-- May 23, 2000
LDS Family History Library Catalog becomes available on CD-ROM allowing users to view the Family History Library's extensive collection to select searchable resources before traveling to a local Family History Center. (1)
-- 2000 4-Jun
[Hinckley] Dedicated Montreal Quebec Temple (2)
-- Jun 4, 2000
Montreal Quebec Temple; Location: Longueuil, Quebec, Canada; Announcement: 6 August 1998; Dedication: 4 June 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
San Jose Costa Rica Temple; Location: San Jose, Costa Rica; Announcement: 17 March 1999; Dedication: 4 June 2000 by James E. Faust; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
-- 2000 11-18 June
[Hinckley] Dedicated Fukuoka Japan Temple (June 11), Adelaide Australia Temple (June 15), Melbourne Australia Temple (June 16) and Suva Fiji Temple (June 18), the first time in Church history a president has ever dedicated four overseas temples in one trip (2)
-- Jun 11, 2000
Fukuoka Japan Temple; Location: Fukuoka, Japan; Announcement: 7 May 1998; Dedication: 11 June 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
-- Jun 15, 2000
Adelaide Australia Temple; Location: Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia; Announcement: 17 March 1999; Dedication: 15 June 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
-- Jun 16, 2000
Melbourne Australia Temple; Location: Knox, Victoria, Australia; Announcement: 30 October 1998; Dedication: 16 June 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
-- Jun 18, 2000
Merida Mexico Temple; Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; Announcement: 25 September 1998; Dedication: 18 June 2000 by Thomas S. Monson; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
Suva Fiji Temple; Location: Suva, Fiji; Announcement: 7 May 1998; Dedication: 18 June 2000 by Gordon B. Hinckley; Style: Classic modern, single-spire design (3)
-- Jun 21, 2000
Church announced that Ricks College would become a four-year institution and be renamed Brigham Young University-Idaho. (4)
The Church announces that Ricks College, a Church-run junior college in Rexburg, Idaho, will become a four-year university by the end of 2001. (5)
[Hinckley] Announced that the two-year Ricks College will begin phasing into a four-year institution to be known as Brigham Young University-Idaho (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
2 - LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president
3 - Wikipedia, List of Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_temples_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints#List_of_temples
4 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
5 - Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)
Mormon History Timeline /Chronology
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
