June 27. Orson Hyde, the Apostle, returned to the Church.
July 4. P. P. Pratt and Morris Phelps escaped from the jail in Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri.
Aug. 29. Elders P. P. Pratt and O. Pratt set out on their first mission to England, followed on Sept. 18 by Elders Brigham Young and H. C. Kimball, and on Sept. 20, 21, by Elders G. A. Smith, R. Hedlock, and T. Turley: O. Hyde, though previously appointed by revelation, did not accompany them (J. H.). The result was a body of 769 converts.
Oct. 29. Mr. Joseph Smith, jun., S. Rigdon, E. Higbee, and O. P. Rockwell, the chief of the Danites, set out from Nauvoo as delegates from the Church to the general government, and arrived on. the 28th of November at Washington, D. C., seeking to obtain redress from Congress for their losses in Missouri.
1840. March 4. Mr. Joseph Smith, jun., returned from Washington to Nauvoo.
March 9. Elders Young, Kimball, P. P. Pratt, O. Pratt, Smith, and Hedlock sailed from New York for England.
April 6. The English mission from New York landed at Liverpool.
April 15. Elder O. Hyde set out from Nauvoo on a mission to Jerusalem.
April 21. Commerce was finally named Nauvoo.
May 27. The first number of the “Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star” was published at Manchester.