I found this Book of Mormon timeline that I thought was interesting. I found it on this blog:
Book of Mormon Story Timeline
· 2200 BC – The Jaredites ask God not to confound their language at the time of the Tower of Babel.
· The Brother of Jared sees God.
· The Jaredites build barges and travel to the Americas.
· A few generations later, the Daughter of Jared and Akish introduce secret combinations.
· The prophet Ether attempts to warn the Jaredites of their destruction, but they continue in wickedness.
· The Jaredites continue to war with each other.
· 600 BC – Lehi is warned in a vision to escape Jerusalem.
· Lehi’s family departs Jerusalem. Nephi and his brothers return for the brass plates. Zoram joins the group.
· Nephi and his brothers return for Ishmael’s family.
· Lehi dreams of the Tree of Life and the Liahona is discovered.
· Nephi breaks his bow.
· 591 BC – Nephi is commanded to build a ship.
· Lehi and Ishmael’s families journey to the Americas.
· Nephi makes 2 sets of plates.
· 588 BC – After years of war, Coriantumr is the last man of the
Jaredites left alive. He wanders for 9 months until he meets the
Mulekites.
· 587 BC – The Mulekites come from Jerusalem to the Americas, led by Mulek, a son of King Zedekiah.
· 570 BC – The Nephites and the Lamanites split into 2 groups.
· 544 BC – Jacob succeeds Nephi as prophet.
· Between 544 BC & 421 BC – Enos prays all day and night in the wilderness.
· 225 BC – The Nephites have become wicked, so Mosiah leads a group
of righteous Nephites away into Zarahemla where they join with the
Mulekites.
· 200 BC – Zeniff leads a group away from Zarahemla to reclaim the Nephite lands.
· 160 BC – King Noah rules the descendants of Zeniff’s group in wickedness (land of Nephi).
· 150 BC – Abinadi prophesies and is then killed (148 BC)(land of Nephi).
· 147 BC – Alma (the Elder) preaches, baptizes, and his group flees into the wilderness and settle in the land of Helam.
· 145 BC – Gideon seeks to slay King Noah, but the Lamanites invade (land of Nephi).
· Between 145 BC & 122 BC – King Noah commands the men to leave
their families and flee into the wilderness. Those men are angry and
kill King Noah. (land of Nephi)
· Limhi becomes King over this people (land of Nephi).
· The Lamanite daughters are abducted by Noah’s priests (land of Nephi).
· The Lamanites put Limhi’s people in bondage (land of Nephi).
· A group of Lamanites join with the priests of King Noah and subject
Alma the Elder and his followers to bondage (land of Helam).
· Limhi sends a group of men out to look for Zarahemla. They can’t
find it, but they find the 24 gold plates which contain a record of the
Jaredites (land of Nephi).
· 124 BC – Back in Zarahemla, King Benjamin gives his speech from the tower.
· 121 BC – Ammon leaves Zarahemla to find out what became of Zeniff’s group, and finds King Limhi and his people.
· King Limhi and his people are converted by Ammon. He helps them escape from the Lamanites and return to Zarahemla.
· 120 BC – Alma the Elder and his group of followers escape and return to Zarahemla.
· Alma the Elder is made high priest in the land of Zarahemla.
· Probably between 100 BC & 92 BC – Alma the Younger and the 4
sons of Mosiah rebel. They are then converted by an angel in a vision.
· 92 BC – Alma the Younger becomes high priest in Zarahemla. The 4 sons of Mosiah leave to serve a mission to the Lamanites.
· Mosiah suggests that the people be ruled by elected judges instead of a king. Alma the Younger becomes chief judge.
· 91 BC – Nehor preaches false doctrine and slays Gideon.
· 90 BC – Amlici seeks to be king. When rejected, he forms the Amlicites and makes war on the Nephites.
· 90 BC – Ammon converts King Lamoni and his city in the land of Ishmael.
· 83 BC – Alma the Younger gives up the judgment seat to preach full time.
· 82 BC – Alma gets a mission companion – Amulek.
· 81 BC – They convert Zeezrom and are restrained from saving the righteous from death by fire.
· Between 90 BC & 77 BC – Aaron and his brethren are cast into
prison while preaching to the Amalekites in the city of Middoni. They
are freed by Ammon and Lamoni and then go to the land of Nephi to preach
to Lamoni’s father, the king of all the Lamanites.
· Lamanites in 7 lands are converted and call themselves the
Anti-Nephi-Lehites. The Nephites give them the land of Jershon to live.
