August 15, 1840

Nauvoo, Illinois
While preaching a funeral sermon for Colonel Seymour Brunson, Joseph Smith first announced the doctrine of baptism for the dead.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:179
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph, Andrew F. Ehat, Lyndon W. Cook, p. 49
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