LDS Church History

-- 1859 Church Membership at end of year: 57,038 New Converts : 1,283 Percent Change from previous year: 2.30% (1) [Deseret] On June 19 th...

-- Jun 26, 1858 [Utah War] The Army marched through Salt Lake City which they found had been abandoned by the Mormons. They passed through S...

-- Apr 24, 1858-25 [Utah War] Gov. Cumming, responding to the popular notion of extreme tyranny in Utah, offered to assist those who "c...

-- During 1857 [OREGON TRAIL] Indian wars do what cholera could not and keep emigration down to only 5000 each year. Travel changes with the...

-- Nov 6, 1857 [Utah War] Col. Johnston began moving the Army to winter near the Mormon outpost of Fort Bridger. That night more than 500 an...

-- Sep 14, 1857 [Deseret] Mormon leader Brigham Young tried to prevent U.S. troops from entering the territory of Utah, when President James...

-- Aug 13, 1857 [Utah War] Brigham Young sent Samuel W. Richards from SLC to Philadelphia to enlist the help of a friend of the Mormons, Tho...

-- Jul 13, 1857 [U.S. Religious History] President James Buchanon selected Alfred Cumming to replace Brigham Young as governor for the terri...

-- May 13, 1857 Parley P. Pratt murdered in Arkansas. (1) Apostle Parley P. Pratt is murdered by Hector McLean and two others near Van Buren...

-- During 1856 Salt Lake City, Utah, replaces Fillmore, Utah, as the capitol of the Utah territory. (1) [Lucy Mack Smith] Orson Pratt serves...

-- During 1856, October Willie and Martin handcart companies detained by early snowstorms. Found by rescue party from Salt Lake Valley. (1) ...

-- May 14, 1856 [Lucy Mack Smith] Lucy dies on the Smith farm just outside Nauvoo. (1) -- May 25, 1856 The Ship 'Thornton' leaves Li...

-- Oct 29, 1855 The First Presidency of the Church, in their General Epistle, proposed, for the Saints who should emigrate by the P. E. Fund...

-- During 1854-56 [John Taylor] Serves a mission in New York, where he superintends the affairs of the Church in the eastern states. Publish...

-- Feb 4, 1854 [Lucy Mack Smith] Lucy dictates a letter to her grandson Joseph III, giving Orson Pratt permission to publish her manuscript ...

-- 1853 Church Membership at end of year: 64,154 New Converts : 11,514 Percent Change from previous year: 21.87% (1) [Deseret] Captain Joh...

-- Mar 19, 1853 [Lucy Mack Smith] Babbitt again passes through St. Louis, en route to Salt Lake City, having sold the manuscript to Orson Pr...

-- 29-Nov 30, 1852 [Lucy Mack Smith] Lucy, in Nauvoo with Emma, enjoys a visit from Perrigrine Sessions. (1) -- During Nov. 1852 [Lucy Mack ...

-- During 1851 [Lucy Mack Smith] Lucy, Mary, and the Millikins move to Fountain Green, Illinois. (1) [Mormon Tabernacle Choir] The first, or...

-- Aug 1, 1851, the first kiln of earthenware was burned at the Deseret Pottery located near Emigration Canyon. (1) -- During Fall 1851 [Luc...