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Approximate Chronology of Alma and Mosiah

[Pasted from James E. Faulconer's Sunday school lesson; credit for the first part is given to Arthur Bassett.]

All dates are BC. Note that some dates are more certain than the others.

• 200 The Zeniff colony leaves the land of Zarahemla and moves back to the land of Nephi.

• 173 Alma is born after the colony has lived 27 years in Nephi.

• 160 Noah becomes the king. Alma is 13 years old.

• 154 Mosiah is born in the land of Zarahemla. Alma is 19.

• 150 Abinadi appears in the land of Nephi. Alma is 23, “a young man” (Mosiah 17:2) and Mosiah is 4.

• 148 Martyrdom of Abinadi. Alma is 25 and Mosiah is 6.

• 147 Alma moves to the Waters of Mormon (he is 26 and Mosiah is 7), and then to Helam, where he and his colony are later taken into captivity by the priests of Noah and the Lamanites, under the direction of Amulon, one of Noah’s original priests.

• 124 Mosiah becomes the king in Zarahemla. He is 30 and Alma is 49.

• 121 Benjamin dies; Ammon sets out on his mission to Nephi. Limhi returns to Zarahemla some unspecified time later. Mosiah is 33 and Alma 52.

• 120 Alma returns to Zarahemla. Mosiah is 34 and Alma 53.

• 120-100 Rebellion in the land of Zarahemla, culminating in the conversion of Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah. Alma ages from 53-73, Mosiah from 34-54.

• 92 The sons of Mosiah leave for a twenty-year mission to the Lamanites. Mosiah is 62; Alma is 81.

• 91 Mosiah and Alma the Elder die. Alma the Younger becomes the first chief judge. Mosiah dies at the age of 63 and Alma the Elder at 82.