U.S. & World Events		Events in the Life of Joseph Smith
1809 Abraham Lincoln is born. 1814 Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner."		Dec. 23, 1805 Joseph Smith, Jr., is born at Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont
1820 Missouri Compromise U.S. population: 9,638,453		Spring 1820 Joseph Smith receives a visitation from two heavenly personages; God the Father and His son Jesus Christ.
1823 U.S. Monroe Doctrine warns European nations not to interfere in Western Hemisphere.		Sept. 21, 1823 Joseph prays and is visited three times during the night by an angel named Moroni. Moroni tells him about a hidden book and quotes scriptures from the books of Acts, Joel, Isaiah, and Malachi.
		Sept. 22, 1823 Joseph goes to the place where the gold plates are concealed, but is instructed by the angel Moroni not to retrieve them.
1827 Beethoven dies.		Sept. 22, 1827 Joseph receives the gold plates.
		Dec. 1827–Feb. 1828 Joseph begins translating the gold plates (The Book of Mormon) with Emma and her brother Reuben as scribes.
1829 Braille invents reading system for the blind.		July 1, 1829 According to David Whitmer, the translation was completed July 1, 1829. Oliver Cowdery copies an entire second manuscript in case of robbery or destruction of the first.
		Aug. 25, 1829 A contract is drawn up with E.B. Grandin to print 5,000 copies of the book for $3,000. Martin Harris mortgages his farm to Grandin to pay for the printing.
1830 U.S. population: 12,866,020		Mar. 26, 1830 The Wayne Sentinel announces that the Book of Mormon has been published and advertises its sale.
		Apr. 6, 1830 The "Church of Jesus Christ" is officially organized in the home of Peter Whitmer, Sr., in Fayette, NY.
		Mar. 24, 1832 Joseph Smith is tarred by a mob.
		Mar. 29, 1832 Joseph's adopted son, Joseph Murdock Smith, dies from a cold caught when he was pulled from Joseph's arms during the mobbing.
Nov. 24 1832 South Carolina threatens to secede from the United States.		Dec. 1832 Joseph receives a prophecy about the Civil War.
		Oct. 27, 1838 Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs's issues an extermination order against the Mormons.
		Oct. 30, 1838 A mob of 240 men shoot and kill nearly 20 Latter-day Saints and wound about 15 in an unexpected raid at Jacob Haun's Mill, Caldwell County, Missouri.
1839 Abner Doubleday creates rules for baseball. Bicycle invented in Scotland.		May 9-10, 1839 Joseph Smith Moves to Nauvoo, Illinois.
1840 U.S. population: 17,069,453		June 1, 1840 The city of Nauvoo grows to 250 homes.
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message.		June 24-25, 1844 Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith leave for Carthage and are arrested for treason by Constable David Bettisworth.
		June 27, 1844 Thursday Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith killed by a mob at Carthage Jail, Illinois.