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| 1823 |
| | | A heavenly being appears to Joseph Smith in New York state – an event which launches the Mormon church | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The Emancipation Act, enabling Daniel O'Connell to take his seat at Westminster, at last removes the restrictions on Catholics in UK public life | |
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| 1830 |
| | | The Book of Mormon, translated from miraculously discovered holy tablets, is published by their finder Joseph Smith | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Evangelical preacher Charles Grandison Finney leads a new wave of revivalism in the northeastern states | |
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| 1838 |
| | | In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Joseph Smith and the Mormons create the thriving town of Nauvoo in Illinois on the Mississippi | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London by British drapery assistant George Williams | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, and his brother are killed by an armed mob in Nauvoo | |
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| 1846 |
| | | Brigham Young leads the migration of Mormons west up the Missouri from Illinois | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Brigham Young selects the site of Salt Lake City as the place for Mormon settlement | |
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