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1899 3 Dec 189- |
Charles Mason Remey became a Bahá'í in Paris through May Bolles. [BFA2:151–2] | Charles Mason Remey; May Maxwell (Bolles); Paris, France; France | |
1899 19 Nov 189- |
Birth of Yan Kee Leong, the first believer in Malaya, in Selangor, Malaysia. | Yan Kee Leong; Births and deaths; Selangor, Malaysia; Malaysia; British Malaya | First believer in Malaya |
1899 (Fall) 189- |
Edward Getsinger appointed five men as a "Board of Counsel" for the Baha'is of northern New Jersey. Isabella Brittingham was made the honorary corresponding secretary, but was not a member of the body. [The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith] | Edward Getsinger; Board of Council; New Jersey, USA; United States (USA) | |
1899 Oct - Nov 189- |
Stoyan Vatralsky, a Harvard educated, Bulgarian Christian, attacked the Bahá'ís, `Truth-knowers', in a series of talks in a church in Kenosha, Wisconsin. [BFA1:XXIX, 114–15; SBBH2:111 SBBH1p232; SBBH1p232-238]
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Opposition; Statistics; Kenosha, WI; Wisconsin, USA; United States (USA) | |
1899 Summer 189- |
Ethel Jenner Rosenberg accepted the Bahá'í Faith, the first English woman to become a Bahá'í in her native land. [AB73–4; ER39; GPB260; SBR20, 33; SEBW55-64, SCU17]
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Ethel Rosenberg; First Bahá'ís by country or area; United Kingdom | First English woman to become a Bahá'í in her native land |
1899 18 May – 28 Jul 189- |
At the suggestion of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the First International Peace Conference was held in The Hague. 26 nations attended.
Although the conference failed to achieve its primary objective, the limitation on armaments, it did adopt conventions defining the state of belligerency and adopted the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes thus creating the Permanent Court of Arbitration. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
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- International peace conferences; Czar Nicholas II; Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes; Permanent Court of Arbitration; Peace; Central Organization for a Durable Peace; The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands | |
1899 c. 1 May (and period following) 189- |
Kheiralla returned to the United States from `Akká. [BFA1:xxix, 158] (After his departure from Palestine he was abandoned by his British-American wife.) [SBBH1p239]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Covenant-breaking; Hájí `Abdu'l-Karim-i-Tihrani; Hájí Hasan-i-Khurasani; Mírzá Asadullah-i-Isfahani; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; `Alí Kulí Khán; United States (USA); Akka, Israel | |
1899 May 189- |
A council board of seven officers, a forerunner of the Local Spiritual Assembly, was established in Kenosha. [BFA1:112; GPB260]
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Board of Council; Spiritual Assemblies; LSA; Kenosha, WI; Wisconsin, USA; United States (USA) | |
1899 9 Apr 189- |
Upheaval at Najafábád. [BBRXXX, 426; BW18:384–5]
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Najafabad upheaval; - Upheavals; Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran | |
1899 Spring 189- |
After May Bolles returned from pilgrimage in 1899 she was the lone Bahá'í in Paris but soon established the first Bahá'í group on the European continent. The list of those who enrolled in the Faith before 1902 include: Edith MacKaye (the first to believe), and by the New Year of 1900, Charles Mason Remey and Herbert Hopper were next to follow. Then came Marie Squires (Hopper), Helen Ellis Cole, Laura Barney, Mme. Jackson, Agnes Alexander, Thomas Breakwell, Edith Sanderson, and Hippolyte Dreyfus, the first French Bahá'í. Emogene Hoagg and Mrs. Conner had come to Paris in 1900 from America, Sigurd Russell at fifteen years old returned from 'Akká a believer, and in 1901, the group was further reinforced by Juliet Thompson, Lillian James, and "the frequent passing through Paris of pilgrims from America going to the Master . . . and then again returning from the Holy Land." These are but a few, for "in 1901 and 1902 the Paris group of Bahá'ís numbered between twenty-five and thirty people with May Bolles as spiritual guide and teacher. [BW8p634; BFA2:151–2, 154–5; GBP259-26/a>; AB159; BBRSM106; SBBH1:93] | May Maxwell (Bolles); Thomas Breakwell; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney; Laura Clifford Barney; Charles Mason Remey; Herbert Hopper; Marie Squires (Hopper); Helen Ellis Cole; Mme. Jackson; Agnes Alexander; Edith Sanderson; Emogene Hoagg; Mrs Conner; Sigurd Russell; Juliet Thompson; Lillian James; Paris, France; France | First Bahá'í group on European continent. First Frenchman to embrace the Faith. |
1899 23 Mar 189- |
Edward and Lua Getsinger departed Akká and arrived in New York City on the 20th of May. [LGHC30]
