Telegraph introduced by Samuel Morse with the first message ("What hath God wrought?")
Telegraph introduced by Samuel Morse with the first message ("What hath God wrought?") from Baltimore to Washington.
1,461 entries in this era, shown 200 to a page. This is page 7 of 8, covering 1844 to 1846. See the same material on the moving timeline.
1844
The 1844 Church Membership 26,146
1844 Church Membership 26,146
The apostles and most other LDS
The apostles and most other LDS leaders leave Nauvoo to campaign for Joseph Smith.
The Church High Council at Kirtland
The Church High Council at Kirtland disfellowships Preserved Harris for not being generous enough with his money and property. The charges are brought by Joseph Smith.
The church's two newspapers
The church's two newspapers, TIMES AND SEASONS and NAUVOO NEIGHBOR, publish this statement by Joseph Smith about Robert D. Foster: "When riding in the stage, I have seen him put his hand in a woman's bosom, and he also lifted up her under clothes." This is in reference to one of many trips undertaken with Foster from 1840 to 1843 with whom Smith maintained good fellowship until Foster joined William Law's dissension in March 1844.
The Council of Fifty appoints Amos
The Council of Fifty appoints Amos Fielding as theocratic ambassador to England. Ambassadorial appointments to Republic of Texas, the United Stated, France, and Russia soon follow.
The day after he had exacted
The day after he had exacted a vote of confidence from the Nauvoo Saints, Brigham Young and the Quorum of Apostles begin to take firm control of the affairs of the Church by issuing a series of executive orders. On this and ensuing days they 1) appoint Bishops Newel Whitney and George Miller to assume the duties of the Trustee-in-Trust "and settle the affairs of the late Trustee"; 2) order the Nauvoo House Association to "wind up their business and report"; 3) strengthen the city police force; 4) take Amasa Lyman back into the Twelve; 5) put the Nauvoo Neighbor and the Times and Seasons under the personal management of John Taylor; 6) order that "the general superintendancies' sic direction and control of emigration from England be in the name of Brigham Young, President of the Quorum of Twelve"; 7) divid the North American Continent into administrative districts presided over by high priests under the direction of Apostles Young, Kimball, and Richards; 8) ordain that "Willard Richards continue the history of the Church and be supported"; 9) say that Lyman Wight and George Miller be allowed to take their company to Texas "if they desire to go"; 10) order an increased wage for some Temple workers; 11) decree that Nauvoo was still the place of gathering and would continue to be so; 12) urge all Saints to "proceed immediately to tithe themselves of a tenth of all their property and money…and then let them continue to pay in a tenth of their income…"; and 13) order them to have nothing to do with "politics, voting, or president making at present."
The day after the publication of the NAUVOO EXPOSITOR
The day after the publication of the NAUVOO EXPOSITOR, Mayor Joseph Smith "Made a long speech in favor of having an ordinance to suppress Libels &c. in Nauvoo and a committee was appointed to draft."
The first issue of the Nauvoo Expositor was published
The first issue of the Nauvoo Expositor was published.
The general of the Carthage militia
The general of the Carthage militia signs a secret order for a military attack against Nauvoo, with the march of forces to begin at Golden's Point at 2 p.m., June 27, 1844. In Carthage, Joseph Smith is charged with "crime of treason against the government and people of the State of Illinois aforesaid."
The last initiation in Joseph Smith's
The last initiation in Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty which nominates Sidney Rigdon as the third and final choice for Smith's vice-presidential running mate. They commission Apostle Lyman Wight and Non-Mormon Lucien Woodworth to make arrangements for a Texas settlement of Mormons. Council also votes to send Almon W. Babbit an ambassador to France.
The last initiation into Joseph Smith's
The last initiation into Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed is performed. This is probably the date Joseph ordains Lyman Wight for his Texas mission and gives him "a white stone."
The last Relief Society meeting in Nauvoo is held
The last Relief Society meeting in Nauvoo is held. The Relief Society doesn't officially meet for ten years. John Taylor later gave the reason that Joseph's wife Emma "made use of the position she held to try to pervert the minds of the sisters ."
The MADISON CITY EXPRESS says of a group of newly-arrived English converts
The MADISON CITY EXPRESS says of a group of newly-arrived English converts that they are respectable-looking mechanics and farmers "who would make good settlers if they were free of the infatuation of Mormonism."
The Nauvoo City Council declared the Nauvoo Expositor a public nuisance
The Nauvoo City Council declared the Nauvoo Expositor a public nuisance.
