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| 1 | 1805 | - 1805: Joseph Smith, Jr. was born in Sharon, Vermont on December 23, 1805
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| 2 | 1820 | - 1820: Spring 1820: Fourteen year-old Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son in a grove near his father's farm.
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| 3 | 1830 | - 1830: On April 6, 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in Fayette, New York.
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| 4 | 1831 | - 1831: May - June 1831: New York immigrants arrived in Ohio.
- 1831: June 7, 1831: Commandment was given to go to Missouri.
- 1831: July 1831: Colesville Saints arrived in Missouri.
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| 5 | 1833 | - 1833: November - December 1833: Saints expelled from Jackson County, Missouri.
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| 6 | 1834 | - 1834: March - May 1834: Members recruited for Zion's Camp.
- 1834: June 21 - 29 1834: Cholera attacked Zion's Camp.
- 1834: August 1834: Zion's Camp returned.
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| 7 | 1836 | - 1836: Summer 1836: Saints began settling Far West.
- 1836: December 26, 1836: Caldwell County, Missouri was created.
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| 8 | 1837 | - 1837: July 1837: First missionaries preached the gospel in Great Britain.
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| 9 | 1838 | - 1838: July - October 1838: Kirtland camp journeyed to Missouri.
- 1838: May 1838: Adam-ondi-Ahman was founded.
- 1838: June 1838: Town of DeWitt, Carroll County, Missouri was settled.
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| 10 | 1839 | - 1839: The first land in Nauvoo was purchased by Joseph Smith, Jr. on April 30,1839 and members of the Church started moving there in May of 1839.
- 1839: February 1839: Large - scale migration from Missouri began.
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| 11 | 1841 | - 1841: January 15, 1841: First Presidency issued a proclamation urging all Saints "scattered abroad" to gather to Nauvoo, Illinois.
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| 12 | 1844 | - 1844: Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith were martyred in Carthage, Illinois on June 27, 1844
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| 13 | 1845 -46 | - 1845 -46: Winter 1845 - 46: Saints prepared for the exodus to the West.
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| 14 | 1846 | - 1846: The first Pioneers left Nauvoo on February 4, 1846.
- 1846: March 1846: Camp of Israel left Sugar Creek.
- 1846: April 24, 1846: Garden Grove, Iowa founded.
- 1846: May 16, 1846: Mount Pisgah, Iowa founded.
- 1846: June 14, 1846: Original Pioneer Company reached Missouri River.
- 1846: July 1 - 20, 1846: Mormon Battalion recruited.
- 1846: September 1846: Winter Quarters established.
- 1846: September 1846: Battle of Nauvoo and evacuation of poor Saints
- 28 Dec 1846: Iowa becomes the 29th state.
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| 15 | 1847 | - 1847: Spring: The pioneer vanguard company, led by Brigham Young, travels to the Salt Lake Valley, which is now Utah.
- 1847: April 16: Brigham Young's first wagon company organizes at a place west of Winter Quarters on the Elkhorn River.
- 1847: Spring: Many Latter-day Saints wintered in Iowa, Nebraska, and other nearby areas.
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| 16 | 1848 | - 1848: Winter Quarters is abandoned, and Miller's Hollow (Kanesville) becomes the main staging point for Mormon pioneers crossing the plains.
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| 17 | 1849 | - 1849: The area of Kanesville, Iowa, becomes the designated outfitting post for Mormon emigrants crossing the plains to the Salt Lake Valley.
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| 18 | 1851 | - 1851: On September 21, 1851 the LDS Church Presidency instructed "all the Saints in Pottawattamie" to head for Utah the
next season "and fail not/' adding, "we wish you to evacuate
Pottawattamie, and the States, and next fall be with us."'
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| 19 | 1853 | - 1853: Some Mormons remain in western Iowa, catering to the needs of other Americans traveling to Oregon and California.
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1808 - 1889 (81 years)