua.

1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany. The New Deal begins in the U.S.

1934 01 Dec - Cardenas assumes the presidency of Mexico under the PNR six-year plan. 1934 - Harold Wilcken Pratt is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1936 Feb - Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. 1936 Jul - Beginning of the Spanish Civil War. 1936 Oct - Formation of the Berlin-Rome Axis.

1936 - The Mexican Mission headquarters are transferred from El Paso, Texas to Mexico City.

1936 - Third Convention problems in the Mexican Mission. 1936 - Plutarco Elias Calles is expelled from Mexico.

1937 14 Apr - Harvey's first wife, Mary Alice Pierce Ta lor dies in Mesa, Arizona. 1937 - Japan invades North China.

1938 - A. Lorenzo Anderson is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1938 - The PNR becomes the PRM (Partido Republicano Mexicano) in Mexico. Cardenas expropriates the foreign owned oil companies. Saturnino Cedillo rebels in San Luis Potosi and is killed.

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1938 - Penicillin is discovered by Fleming. First splitting of a uranium atom.

1939 29 Jul - Harvey marries his second wife Rhoda Clark in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1939 - Germany invades Poland and World War II begins.

1940 06 Jun - Harvey's thirteenth child and Rhoda's first, Ashton Harvey Taylor is born in El Paso, Texas.

1940 - Election of Manuel Avila Camacho, a general from Puebla, Puebla, as President of Mexico.

1940 - France falls to Germany and the Allies retreat from Dunkirk.

1941- Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt announce the Atlantic Charter. 194107 Dec - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the U.S. enters World War II. 1942 May - Arwell L. Pierce is named President of the Mexican Mission.

1942 = Fermi directs the first controlled atomic fission in Chicago, Illinois. 1943 - The Allied troops invade Italy.

1944 - D-Day, the Allied invasion of France takes place.

1945 - The following notable events occur as part of World War II: Yalta Conference, Roosevelt dies, V-E Day, the U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, V-J Day.

1945-51- George Albert Smith presides over more than one million members of the LDS Church.

1946 May - Return of the Third Conventionists to the loyal ranks of the Church in Mexico.

1946 - The PRM becomes the PRI (Partido Republicano Institucional) and Miguel Aleman is elected President of Mexico.

1947 - The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan are announced.

1948 - The first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price in Spanish is published.

1949 - NATO (Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization) is formed and Chiang Kai-shek leaves the Chinese mainland for Formosa.

1950 - The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. 1951-70 - David O. McKay presides over the LDS Church with a membership of 2 million in 1962 and 3 million in 1970.

1952 - Election of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines as President of Mexico. 1953 27 Jul - Armistice is signed in Korea.

1954 - Division of Vietnam into North and South zones.

1955 - Construction of the USS Nautilus, first atomic submarine.

1956 10 Jun - Organization of the North Mexican Mission with Joseph T. Bentley as President.

1957 01 Nov - Harvey and Rhoda assume the presidency of the Northern Mexican Mission.

1957 - Kruschev dominates Russia and the Russians launch the first artificial satellite in October.

1958 - President Claudius Bowman of the Mexican Mission, former partner of Harvey's in Taylor and Bowman, is killed in an automobile accident.

1958 - The U.S. launches its first artificial satellite in January. 1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos is elected President of Mexico.

1959 - Communist revolution in Cuba and Fidel Castro comes to power.

1960 - Organization of the LDS School System in Mexico, which includes the already existing schools in the Juarez Stake and San Marcos, Hidalgo.

1960 01 Nov - Organization of the West Mexican Mission. with Harold E. Turley as President.

1960 - A U.S. spy plane (U-2) is downed in Russia.

1961 Apr - The Russian astronaut Gagarin is the first man to orbit the earth.

196103 Dec - Organization of the Mexico City Stake with Harold Brown as President. 1962 Feb - The first American astronaut to orbit the earth is John Glenn.

1962 Jul - The Americans launch the first Telstar communications satellite.

1963 27 Mar - Organization of the Southeast Mexican Mission with Carl J. Beecroft as President.

1963 - Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbit flights.

1964 - Election of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz from Puebla, Puebla as President of Mexico. 196612 Jun - Death of Lynn Taylor in Mexico City.

1967 07 May - Organization of the Mexico City North Stake with Agricol Lozano Herrera as President.

1968 - Mexico hosts the Olympic games in Mexico City, with political problems at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Luis Echeverria Alvarez is elected President of Mexico.

1970 22 Mar - Organization of the Monterrey Stake with Guillermo Gonzalez as President.

1970 15 Nov - Organization of the Mexico City East Stake with Agricol Lozano Herrera as President.

1970-72 - Joseph Fielding Smith is President of the LDS Church and membership rises to 3.2 million.

1972 15 Mar - Death of Harvey H. Taylor in El Paso, Texas.

1972 07 May - Organization of Monterrey East Stake with Jose Humberto Gonzalez as President.

1972-73 - Harold B. Lee presides over the LDS Church and the membership increases to 3.5 million.

1973 03 Jun - Organization of the Mexico City Aragon Stake with Agricol Lozano Herrera as President.

1973 28 Oct - Organization of the Valle Hermoso Stake with Benjamin Morales as President.

1973-85 - Spencer W. Kimball presides over the LDS Church and the membership increases to 5.5 million.

1976 - Election of Jose Lopez Portillo as President of Mexico.

1977 17 Apr - Death of Elizabeth Taylor Young in Mesa, Arizona. Rhoda is there at the time.

1977 21 Dec - Death of Rhoda Clark Taylor in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1982 - Election of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado as President of Mexico. 1983 Dec - Dedication of the Mexico Temple in Mexico City, Mexico.

1985- - Ezra Taft Benson assumes the presidency of the LDS Church and by the end of 1989 the membership has increased to over 7 million.

1988 - Election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as President of Mexico.

1989 Jun - Organization of the 100th stake in Mexico (Tecalco from Chalco).

1990 Feb - Division of Colonia Juarez Stake, new stake named Colonia Dublan Stake, 95 years after the organization of the first stake. It is the 105th stake organized in Mexico. 1990 Jun 8-10 in Colonia Dublan & Jul 20-22 in Herriman, Utah - Harvey's descendants meet to honor him on the centenary of his birth. Of 13 children 12 grew to maturity, of whom 10 are living.

 

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