Selected Events in Nephite History
From The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Lehi |
Judges |
Christ |
Event |
Reference |
1 |
|
(-600) |
Lehi departs from Jerusalem |
1 Ne. 10:4; 19:8 |
9 |
|
(-592) |
Lehi's group arrives in Bountiful |
1 Ne. 17:4-5 |
56 |
|
(-545) |
Jacob receives plates from Nephi |
Jacob 1:1 |
200 |
|
(-401) |
Law of Moses strictly observed |
Jarom 1:5 |
477 |
|
(-124) |
King Benjamin's Speech |
Mosiah 6:3-4 |
510 |
1 |
(-91) |
Alma 1, Mosiah die; Alma 2 first judge |
Mosiah 29:44-46 |
|
9 |
(-83) |
Nephihah becomes judge |
Alma 4:20-8:2 |
|
1 |
(-77) |
The return of the sons of Mosiah |
Alma 17:1-6 |
1 |
(-75) |
Korihor refuted/Alma's Mission the Zoramites |
Alma 30:6-35:12 |
|
|
18 |
(-74) |
War because of Zoramites |
Alma 35:13; 43:3-4 |
|
|
|
Moroni leads army |
Alma 43:17 |
|
37 |
(-55) |
Nephites begin migrating northward |
Alma 63:4-6 |
|
42 |
(-50) |
Helaman 2 becomes judge; Gadianton |
Hel. 2:1-5 |
|
53 |
(-39) |
Helaman 2 dies; Nephi 2 chief judge |
Hel. 3:37 |
|
58 |
(-34) |
Zarahemla captured |
Hel. 4:5 |
|
67 |
(-25) |
Most Nephites join Gadianton |
Hel. 6:16, 21 |
|
73 |
(-19) |
Nephi invokes a famine |
Hel. 11:2-5 |
|
75 |
(-17) |
Gadianton robbers expelled |
Hel. 11:6-17 |
|
77 |
(-15) |
Most Nephites reconverted |
Hel. 11:21 |
|
80 |
(-12) |
Robbers return |
Hel. 11:24-29 |
|
86 |
(-6) |
Samuel the Lamanite prophesies |
Hel. 13:1-16:9 |
601 |
92 |
(1) |
Sign of the birth of Christ |
Ne. 1:1,4,19 |
609 |
100 |
9 |
Begin to reckon time from Christ |
3 Ne. 2:5-8 |
|
|
13 |
Severe war with robbers begins |
3 Ne. 2:11-13 |
|
|
19 |
Major Nephite victory |
3 Ne. 4:5, 11-15 |
|
|
26 |
Nephites prosper |
3 Ne. 6:1-4 |
|
|
30 |
Nephite society disintegrates |
3 Ne. 6:14-7:13 |
|
|
34 |
Destruction; Christ appears |
3 Ne. 8:2-28:12 |
|
|
36 |
All converted; property held in common |
4 Ne. 1:2-3 |
|
|
201 |
Private ownership reinstituted |
4 Ne. 1:24-25 |
|
|
231 |
Tribalization reemerges |
4 Ne. 1:35-38 |
|
|
245 |
The wicked outnumber righteous |
4 Ne. 1:40 |
|
|
300 |
Nephites as wicked as Lamanites |
4 Ne. 1:45 |
|
|
326 |
Mormon leads army |
Morm. 2:2 |
|
|
350 |
Treaty with Lamanites and Robbers |
Morm. 2:28 |
|
|
362 |
Mormon refuses to lead Nephites |
Morm. 3:8-11 |
|
|
385 |
Nephites destroyed; Mormon dies |
Morm. 6:5-8:3 |
|
|
421 |
Moroni seals up the record |
Moro. 10:1-2 |
Note: Years in parentheses are calculated, with the year -600 beginning just over 600 Nephite years before the birth of Christ.
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