Timeline
1807
March 1, 1807
Wilford is born in Farmington Township (...
June 7, 1807
Wilford is baptized in the Northington C...
1808
June 11, 1808
Wilford's mother, Bulah Thompson Woodruf...
1809
1801 - 1809
Thomas Jefferson is third President of 1...
-thumb.jpg)
March 4, 1809
James Madison is inaugurated as fourth P...
(c)-thumb.jpg)
November 9, 1810
Wilford's father Aphek marries Azubah Ha...
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
March 4, 1817
James Monroe inaugurated as fifth Presid...
1818
1819
Spring 1820
Joseph Smith's First Vision in a grove n...
1821
May 1, 1821
Wilford completes general education at a...
1821 - 1826
Wilford works summers, continues schooli...
1822
1823
September 21, 1823
Joseph Smith's second vision: instructio...
1824
1825
March 4, 1825
John Quincy Adams is inaugurated as sixt...
1826
1827
1827 - 1830
Wilford manages flour mill in East Avon,...
September 22, 1827
Joseph Smith receives records to begin t...
1828
1829
March 4, 1829
Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as seventh...
-thumb.jpg)
May - June 1829
Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods are...
June 1829
Joseph Smith finishes translating the Bo...
1830
Church membership reaches 200; the popul...
-(1)-thumb.jpg)
March 26, 1830
First copies of the Book of Mormon are a...
Spring 1830
Wilford is 23 years old when Robert Maso...
April 6, 1830
Joseph Smith officially organizes the Ch...
May 1830
Wilford hired by Collins Axe Company to...
-thumb.jpg)
Dec 1830 - Jan 1831
God instructs Joseph Smith to move the C...
1831
1831 - 1832
Wilford works in Cowles mill in Farmingt...
May 5, 1831
Wilford is baptized by immersion by Geor...
1832
February 16, 1832
Joseph Smith receives revelation regardi...
March 8, 1832
First Presidency of the High Priesthood...
Spring 1832
Wilford reads newspaper article about th...
Spring 1832
Wilford feels inspired to go to Rhode Is...
May 1832
Wilford and his brothers purchase a farm...
December 1832
Joseph Smith commanded to build a temple...
1833
June 5, 1833
Construction of the Kirtland Temple begi...
July 23, 1833
Cornerstones laid for the Kirtland Templ...
December 29, 1833
Wilford hears the restored gospel for th...
December 31, 1833
Wilford is baptized and confirmed by Zer...
1834
January 1834
Wilford begins preaching with Harry Brow...
January 2, 1834
Richland Branch of Church organized by Z...
April 1, 1834
Wilford is directed by Parley P. Pratt a...
April 11, 1834
Wilford leaves New York to join Church m...
April 25, 1834
Wilford arrives in Kirtland, Ohio, where...
May - June 1834
Wilford travels with Zion's Camp to Miss...
July - Dec 1834
Wilford works in Clay County, Missouri,...
November 5, 1834
Wilford ordained a priest by Simeon Cart...
November 13, 1834
Wilford licensed by Edward Partridge as...
December 31, 1834
Wilford consecrates himself and all his...
1835
January 13, 1835
Wilford leaves for his first mission in...
February 14, 1835
The first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles...
June 28, 1835
Wilford ordained an Elder by Warren Parr...
1836
January 21, 1836
First washings and anointings administer...
March 27, 1836
Kirtland Temple is dedicated. ##Doctrine...
April 3, 1836
Jesus Christ appears in Kirtland Temple;...
April 19, 1836
Wilford called to be a member of the Sec...
April 22, 1836
Wilford stays in Samuel Smith's home (fa...
May 31, 1836
Wilford ordained a Seventy in Second Quo...
October 25, 1836
Wilford leaves mission in Kentucky to re...
November 7, 1836
Wilford votes in national elections for...
November 25, 1836
Wilford returns to Kirtland from mission...
November 27, 1836
Wilford spends his first day in the Kirt...
December 1836
Wilford studies Latin and Greek in the K...
1837
Jan - April 1837
Wilford attends School of the Prophets.
January 3, 1837
Wilford called to be a member of the Fir...
January 28, 1837
Wilford introduced to Phebe Whittemore C...
March 4, 1837
Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the eigh...
