1965 January—Family home evening program initiated.
February—Government of Italy allowed missionaries to proselyte after the mission had been closed since 1862.
1966 Home-study program initiated for seminary students.
1 May—First stake in South America organized at São Paulo, Brazil.
August—New Visitors Center opened on Temple Square.
1967 Church auxiliaries unified calendars and age groupings.
29 September—First regional representatives called.
November—Church received a portion of the book of Abraham papyrus from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1968 Belle Spafford, president of the Relief Society, was elected president of the National Council of Women.
1969 3 January—First Presidency announced that all non-English-speaking missionaries would receive two months' language training before entering the field.
3-8 August—World Conference on Records hosted in Salt Lake City.
1970 Monday nights designated for family home evening.
18 January—David O. McKay died; 500th stake organized in Fallon, Nevada.
23 January—Joseph Fielding Smith ordained and set apart as tenth president of the Church.
15 March—First stake in Asia organized at Tokyo, Japan.
22 March—First stake in Africa organized at Transvaal, South Africa.
1971 January—Church periodicals consolidated into the Ensign, New Era, and Friend.
July—Health missionary program began; it was later expanded to Welfare Services missionary program.
27-29 August—First area conference held in Manchester, England.
November—All LDS women automatically enrolled in the Relief Society; payment of dues discontinued.
1972 Public Communications Department organized.
14 January—Church Historian's Office became Church Historical Department.
2 July—Joseph Fielding Smith died.
7 July—Harold B. Lee ordained and set apart as 11th president of the Church.
Fall—Gospel Doctrine classes began studying standard works rather than prepared manuals.
4 November—New 28-story Church Office Building opened.
1973 February—Agricultural missionary program began with missionaries sent to South America.
7 April—Welfare Services Department announced, correlating health services, social services, and the Welfare Program.
26 December—Harold B. Lee died.
30 December—Spencer W. Kimball ordained and set apart as 12th president of the Church.
1974 14 January—Stake names changed to reflect headquarters city and state or country.
23 March—Church acquired Brigham Young's winter home in St. George, Utah, and Jacob Hamblin's home in Santa Clara, Utah.
4 April—Spencer W. Kimball delivered his maxim "Lengthen your stride" at regional representatives seminar.
20 June—Mission names changed to reflect headquarters city and state or country.
23 June—Aaronic Priesthood MIA changed to Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women.
1 September—Church College of Hawaii renamed Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus.
6 September—Church announced divestiture of its 15 hospitals; actual transfer took place the following March.
3 October—Seventies quorums and stake mission leadership combined.
19 November—Washington Temple dedicated.
1975 3 May—Regions and stakes incorporated into areas; area supervisors announced.
27 June—Churchwide auxiliary conferences discontinued.
24 July—Church Office Building dedicated.
3 October—Spencer W. Kimball announced organization of First Quorum of the Seventy.
1976 3 April—Two revelations (later D&C 137 and 138) added to Pearl of Great Price.
25 June—Extermination Order of 1838 rescinded by Missouri governor Christopher S. Bond.
27 September—New Language Training Mission complex dedicated in Provo, Utah (see Missionary Training Centers).
1 October—Assistants to the Twelve and members of the First Council of the Seventy became members of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
1977 1 January—General conferences shortened from three to two days.
14 May—Aaronic Priesthood program adopted title Young Men.
22 May—Church Activities Committee organized.
1978 Name extraction program introduced.
31 March—Quarterly stake conferences became semiannual.
1 June—Revelation received to extend priesthood to all worthy males; made public on 9 June (see Official Declaration 2).
1 July—Spencer W. Kimball dedicated Relief Society Monument to Women at Nauvoo, Illinois.
9 September—All training of missionaries consolidated at new Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah.
30 September—Emeritus status announced for general authorities over age 70.
30 October—São Paulo Temple dedicated.
1979 18 February—1,000th stake organized at Nauvoo, Illinois, by Ezra Taft Benson.
August-September—Church published a new edition of the King James Version of the Bible with study aids.
6 October—Patriarch to the Church Eldred Gee Smith granted emeritus status; no successor was appointed.
1980 2 March—Consolidated meeting plan began for Saints in Canada and the United States.
6 April—Church sesquicentennial commemorated with telecast from the Whitmer Farm and Salt Lake Tabernacle.
1981 Installation of extensive satellite system for the Church.
18 March—Formation of Missionary, Priesthood, and Temple and Genealogy Executive Councils.
23 July—Gordon B. Hinckley called as additional counselor in the First Presidency.
26 September—The Church published new editions of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price.
1982 Church membership passed five million (see Growth).
2 April—Church announced it would fund 96% of the cost of meetinghouse construction; 4% would continue to be drawn from local contributions.