The Nauvoo high council releases William
The Nauvoo high council releases William Marks as stake president because he favor's Sidney Rigdon's claims.
The Presiding Patriarch publishes an announcement
The Presiding Patriarch publishes an announcement signed as "HYRUM SMITH, President of the Church."
The Prophet first published in New York City (William Smith
The Prophet first published in New York City (William Smith, editor), later succeeded by the New York Messenger.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church.
The Quorum of Twelve appoints Brigham
The Quorum of Twelve appoints Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Willard Richards to have general direction of church affairs in North America.
The Twelve Apostles are sustained as church leaders
The Twelve Apostles are sustained as church leaders.
There is no fourth-of-July celebration in Nauvoo
There is no fourth-of-July celebration in Nauvoo. William Clayton writes: "Instead of celebrating with splendor with joy we celebrate her the nation's down-fall with grief and mourn for the loss of our prophet & Patriarch & pray to God to avenge their blood speedily."
Thomas Ford Arrived in Carthage
Thomas Ford Arrived in Carthage
Thomas Ford Gave Speech to Latter-day Saints
Thomas Ford Gave Speech to Latter-day Saints
Thomas Morrison Issued Warrant for JS
Thomas Morrison Issued Warrant for JS
Through the "true order of prayer"
Through the "true order of prayer" during the regular Thursday meeting of the Anointed Quorum, "It seemed manifest" to William Marks, Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Cahoon, and William Clayton that Nauvoo's stake president William Marks should be the Trustee-in-Trust and church president. Emma Smith agrees.
Twelve Initiated Plans to Send Missionaries to Electioneer
Twelve Initiated Plans to Send Missionaries to Electioneer
Visits from Political Leaders
Visits from Political Leaders
Wilfred Woodruff History
Prophet announces candidacy for President of the United States.
Willard Richards and others discuss Joseph
Willard Richards and others discuss Joseph Smith's statement that "if he and Hyrum were taken away Samuel H. Smith Joseph's brother would be his successor."
Willard Richards, John Taylor and W.
Willard Richards, John Taylor and W. W. Phelps announce that they will await the return of the Quorum of Twelve before deciding the nature of the church's new leadership. In Boston Wilford Woodruff, unaware of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, attends the Jeffersonian Democracy Convention and nominates Joseph Smith for president of the United States and Sidney Rigdon for vice-president.
William Clayton Began Copying Council of Fifty Records
William Clayton Began Copying Council of Fifty Records
William Clayton Dug Up Council of Fifty Records
William Clayton Dug Up Council of Fifty Records
William Law and associates receive the printing press on which they plan to publish
William Law and associates receive the printing press on which they plan to publish the NAUVOO EXPOSITOR.
William Law and Others Formed New Church
William Law and Others Formed New Church
William Law Removed from First Presidency
William Law Removed from First Presidency
William Law writes in a letter:
William Law writes in a letter: "While the wicked slay the wicked I believe I can see the hand of a blasphemed God stretched out in judgment, the cries of innocence and virtue have ascended up before the throne of God, and he has taken sudden vengeance."
William Law, former counselor to Joseph
William Law, former counselor to Joseph Smith, writes in his diary: "Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman."
William, Jane, and Wilson Law Excommunicated
William, Jane, and Wilson Law Excommunicated
Writing from Washington D.C., Heber C.
Writing from Washington D.C., Heber C. Kimball describes the White House and says: "I want to see our Prophet here in the chare of States when we will come and see him. "He writes to his daughter, Helen Mar Kimball, who is a secret wife of Joseph Smith: "Be true to the covenants that you have made, keep the company of those who are wise and keep close mouths. Solomon says, 'A wise head keeps a close mouth.'"
1845
1845 edition titled Church Hymn Book
This edition was created in Liverpool, England and was compiled by F.D. Richards, O. Spencer. There were an unknown number of Hymns in this edition. At the time it was edition number 5.
A Church conference approved the decision to move west
A Church conference approved the decision to move west.
Act to Repeal Nauvoo Charter Signed into Law
Act to Repeal Nauvoo Charter Signed into Law
Administration of Ordinances Began in Nauvoo Temple
Administration of Ordinances Began in Nauvoo Temple
Almon Babbitt Conferred with Catholic Leaders
Almon Babbitt Conferred with Catholic Leaders
Amasa Lyman and Daniel Spencer's Mission to James Emmett's Company
Amasa Lyman and Daniel Spencer's Mission to James Emmett's Company
Amasa Lyman and Daniel Spencer's Return from Mission to James Emmett's Company
Amasa Lyman and Daniel Spencer's Return from Mission to James Emmett's Company
An official "clarification" appears in the TIMES AND SEASONS defining William Smith's position
An official "clarification" appears in the TIMES AND SEASONS defining William Smith's position as Patriarch TO the Church, not OVER the Church, an obvious restriction. William sees this as yet another attempt to undermine his position.
