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Joseph Smith Jr.

Joseph Smith Jr. Events

1805 Dec 23 Joseph Smith Jr. Is Born
Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his y...
1826 Joseph Smith Jr. Is Put On Trial As A 'Disorderly Person'
The evidence from published accounts and public records seem to allow one to be fairly certain in concluding that JS was detained and brought before Judge Neely under the disorderly perso...
1827 Jan 18 Joseph Smith Jr. Elopes With Emma Hale
Emma first met her future husband, Joseph Smith, Jr., in 1825. Smith lived near Palmyra, New York, but boarded with the Hales in Harmony while he was employed in a company of men hoping t...
1829 Apr 5 Joseph Smith Jr. Meets Oliver Cowdery
Cowdery met Joseph Smith, Jr. on April 5, 1829, (one year and a day before the official founding of the church) and heard from him how he had received the golden plates containing ancient...
1830 Mar 26 Book Of Mormon Is Published
In late March of 1830, the first copies of the Book of Mormon were published, and the first official missionary work began, as Joseph Smith instructed his brother, Samuel Harrison Smith, ...
1831 Jan Joseph Smith Jr. Moves To Kirtland, Ohio
As the nation's population westered to more distant frontiers, Joseph decided to move his church from its New York origins to northern Ohio and the community of Kirtland Mills. This strat...
1836 Mar 27 Joseph Smith Jr. Dedicates The Kirtland Temple
The historic building stands on a hill south of the east fork of the Chagrin River, about three miles southeast of Willoughby, Ohio, and about nine miles southwest of Painesville, about s...
1836 Nov 2 The Mormon Community Forms The Kirtland Safety Society
A bank illegally organized by Joseph Smith and other LDS leaders in 1836, The Kirtland Safety Society, failed in November 1837, loosing “a hornet's nest. Creditors swarmed in upon J...
1838 Aug 6
to 1838 Nov 1
 Missouri Mormon War
In August of 1838, Mormons attempting to vote in the town of Gallatin in Daviess County were attacked and kept from the polls. A man named William P. Penniston, who was a local judge, led...
1839 May Joseph Smith Jr. Settles In Nauvoo, Illinois
In 1839 Joseph Smith and his followers, the Mormons, settled in this area after they were forced out of Missouri by religious persecution. The Mormons were granted a very liberal charter ...
1840 The Nauvoo Legion Is Formed
The Nauvoo Legion. Joseph was determined that the Saints should never again be at the mercy of their enemies as they had been in Missouri, which is why he made sure that the Nauvoo charte...
1841 Apr 5 Joseph Smith Jr. Marries Louisa Beaman
Joseph and Louisa were married on April 5, 1841, “in a grove Near Main Street in the City of Nauvoo, The Prophet Joseph dictating the ceremony and Br Nobles repeating it after him.”, reme...
1844 Joseph Smith Jr. Runs For President Of The United States Of America
The first Mormon to seek the White House was also the first Mormon -- Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Mormon Church, whose 1844 presidential campaign is historically notable not only...
1844 Jun 7 The Newspaper 'The Nauvoo Expositor' Publishes Its Only Issue
On June 7, 1844, William Law, a disaffected Mormon, published the first and only edition of the Nauvoo Expositor. It described in lurid prose all the evil things Joseph and other leaders ...
1844 Jun 27 Joseph Smith Jr. Is Killed
In the History of the Church the following account is given concerning Joseph Smith's death: 'Immediately there was a little rustling at the outer door of the jail, and a cry of surren...