April 1837
Wilford attends Solemn Assembly and rece...
April 13, 1837
Wilford and Phebe married by Frederick G...
April - May 1837
Wilford and Phebe live with Warren and M...
April 15, 1837
Wilford receives his patriarchal blessin...
May 1837
Woodruffs live with Jonathan and Olive H...
May - July 1837
Phebe stays with Olive Hale while Jonath...
June - July 1837
Wilford visits childhood homes in Connec...
July 12, 1837
Wilford baptizes his Uncle Ozem, Aunt Ha...
August 8, 1837
Wilford meets Phebe's family for the fir...
August 19, 1837
Wilford arrives in the Fox Islands, Main...
December 29, 1837
Wilford stays with Charles Brown (father...
1838
January 12, 1838
Joseph Smith moves Church to Far West, M...
May 14, 1838
Wilford reads Parley P. Pratt's pamphlet...
July 1, 1838
Wilford baptizes father Aphek, stepmothe...
July 1838
Joseph Smith explains the need for all l...
July 8, 1838
Wilford called to serve as a member of t...
July 14, 1838
Wilford present for birth of his first c...
August 7, 1838
Wilford returns to his mission in the Fo...
August 9, 1838
Wilford receives news of his calling as...
October 4, 1838
Woodruffs begin trek from Maine to Misso...
October 18, 1838
Wilford's half-brother Asahel dies in In...
October 27, 1838
Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issues order e...
October 30, 1838
Haun's Mill massacre in Caldwell County,...
November 1, 1838
Joseph and Hyrum Smith and other Church...
November 1838
Court hearings to determine Church leade...
Nov 1838 - Dec 1838
Phebe deathly ill with brain fever; afte...
Dec 1838 - April 1839
While Church leaders remain in Liberty J...
Dec 1838 - April 1839
Woodruffs winter in Rochester, Illinois...
1839
March 16, 1839
Wilford, Phebe, and Sarah Emma finally a...
April 6, 1839
Church leaders escape while being transp...
April 26, 1839
At age 32 Wilford is ordained an Apostle...
May 4, 1839
Wilford receives the official call to se...
May 18, 1839
Woodruffs move to Montrose, Iowa; live i...
June 11, 1839
Joseph Smith begins dictating history to...
August 8, 1839
Wilford leaves Nauvoo with John Taylor f...
November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newsp...
November 29, 1839
Joseph Smith travels to Washington, D.C....
1840
Church membership is 16,800; population...
January 11, 1840
Wilford arrives in Liverpool, England; h...
February 10, 1840
Wilford celebrates Queen Victoria's marr...
March 4, 1840
Wilford arrives at John Benbow's home in...
March 22, 1840
Phebe's second child Wilford Jr. is born...
May 1840
The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star f...
July 17, 1840
Phebe's first child Sarah Emma dies at a...
August 14, 1840
Joseph Smith's first explanation of doct...
August 15, 1840
First baptisms for the dead performed in...
September 1840
Joseph Smith announces the need to build...
1841
January 19, 1841
Revelation to Joseph Smith on building N...
March 4, 1841
William Henry Harrison inaugurated as ni...
April 6, 1841
Cornerstones are laid for the Nauvoo Tem...
April 6, 1841
John Tyler inaugurated as tenth Presiden...
April 20, 1841
Wilford leaves England for America with...
May 20, 1841
Wilford arrives in New York from his mis...
June 2, 1841
Wilford reunited with Phebe after 2 year...
July - August 1841
Wilford spends time with family; officia...
October 3, 1841
Joseph Smith directs Church members to s...
October 6, 1841
Wilford, Phebe, and Wilford Jr. arrive i...
October 19, 1841
Wilford and Phebe move into their own ho...
October 30, 1841
Wilford is appointed to Nauvoo City Coun...
November 8, 1841
Wooden font dedicated in the unfinished...
November 21, 1841
Wilford witnesses first baptisms for the...
December 27, 1841
Wilford sees Urim and Thummim.
1842
January 1842
Wilford helps haul stone for the Nauvoo...
February 3, 1842
Wilford appointed manager of the Church'...
February 19, 1842
Wilford sets type for printing/publishin...
March 4, 1842
Phebe's third child Phebe Amelia is born...