Announcement of Captains of Emigration Companies
Announcement of Captains of Emigration Companies
Approval of Annexation of Texas
Approval of Annexation of Texas
Approval of Letters to State Governors
Approval of Letters to State Governors
Approximately 5,000 members receive endowments in the Nauvoo Temple
Approximately 5,000 members receive endowments in the Nauvoo Temple.
At a meeting of the Apostles
At a meeting of the Apostles "It was decided to employ Brother Isaac Morley to make 100 barrels of wine for sacrament."
At a meeting of the Council
At a meeting of the Council of Fifty plans to move west are discussed and John Taylor writes a song beginning: "The upper California, O thats the land for me / It lies between the mountains & the great Pacific sea, / The saints can be supported there / And taste the sweets of liberty; / With flocks & herds abounding, O thats the land for me / O that's the land for me, O that's the land for me
At General Conference Brigham Young is sustained as "President of the whole Church
At General Conference Brigham Young is sustained as "President of the whole Church of Latter Day Saints," though this is edited out of the church newspaper's conference minutes.
Attack on Morley Settlement
Attack on Morley Settlement
Backenstos's Forces Disbanded
Backenstos's Forces Disbanded
Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball
Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball learn that Warren Snow and Dominicus Carter have been jailed in Quincy, Illinois, for passing counterfeit money. Bishop Joseph L. Heywood confirms that they are guilty. In Utah Snow would become a bishop and Carter a member of a stake presidency.
Brigham Young and leaders began planning an expedition to upper California
Brigham Young and leaders began planning an expedition to upper California.
Brigham Young and leaders were falsely indicted for counterfeiting
Brigham Young and leaders were falsely indicted for counterfeiting.
Brigham Young and some of the Twelve Apostles "kneeled down and he offered up
Brigham Young and some of the Twelve Apostles "kneeled down and he offered up prayers that the Lord would preserve his servants and deliver those who had been active in the mob that killed Joseph and Hyrum into our hands that they might receive their deserts."
Brigham Young and Willard Richards published the Saints' intention to leave Illinois
Brigham Young and Willard Richards published the Saints' intention to leave Illinois.
Brigham Young announces to general conference:
Brigham Young announces to general conference: "Know ye not that the millennium has commenced?" He also rules that males should be proxies for males and females for females in baptism for the dead, thus ending the gender-neutral practice of proxy ordinances.
Brigham Young commends the Nauvoo police
Brigham Young commends the Nauvoo police for beating "a man almost to death in the Temple." Young’s clerk Thomas Bullock copies a revelation received by Young "to be read next Conference." NAUVOO NEIGHBOR reports the reading on Aril 7 of a revelation "concerning blotting out the names of APOSTATES, that they may not be found upon the Church Record."
Brigham Young criticizes Nauvoo police for shooting "a good man," apparently seventeen-year-old Issac C
Brigham Young criticizes Nauvoo police for shooting "a good man," apparently seventeen-year-old Issac C. Phippen, out of "envy, hatred & malice." The official report is that this young Mormon was shot, "accidentally."
Brigham Young directs the laying of the capstone on the Nauvoo Temple
Brigham Young directs the laying of the capstone on the Nauvoo Temple. Although this is a secret ceremony a brass band plays "The Capstone March" composed specifically for the occasion. Although the capstone was laid the interior was still not completed.
Brigham Young Escaped Arrest
Brigham Young Escaped Arrest
Brigham Young History
Led the exodus to Salt Lake Valley and returned to Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Brigham Young instructs that church publications
Brigham Young instructs that church publications be copyrighted in his name as church president.
Brigham Young Issued Proclamation to Levi Williams
Brigham Young Issued Proclamation to Levi Williams
Brigham Young pays William Clayton "one
Brigham Young pays William Clayton "one hundred and fifty dollars to purchase instruments for the brass band."
Brigham Young preaches that William Law
Brigham Young preaches that William Law and Sidney Rigdon "are one in Spirit, & I do not know but when they may yet be twain in flesh."
