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Joseph Smith, a prophet, saw the First Vision in a grove of trees in Palmyra and Manchester Townships, New York, near his home -
Joseph Smith is visited by the angel of Moroni and is told the book of Mormon. He views the golden plates that are buried in a nearby hill. -
Married in South Bainbridge, New York. -
Obtains the golden plates by the angel Moroni at Hill Cumorah. -
Joseph Smith completed the translation of the Book of Mormon based on the golden plates. The Three Witnesses and Eight Witnesses were shown the golden plates. -
The first copies of the translated Book of Mormon were published in Palmyra, New York. -
The first church was organized in Fayette Township, New York. -
The first missionaries preached to the American Indians. -
In December 1830, Joseph Smith received a revelation in which the Lord commanded the Saints living in New York to gather in Ohio. -
The Lord designated Independence, Missouri, as the center place of Zion where a temple will be built. The land of Zion was consecrated and dedicated for the gathering of the Saints. -
Conference of elders decided to print 10,000 copies of what was to be the Book of Commandments, a compilation of revelations received by the Prophet Joseph Smith. -
A conference in Amherst, Ohio, sustained Joseph Smith as President of the High Priesthood. -
A mob destroyed the printing office in Independence, Missouri, stopping the publication of the Book of Commandments. -
Saints began fleeing from mobs in Jackson County, Missouri, across the Missouri River and into Clay County. -
Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple. Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared and conveyed priesthood keys. -
Heber C. Kimball and six others arrived in Liverpool, England, on the Church’s first mission outside of the United States and Canada. -
The name of the Church was established by revelation as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. -
The Prophet Joseph Smith and others were imprisoned in Liberty Jail, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. -
Female Relief Society organized, Nauvoo, Illinois. -
Church conference sustained Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as leaders of the Church, Nauvoo, Illinois. -
The first wagons crossed the Mississippi River from Nauvoo on their way west to the Great Basin. -
President Brigham Young entered Salt Lake Valley. -
Perpetual Emigrating Fund was established to assist poor Saints in gathering to Utah. -
The Book of Mormon is published in Danish, becoming the first non-English edition. -
The plural marriage was officially announced as a Church practice, though many members had been practicing plural marriage since the 1840s in Nauvoo, Illinois. -
Latter-day Saint men in southern Utah Territory killed most members of a company of Arkansas immigrants traveling to California in a crime known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. -
Latter-day Saint women form the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Society to promote reform in eating, housekeeping, and habits of dress. -
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association organized the forerunner of Young Men program. -
Brigham Young Academy, the forerunner of Brigham Young University, was founded in Provo, Utah Territory. -
Relief Society opened the Deseret Hospital, the first Church hospital, in Salt Lake City. -
First general Relief Society meeting held in Salt Lake City. -
The 1890 Manifesto is a statement that officially advised against any future plural marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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In a letter addressed to Saints in the Netherlands, the First Presidency advised European Saints to not gather to Utah but to build up the Church in their home countries.
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The Church announces the affiliation of its program for young men with the Boy Scouts of America. -
President Joseph F. Smith received the vision of the redemption of the dead. -
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir started a weekly network radio broadcast on NBC, later known as “Music and the Spoken Word,” that became the longest continuing network radio broadcast in history. -
General Conference celebrated the centennial of the Church’s organization. -
Instituted to assist poor during Great Depression; became Church welfare program. -
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President Spencer W. Kimball announced the reorganization of the First Quorum of the Seventy. -
Two revelations were added to the Pearl of Great Price. In 1981, they were moved. -
The First Presidency announced that all worthy males, without regard to race, could henceforth hold the priesthood. -
The LDS edition of the King James Bible included study aids. -
Church members in the United States and Canada began meeting on Sundays in a consolidated meeting schedule, with sacrament meetings, Sunday School, and auxiliary meetings all held in a three-hour block.
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President Spencer W. Kimball outlined the three major elements of the mission of the Church: proclaim the gospel, perfect the Saints, and redeem the dead.
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New editions of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine, and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price were published in English. -
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“The Family: A Proclamation to the World” from the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles was announced at the General Relief Society Meeting. -
Area Authorities would now be ordained Seventies. Third, Fourth, and Fifth Quorums of the Seventy were also announced.
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The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve issued the document “The Living Christ.” -
The 100-millionth copy of the Book of Mormon was published.
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President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of the Perpetual Education Fund, designed to provide young adults in the Church with support and resources to receive education and gain better employment.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to a worldwide audience of 3.5 billion people. -
Mexico became the first country outside the United States to reach 1 million members of the Church.
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The Church commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. -