March 15, 1842
Serial publication of Manuscript History...
March 27, 1842
Church Reformation in Nauvoo includes re...
April 21, 1842
Wilford baptized for mother Bulah; half-...
May 4, 1842
Joseph Smith administers first endowment...
May 7, 1842
Wilford baptized by proxy for great-gran...
May 15, 1842
Wilford baptized by proxy for more great...
May 29, 1842
Wilford and Phebe baptized by proxy for...
June 1842
Millennial Star begins serial publicatio...
August - Sept 1842
Wilford is confined to his bed with illn...
September 6, 1842
Joseph Smith's letter states baptism for...
October 30, 1842
3,000 gather in unfinished Nauvoo Temple...
1843
May 1843
Wilford assists in publication of the Na...
May 15-16, 1843
Revelation received by Joseph Smith expl...
July - Nov 1843
Wilford serves fourth mission in Eastern...
July 12, 1843
Revelation regarding new and everlasting...
July 25, 1843
Phebe's fourth child Susan Cornelia born...
August 5, 1843
Wilford arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsyl...
November 4, 1843
Wilford returns to Nauvoo from mission t...
November 11, 1843
Wilford's marriage to Phebe sealed for e...
December 2, 1843
Wilford receives his washings, anointing...
December 23, 1843
Phebe receives her washings, anointings,...
1844
1844
Publication of "The History of Joseph Sm...
-thumb.jpg)
January 28, 1844
Wilford and Phebe receive their second a...
March 26, 1844
Wilford attends meeting when Joseph Smit...
April 7, 1844
Wilford records Joseph Smith's discourse...
May - August 1844
Wilford serves fifth mission in the Nort...
May 4, 1844
Wilford completes brick home in Nauvoo;...
June 26, 1844
Wilford arrives in Boston to attend conv...
June 27, 1844
Joseph and Hyrum Smith are murdered whil...
July 1, 1844
Wilford attends Jeffersonian Democracy C...
July 7, 1844
Work on the Nauvoo Temple resumes.
July 9, 1844
Wilford learns of Joseph and Hyrum's dea...
August 6, 1844
Wilford returns to Nauvoo with other mem...
August 8, 1844
Meeting where majority of Church members...
August 12, 1844
Wilford accepts call to preside over the...
August 26, 1844
Wilford and Phebe baptized in Mississipp...
August 28, 1844
Wilford and Phebe and their children lea...
December 6, 1844
Woodruffs board ship to sail from New Yo...
1845
January 3, 1845
Woodruffs arrive in Liverpool.
March 4, 1845
James K. Polk inaugurated as eleventh Pr...
May 1845
First Thursday of the month designated f...
June 25, 1845
First stone laid for the new baptismal f...
July 18, 1845
Phebe's fifth child, Joseph, is born in...
October 5, 1845
Church Conference is held in the Nauvoo...
December 10, 1845
First endowments for the living administ...
1846
1846
Population of Nauvoo 14,000 - 15,000; po...
January 8, 1846
First priesthood adoptions administered...
January 11, 1846
First sealings of children to parents ad...
January 16, 1846
Phebe and 40 other Church members (inclu...
January 22, 1846
Wilford leaves England for New York; exp...
Feb - March 1846
Main exodus of Church members from Nauvo...
February 4, 1846
First Church members leave Nauvoo for Io...
February 7, 1846
On final day of work in temple, 600 rece...
February 15, 1846
Times and Seasons stops serial publicati...
March 11, 1846
Wilforn returns to his parents' house in...
(c)-thumb.jpg)
March 17, 1846
Wilford retrieves daughter from sister-i...
March 23, 1846
Wilford's parents and cousin Betsey Coss...
April 13, 1846
Wilford arrives in Nauvoo, Illinois with...
April 15, 1846
Woodruffs tour Nauvoo Temple with others...
April 30, 1846
Private dedication of Nauvoo Temple by J...
May 1, 1846 - May 3, 1846
Public dedication of Nauvoo Temple by Or...
May 13, 1846
United States Congress declares war on M...
May 22, 1846
Woodruffs leave Nauvoo to join Church me...
June 26, 1846
Wilford at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa when Captain...
July 9, 1846
Woodruffs reach Council Bluffs, Iowa.