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Edward Getsinger; Lua Getsinger; Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Greatest Name; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Voice recordings of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Gifts; Akka, Israel; New York, USA; United States (USA) | |
1899 13 Mar 189- |
Near the end of the first Western pilgrims to Akka (8 December 1898 to 23 March 1899), government officials in Akka received word from Istanbul that they were to prevent all foreigner from visiting 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Only 5 of the group of Western pilgrims remained by this time but a group of Persian pilgrims were required to leave almost immediately after the start of their pilgrimage. [LWS150-151]
One possible trigger was the conspicuous arrival of two American women and their retinue. One of these women, Margaret Bloodgood Peeke, had altered their travel plans by adding Akka so that she could meet 'Abdu'l-Bahá. [LWS151] |
Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Margaret Bloodgood Peeke; Akka, Israel | |
1899 12 Mar 189- |
Margaret Peeke (b. 8 April 1838, d. 2 November 1908) and an unknown companion visited 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Akka. They had two interviews of two and three hours each. Mrs Peeke was a presenter at Green Acre and wrote several books on the Rosicrucians, the occult and psychic phenomena.. [SoW Vol 2 No 14 November 23, 1911 p16; LWS152-158]
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Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Margaret Peeke; Occultism; Akka, Israel | |
1899 16 Feb 189- |
Birth of Hermann Grossmann, Hand of the Cause of God, in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina, into a family of German background. [Bahaipedia] | Hermann Grossmann; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Rosario, Argentina; Argentina | |
1899 16 Feb 189- |
The third group of Western pilgrims arrived in the Holy Land after completing their six-week cruise on the Nile.
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Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; First pilgrims; Anne Apperson; Julia Pearson; Robert Turner; May Maxwell (Bolles); Maryam Thornburgh-Cropper; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel | |
1899 c. Feb - Mar 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá, accompanied by Kheiralla, laid the foundation stone for the Shrine of the Báb. [BFA1:XXVIII, 142; BBD209; GPB275; SBBH2:112; LWS148]
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* `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Báb, Shrine of; Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Haifa, Israel | |
1899 Feb 189- |
The first Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá arrived in America. [BFA1:143]
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* `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Firsts, other; United States (USA) | First Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá arrive in America |
1899 31 Jan 189- |
The Remains of the Báb arrived in the Holy Land. [BBD209; DH66; GPB274; LWS147]
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Báb, Remains of; Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Báb, Shrine of; House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; Akka, Israel | |
1899 mid Jan 189- |
By mid-January Marion Kheiralla arrived in Akka. [BFA1p145] | Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Marion Miller Kheiralla; Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel | |
1899 (In the year) 189- |
Siyyid Mustafá Rúmí and others transported a marble casket to the Holy Land made by the Bahá'ís of Mandalay to accommodate the remains of the Báb. [BW10:517] Photograph of the sarcophagus in its transport crate after it reached Haifa. [Bahá'í Media Bank] |
Siyyid Mustafa Rumi; Báb, Shrine of; Báb, Sarcophagus for; Sarcophagus; Haifa, Israel; Mandalay, Myanmar | |
1899 (In the year) 189- |
A local spiritual assembly called "The Consulting Assembly of Tihrán", a forerunner of the National Spiritual Assembly was established. [EB175–6; 26 November, 2007]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; LSA; * Hands of the Cause; Appointments; Elections; Tehran, Iran; Iran | first National Assembly of Iran |
1899 (In the year) 189- |
The Serpent by Thornton Chase, an 18-page pamphlet on the image of the serpent in the Bible, was published in Chicago. This was probably the first published essay written by an American Bahá'í. [BFA2:26] | Thornton Chase; - First publications; * Publications; Chicago, IL; United States (USA) | First published essay written by American Bahá'í |
1899 (In the year) 189- |
Miss Olive Jackson of Manhattan became the first black American woman Bahá'í. [BFA1:126–7] | Race; Firsts, other; Olive Jackson; Manhattan, NY; New York, USA; United States (USA) | First black American woman Bahá'í |
c. 1899 189- |
It is believed that the first Bahá'ís, a couple, were in Italy in 1899. [BN #43 Aug 1930 p8]
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Italy | First Bahá'í group in Italy. First group in Italy. |
