Here’s some perspective on Nephite chronology.  All I have done is take the events of Nephite history from the perspective of a Nephite at the time of Christ’s coming to the Americas and how far in the past it would have felt by relating it to events in our past from the perspective of 2024.  I am just following the standard chronology in the Book of Mormon notes.

When we read the Book of Mormon it gives you a compressed feel for the events, which come with a bewildering succession of wars and murders and so on.  But to the perspective of a Nephite in 33 AD, much of this would have happened long, long ago.  There would have been a handful of old people who remembered Samuel the Lamanite.  No one would remember Hagoth.  Captain Moroni would have been a figure of myth.  Ancient history all.