July 16, 1846 - July 17, 1846
Mormon Battalion recruited by United Sta...
July 26, 1846
Woodruffs cross Missouri River to Cutler...
August 2, 1846
Wilford sealed to Mary Ann Jackson, Sara...
August 8, 1846
Wilford rebaptized second time; rebaptiz...
August 29, 1846
Wilford expels Sarah Elinor Brown and Ma...
October 15, 1846
Wilford severely injured by falling tree...
November 12, 1846
Phebe's fifth child Joseph dies at age 1...
November 17, 1846
Wilford recovers enough to resume work o...
December 8, 1846 - December 10, 1846
Phebe's sixth child Ezra born in Winter...
December 20, 1846
Of 483 people living in Winter Quarters,...
1847
1847
Church membership is 34,694.
January 19, 1847
Wilford organizes "adopted" family (40 h...
April 14, 1847
Wilford leaves for the Salt Lake Valley...
May 25, 1847
James Jackson Woodruff born (only child...
June 14, 1847
Mary Ann Jackson and her 19-day-old son...
July 22, 1847
Advance company arrives in Salt Lake Val...
July 24, 1847
Wilford arrives in Salt Lake Valley with...
July 26, 1847
Wilford first to climb Ensign Peak.
July 28, 1847
Location for Salt Lake Temple Block desi...
July 1847
First bowery built on Temple Block by Mo...
August 6, 1847
Wilford, Brigham Young, and other apostl...
August 26, 1847
After planting crops and building cabins...
September 3, 1847 - September 5, 1847
Wilford and first pioneer company meets...
October 28, 1847
Phebe's seventh child Shuah Carter born...
October 31, 1847
Wilford arrives in Council Bluffs/Kanesv...
December 1847
Log tabernacle built in Council Bluffs,...
December 5, 1847
First Presidency reorganized with Brigha...
December 27, 1847
Brigham Young sustained as President of...
1848
February 2, 1848
Treaty signed ending Mexican-American Wa...
March 18, 1848
Wilford baptizes 8-year-old son Wilford...
May 11, 1848
Mary Ann Jackson divorces Wilford.
June 21, 1848
Wilford leaves Iowa with Phebe and their...
July 22, 1848
Phebe's seventh child Shuah Carter dies...
August 12, 1848
Woodruffs arrive in Boston, Massachusett...
1849
March 5, 1849
Zachary Taylor inaugurated as twelfth Pr...
March 8, 1849
Constitutional convention held to form t...
March 22, 1849
Wilford baptizes father-in-law Ezra Cart...
April 1849
Second bowery built on Temple Block in S...
1850
Church membership 51,839; population of...
April 9, 1850
Woodruffs leave Boston with a group of 2...
May 16, 1850
Woodruffs return to Kanesville, Iowa.
June 15, 1850
Woodruffs leave for Salt Lake Valley fro...
July 10, 1850
Millard Fillmore inaugurated as 13th Pre...
September 9, 1850
Under Compromise of 1850, Congress creat...
October 14, 1850
Woodruffs arrive in Salt Lake Valley and...
December 5, 1850
Wilford appointed to the Council (Legisl...
1851
1851
Wilford moves his cabins from Old Fort t...
1851 - 1854
Marriage sealings and endowments adminis...
January 6, 1851
Wilford begins serving as member of Terr...
March 20, 1851
Wilford's stepmother Azubah Hart dies in...
Spring 1851
Plans announced for construction of adob...
July 19, 1851
Phebe's eighth child Beulah Augusta born...
August 2, 1851
Groundbreaking for adobe Tabernacle on T...
November 15, 1851
Publication of the Manuscript History of...
1852
Jan - March 1852
Wilford serves second term as member of...
March 28, 1852
Wilford sealed to plural wife Mary Meek...
April 6, 1852
General Conference held in new adobe Tab...
April 7, 1852
Brigham Young sustained as Governor of t...
July 7, 1852
Endowments for the living resumed in Cou...
July 25, 1852
Wilford rebaptizes plural wife Mary Meek...
August 3, 1852
Workers began laying foundation stones f...
August 8, 1852
Revelation on patriarchal marriage first...
October 3, 1852
Wilford's plural wife Mary Meek Giles We...
