On 4/7 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 4/7

1850: Brigham Young is Trustee-in-Trust, first time for LDS president since 1844.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1851: Brigham Young is sustained “prophet, seer, and revelator,” first time since 1836. He presents himself this way at conferences until 1859 and again, 1872 to his death.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1852: (6-8) at conference in England, Apostle Franklin D. Richards calls men to new office of “pastor.” Office continues until 1860, when it is changed to “district president.”
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1855: Brigham Young establìshes Deseret Theological Institute which is open to women who comprise 37 percent of its membership. However, women do not lecture on same equality they experience in non-institutional Polysophical Society.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1859: each member of the First Presidency is presented as prophet, seer, and revelator; last time the general conference sustains anyone with that title until 9 Oct. 1872.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1860: Brigham Young announces: "When I present the authorities of this Church for the Conference to vote upon, if there is a member here who honestly and sincerely thinks that any person whose name is presented should not hold the office he is appointed to fill, let him speak. I will give full liberty, not to preach sermons, nor to degrade character, but to briefly state objections, and at the proper time I will hear the reasons for any objections that may be advanced." Mormon diarist writes that "a wonder among the Saints" occurs during sustaining, when one man votes against Heber C. Kimball. He remains first counselor, but identity of the dissident is unknown.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1880: conference sustains the first Utah-born general authority, William W. Taylor as a member of the First Council of the Seventy.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1882: John Taylor refuses to accept the unanimous recommendation of the Twelve for two men to fill vacancies as apostles.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1889: conference sustains Wilford Woodruff as church president with George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith as counselors. They are not set apart or ordained.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1895: Wilford Woodruff tells conference: "Cease troubling yourselves about who God is; who Adam is, who Christ is, who Jehovah is. For heaven's sake, let these things alone. Why trouble yourselves about these things?... God is God. Christ is Christ. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost. That should be enough for you and me to know. I say this because we are troubled every little while with inquiries from Elders anxious to know who God is, who Christ is, and who Adam is. I say to the Elders of Israel, stop this.... We have had letter after letter from Elders abroad wanting to know concerning these things. Adam is the first man. He was placed in the Garden of Eden, and is our great progenitor. God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are the same yesterday, today, and forever, that should be sufficient for us to know."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1896: The First Presidency announces at conference priesthood meeting the end of salaries for local church officers. On 2 Apr. the temple council decides "to not pay Salaries to any one but the Twelve." However, in 1898, the hierarchy returns to fixed allotments for general authorities.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1900: at general priesthood meeting Lorenzo Snow presents "a book containing 10,000 names of non-Tithe payers," including that of Apostle John W. Taylor.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1907: general conference votes to send twenty tons of flour to China for famine relief. This comes from the Relief Society grain storage program.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1918: Richard R. Lyman is ordained an apostle. He is the first general authority and first apostle who has complete a resident Ph.D. degree (in engineering from Cornell University). He is also the first general authority with a doctorate from an Ivy League school.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1921: The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve decide to return to the pre-1912 "old form of ordaining" to an office without first conferring the priesthood.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1931: The First Presidency instructs Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith and Seventy's president B.H. Roberts: "The subject of Pre-Adamites [is] not to be discussed in public by the brethren either for or against the theory, as the Church has not declared itself and its attitude on the question."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1936: The First Presidency announces the Church Security Plan, renamed the Church Welfare Program in 1938. This began four years earlier as a local innovation by stake president Harold B. Lee in the Salt Lake Pioneer Stake.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1944: Counselor J. Reuben Clark preaches that "in that inspired document, the constitution, the Lord prescribed the way, the procedure by which the inspired framework of that Constitution could be changed. Whenever the Constitution is amended in that way, it will be an amendment that the Lord will approve."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1984: The appointment of the first general authorities to have a stated time-limit on their service. Initially these temporary general authorities served in the First Quorum of the Seventy. Also Dallin H. Oaks is the first general authority and apostle who has served as a state supreme court justice.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1984: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought' (an independent scholarly publication with which Oaks had once officially affiliated) publishes a survey showing that 88 percent of its subscribers attend LDS services weekly and that two-thirds regard the Book of Mormon as "an actual historical record of ancient inhabitants."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn



To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.