3 October—"Another Testament of Jesus Christ" added to the title of the Book of Mormon.
30 October—Partially restored Grandin Print Shop in Palmyra, New York, opened as a historic site with a visitors' center.
1983 Stake welfare properties placed under general Church control.
1984 Whitney Store restored as historic site in Kirtland, Ohio.
April—Personal Ancestral File software released.
4 April—Museum of Church History and Art dedicated in Salt Lake City.
7 April—First general authorities called to serve with a five-year, rather than lifetime, appointment.
24 June—Area presidencies organized.
1985 Special fasts raised $11 million for famine victims.
29-30 June—Freiberg Temple dedicated in East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain.
2 August—New edition of the hymnal published.
23 October—Genealogical Library dedicated (see Family History Library).
5 November—Spencer W. Kimball died.
10 November—Ezra Taft Benson ordained and set apart as 13th president of the Church.
1986 4 October—Seventies quorums discontinued in stakes.
1987 Genealogy Program renamed Family History.
23 January—Mark Hofmann imprisoned, responsible for two deaths and several forgeries of historic documents.
1988 15 May—First stake in West Africa organized at Aba, Nigeria.
Mid-August—100 millionth endowment performed for the dead.
1989 1 April—Second Quorum of the Seventy organized.
16 May—BYU Jerusalem Center dedicated by Howard W. Hunter.
25 November—Church announced discontinuance of stake and ward budget assessments; budgets to be funded entirely by tithing.
1990 2 April—FamilySearch(tm) database became available at Family History Centers throughout the Church.
November—Cost for funding missionaries equalized for all fields of labor.
1991 Encyclopedia of Mormonism published.
1 May—500,000th missionary called.
24 June—Russia granted formal recognition to the Church.
1992 Relief Society sponsored Gospel Literacy program.
26 December-6 January 1993—Tabernacle Choir toured the Holy Land.
1993 TempleReady software released.
25 April—San Diego Temple dedicated.
27 June—Joseph Smith Memorial Building dedicated.
1994 30 May—Ezra Taft Benson died.
5 June—Howard W. Hunter ordained and set apart as 14th president of the Church.
11 December—2,000th stake of the Church organized, at Mexico City.
1995 3 March—Howard W. Hunter died.
12 March—Gordon B. Hinckley ordained and set apart as 15th president of the Church, with Thomas S. Monson and James E. Faust as counselors.
1 April—The position of regional representative discontinued; position of area authority announced (see area authority seventy).
23 September—Proclamation on the Family first presented at General Relief Society Meeting.
1996 18 January—Church announced that general authorities would be withdrawn from boards of corporate businesses.
28 February—More than half of 9.4 million Saints now lived outside the United States.
7 April—60 Minutes interview of Gordon B. Hinckley by Mike Wallace telecast.
26-27 May—Hong Kong Temple dedicated.
27-28 May—Gordon B. Hinckley became first Church president to visit mainland China.
9 December—Church website initiated at lds.org.
1997 5 April—Area authorities, now area authority seventies, grouped into Third, Fourth, and Fifth Quorums of the Seventy.
21 April-22 July—Re-creation of pioneer trek of 1847.
24 July—Pioneer sesquicentennial celebrated.
4 October—Gordon B. Hinckley announced the building of smaller temples.
November—Church membership reached 10 million.
November 2—Vernal Utah Temple dedicated, the first to be created from an existing building.
1998 4 January—Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society began coordinated study of the teachings of latter-day prophets.
26 March—Grandin Print Shop dedicated.
27 March—Replica of Smith family log home dedicated in Palmyra, New York.
April—Gordon B. Hinckley announced that 30 smaller temples would be built, with a goal of 100 functioning temples by the end of the year 2000.
26 April—Gordon B. Hinckley addressed a large gathering at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
26-27 July—Monticello Utah Temple became the first of the smaller temples dedicated.
8 September—Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed on the nationwide television show Larry King Live.
1999 4 April—Plans announced to rebuild Nauvoo Temple.
24 May—Church launched
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2000 Early March—100 millionth copy of the Book of Mormon distributed.
2-3 April—First general conference held in the Conference Center.
6 April—Dedication of the Palmyra Temple.
21 June—Church announced that Ricks College would become a four-year institution and be renamed Brigham Young University-Idaho.
1 October—100th temple dedicted in Boston, Massachusetts.