December 21, 1852
Wilford appointed clerk and historian of...
1853
January 1853
Wilford serves third term as member of T...
January 26, 1853
Phebe's ninth child Aphek born in Salt L...
February 14, 1853
Wilford attends groundbreaking ceremony...
Feb - April 1853
Wilford assigned to supervise constructi...
March 4, 1853
Franklin Pierce inaugurated as 14th Pres...
-thumb.jpg)
March 13, 1853
Wilford sealed to Emma Smith and Sarah B...
April 6, 1853
Cornerstones laid for the Salt Lake Temp...
June 14, 1853
Eunice, Wilford's only sister, dies in B...
December 13, 1853
Wilford's sealing to Mary Ann Jackson is...
1854
January 1854
Wilford serves fourth term as member of...
April 4, 1854
Sarah Brown's first child David Patten W...
Summer 1854
Third bowery built on Temple Block, nort...
Dec 1854 - Jan 1855
Wilford serves fifth term as member of T...
1855
February 3, 1855
Wilford elected president of the Univers...
May 5, 1855
Wilford attends dedication of Endowment...
May 5, 1855
First endowments for the living administ...
May 9, 1855 - May 27, 1855
Wilford tours southern Utah settlements...
September 13, 1855
Wilford helps establish the Deseret Hort...
Dec 1855 - Jan 1856
Wilford serves sixth term as member of T...
1856
1856 - 1861
Wilford serves on Board of Directors of...
March 17, 1856
Wilford rebaptizes family members over t...
March 17, 1856
Second Constitutional Convention held an...
April 7, 1856
Wilford appointed Assistant Church Histo...
April 28, 1856
Wilford poisoned while skinning livestoc...
Sep 1856 - April 1857
Church-wide reformation includes rebapti...
October 2, 1856
Wilford helps dedicate baptismal font be...
October 2, 1856
First baptisms administered in baptismal...
Dec 1856 - Jan 1857
Wilford serves seventh term as member of...
December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebap...
1857
1857
Church membership is 55,236.
January 1857
Wilford and George A. Smith complete Man...
January 18, 1857
Sarah's second child Brigham Young Woodr...
March 4, 1857
James Buchanan inaugurated as 15th Presi...
July 13, 1857
President Buchanan removes Brigham Young...
July 24, 1857
Saints receive news that 2,500 United St...
July 31, 1857
Wilford sealed to plural wife Sarah Deli...
September 7, 1857 - September 11, 1857
Attack on wagon train of emigrants and m...
September 29, 1857
John D. Lee gives false report of Mounta...
October 4, 1857
Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff...
October 16, 1857
United States Army Colonel Alexander's l...
Nov 1857 - April 1858
United States Army winters at Camp Scott...
November 21, 1857
Alfred Cumming charges Brigham Young wit...
Dec 1857 - Jan 1858
Wilford serves eighth term as member of...
1858
February 3, 1858
President Buchanan asks for four more re...
Spring 1858
Third bowery on Temple Block in Salt Lak...
April 8, 1858
Wilford moves families to Provo; 30,000...
April 1858
Governor Cumming enters Salt Lake City w...
June 1858
United States Army peacefully enters aba...
July - August 1858
Church members begin returning to their...
November 24, 1858
Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff...
December 1858
Wilford serves ninth term as member of T...
1859
January 30, 1859
Wilford performs marriage of daughter Su...
April 4, 1859
Wilford's daughter Phoebe Amelia is seal...
May 30, 1859
Sarah's third child Phebe Arabell is bor...
October 16, 1859 - October 29, 1859
Wilford is dying; gives family final ins...
1860
Church membership 61,000; population of...
May 21, 1860
First grandchild born, Robert and Susan'...
July 4, 1860
Emma's second child Emma Manella is born...
Dec 1860 - Jan 1861
Seven Southern states secede from Union....
1861
March 4, 1861
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th Pres...
April 21, 1861
News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort S...
May 28, 1861
Wilford's father Aphek Woodruff dies.
June 1, 1861
Delight's first child Marion is born in...
December 1861
Governor John Dawson arrives on 7th depa...
1862
1862–1870
Council (Legislature) of the State of De...