They bury their weapons and vow to never kill again.
· 74 BC – Korihor, the Anti-Christ, is struck dumb.
· Alma the Younger and Amulek lead a mission to reclaim the apostate
Zoramites. The converts join the Anti-Nephi-Lehites in Jershon.
· 73 BC – Alma passes the record keeping to his son Helaman and
commands him not to let the people know the secret combinations of the
Jaredites.
· Nephite dissenters join the Lamanites and come against the Nephites to battle. Captain Moroni raises the Title of Liberty.
· 72 BC – Moroni fortifies Nephite cities. Pahoran takes the judgment seat. Teancum defeats Morianton and his dissenters.
· 67 BC – The Nephites have a civil war caused by king-men who want a
king. Moroni compels the king-men to fight for the Nephites. Amalakiah
and the Lamanites capture many Nephite cities. Teancum slays Amalakiah
in his tent.
· 66 BC – Ammoron becomes head of Lamanites. Moroni, Lehi, and Teancum regain many Nephite cities.
· 64 BC – Helaman takes command of the 2,000 Stripling Warriors, the sons of the Anti-Nephi-Lehites.
· 63 BC – Moroni frees some Nephite prisoners of war by stealth.
· 62 BC – Moroni complains to Pahoran about lack of support and finds
out the Nephites have been under attack from the king-men who joined
the Lamanites.
· 61 BC – Moroni defends Pahoran and puts king-men to death. Teancum slays Ammoron and is, himself, slain.
· 55 BC & 54 BC – Hagoth takes a group of Nephites to explore by sea. On the second voyage, they are never heard of again.
· 52 BC – Kishkumen forms a gang and murders Pahoran the second on the judgment seat.
· 50 BC – Helaman the Second becomes chief judge. Gadianton becomes
the leader of Kishkumen’s band and they flee into the wilderness.
· 39 BC – Nephi, Helaman’s son, fills the judgment seat, but the
people are stirred up by dissenters, become prideful, and become weak.
· 30 BC – Nephi gives up the judgment seat to preach.
· Nephi and Lehi convert thousands.
· 27 BC – Righteous Lamanites preach to the wicked Nephites.
· Satan gives the secret oaths to Gadianton so he can form a secret combination.
· 22 BC – Gadianton robbers take over the Nephite government.
· 19 BC – Nephi is given the sealing powers and persuades the Lord to
replace the war with a famine to call the people to repentance.
· 6 BC – Samuel the Lamanite preaches to the Nephites and arrows cannot hit him.
· AD 1 – The wicked plan to slay the righteous who believe the
prophecies of Samuel the Lamanite, but the sign of Christ’s birth is
given that night.
· Ad 19 – The Nephite armies, led by Giddianhi, defeat the Gadianton robbers.
· AD 34 – Tempests, earthquakes, fires, and whirlwinds attest the death of Christ. Darkness covers the land for 3 days.
· Christ’s voice is heard in the darkness. He proclaims his divinity and invites men to come to Him.
· Christ shows himself to the Nephites in the land of Bountiful. He
chooses 12 disciples, preaches, and heals the sick. He institutes the
Sacrament and prays using words that cannot be written.
· Christ organizes His church, and the 3 Nephites are changed to remain on Earth until His Second Coming.
· 35 AD – All the Nephites and Lamanites are converted. They have all
things common among them and live in peace for almost 200 years.
· 201 AD – Some among them begin to be lifted up in pride. They are divided into classes and begin to deny the true church.
· 231 AD – Those who are righteous are called Nephites. Those who reject the gospel are called Lamanites.
· 321 AD – When Mormon is 10 years old, Ammaron tells him of the plates and instructs him to retrieve them when he turns 24.
· 327 AD – At 16 years old, Mormon heads the Nephite army.
· 362 AD – The Nephite armies boast in their own strength, so Mormon refuses to lead them from that time forth.
· 364 AD – 375 AD – The Nephites are wicked and are swept off by the Lamanites.
· 379 AD – Mormon once again leads the Nephites in battle.
· 385 AD – The Lamanites destroy the Nephites at the final battle in the land of Cumorah. Hundreds of thousands are slain.
· Mormon hides the sacred records in the Hill Cumorah except for the plates of Mormon, which he gives to his son, Moroni.
· The Lamanites hunt down the remaining Nephites to exterminate them.
· 401 AD – Moroni wanders alone. He abridges the record of the Jaredites and finishes the plates.
· 421 AD – After finishing the record, he hides the plates again in the Hill Cumorah, knowing he will soon die.
