165 years ago today - Sep 17, 1846

[Joseph Smith] Mobs drive remaining Mormons from Illinois after a week of artillery bombardment in the so-called Battle of Nauvoo.

[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]