Joseph Smith Jr. timeline
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more