January 14, 1862
Sarah's fourth child Sylvia Melvina is b...
January 20, 1862
Wilford helps draft constitution for Sta...
June 9, 1862
Congress rejects fourth petition for for...
June 10, 1862
Salt Lake Temple foundation razed and to...
July 6, 1862
Wilford moves plural wife Delight to For...
July 6, 1862
Wilford baptizes son David Patten Woodru...
July 8, 1862
Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law signed by Abraha...
1862 - 1877
Wilford serves as President of Deseret A...
August 23, 1862
Wilford records Brigham Young's plans fo...
1863
January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abra...
February 3, 1863
Emma's third child Asahel Hart is born i...
April 6, 1863
Plans announced for construction of Grea...
April 7, 1863
Wilford Jr. called to serve a mission in...
May 29, 1863
James Jackson Woodruff leaves his mother...
July 25, 1863
Delight's second child Emeline is born i...
November 3, 1863
Sarah's fifth child Newton is born in Sa...
1864
1865
March 4, 1865
Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration.
April 9, 1865
Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate...
April 14, 1865
Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
April 15, 1865
Andrew Johnson inaugurated as 17th Presi...
December 23, 1865
Delight's third child Ensign is born in...
1866
December 26, 1866
Brigham Young reintroduces second anoint...
1867
February 12, 1867
Emma receives her second anointing.
February 14, 1867
Delight receives her second anointing.
April 10, 1867
Emma's fourth child Ann Thompson is born...
April 11, 1867
Emma's child Ann Thompson dies.
October 6, 1867
First meeting held in the Great Tabernac...
October 26, 1867
Sarah's sixth child Mary is born in Salt...
December 2, 1867
Wilford participates in reestablishment...
1868
July 23, 1868
Emma's fifth child Clara Martisha is bor...
August 29, 1868
Delight's fourth child Jeremiah is born...
1869
March 4, 1869
Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as 18th Pre...
May 10, 1869
Transcontinental Railroad completed at P...
December 16, 1869
Delight's fourth child Jeremiah dies at...
1870
Church membership 90,130; population of...
February 1870
Utah women given the right to vote; Libe...
December 3, 1870
Wilford comforts Emma through her miscar...
December 5, 1870
Sarah's seventh child Charles Henry is b...
1871
January 31, 1871
Brigham Young proposes idea of building...
February 2, 1871
Sarah's seventh child Charles Henry dies...
April 7, 1871
Delight's fifth child Rosannah is born i...
April 18, 1871
Wilford moves wife Sarah Brown and her c...
October 6, 1871
Priesthood members vote in favor of buil...
November 9, 1871
Groundbreaking ceremony for St. George T...
1872
September 9, 1872 - September 27, 1872
Wilford travels to California to attend...
October 22, 1872
Delight's fifth child Rosannah dies at a...
November 23, 1872
Emma's sixth child Abraham Owen is born...
1873
February 2, 1873
Sarah's eighth child Edward Randolph is...
February 8, 1873
Sarah's eighth child Edward Randolph die...
August 14, 1873
Delight's sixth child John Jay is born i...
1874
June 23, 1874
Poland Act passed by Congress becomes le...
1875
April 10, 1875
Seniority of apostles adjusted according...
July 17, 1875
Wilford rebaptized (for the sixth time)...
August 11, 1875
St. George Temple baptismal font dedicat...
October 3, 1875 - October 4, 1875
President Ulysses S. Grant visits Salt L...
October 9, 1875
Great Tabernacle on Temple Block dedicat...
1876
January 3, 1876
Wilford moves Delight into her new house...
April 9, 1876
Emma's seventh child Winnifred Blanche i...
November 1, 1876
Wilford moves to St. George to assist in...
November 7, 1876
National election between Republican Rut...
November 13, 1876
Wilford, L. John Nuttall and John D. T....
1877
1877
Church membership reaches 115,065.
January 1, 1877
Wilford, Brigham Young Jr., and Erastus...
January 9, 1877
First baptism for the dead administered...
January 11, 1877
First proxy endowments administered in t...
January 11, 1877
First proxy sealings and first sealings...
January 14, 1877
Brigham Young asks Wilford and others to...
January 16, 1877
Wilford administers second anointing to...
February 7, 1877
Wilford administers second anointing by...
