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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY

OF

THE HISTORY OF THE MORMONS.

1801. June 1. Birth of Brigham Young.

1805. December 23. Birth of Joseph Smith.

1820. March. Effect of a revival on Joseph Smith's mind.

April. Joseph Smith's first vision.

1823. September 21. An angel reveals to Joseph the existence of the plates.

September 22. Joseph visits the place where the plates were hidden.

1827. January 18. Joseph marries Emma Hale.

September 22. An angel delivers the plates to Joseph.

1828. July. Martin Harris takes away 116 pages of the translation. 1829. April. Joseph resumes the translation with Cowdery as secretary. May 15. St. John the Baptist ordains Joseph.

1830. The translation finished and published.

April 6. Institution and organization of the Mormon Church.
July. The Prophet's wife is, by a special revelation, to be styled

Daughter of God, Lady of Election.

August. Conversion of Parley P. Pratt.

September 19. Baptism of Orson Pratt.

December. Sidney Rigdon visits the Prophet.

1831. January. Joseph visits Kirtland, Rigdon's birth-place.

February 9. God commands the Elders to go forth in pairs and

preach.

1831. June 6. The order of Melchizedek is conferred on the Elders.

August 2. New Zion is founded at Independence.

September. Joseph opens a bank at Kirtland.

1832. March 25. Joseph tarred and feathered by his enemies. April. Joseph visits his flock in Missouri.

14. Brigham Young baptized.

1833. January 22. Gift of tongues conferred.

March 18. Presidency of the Church instituted.

July. Inhabitants of Missouri rise against the Mormons.
October 31. Ten Mormon houses destroyed by the populace.

November and December. The Mormons persecuted fly to Clay

county.

1834. February 26. Joseph levies an armed force against Missouri.

May 5. Marches on Missouri with 150 Mormons.

June 23-24. Cholera breaks out in Joseph's army.

July 9. Joseph returns to Kirtland.

1835. February 21. First meeting of the Council of the twelve Apostles.

March. Opening of the School of the Prophets.

July. Joseph obtains the papyri of Abraham.

1836. January 4. Hebrew professorship at Kirtland. March 24. Dedication of the Temple at Kirtland. June 29. Mormons driven from Clay county.

August. Retire upon Carrol, Davies, and Caldwell.

1837. June 13. Kimball and Orson Hyde set out to convert England.

November. Bank at Kirtland breaks.

1838. January 12. Joseph steals away to Missouri.

March 14. His arrival there.

July. Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer excommunicated.

Kimball and O. Hyde return from England.

Apostasy of Orson Hyde, Phelps, and others.

August 6. Troubles in Galatin on account of the elections.

September. Riots and bloodshed in Missouri.

October 30. Massacre at Hawn's Mill by the American militia.