1898 21 Dec 189- |
Birth of Dorothy Beecher Baker, Hand of the Cause of God. | Dorothy Baker; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths | |
1898 c. 20 Dec 189- |
The second group of Western pilgrims arrived in `Akká, and stayed three days before returning to Cairo to resume their plan for a six-week trip up the Nile which began soon after New Year's Day. [BFA1:145]
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Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Phoebe Hearst; Amalie Bachrodt; Thornburg, Mrs; Robert Turner; Akka, Israel | |
1898 10 Dec 189- |
The first Western pilgrims arrived in `Akká. [AB68; BBD13; BBRXXX; DH214; GPB257; SCU13; Bahá'í Teachings]
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Pilgrims; Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper; Robert Turner; First believers by background; Edward Getsinger; Lua Getsinger; Anton Haddad; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Voice recordings of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Akka, Israel; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt | First Western pilgrims; first group of first Western pilgrims; the first Tablet addressed to a North American believer; first member of black race to become Bahá'í |
1898 13 Nov 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá commemorated Kheiralla's arrival by ending the period of mourning for Bahá'u'lláh and by opening His Tomb to pilgrims for the first time. [BFA1:142–3; SBBH2:112] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Firsts, other; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Bahji, Israel | First time Tomb of Bahá'u'lláh opened to pilgrims |
1898 11 Nov 189- |
Kheiralla arrived in `Akká. [BFA1:XXVIII, 141]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Akka, Israel | |
1898 (Before 10 Dec) 189- |
During this period, `Abdu'l-Bahá issued instructions that, under no circumstances, was the Cause of God to be proclaimed or propagated in Egypt. The pilgrims who came through Port Said on a monthly basis were told when they arrived not to teach the Cause and, if they were asked about the Faith, not to offer a response. Ibrahim Effendi, who served in the Egyptian Custom Office as an inspector, noticed the coming and going of pilgrims from Persia and pressed for an explanation. One of the pilgrims, a renowned Bahá'í teacher from a Zoroastrian background named Jinab-i-Nush, unaware of the injunction, began to teach him. Mirza Áqá reported the incident to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and He welcomed the new believer with a Tablet. Ibrahim Effendi became an intrepid teacher of the Faith. | Jinab-i-Nush; Ibrahim Effendi; Port Said, Egypt; Egypt | first first native believer of Port Said. |
1898 Oct 189- |
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visited Haifa where the Templer colony numbered about 700 souls. His ship docked at what is now Ben Gurion Avenue. (The modern port built during the British Mandate period reclaimed much land altering the shoreline of Haifa beyond recognition and depriving the German colony of direct access to the sea. The Kaiser's visit was the apex of the history of the colony and would be commemorated with a stone marker that today sits just above the entrance at the top of the Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb.) He, however, chose not to go to Akka where 'Abdu'l-Bahá lived and He did not go to see the Kaiser because he "was proud He was the embodiment of pride." [VAB8; LWS10, 288n20] | Templer Society (German Templer colony); Kaiser Wilhelm II; Haifa, Israel | |
1898 22 Sep 189- |
The first Western pilgrims departed for `Akká, travelling via New York and Paris. [BFA1:XXVIII, 140–1, 230]
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Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Phoebe Hearst; Lua Getsinger; Edward Getsinger; Robert Turner; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA; United States (USA) | First Western pilgrims |
1898 (Autumn) 189- |
Eighteen people became Bahá'ís in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the visit of Kheiralla in the autumn of 1897. [BFA1:XXVIII]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Kenosha, WI; Wisconsin, USA | |
1898 20 Aug 189- |
Jamál Effendi passed away in `Akká. [EB128; Momen-Jamal Effendi]
Note: Balyuzi gives the date of August 20th with giving a source. Momen says that Jamál Effendi lived out the last days in Akka. He died on 9 November 1898. He was buried in the Akka cemetery near the grave of Mírzá Músá, the brother of Bahá'u'lláh. 'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote a tablet of visitation for him and instructed that on his grave be written the following words: Verily, Jamál ad-Dín, a traveller famous in every clime, the spreader of the fragrance of the love of God, has now become a traveller in those realms of God which are hidden from the eyes of the people of realm of veils. 1316 AH |
Jamal Effendi; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Akka, Israel | |