Brigham Young receives "a respectful letter
Brigham Young receives "a respectful letter from Governor Thomas Drew in reply to our Memorial to him as governor of Arkansas; stating his inability to protect us in the state of Arkansas, and suggesting the propriety of our settling in Oregon, California, Nebraska or some other country where we will be out of the reach of our persecutors." Young's "Memorial" to Drew, sent May 1, asked, "Will it be too much to ask you to convene a special session of your State Legislature, and furnish us an asylum where we can enjoy our rights of conscience and religion unmolested?"
Brigham Young records in his journal:
Brigham Young records in his journal: "I received a letter from Charles A. Lovell, Mass., October 20th recommending us as a community to remove to California. Another from Thomas J. Farnhaus, New York, October 20th, on the same subject. Also one from Edward Warren, Boston, October 22nd portraying the Bay of San Francisco and country round as one well adapted for our location in the west."
Brigham Young writes a letter to U.S
Brigham Young writes a letter to U.S. President James K. Polk asking, "Will it be too much for us to ask you to convene a special session of congress and furnish us an asylum, where we can enjoy our rights of conscience and religion unmolested?"
Brigham Young writes to Solomon Hancock
Brigham Young writes to Solomon Hancock in Yelrome, where mobbers are burning Mormon houses, "The object of our enemies is to get opposition enough to raise popular excitement but we think it best to let them burn up our houses while we take care of our families and grain. . . . Be calm and patient till all things are ready. What is a little property or a few lives, compared with the properties and lives of a great people, and the house and ordinances on which the salvation of that people depend?"
Brigham Young's convenes the Council of Fifty
Brigham Young's convenes the Council of Fifty. They resolve "that a company of 1500 men be selected to go to Great Salt Lake valley and that a committee of five be appointed to gather information relative to emigration, and report the same to the council."
Catholic Representatives Considered Buying or Renting Church Properties
Catholic Representatives Considered Buying or Renting Church Properties
Ceremony for Placement of Last Capstone on Nauvoo Temple
Ceremony for Placement of Last Capstone on Nauvoo Temple
Church Leaders Answered Charges of Treason
Church Leaders Answered Charges of Treason
Church Leaders Continued Preparations to Leave Nauvoo
Church Leaders Continued Preparations to Leave Nauvoo
Church leaders dedicated the attic story of the Nauvoo Temple
Church leaders dedicated the attic story of the Nauvoo Temple.
Church Leaders Indicted for Counterfeiting
Church Leaders Indicted for Counterfeiting
Church Leaders Signed Letters to State Governors
Church Leaders Signed Letters to State Governors
Church Leaders' Plan for Expedition to Upper California
Church Leaders' Plan for Expedition to Upper California
Church Leaders' Request for Legal Advice Regarding Nauvoo Charter
Church Leaders' Request for Legal Advice Regarding Nauvoo Charter
Citizens at a mass meeting in Quincy
Citizens at a mass meeting in Quincy, Ill., endorsed a proposal requesting that the Saints leave Illinois as quickly as possible. The Twelve's reply reiterated the Latter-day Saints' intention to move to a remote area and asked for cooperation and an end of harassment in order to prepare for the move early the following summer.
Citizens at Quincy, Illinois endorsed a proposal for the Saints to leave
Citizens at Quincy, Illinois endorsed a proposal for the Saints to leave.
Commission Sent to Nauvoo about Saints' Offer to Leave Illinois
Commission Sent to Nauvoo about Saints' Offer to Leave Illinois
Company of Latter-day Saint Militia Occupied Carthage
Company of Latter-day Saint Militia Occupied Carthage
Congress's Approval of Annexation of Texas
Congress's Approval of Annexation of Texas
Council of Fifty Meetings Halted
Council of Fifty Meetings Halted
Council of Fifty's Vote to Emigrate to Great Salt Lake
Council of Fifty's Vote to Emigrate to Great Salt Lake
Daniel Spencer and Charles Shumway returned from their Indian Territory mission
Daniel Spencer and Charles Shumway returned from their Indian Territory mission.
Daniel Spencer and Charles Shumway's Return to Nauvoo
Daniel Spencer and Charles Shumway's Return to Nauvoo
Dedication of Nauvoo Temple Attic
Dedication of Nauvoo Temple Attic
Delegates Accept Latter-day Saints' Offer to Leave State
Delegates Accept Latter-day Saints' Offer to Leave State
Deputy Federal Marshal Delivered Writs
Deputy Federal Marshal Delivered Writs
Discussion of Finding New Home in West for Saints
Discussion of Finding New Home in West for Saints
Discussion of James Emmett's Company
Discussion of James Emmett's Company
Eight apostles, along with a few
Eight apostles, along with a few other church leaders and William Clayton, meet in Willard Richards's home to seek the help of heaven. They pray for many things, writes Clayton, but especially "that the Lord would over-rule the movements of Wm. Smith who is endeavoring to ride the Twelve down."
