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The Canon · No. 086
Latter-day Saints
Mormonism; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1830 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · US (Utah), Latin America, Philippines, West Africa, Pacific
VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1820 CE Smith's First Vision.
- 1830 CE The Book of Mormon published; the church organised on 6 April.
- 1831–1838 CE Migration to Ohio and Missouri; violent conflict; Governor Boggs issues an extermination order against Mormons in Missouri in 1838, rescinded only in 1976.
- 1839–44 CE Nauvoo, Illinois, becomes one of the largest cities in the state.
- <strong>27 June 1844 CE</strong> Joseph Smith is murdered by a mob at Carthage jail. A succession crisis splits the movement.
- 1846–47 CE Brigham Young leads the migration to the Salt Lake Valley.
- 1852 CE Plural marriage publicly acknowledged; decades of federal conflict follow.
- <strong>1890 CE</strong> The Manifesto ends the sanctioning of new plural marriages; Utah achieves statehood in 1896. Fundamentalist splinter groups continue the practice and are excommunicated.
- <strong>1978 CE</strong> The priesthood ban on Black members is lifted by revelation. The church formally disavowed the theories used to justify it in 2013.
- 2012 CE Mitt Romney's presidential nomination; the so-called Mormon Moment.
- 2013–present The Gospel Topics essays address polygamy, the priesthood ban, the translation process and the Book of Abraham papyri directly, in a significant shift toward historical transparency.
### Sources
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