1898 Jul or Aug 189- |
Phoebe Hearst became a Bahá'í in California through the efforts of Lua and Edward Getsinger. [BFA1:XXVIII 139; LDNW14-15]
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Phoebe Hearst; Lua Getsinger; Edward Getsinger; California, USA; United States (USA) | |
1898 1 Jun 189- |
Áqá Ghulám-Husayn-i-Banádakí was killed by a mob in Yazd after refusing to deny his faith. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Mobs; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1898 Jun 189- |
In New York City, 141 people became Bahá'ís in the five months since Kheiralla's arrival. [BFA1:XXVIII, 125] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA; United States (USA) | |
1898 Apr 189- |
Nine Bahá'ís attending a Ridván meeting were arrested, beaten and imprisoned in Hamadán. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Hamadán, Iran; Iran | |
1898 9 Feb 189- |
Hájí Muhammad-i-Turk was shot, beaten and then burned to death in a main street in Mashhad by four religious students. [BBRXXX, 406; BW18:384]
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Hájí Muhammad-i-Turk; Mashhad, Iran | |
1898 Feb 189- |
Kheiralla arrived in New York and began classes on the Bahá'í Faith. [BFA1:XXVIII, 116] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA | |
1898 (In the year) 189- |
Several Bahá'ís were arrested and imprisoned in Qazvín. [BW18:384] Hájí Muhammad was set upon and killed in Hisár, Khurásán. BW18:384] |
Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Qazvin, Iran; Hisar, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1898 (In the year) 189- |
The Tarbíyat School for boys was established in Tihrán by the Bahá'ís. [BBD221] | Tarbiyat School, Tihran; - Bahá'í inspired schools; Social and economic development; Tehran, Iran; Iran | Founding of the first Tarbíyat School for boys |
1898 (In the year) 189- |
The first anti-Bahá'í polemical tracts were published by Christian missionaries in Iran. [SBB111:69] | Criticism and apologetics; Firsts, other; Iran | First anti-Bahá'í polemics by missionaries in Iran |
1898 (In the year) 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá instructed that the remains of the Báb be brought from their hiding place in Tihrán to the Holy Land. [BBD209]
In the 48 years since His martyrdom the Remains of the Báb had been secreted from a silk factory in Tabriz to Ṭihrán, Iṣfáhán, Kirmansháh, Baghdád, Damascus, Beirut and finally to 'Akká and then to the Mountain of God. [CoF54] He insisted that the utmost secrecy be observed. "The dangers inherent in conserving such s precious Trust were enhanced tenfold with the defection of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's brothers….Spies in the employ of these disloyal members of Bahá'u'lláh's own family could be found in the telegraph offices and ports throughout the region." [LWS147] |
Báb, Remains of; Báb, Shrine of; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1896-1897 189- |
In a gathering in Akka, 'Abdu'l-Bahá informed the friends of the threats of Siyyid Jamalud-Din-i-Afghani, a sometimes collaborator with Sultán 'Abdu'l-Maníd and an inveterate enemy of the Faith. He had vision of a pan-Islamic Ottoman state with the Sultan as the head of all Muslims. A short time after `Abdu'l-Bahá had spoken about him, a small growth appeared on the Siyyid's tongue. The Sultan's special physician was sent to attend him. In a number of operations, his tongue was cut several times until none was left and, soon after, he died. This was the end of a person whose tongue had spoken presumptuously towards the Cause of God and had committed such slander and calumny against the Faith. He has been called the "Protagonist of Pan-Islamism".
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Jamalud-Din-i-Afghani; Covenant-breaking; Muhammad-`Alí Sháh; Akka, Israel; Tabríz, Iran; Iran | |
1897 30 May 189- |
The Covenant-breakers living at Bahji, realized that Mírzá Àqá Ján would be useful to them in their plot to undermine the authority of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. They sent a letter to him purportedly from the Bahá'ís in Iran requesting that he assume leadership. Mírzá Àqá Ján arranged for a feast to be held at the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh on the fifth anniversary of His passing when he planned to announce his intention to the assembled followers. The Covenant-breakers, anticipating that his announcement would cause a disturbance, bribed a local official to have men on hand to take charge of the scene and to discredit 'Abdu'l-Bahá in the process. They had hope that He would be banished and they would be left in complete control of the Shrine. The disturbance did not happen as planned; the the result was that Mírzá Àqá Ján had openly thrown in his lot with the Covenant-breakers. They arranged for him to live in the Shrine until his death in 1901. During this time 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the faithful followers did not enter the Shrine but rather observed their devotions outside. [CoB184-189; MBBA84-90] | Mírzá Aqa Jan (Khadimu'lláh); Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; Bahji, Israel | |