February 23, 1877
Wilford receives revelation authorizing...
March 1, 1877
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154...
March 3, 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th...
March 10, 1877
Wilford sealed to Eudora Lovina Young by...
March 21, 1877
Wilford and others finished writing down...
March 22, 1877
Wilford administered first adoptions (tw...
March 27, 1877
Wilford's wife Phebe, and children Wilfo...
March 30, 1877
First time Wilford ever served as proxy...
April 6, 1877
General Conference held in completed St....
April 8, 1877
Wilford called to preside over the St. G...
April 11, 1877
First time anyone adopted (sealed) by or...
April 14, 1877
Wilford's family leaves St. George to re...
April 16, 1877
Wilford resigns as President of the Dese...
April 25, 1877
Site for Manti Temple dedicated by Brigh...
May 18, 1877
Site for Logan Temple dedicated by Brigh...
June 16, 1877
Wilford's son Brigham drowns in Bear Riv...
July 1877
Church-wide priesthood reorganization di...
August 19-21, 1877
Wilford's vision of Signers of Declarati...
August 22-24, 1877
Majority of endowments completed for Emi...
August 29, 1877
Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City.
August 30, 1877 - September 1, 1877
Wilford accompanies Lucy Bigelow Young t...
September 2, 1877
Wilford dedicates Brigham Young's grave.
September 2, 1877
Funeral service for Brigham Young held i...
September 4, 1877
Apostles meet and agree that John Taylor...
September 16, 1877
Wilford publicly shares his vision of th...
September 17, 1877
Wilford participates in the cornerstone...
October 6, 1877
Solemn Assembly to sustain Quorum of Twe...
November 29, 1877
Endowments resume in Endowment House in...
1878
Jan 1878 - March 1878
Wilford spends two months working in St....
April 1, 1878
Wilford and Eudora's son Brigham Young W...
June 28, 1878
Delight's seventh child Julia Delight St...
November 1878
Wilford is divorced from Eudora Young ("...
December 2, 1878
Wilford asks Mary Ann Jackson to be rese...
1879
January 1, 1879
Wilford and Phebe move from Valley House...
January 2, 1879
Emma's eighth child, Wilford's 34th and...
January 6, 1879
Supreme Court denies George Reynolds' ch...
February 7, 1879
Wilford goes into hiding to avoid arrest...
March 1879 - April 1880
Wilford spends a year in Arizona "on the...
1880
Church membership 135,000; Utah Territor...
January 26, 1880
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation r...
April 2, 1880
Wilford returns to Salt Lake City from v...
October 10, 1880
First Presidency reorganized with John T...
October 10, 1880
Pearl of Great Price officially accepted...
1881
January 16, 1881
Wilford appointed General President of Y...
Feb 1881 - March 1881
Wilford works for a month in the St. Geo...
March 4, 1881
James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th Pr...
March 5, 1881
Apostles wash feet against enemies as di...
September 20, 1881
Chester A. Arthur inaugurated as 21st Pr...
Oct 1881 - April 1889
Wilford serves 7.5 years as Church Histo...
Nov - Dec 1881
Wilford works in St. George Temple.
1882
January 8, 1882
Assembly Hall on Temple Block in Salt La...
March 14, 1882
Edmunds Act passed: plural marriage a fe...
March 24, 1882
First Presidency counsels men to live wi...
April 1882
Sixth Constitutional Convention for Utah...
1883
October 5, 1883
Wilford sustained in General Conference...
October 12, 1883
Majority of proxy endowments completed f...
Dec 1883 - Jan 1884
Wilford works in St. George Temple.
1884
May 17, 1884
Wilford helps dedicate Logan Temple.
May 29, 1884 - June 19, 1884
Wilford tours Idaho settlements with wif...
1885
Jan 1885 - Oct 1887
Wilford goes into hiding again to avoid...
March 4, 1885
Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 22nd Pre...
November 1, 1885
Wilford called back to Salt Lake City fo...
November 9, 1885
Wilford sees his wife Phebe for the last...
November 10, 1885
Phebe Woodruff dies; Wilford watches fun...
1886
1887
January 13, 1887
Edmunds-Tucker Act passed by Congress: d...
April 24, 1887
John D. T. McAllister becomes St. George...
