April 18, 1844

Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith and other Church leaders excommunicated William, Jane, and Wilson Law and Robert D. Foster for “unchristianlike conduct.”
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 6:341
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters,  Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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