1897 21 May 189- |
Lua Getsinger became a Bahá'í in Chicago. She had been called Khayru'lláh's best pupil. [BFA1:XXVII, AY59] | Lua Getsinger; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Chicago, IL; United States (USA) | |
1897 Spring 189- |
Finding the situation in `Akka intolerable, `Abdu'l-Bahá had moved to Haifa's Retreat of Elijah on Mount Carmel for two months. [MBBA69] | * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Covenant-breaking; Cave of Elijah; Elijah (Prophet); Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel | |
1897 26 Mar 189- |
From the time of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá endured significant family opposition to His authority and position as the Centre of the Covenant. For several years He had worked to contain the news of these defections and to prevent any word of them from reaching other Bahá'í communities. By 1896-7 the Bahá'ís of Egypt had heard enough of the details that when Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan was going on a pilgrimage, they asked him to learn as much as he could. To his great shock, the Afnan soon apprised that indeed Abdu'l-Bahá's brothers and the majority of his family had arisen against him in rebellion. They accused Him of claiming to be a manifestation Himself and for the mistreatment of the break-away part of the family. As instructed by 'Abdul-Bahá, he, on his return to Egypt, informed the Bahá'í community of the situation. Mirza Abu'l-Fadl found this hard to accept in view of Bahá'u'lláh instructions regarding the treatment of the Holy Family after His passing. Therefore, he wrote to Abdu'l-Bahá to confirm the truth of this news and received in response a lengthy tablet that has been called The First Thousand-Verse Tablet. ['Abdu'l-Baha's First Thousand-Verse Tablet: History and Provisional Translation by Ahang Rabbani and Khazeh Fananapazir] In the Tablet He described how He had suffered from the activities of both "the waverers and the rebellious" from among the family and associates. They had deployed others to undermine the authority of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Persia (where Jamál-i- Burújirdí was foremost among the Covenant-breakers.) and in other lands and even used the name of steadfast believers to disseminate their messages to undermine His authority. Up until this time 'Abdu'l-Bahá had spent considerable effort in trying to contain the news of their activities and had amassed considerable debt in trying to appease their demands. To compound 'Abdu'l-Bahá's woes and difficulties, in addition to opposition from within the Faith, the Azalis were active, particularly in Persia. Opposition also came from the Ottoman government in Istanbul, the local authorities and from the Islam and possibly the Christian communities in Akka. iiiii |
Covenant-breaking; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Thousand-Verse Tablet; Khalil-i-Khui; Jamal-i-Burujirdi; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Akka, Israel; Iran; Azerbaijan; Egypt; Cairo, Egypt | |
1897 1 Mar 189- |
The birth of Shoghi Effendi, in the house of `Abdu'lláh Páshá. [BBD208; BKG359; DH60, 214; GBF2]
...we write to advise you that it has not been possible to establish with absolute accuracy the date of the beloved Guardian's birth. Shoghi Effendi's passport gives 3rd March 1896…A note in the Guardian's handwriting indicates 1st March 1897…A further and different date has been noted by Shoghi Effendi's father. Unless further research is able to clarify the matter, it is not possible to make a categorical statement of the Guardian's birth date. |
* Shoghi Effendi (chronology); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Family of; Afnan; Aghsan; Hájí Mírzá Abu'l-Qasim; Rabbani (name); Names and titles; - Basic timeline, Condensed; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; Akka, Israel | |
1897 24 Feb 189- |
Birth of Jalal Khazeh (Jalál Khádih), Hand of the Cause of God, in Tihrán. | Jalal Khazeh; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1897 Feb 189- |
Six Bahá'ís were arrested in Mamaqán, Ádharbáyján. Three were bastinadoed and three were imprisoned in Tabríz. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Adharbayjan; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Mamaqan, Iran; Azerbaijan; Tabríz, Iran; Iran | |
1897 (In the year) 189- |
Fifteen Bahá'ís were arrested in Saysán, Ádharbáyján. They were taken to Tabríz, imprisoned and fined. [BW18:384]
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Aqa Najafi (Son of the Wolf); Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Saysan, Iran; Azerbaijan; Tabríz, Iran; Nayriz, Iran; Hamadán, Iran; Iran | |
1897 (In the year) 189- |
The Hands of the Cause appointed by Bahá'u'lláh were instructed by `Abdu'l-Bahá to gather to begin the consultations regarding the future organization of the Bahá'í community in Tihrán.
