Today In Mormon History

Pres[iden]t. Lund reported that on Sunday the First Presidency met in the Beehive House, on which occasion Sister Emmeline B. Wells was set ...

[Heber J. Grant to Joseph F. Smith] .... A Tribune came to the office the other day and never have I read anything like the vile attack o...

Prest. John Taylor gave us some excellent advice in regard to the liberties of other men not of our faith and that we should protect them an...

[Franklin D. Richards] Council at 2'-John Henry Smith opened & F[ranklin]. D. R[ichards]. prayed at alter. Form for prayer & ...

He [Heber C. Kimball] said He had some wives who had never been subjet to his Council & will. Yet He took good Care of them & treate...

This was a pleasant morning, and many persons were early at the Temple to receive their washings and anointings. ... After the labors of the...

[Joseph Smith] Description of Paul the Apostle Public Speaking World and Earth Earth Formed from other Planets Phreno...

Joseph Smith organizes the Nauvoo Lyceum where men could give presentations on theology "for the benefit of the Elders who are calculat...

Joseph Smith writes in his diary: "Attended Hebrew School [and] divided them into classes. Had some debate with Elder Orson Pratt. He m...

Oliver Cowdery and fellow-missionaries arrived in Jackson County, Missouri, where they commenced their mission among the Lamanites on its we...

In a letter the First Presidency requested that local Priesthood and Auxiliary leaders reserve one day a month when no Church duties would b...

Article 3 Section 1 [of the Utah State constitution]: The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States ...

Democratic president Grover Cleveland proclaims Utah as a state. Only two members of U.S. House of Representatives voted against enabling ac...

[Francis M. Lyman] .... President Grover Cleveland signed the proclamation giving Statehood to Utah. This is a glorious event which the P...

[John Henry Smith] In the evening I went to the City Council. ... After regular business we agreed by vote to sustain Justice Pyper in b...

Attended County Court to day[.] The cases of Henry Shenk as principal and Phillip George as accessary before & after the fact in a charg...

[Joseph Fielding] 1846, January 4. Since the death of Joseph and Hyrum, the building of the [Nauvoo] temple has gone on rapidly and contr...

No public meeting was held in the Temple this day, on account of the floor being not stiff enough to support so large a company as would hav...

Joseph Smith and associates begin their first day of "Hebrew School." However they receive a message from the teacher they had hir...

Because of increasing numbers of missions, those called to foreign-language missions begin reporting directly to the Language Training Missi...