Election Held to Incorporate Nauvoo
Election Held to Incorporate Nauvoo
Emma Smith argues that the Nauvoo
Emma Smith argues that the Nauvoo high council is the presiding authority of the church and that William Marks is the lawful successor to her husband. She bases this on an 1835 revelation (D&C 107).
Excommunication of William Smith
Excommunication of William Smith
Federal Government Likely to Halt Latter-day Saints' Emigration
Federal Government Likely to Halt Latter-day Saints' Emigration
Final testimony in the trial of five men accused in the murders of Joseph
Final testimony in the trial of five men accused in the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
Five men tried for Joseph Smith's murder were found not guilty
Five men tried for Joseph Smith's murder were found not guilty.
General Conference's Approval of Move West
General Conference's Approval of Move West
Group Departed for Exploratory Mission to Indian Territory
Group Departed for Exploratory Mission to Indian Territory
I cant support the twelve as the first presidency, George J
I cant support the twelve as the first presidency, George J. Adams writes. "I cant do it when I know that it belongs to Josephs Son--Young Joseph who was ordained by his father before his Death." In May Adams had organized a church with Joseph Smith III as the intended president and himself as spokesman.
Illinois governor Thomas Ford ordered militia to restore peace in Hancock County
Illinois governor Thomas Ford ordered militia to restore peace in Hancock County.
Illinois governor Thomas Ford writes to Brigham Young advising him on what to do
Illinois governor Thomas Ford writes to Brigham Young advising him on what to do after the Illinois Legislature had revoked Nauvoo's city charter (a move Ford opposed). He advises separating Nauvoo into a series of separately incorporated towns. He lists the "The powers under your town charters" which include "to prevent the indecent exhibition of horses." Ford's letter also states: "If you can get off by yourselves, you may enjoy peace; but, surrounded by such neighbors, I confess that I do not see the time when you will be permitted to enjoy quiet. I was informed by General Joseph Smith last summer, that he contemplated a removal West; and from what I learned from him and others at that time, I think if he had lived he would have begun to move in the matter before this time."
In 1845 there were 84 missionaries
In 1845 there were 84 missionaries called to serve.
In Nauvoo the Nauvoo Legion marches
In Nauvoo the Nauvoo Legion marches in a parade along with the "Junior Legion" of some 250 boys who train every week during the summer of 1845; they march in white caps and pants trimmed in red.
Irvine Hodge is stabbed to death
Irvine Hodge is stabbed to death in front of Brigham Young's house, presumably by Nauvoo police officers Hosea Stout, Elbridge Tufts, and Allen J. Stout.
Jacob Backenstos Forced to Leave Carthage
Jacob Backenstos Forced to Leave Carthage
James Emmett Conferred with Church Leaders
James Emmett Conferred with Church Leaders
James H. Monroe, a convert and school teacher in Nauvoo who taught the children
James H. Monroe, a convert and school teacher in Nauvoo who taught the children of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, writes in his diary: "My time was spent, when not occupied with my school, in reading Fowler's Phrenology, a very valuable work in my estimation, and containing much information of especial benefit to me in my present capacity, as it enables me to form a better opinion of the tastes, feelings, and powers of my little protiges and thereby suggests the proper mode of education, and tells me which faculties are necessary to be cultivated. I think I must make out a chart of their heads with a description of their character as shown by the development of their organs, and then concoct a plan for their education in accordance with those principles." Four days later he complete's the phrenology chart of Joseph Smith III's head, "which was admitted to be correct by his mother "
James Polk Sworn In as New US President
James Polk Sworn In as New US President
Johathan Dunham, despondent about disobeying Joseph
Johathan Dunham, despondent about disobeying Joseph Smith's orders to rescue him from jail, commits suicide. Later disclosures indicate that Dunham, who was a captain of Nauvoo's police, major-general of the Nauvoo Legion, and a Council of Fifty member, accomplished the suicide by asking native American friend (Lewis Dana, fellow member of the Fifty) to "kill and bury him."
Joseph Smith prophecies "the entire overthrow
Joseph Smith prophecies "the entire overthrow of this nation in a few years."
