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Spring 1820
The First Vision -
Sep 22, 1827
Joseph Smith receives gold plates -
May 15, 1829
Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery receive Aaronic Priesthood -
Jun 1829
The Book of Mormon translation is complete -
Apr 6, 1830
Church is organized -
Aug 3, 1831
Joseph Smith dedicates the temple site at Independence, Missouri -
May 8, 1834
Zion's Camp -
Mar 27, 1836
Kirtland Temple dedicated -
Jul 20, 1837
The first mission in the church in the British Isles -
Oct 27, 1838
Gov. Boggs issued an order to exterminate or expel the saints from Missouri.
Joseph Smith and others were made prisoners of the Militia. -
Apr 25, 1839
Commerce, Ill. (Nauvoo) was selected as the gathering place for the Church -
Jun 27, 1844
Joseph & Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois -
Dec 10, 1845 - Feb. 7, 1846
Some 5,000 members received their endowments
in the yet to be finished Nauvoo Temple -
Feb 4, 1846
The Mormon Migration from Nauvoo began -
Jul 13, 1846 - July 16, 1847
The Mormon Batallion -
Feb 14, 1853
Brigham Young broke ground for the Salt Lake Temple