-- 1830 April
Joseph Smith, Jr. produces section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants (D&C), which serves as the constitution of the soon to be formed church. (1)
Oliver Cowdery is called to preach for the religion. (D&C 23, 24) (1)
-- Apr 1830
Joseph Smith revelation: Oliver Cowdery to beware of pride. (2)
Joseph Smith visits Joseph Knight of Colesville, NY. (2)
Oliver Cowdery is named "Historian & Recorder" of church (until Jun 1831). (2)
-- spring of 1830
[Young, Brigham] First saw Book of Mormon in spring of 1830. (3)
-- Apr 2, 1830
The "Book of Mormon" has been placed in our hands. A viler imposition was never practised. It is an evidence of fraud, blasphemy and credulity, shocking to the Christian and moralist. The "author and proprietor" is one "Joseph Smith, jr."-a fellow who, by some hocus pocus, acquired such an influence over a farmer of Wayne county, that the latter mortgaged his farm for $3,000, which he paid for printing and binding 5000 copies of this blasphemous work. "Blasphemy-"Book of Mormon," alias the Golden Bible," Rochester Daily Advertiser and Telegraph. (4)
-- Apr 06, 1830
[U.S. Religious History] James Augustine Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop in America, was born on a plantation near Macon, Georgia. He was the son of an Irish planter and a slave. (5)
-- Apr 6, 1830
The "Church of Christ" organized, Fayette township, NY, and "Articles and Covenants of the Church" revealed (D&C 20). [See April 6; Fayette, NY.] (6)
D&C 21 (Manchester): A record to be kept; Joseph to be known as a seer, translator, prophet, apostle, and elder. Church to give heed to him and receive his word "as if from mine own mouth." Oliver to ordain him. (4)
D&C 23 (Manchester): Oliver Cowdery should beware of pride; Hyrum to preach and strengthen the church forever because of his family; Samuel H. Smith to exhort and strengthen the church but not yet to go on a mission; Joseph Sr. to exhort and strengthen the church forever; Joseph Knight to take up his cross and pray publicly, unite with the church, and exhort continually. (4)
Joseph Knight was still reading the Book of Mormon and wanted more time before being baptized. (4)
Joseph an apostle and an elder, Oliver an apostle and an elder. Articles and Covenants (4)
Oliver baptizes, by all accounts, Joseph Sr. and Martin Harris in Crooked Brook; also by most accounts, Sarah W. Rockwell; and by some accounts, also Lucy Smith. Joseph Sr. and Martin (and others?) are baptized at night "Because of persecution." Inventing, 157-159. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
5 - http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blrel_amrel_chron.htm
6 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
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