June - July 1887
Seventh Constitutional Convention for Ut...
July 25, 1887
Wilford, as President of the Quorum of t...
July 25, 1887
John Taylor dies at the age of 80.
July 29, 1887
Wilford watches John Taylor's funeral pr...
July 30, 1887
To enforce the Edmunds-Tucker Act, Frank...
October 9, 1887
Wilford meets with Church members in the...
1888
March 1888
Wilford's reorganization of First Presid...
May 17, 1888
Wilford dedicates the Manti Temple in pr...
May 21, 1888
Lorenzo Snow dedicates Manti Temple in p...
May 27, 1888
When Erastus Snow dies Wilford is only l...
June 14, 1888
Wilford directs all 32 stakes to establi...
July 9, 1888
Church's attorneys obtain commitment fro...
December 20, 1888
Apostles refuse to sign document rejecti...
1889
March 4, 1889
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd Pr...
April 5, 1889
First Presidency reorganized: Wilford as...
April 7, 1889
Solemn Assembly held in Tabernacle to su...
October 21, 1889 - November 16, 1889
Wilford travels with wife Emma and Churc...
November 1889
Salt Lake Endowment House closed and dem...
November 24, 1889
Wilford receives revelation on politics...
November 30, 1889
Judge Anderson denies immigrating Church...
December 23, 1889
Church-wide fast day on Joseph Smith's b...
1890
Church membership 188,000; Utah Territor...
May 19, 1890
United States Supreme Court sustains Edm...
June 1890
Secretary of State James G. Blaine draft...
-thumb.jpg)
August 1890
Frank H. Dyer resigns as receiver under...
August 3, 1890
Wilford visits Church members throughout...
September 24, 1890
Wilford meets with three apostles regard...
September 25, 1890
Wilford issues Manifesto on polygamy as...
October 6, 1890
Majority of members of the Church attend...
October 25, 1890
Wilford inaugurates weekday religious ed...
1891
May 9, 1891
Wilford meets President Benjamin Harriso...
May 29, 1891
People's Party is disbanded; Church memb...
October 19, 1891
Wilford testifies in court regarding pra...
October 25, 1891
Wilford's testimony to Church members an...
November 6, 1891
Wilford decides temple recommends will b...
1892
October 13, 1892
President Harrison asks for the prayers...
1893
January 5, 1893
Limited amnesty granted to former polyga...
March 4, 1893
Grover Cleveland inaugurated as the 24th...
April 6, 1893
Wilford dedicates the Salt Lake Temple a...
August - September 1893
Wilford attends World's Columbian Exposi...
October 17, 1893
Wilford meets with temple presidents to...
1894
January 12, 1894
Money taken by government under Edmunds-...
March 19, 1894
Wilford records dream about Benjamin Fra...
April 6, 1894
Wilford receives revelation regarding se...
April 8, 1894
Wilford announces end to practice of ado...
April 18, 1894
Wilford present at first endowment cerem...
July 17, 1894
President Cleveland signed the Utah Enab...
November 13, 1894
Wilford establishes the Genealogical Soc...
1895
March - May 1895
Eighth Constitutional Convention held; n...
June - July 1895
Wilford travels to Oregon, Washington, a...
1896
January 4, 1896
Utah admitted to the Union as the 45th s...
April 6, 1896
Wilford and Quorum of the Twelve Apostle...
August - Sep 1896
Wilford travels to Oregon and California...
November 5, 1896
Wilford changes fast day from the first...
1897
March 1, 1897
Wilford attends the celebration of his 9...
March 4, 1897
William McKinley inaugurated as 25th Pre...
March 12, 1897 - March 19, 1897
Wilford records his testimony (only know...
April 1897
Publication of Conference Report begins...
July 20, 1897 - July 24, 1897
Wilford joins 50th anniversary celebrati...
September 9, 1897 - September 25, 1897
Wilford travels to Oregon and California...
1898
April 10, 1898
Wilford's Conference address on his 1877...
July 24, 1898
Wilford dedicates Pioneer Park (site of...
August 13, 1898
Wilford leaves Utah for vacation in Cali...
September 2, 1898
Wilford dies from complications of a med...
1899
1900
Church membership 283,000; population of...
