Church History

Question 1

Joseph Smith was born

Answer 1

December 23, 1805

Question 2

God the father and His son appeared to Joseph Smith (First vision )

Answer 2

Spring of 1820

Question 3

Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith on

Answer 3

September 21 1823

Question 4

Joseph Smith received the gold plates

Answer 4

September 22, 1827

Question 5

Joseph Smith completed the Book of Mormon

Answer 5

Between April and June 1829

Question 6

John the Baptist appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver cowdery to restore the Aaronic priesthood

Answer 6

May 15, 1829

Question 7

The Book of Mormon was published

Answer 7

March 1830 in palmyra New York

Question 8

The church was organized…

Answer 8

April 6 , 1830 In the house of Peter whitmer,

Question 9

Kirkland Ohio became a gathering place for the saints

Answer 9

1831

Question 10

The lord designates independence Missouri as the place for the city of Zion

Answer 10

July 20, 1831

Question 11

Mobs attacked the Saints’ settlements and violently expelled them from Jackson County.

Answer 11

Late October and early November 1833

Question 12

Joseph Smith led the camp of Israel (Zion’s Camp) from Ohio to Missouri.

Answer 12

May and June 1834

Question 13

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Quorum of the Seventy were organized.

Answer 13

February 28, 1835

Question 14

The Kirtland Temple was dedicated.

Answer 14

March 27, 1836, is recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 109.

Question 15

The ancient prophets Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple and committed priesthood keys to them

Answer 15

April 3, 1836

Question 16

Joseph Smith and other Church leaders moved to Far West, Missouri.

Answer 16

1838

Question 17

Missouri authorities imprisoned Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight, Caleb Baldwin, and Alexander McRae in a jail in Liberty, Missouri, for crimes allegedly committed during conflicts with other Missourians over the past several months.

Answer 17

On December 1, 1838

Question 18

The Saints in Missouri were forced to leave the state.

Answer 18

Early January 1839

Question 19

Joseph Smith joined the Saints in Illinois and helped establish Nauvoo.

Answer 19

1839

Question 20

Joseph Smith began teaching about baptisms for the dead.

Answer 20

1840

Question 21

The Relief Society was organized.

Answer 21

1842

Question 22

Joseph Smith presented the endowment ordinance in Nauvoo.

Answer 22

1842

Question 23

Revelation on eternal marriage and plural wives (D&C 132) was recorded.

Answer 23

1843

Question 24

Joseph and Hyrum Smith were assassinated.

Answer 24

1844

Question 25

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church.

Answer 25

1844

Question 26

Many Saints began their journey to the Salt Lake Valley.

Answer 26

1846

Question 27

The Nauvoo Temple was dedicated.

Answer 27

1846

Question 28

Peter, James, and John restore the Melchizedek Priesthood by conferring it on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.

Answer 28

May–June 1829

Question 29

The first Latter-day Saints arrive in the Salt Lake Valley.

Answer 29

July 21–24, 1847

Question 30

Martin Harris took a transcript of characters copied from the plates to show scholars in New York City and Albany, New York.

Answer 30

Feb. 1828

Question 31

Joseph Smith, with Martin Harris as scribe, translated the part of the record known as the Book of Lehi.

Answer 31

Apr.–June 1828

Question 32

Martin Harris persuaded Joseph Smith to let him take manuscript pages of the Book of Mormon translation to Palmyra, New York, to show family members. Joseph Smith learned that Martin had lost the pages in early July, 1828.

Answer 32

14 June 1828