Today In Mormon History

[Mark Hofmann] County Attorney's office releases 600-page transcript of interviews its staff conducted with prisoner Hofmann. Hofmann co...

Orson Pratt and Henry G. Sherwood began the first survey in Salt Lake City. It is completed three weeks later. [Source: On This Day in Mo...

The corner stone of St. Mark's hospital, near the Warm Springs, Salt Lake City, was laid. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

Brigham Young marries Sarah Delight Stocking, who had turned nineteen three days earlier, to fifty-year old Wilford Woodruff. This is Woodru...

A telegram was received from Brother Anthony W. Ivins this morning, stating that four hundred of our people in Mexico had already crossed th...

The Millennial Star (England) republishes the available text of the Book of Abraham, facsimiles included. [Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon M...

Nine persons were baptized in the River Ribble at Preston, England, the first converts to the Church in Great Britain. By December, there we...

25,000 people pass by John Taylor's body as it lies in state in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. At the funeral a letter written a decade previ...

152 members of the Mormon Battalion (discharged early due to illness) arrive in Salt Lake Valley accompanied by wives, children and 47 Missi...

SANGAMO JOURNAL editorializes: "We do not know what course will be pursued by Mr. [Orson] Pratt. If he sinks under the denunciations an...

[Lucy Mack Smith] Eliza R. Snow becomes a plural wife of Joseph Smith. [Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Cri...

During civil unrest in Mexico, thousands of Latter-day Saints flee the LDS settlements in northern Mexico. [Source: The Woodland Institut...

[Mark Hofmann] Hofmann shows Ashworth the letter of Lucy Mack Smith to Mary Pierce, dated 23 January 1829. They agree to have Dean Jessee ch...

Joseph Smith ordains Sidney Rigdon to the high priesthood "the Second time" after he had "repented like Peter of old." R...

[Lucy Mack Smith] Birth of Catharine. [Source: Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised...

[Joseph Smith] Joseph stays at home until night and then leaves Kirtland and travels 30 miles to Ashtabula, Ohio. [Source: Conkling, Chri...

Another revelation is given by Joseph Smith on polygamy. The text is available but is not canonized or officially published. In the revelati...

Nauvoo Restoration, Inc., founded. [Source: Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scriptur...

[Brigham Young Discourse] '-followed by President Brigham Young. -- Salt Lake City [Journal History of the Church, Selected Collections ...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] July 25 Sunday This is the first Sunday that the Latter Day Saints ever spent in the great /salt Lake val...