Joseph Smith's former scribe and now
Joseph Smith's former scribe and now clerk William Clayton writes in his diary, "I am a perfect slave to them all the while. I have as much work to receive the tithings for the Temple as an ordinary penman could keep up with, but more than this I spend about 3 or 4 days a week in council and recording records of the kingdom Council of Fifty. . . . The church has given me a poor lot for an inheritance but they have also given other men better lots who work no harder than I do and have more money to sport in."
Last General Conference held before evacuating Nauvoo
Last General Conference held before evacuating Nauvoo.
Latter-day Saint Militia Occupied Warsaw
Latter-day Saint Militia Occupied Warsaw
Letter to Brigham Young on Nauvoo Charter Repeal
Letter to Brigham Young on Nauvoo Charter Repeal
Lorenzo Snow returns to Nauvoo and brings tithing he has collected consisting of money
Lorenzo Snow returns to Nauvoo and brings tithing he has collected consisting of money and in-kind donations including a six-pound cannon.
Lucy Mack Smith is the first
Lucy Mack Smith is the first woman to speak at general conference. Church authorities do not invite another woman to address conference for 143 years.
Lucy Mack Smith obtains a copyright
Lucy Mack Smith obtains a copyright on her manuscript for her history of Joseph Smith and his progenitors. Seven years later Orson Pratt has the manuscript published in Liverpool England after many changes which include inserting Joseph Smiths account of the First Vision which was not mentioned in the original manuscript.
Lyman Wight led a group to investigate settlement in Texas
Lyman Wight led a group to investigate settlement in Texas.
Lyman Wight's Company Began Trek to Texas
Lyman Wight's Company Began Trek to Texas
Lyman Wight's Company Left for Texas
Lyman Wight's Company Left for Texas
Major Warren of the Illinois Militia
Major Warren of the Illinois Militia states in Nauvoo "that when he came in with his troops on Saturday he had writs against the Twelve for 'treason' but he considered it unjust to serve them, he considered that if the Twelve were to be harassed with writs, this people could not get away in the spring…"
Mary Gout was sealed to Lewis
Mary Gout was sealed to Lewis Dana a Lamanite by B. Young--being the first Lamanite having a Wife sealed to him under the New & Everlasting Covenant for Time & all eternity--she being a White Woman, he being the first native American elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--having been an Elder about four years.
Meeting to Discuss Response to Loss of Nauvoo Charter
Meeting to Discuss Response to Loss of Nauvoo Charter
Men on Trial for JS's Murder Found Not Guilty
Men on Trial for JS's Murder Found Not Guilty
Missionaries to Travel to Grand Council of American Indian Leaders
Missionaries to Travel to Grand Council of American Indian Leaders
Missionaries' Arrival at Indian Territory
Missionaries' Arrival at Indian Territory
Municipal Elections Held in Nauvoo
Municipal Elections Held in Nauvoo
Nauvoo charter revoked
The Illinois legislature repeals the Nauvoo charter, dissolving the city government and militia and making departure inevitable.
NAUVOO NEIGHBOR reports the first suicide
NAUVOO NEIGHBOR reports the first suicide by a Mormon woman. She slit her throat with a straight-edged razor "in a state of mental aberration."
NAUVOO NEIGHBOR reports: "On Saturday last
NAUVOO NEIGHBOR reports: "On Saturday last a large number of persons partook of a feast of melons, round a table 87 feet long, in the attic story of the Temple."
Nauvoo police "had to flog" three
Nauvoo police "had to flog" three uninvited men in an open-air "business meeting" of the church. Later the police post "a guard below the City to prevent any person from going in or out to correspond with the mob."
Nauvoo Police Chief Hosea Stout writes:
Nauvoo Police Chief Hosea Stout writes: "went with Brother Harmon and Horr to see a boy look in a 'peep stone,' for some money which he said he could see hid up in the ground. He would look and we would dig but he found no money; he said it would move as we approached it."
Nauvoo Police Force Reinstated
Nauvoo Police Force Reinstated
New Nauvoo Charter Approved
New Nauvoo Charter Approved
Newly Baptized Mohawk Indians' Mission to Indian Territory
Newly Baptized Mohawk Indians' Mission to Indian Territory
Nine accused murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith acquitted
Nine accused murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith acquitted.
