| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1833/00/00 | Followers of Joseph Smith, Jr begin construction of their first temple | Kirtland Temple, Kirtland |
| 1839/05/00 | Mormons buy land in the town of Commerce, in an area of western Illinois that has shown some sympathy for the trials of the church. To Smith, the area around Independence, MO, is still the Zion, to which the church will return as soon as possible. | Nauvoo, Illinois |
| 1844/06/27 | A mob of men attack and kill Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. | Carthage Jail, Carthage |
| 1846/02/10 | Following the death of Smith at the hands of an angry mob and their homes under attack, Young abandones Nauvoo and begins leading 1,600 Latter-day-Saints west across the frozen Mississippi in subzero temperatures to a temporary refuge at Sugar Grove, Iowa | Nauvoo, Illinois |
| 1846/06/00 | Kirtland Camp migrants depart Kirtland, Ohio, for northern Missouri. | Kirtland, Ohio |
| 1846/12/00 | Brigham Young supervises establishment of Winter Quarters for the Mormon pioneers and begin construction on a flour mill. | Weber Mill, Omaha, NE |
| 1847/07/24 | Completing a treacherous thousand-mile exodus, an ill and exhausted Brigham Young and fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrive in Utah's Great Salt Lake Valley. | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1857/05/16 | In mid-May 1857 a small Mormon colony is established in Nebraska Territory. The LDS Church plans to establish several similar colonies along the Mormon Trail between Florence, Nebraska, and Salt Lake City to serve as way stations for emigrants. | Genoa Site, Genoa, NE |
| 1859/10/00 | In the fall of 1859, the Mormon Colony is forced to abandon Genoa and give their rights to the land to the newly created Pawnee Reservation. | Genoa Site, Genoa, NE |
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