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Brigham Young–as president of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, one of the church's governing bodies–rose to prominence when he organized the move of about 14,000 Mormon refugees to Illinois and eastern Iowa. [18] An estimated 800 Mormons were forcibly dispossessed of their homes and businesses.
Missouri City was originally named Atchison. [5] The earliest known use of the name was on a deed to a building from 1820. The land was possessed by French fur traders Antoine Laffond and Bernard Laffond as early as January 24, 1807. The name had changed to Missouri City by December 5, 1857. [6]
Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, ... The first Catholic church was built in 1913, but was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915. The new church built to ...
A replica of the Liberty Jail was constructed in 2014 at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. [22] The door to the original jail passed into the ownership of Community of Christ after 1888, [23] and was purchased by the LDS Church on March 5, 2024, as part of a larger transfer of historically significant properties and artifacts. [24]
The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC.
1071 - Garcia II of Galicia becomes the first to use the title King of Portugal, when he defeats, in the Battle of Pedroso (near Braga), Count Nuno Mendes, last count of Portugal of the Vímara Peres House. 1072 - Loss of independence of the Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal, forcibly reannexed by Garcia's brother king Alfonso VI of Castile.
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...
The convention adopts a shorter name: The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. [58] Mission work begins in Guatemala, later organized as the Lutheran Church of Guatemala. [58] [85] 1948 May 17: As directed by the 1947 convention, the Committee on Doctrinal Unity first meets with the Fellowship Commission of the ALC to develop a set of doctrinal ...