Offer of Peace Extended to Church Leaders
Offer of Peace Extended to Church Leaders
Opponent of Saints Killed by Orrin Porter Rockwell
Opponent of Saints Killed by Orrin Porter Rockwell
Organization of Ecclesiastical Police Force
Organization of Ecclesiastical Police Force
Peace Commissioners' Meeting with Church Leaders
Peace Commissioners' Meeting with Church Leaders
Portion of Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
Portion of Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
Proclamation Issued Denouncing Attacks on Latter-day Saints
Proclamation Issued Denouncing Attacks on Latter-day Saints
Proclamation Issued Stating Peace Had Been Restored
Proclamation Issued Stating Peace Had Been Restored
Proposal for Latter-day Saint Reservation in Wisconsin Territory
Proposal for Latter-day Saint Reservation in Wisconsin Territory
Public Meeting Accepted Latter-day Saints' Offer to Leave State
Public Meeting Accepted Latter-day Saints' Offer to Leave State
Reorganization of Council of Fifty
Reorganization of Council of Fifty
Reorganization of Nauvoo House Association
Reorganization of Nauvoo House Association
Repeal of Nauvoo Charter
Repeal of Nauvoo Charter
Request for Legal Advice from Thomas Ford Regarding Nauvoo Charter
Request for Legal Advice from Thomas Ford Regarding Nauvoo Charter
Saints gathered in the Nauvoo Temple's first-floor assembly room
Saints gathered in the Nauvoo Temple's first-floor assembly room.
Samuel Bent to Visit Lyman Wight's Company
Samuel Bent to Visit Lyman Wight's Company
Senate Tabled Bill to Approve New Nauvoo Charter
Senate Tabled Bill to Approve New Nauvoo Charter
Several officers-of-the-law attend a meeting in Nauvoo
Several officers-of-the-law attend a meeting in Nauvoo. "Elder John Taylor gave them to understand that if they made an attempt to serve writs on him it would cost them their lives, . . ."
Sheriff Assaulted by Opponent of Saints
Sheriff Assaulted by Opponent of Saints
Sidney Rigdon publishes an editorial: "Nauvoo
Sidney Rigdon publishes an editorial: "Nauvoo is a sink of corruption, Deception in its most forbidding forms, is resorted to by them, to make people think they are different from what they are in truth. They deny, or attempt to deny, the existence of the very doctrine on which they pretend that their exaltation depends. . . . A true saint would publish his faith to the world, though he would suffer death for it; and rejoice in the thought that he suffered death for Christ's sake. . . . Has it come to this, that men must lie, defame, and slander, in order to sustain the religion of Jesus Christ?"
Sidney Rigdon's supporters in Pittsburgh publicly
Sidney Rigdon's supporters in Pittsburgh publicly sustain him as "first president of the church" which is formally organized as a new "Church of Christ" on April 6, 1845.
Skirmish between Latter-day Saint Militia and Opposing Forces
Skirmish between Latter-day Saint Militia and Opposing Forces
Some 5,000 members received their endowments
Some 5,000 members received their endowments in the yet-to-be-finished Nauvoo Temple prior to their exodus from Nauvoo.
Some five thousand members received endowments in the Nauvoo Temple
Some five thousand members received endowments in the Nauvoo Temple.
State Militia to Restore Peace in Hancock County
State Militia to Restore Peace in Hancock County
Statement Issued Declaring Saints' Intentions to Leave State
Statement Issued Declaring Saints' Intentions to Leave State
Texas Became State
Texas Became State
That evening the Twelve and others
That evening the Twelve and others meet at John Taylor's: "The subject of the United States endeavoring to prevent our removal West by taking out U.S. writs for the Council of Fifty was talked over and plans devised to defeat them in case they undertake to do it."
The 1845 Church Membership 30,332
1845 Church Membership 30,332
The Church began administering the endowment in the Nauvoo Temple
The Church began administering the endowment in the Nauvoo Temple.
The Council of Fifty decides it is "best for those who are hunted
The Council of Fifty decides it is "best for those who are hunted with writs to go on Missions."
The Council of Fifty sent a delegation west to find a new home
The Council of Fifty sent a delegation west to find a new home.
The Council of Fifty voted to organize emigration companies westward
The Council of Fifty voted to organize emigration companies westward.
The Council of the Twelve Apostles
The Council of the Twelve Apostles announce publicly that the Saints intended to leave Illinois.
The Doctrine and Covenants first published in England (Liverpool) by Wilford Woodruff
The Doctrine and Covenants first published in England (Liverpool) by Wilford Woodruff.
The Illinois Legislature repealed the city charter of Nauvoo
The Illinois Legislature repealed the city charter of Nauvoo. May — The nine accused murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith were acquitted upon instructions of the court.