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Hands appointed by Bahá'u'lláh; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Spiritual Assemblies; LSA; * Administrative Order; Tehran, Iran; Iran; Central Assembly of Tehran | |
1897 (In the year) 189- |
Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí, the first Bahá'í to have settled China, died in Bombay on his way back to Shíráz. [PH24]
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Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí Afnán; Afnan; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; China; Mumbai, India; India | First Bahá'í to have settled in China |
1897 (In the year) 189- |
The passing of Hand of the Cause of God Shaykh Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Yazdí (Mullá Ridá) while incarcerated in the Síyáh-Cháh. [RoB2p84-91; Bahaipedia; Wikipedia]
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Mulla Rida (Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi); In Memoriam; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Siyah Chal (Black Pit); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Hands of the Cause, referred to as such by `Abdu'l-Bahá; Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi; Mulla Muhammad-i-Riday-i-Muhammmad-Ábadi; Hands of the Cause, referred to as such by `Abdu'l-Bahá; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Persecution, Iran; Azizullah Sulaymani; Muhammad-Ábád, Iran; Yazd, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1897 or 1900 189- |
Tablets, Communes and Holy Utterances, a collection of writings by Bahá'u'lláh, was published in Chicago. 23p. [BFA2:26]
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- Compilations; * Prayer texts; Anton Haddad; * Publications; Publishing Trusts; - First publications; Chicago, IL; United States (USA) | First prayer book and first compilation of Bahá'í writings published in West |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá was forced to withdraw from `Akká to Tiberias owing to the accusations levelled against Him by Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí. [SBBH1:77] | Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Tiberias, Israel; Akka, Israel | |
1896 Nov 189- |
Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí sent letters with misleading statements and calumnies against `Abdu'l-Bahá, thus making widely known his Covenant-breaking activities. `Abdu'l-Bahá could no longer conceal his unfaithfulness. [CB151, 178 SDH128-129; MBBA77] | Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Akka, Israel | |
1896 c. Oct 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá rented the former Governorate of `Abdu'lláh Páshá in the northwest corner of the city of `Akká at the inner moat. [BBD13, 108; DH60]
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`Abdu'lláh Páshá; House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Family of; Akka, Israel | |
1896 24 Jul 189- |
Four Bahá'ís were executed in Turbat-i-Haydarí on the order of the mujtahid. [BW18:384; BBR405]
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Hájí Muhammad Sadiq; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Assassinations; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran; Iran | |
1896 21 Jul 189- |
Hájí Muhammad Sádiq was stabbed to death in Turbat-i-Haydarí. [BW18:384] | Hájí Muhammad Sadiq; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran; Iran | |
1896 Jun - Jul 189- |
Several Bahá'ís were beaten and four were imprisoned in Turbat-i-Haydarí when two mujtahids stirred up the townspeople against them. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran; Iran | |
1896 13 May 189- |
Birth of Dr Ugo Giachery, Hand of the Cause of God, in Palermo, Sicily. [Wikipedia] | Ugo Giachery; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Palermo, Italy; Sicily, Italy | |
1896 1 May 189- |
The martyrdom of Hand of the Cause of God Varqa ('Dove'), Mírzá 'Ali-Muhammad. (b.1856 in Yazd, d. in Tehran) He and his young son,
Ruhu'lláh, were killed by, Hajib'ud-Dawleh, one of the Qajar courtiers, in fact, the Chief Steward, in the aftermath of the assassination of Nasir'd-Din Shah. Varqá was slashed to death before the eyes of his twelve-year-old son who, still refusing to recant, was strangled. [GPB296; BBRXXIX; SUR77; BW18p384; Bahá'í Encyclopedia Project]
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Varqa; Varqá, Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad; Varqa, Ruhullah; In Memoriam; - Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, referred to as such by `Abdu'l-Bahá; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1896 1 May 189- |
Muzaffari'd-Dín became the shah of Persia. He was the son of Násiri'd-Dín Sháh. He had been sent as governor to the province of Azerbaijan in 1861 and, as the crown prince, had spent 35 years in the pursuit of pleasure. When he ascended to the throne he was unprepared for the office. In addition, the country had huge debts to both Britain and Russia.
