Cannon’s father was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Liverpool.

Cannon was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Liverpool.

Cannon sailed for the United States aboard the ship Sidney.

Cannon’s mother died on the Sydney on the Atlantic Ocean.

Cannon arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Cannon’s father died in St. Louis.

Cannon was ordained to the offices of elder and seventy in the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Cannon joined the Latter-day Saint exodus west from Nauvoo.

Cannon arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

Cannon worked in the California gold fields.

Cannon departed from San Francisco on a mission to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).

Cannon began translating the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian.

Cannon was released from his mission to the Sandwich Islands and returned to Salt Lake City.

Cannon published the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian.

Cannon served as founding editor of the Western Standard, San Francisco, California.

Cannon served as president of the European Missions, headquartered in Liverpool.

Cannon was ordained an apostle by church president Brigham Young.

Cannon had an interview with President Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC, the first of many interviews Cannon would have with sitting U.S. presidents.

Cannon edited the first number of the Juvenile Instructor, the first magazine for Latter-day Saint children and youth.

Cannon served as editor of the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cannon founded George Q. Cannon & Sons, a Salt Lake City bookseller (it later became Deseret Book Company).

Cannon served as Utah territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress.

Cannon was appointed superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union.

Cannon was sustained as a counselor to Brigham Young.

Brigham Young died; Cannon was immediately released as a counselor in the First Presidency.

Cannon was sustained as first counselor to church president John Taylor.

The federal Edmunds Act was signed into law, making plural marriage and bigamous (or unlawful) cohabitation criminal offenses subject to fines and jail sentences.

With President John Taylor, Cannon went into hiding on the Mormon underground.

Cannon was arrested in Nevada on charges of unlawful cohabitation.

The federal Edmunds-Tucker Act disincorporated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

John Taylor died; Cannon was immediately released as first counselor in the First Presidency.

Cannon entered the Utah territorial penitentiary on a conviction of unlawful cohabitation; he remained incarcerated for five months.

In the tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Cannon defended the manifesto ending plural marriage.

Utah was admitted to the Union as a state, ending half a century of petitions.

Wilford Woodruff died; Cannon was immediately released as first counselor in the First Presidency.

Cannon was sustained as first counselor to church president Lorenzo Snow.

Cannon signed his last will and testament in Monterey, California.

Cannon died at Monterey, California.

Cannon was buried in Salt Lake City.