The Nauvoo charter was repealed by the Illinois legislature
The Nauvoo charter was repealed by the Illinois legislature.
The Nauvoo Neighbor ceases publication
The Nauvoo Neighbor ceases publication.
The New York Messenger (successor to The Prophet) begins publication (Parley P
The New York Messenger (successor to The Prophet) begins publication (Parley P. Pratt, editor).
The Prophet ceases publication (Parley P
The Prophet ceases publication (Parley P. Pratt, last editor).
The Quorum of Twelve ordains Apostle
The Quorum of Twelve ordains Apostle William Smith as Patriarch to the Church. By necessity he is the first Presiding Patriarch ordained by apostolic authority, rather than by the patriarchal ordination within the Smith family.
The trial of five men accused
The trial of five men accused of the murder of Joseph Smith begins in Carthage, Illinois. Judge Richard M. Young begins by empanelling a 23-man Grand Jury which contains nine Mormons including the foreman Daniel Spencer. He then empanels two "petit juries" of 24 men each. The first contains ten Mormons and the second eleven. Upon defense motion the juries are discharged and new juries chosen from men present at the trial. Since Mormon leaders instructed them to keep away from the trial there are only four Mormons among the 96 potential jurors and no Mormons on the final twelve-man jury.
The Twelve appoint the next Thursday
The Twelve appoint the next Thursday (third week of the month) "as a day of public FASTING AND PRAYER to Almighty God." In August, it was the second Thursday, and Thursday remained fast-day for Utah Mormons until the 1890's.
Thomas Ford Suggested that Saints Settle in Mexican California
Thomas Ford Suggested that Saints Settle in Mexican California
Three bishops instruct the high priests
Three bishops instruct the high priests of Nauvoo’s 5th Ward that if some members did not reform "they would at once discover themselves in the hands of Aunt Peggy and take leave of absence."
Trial begins in Carthage
Trial begins in Carthage, Illinois of five men charged with the murder of Joseph Smith. All are acquitted.
Warning of Possible Federal Intervention in Latter-day Saints' Departure
Warning of Possible Federal Intervention in Latter-day Saints' Departure
Welsh mission is created
Welsh mission is created
While on a mission in England
While on a mission in England Apostle Wilford Woodruff dreams "a rattle snake bit me on the ancle. I pulled him off squoze him to death & much poison came out of his mouth. The interpretation is when we arrive in Edinborough I shall be opposed by the presiding elder for appointing Br Banks to preside over that branch of the Church & conference."
Wilford Woodruff, while on a mission
Wilford Woodruff, while on a mission in England, has the following dream: " I was in company with a number of the Twelve & other Brethren. I thought I had Just returned to Nauvoo from my English mission. We met with Br Joseph Smith the Prophet. I shook hands with him And asked him if he & his family were well. He said they were. I Thought the endowment had been given & he was counciling us about taking a mission abroad some portion of the time. While talkinghe sat in a Chair & leaned upon my breast. He said he was going to take a mission to India & pointed out the man to go with him but I cannot now call him by name. G. A. Smith asked liberty of Joseph to become better acquainted with me or to spend more time with me that we might be prepared to take a mission together. It was granted him. O Pratt had his mission appointed I do not know whare. Lyman Wight was spoken of. Do not recollect what was said. We had an interesting time together. All seemed happy to once more see the Prophet."
William Smith preaches in favor of "spiritual wifery," to which John Taylor gives
William Smith preaches in favor of "spiritual wifery," to which John Taylor gives an immediate rebuttal. William's niece Mary (orphaned daughter of Samuel Smith) later writes: "He was ordered to discontinue his discourses, but he did not obey orders." His relatives helped build wooden seates to accommodate a crowd near his house. On the first Sunday "every seat in that grove had been fouled with outhouse refuse." Within months his mother Lucy Mack Smith would angrily tell James J.Strang's followers about this incident.
With a jury finally seated the trial of the murderers of Joseph Smith begins
With a jury finally seated the trial of the murderers of Joseph Smith begins in Carthage, Illinois.
1846
12,000 Mormons who evacuated Nauvoo are on the road with 3,700 wagon teams across
12,000 Mormons who evacuated Nauvoo are on the road with 3,700 wagon teams across Iowa.
1846 edition titled Manchester Hymnal
This date is an estimate. This edition was created in Liverpool, England and was compiled by Orson Spencer. There were 283 Hymns in this edition. At the time it was edition number 6.