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Muzaffarid-Dín Sháh; - Shahs; - Throne changes; History (general); Iran, General history; Iran | |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
ʻIshqábád was one of the first places (possibly the first) in which 'Abdu'l-Bahá gave instructions for the setting up of an elected Bahá'í assembly. This was done in 1313 A.H. (1895-6) and was called at first the Spiritual Board of Counsel (Mahfil-i Shawra Rawhani) and later the Spiritual Assembly (Mahfil-i Rawhani). THE BAHA'I COMMUNITY OF ASHKHABAD; ITS SOCIAL BASIS AND IMPORTANCE IN BAHA'I HISTORY by Moojan Momen pg287; Note 11] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Ashgabat; Turkmenistan | first local assembly |
1896 19 Apr 189- |
Násiri'd-Dín Sháh was assassinated on the eve of the celebration of his jubilee. He had ascended to the throne in 1848 and by the Islamic lunar calendar it marked the 50th year of his reign. [BKG455]
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Nasirid-Din Sháh; - Shahs; - Throne changes; Qajar dynasty; History (general); Iran, General history; Births and deaths; Jamalud-Din-i-Afghani; Assassinations; Rayy, Iran; Iran | |
1896 15 Feb 189- |
Birth of Leroy C. Ioas, Hand of the Cause of God, in Wilmington, Illinois. His parents, Charles and Maria had become Bahá'ís in 1898 taught by Paul Dealy who was teaching Kheiralla's classes in Chicago. [Wikipedia; The Bahá'í Faith: Beginning in North America by Robert Stockman, World Order Vol 18 Issue 4 p24] | Leroy Ioas; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Wilmington, IL; Illinois, USA | |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
Mullá Hasan Khazá'í was arrested in Khúzistán. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Khuzistan, Iran; Iran | |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
Áqá Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Yazdí was martyred in Tabríz. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Tabríz, Iran; Iran | |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
Bahá'ís in Hisár, Khurásán were persecuted and imprisoned. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Hisar, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1896 (In the year) 189- |
Díyá'íyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of `Abdu'l-Bahá, married Mírzá Hádí Afnán of Shíráz. [BW4:234 (GENEALOGY); DH59–60]
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Diyaiyyih Khanum; Mírzá Hadi Afnan; Afnan; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Family of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Shoghi Effendi, Family of; Akka, Israel | |
1895 23 Jun 189- |
Birth of Leonora Stirling Holsapple (later Armstrong) in Hudson, New York. She was the first pioneer to Brazil and is regarded as the Mother of South America. [Wikipedia] | Leonora Holsapple Armstrong; Names and titles; Births and deaths; Hudson, NY; New York, USA; United States (USA) | first Baha'i in Brazil |
1895 c. summer 189- |
Miss Marion Brown became a Bahá'í in London, the first European to accept the Bahá'í Faith. [BFA1:37] | Marion Brown; First Bahá'ís by country or area; London, England; United Kingdom | First European to become a Bahá'í |
1895 (In the year) 189- |
Mrs Kate C. Ives of Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts became a Bahá'í, making her the first Western woman to have accepted the Bahá'í Faith. [BFA1:37] | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Orleans, MA; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Massachusetts, USA; United States (USA) | First Western woman to become a Bahá'í |
1894 5 Jun 189- |
Thornton Chase became a Bahá'í in Chicago. [BBD53; BFA1:35–6]
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Thornton Chase; First Bahá'ís by country or area; Names and titles; Emanuel Swedenborg; Chicago, IL; United States (USA) | First American Bahá'í |
1894 Feb 189- |
Ibrahim George Kheiralla settled in Chicago. [BFA1:XXVII, AB65]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Anton Haddad; Teaching; Firsts, other; Chicago, IL; New York, USA; Philadelphia, PA; Kenosha, WI; Ithaca, NY; United States (USA) | First Bahá'í community in North America formed in Chicago |
1894 (In the year) 189- |
From the day of
Bahá'u'lláh's ascension Bahiyyih
Khánum had grown so thin and feeble
and was in such a weakened condition from the anguish of her
mourning that she was close to breakdown. `Abdu'l-Bahá sent her to Egypt in the care of Hasan-i-Khúrásání. She returned not long after the assassination of the Shah in April 1896. [Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá:
Memoirs of Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán
edited and translated by Ahang Rabbani. p61]
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Bahiyyih Khanum (Greatest Holy Leaf); Hasan-i-Khurasani; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt | |
1894 (In the year) 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá sent Mírzá Abú'l-Fadl to Cairo. The Master
instructed the prominent Bahá'ís not to associate openly with him
so that he would not attract undue attention and notice. He moved to an apartment with two furnished rooms,
situated above the business of an Afnan in Saray-i-Jawahiri. He began
teaching philosophy and logic at Al-Azhar University and meeting
and associating with the learned and accomplished men of his time.
