1834 – The Prophet Joseph Smith and several other elders leave Kirtland, Ohio, on short-term missions to northeastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western New York to recruit members for Zion’s Camp and the redemption and restoration of the Saints in Missouri.
1843 – The Prophet Joseph’s mother, Lucy Mack Smith, was very ill, and the Prophet records that “I nursed her with my own hands” (History of the Church, 5:290).
1844 – The Mayor of Nauvoo, Joseph Smith, held court at his home in Nauvoo, Illinois. Orsimus F. Botswick was charged with slandering Hyrum Smith concerning him and certain females of Nauvoo. Botswick was fined $50 and costs, but his attorney, Francis M. Higbee, gave notice that he was going to appeal. The Prophet told him “what I thought of him for trying to carry such a suit to Carthage—it was to stir up the mob and bring them upon us” (History of the Church, 6:225).
1845 – “Martha’s [Hiram and Mary’s 2nd child] earliest memories were going to visit grandmother, Lucy Mack Smith, and of sitting on a little stool by her side; of seeing their pet dog Tige go the store with a note in a basket and come back with whatever her grandmother had sent for…” (Source: Corbett, D. C., (1974) Mary Fielding Smith, Daughter of Britain; Page 131. Deseret Book Company.)
1846 – Brigham Young met in council with Orson Pratt, John Taylor, and Willard Richards in his tent at Sugar Creek Camp. They decided to write the governor of Iowa to ascertain his views on the Saints stopping on public land and raising a crop during the coming season. Extremely cold weather.
1852 – The Malta Mission is organized.
1989 – President Gordon B. Hinckley, First Counselor in the First Presidency, speaks at the Church’s first fireside broadcast by satellite for single-adult members.
1995 – The first stake in Singapore, the Singapore Singapore Stake, is organized.
1996 – The Church announces that Latter-day Saints living outside the United States outnumber members living in the United States for the first time since the 1850s when the membership in the British Isles exceeded that in the United States.
2000 – The Ciudad Juarez Mexico Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
2005 – More than 7,500 Church members in Guatemala participated in the “Day of the School” service project providing more than 40,000 work hours.
2001 – The Church releases the Freedman’s Bank Records on CD-ROM. This important genealogical database for Black Americans took eleven years to compile with volunteer labor and contains the records of an estimated 70,000 people.
2007 – Michael Ward, a fourteen-year-old LDS Boy Scout from Phoenix, Arizona, was among those who met with President George W. Bush as member of the BSA 2006 Report to the Nation delegation. Michael’s Eagle Scout project collected over 34,000 children’s books that were donated to elementary school libraries in Gulfport, Mississippi, devastated by hurricane Katrina.
2015 – Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke at Chapman University, addressing faith, family, and religious freedom. His visit marked the 10th anniversary of the Fish Interfaith Center, which he had attended at its inauguration a decade earlier.
2024 – The official exterior rendering for the Birmingham, England Temple was released. The plans show the temple to be constructed on a 2.7-acre site at 185-187 Penns Lane in Royal Sutton Coldfield, where the meetinghouse for the Wylde Green Ward and the offices for the England Birmingham Mission are located. Plans call for a single-story temple of approximately 10,800 square feet, patron housing, and arrival facilities.
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