Joseph Smith was born on 23 December 1805 in Sharon. An American religious leader, Smith founded the Latter Day Saint movement. He said that in the 1820s he received visions of God and Jesus Christ and later an angel who led him to golden plates that he translated into the Book of Mormon, published in 1830. He organized the Church of Christ, later the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and led his followers from New York to Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, where they built the city of Nauvoo. Opposition and conflicts followed him, especially over polygamy. He was killed by a mob while jailed in Carthage, Illinois.
Before and after
- 4 August 1805Birth of William Rowan Hamilton
- 21 October 1805Battle of Trafalgar
- 30 October 1805Battle of Caldiero
- 2 December 1805Battle of Austerlitz
- 23 December 1805Birth of Joseph Smith
- from 1 January 1806 to 9 November 1918Kingdom of Bavaria
- from 1806 to 1812Eighth Russo-Turkish War
- from 1806 to 1807War of the Fourth Coalition
- from 8 February 1806 to 18 July 1806Invasion of Naples
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- from 24 June 1812 to 14 December 1812French invasion of Russia
- from 18 March 1839 to 29 August 1842First Opium War
- from 24 April 1846 to 2 February 1848Mexican-American War
- from 1 August 1894 to 17 April 1895First Sino-Japanese War
- from 8 October 1912 to 30 May 1913First Balkan War
The era
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