He organized and taught classes in various branches of knowledge
and philosophy. He was "outed" as a Bahá'í went he arose to defend the community in the aftermath of the assassination of the Shah in April of 1896. [Memories of the Báb,
Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá By
Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán
p58-59; 65]
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Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt | |
1894 (In the year) 189- |
Two Bahá'ís were arrested and bastinadoed in Níshápúr. One died seven days later, the other two years later. [BW18:384]
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Persecution, Iran; Nishapur, Iran; Hamadán, Iran; Dastjirdan, Iran; Faran, Iran; Iran | |
1894 (In the year) 189- |
Green Acre was founded by Sarah J. Farmer in the aftermath of the World Parliament of Religions. [BBRSM:104; BFA2:142–7; BW5:29; GPB261; SBBH1:125] | - Bahá'í schools (conference centres); Sarah Farmer; Green Acre, Eliot, ME; Parliament of the World's Religions; Eliot, ME; Maine, USA; United States (USA) | |
1893 23 Sep 189- |
First public reference in North America to the Bahá'í Faith. [SBBH1p76]
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Parliament of the World's Religions; Interfaith dialogue; First mentions; Mentions; Henry Jessup; Christian missionaries; Bahá'í Faith, Early Western Accounts of; Chicago, IL; United States (USA) | First public reference in North America to Bahá'í Faith |
1893 17 Jun 189- |
Áqá Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Muhammadábádí was killed by three men on the orders of two of the `ulamá of Yazd. [BW18:384; GPB296]
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Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Firsts, other; Yazd, Iran; Iran | First to suffer martyrdom in ministry of `Abdu'l-Bahá |
1893 28 May 189- |
Mírzá Áqá Ján, Bahá'u'lláh's amanuensis for almost 40 years, threw in his lot with Mírzá Muhammad`Alí and became a Covenant-breaker. [CB181, RoB1p315-319]
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Mírzá Aqa Jan (Khadimu'lláh); Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; Bahji, Israel | |
1893 c. 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá wrote Risáliy-i-Siyásiyyih (variously translated as "Treatise on Politics", "A Treatise on Statesmanship" and "Treatise on Leadership"). [ABMM] He wrote it in response to the crisis in Persia known as the Tobacco Revolt which was an insurrection against the Shah for having granted the tobacco monopoly to British interests at the expense of Persian farmers and businessmen. The Treatise was the first policy statement of `Abdu'l-Bahá upon taking the reins of the leadership of the Bahá'í community. It shows His alarm at the increasing involvement of religious leaders and communities in this populist movement against the civil Iranian state and cites the way past such religious populist movements have led to foreign intervention or increased absolutism (e.g. the `Urabi Revolt in Egypt and the 1876 Constitutional Revolution in Istanbul). `Abdu'l-Bahá argues forcefully for a separation of religion and state as a basis for Bahá'í non-involvement in such anti-state violence. |
Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Politics; Tobacco Revolt; * Publications; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Church and state; Akka, Israel; Bahji, Israel; Iran | |
1892 20 Dec 189- |
Ibrahim Kheiralla arrived in New York. [AB65; BBD129; BFA1:26; SSBH1:88; AY111]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA; United States (USA) | |
1892 19 Dec 189- |
Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani, at the request of Alexander Tumansky, wrote a treatise for him, Risáliy-i Iskandaríyyh. It was a major work which provided a brief summary of the life of Bahá'u'lláh, as well as unique information on the controversial Bábí histories Táríkh-i Jadíd and Naqtatu'l-Káf. There was the courageous defense of the Bahá'í Faith that Abú'l Fadl was able to publish in the Egyptian press, the first article of its kind. It has been published in Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl; Letters and Essays 1886-1913 translated by Juan Ricardo Cole. | Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl; Alexander Tumansky; Taríkh-i-Jadíd (New History) | |
1892 29 Sep 189- |
Russian Orientalist, Baron Viktor Romanovich Rosen (1849–1908), at a meeting of the Oriental Section of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society in St. Petersburg, read a paper written by a junior colleague and former student, Aleksandr Grigor'evich Tumanski (1861–1920). He was a Russian soldier and orientalist who took a close interest in the Bahá'ís and spent some time in the Bahá'í community in Ashkhabad. He published the text and a translation of the Kitab-i-Aqdas as well as a number of papers.
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Baron Rosen; Alexander Tumansky; Andalib (poet); St. Petersburg, Russia; Russia | |
1892 3 Sep 189- |
Nabíl, inconsolable at the death of Bahá'u'lláh, committed suicide by drowning himself in the sea. [AB56; BBD167; BKG265-268, , 427–8; MF32-37; DH81; EB268-270; GPB222; Rob1p201-206]
Nabil's life as a Bahá'í is summed up in his extensive travels throughout Iran, Iraq, Turkey, the Caucasus, Egypt, and Palestine. In his early travels as a Bahá'í, he met with the Bábí communities to invite them to the Bahá'í faith; he attracted the Bábi leaders to the recognition of Bahá'u'lláh as the fulfillment of the Báb's prophecies concerning the promised messianic figure and helped reinforce the belief of the new Bahá'ís in the teachings and principles that were being advanced by Bahá'u'lláh. Through these activities, Nabíl became an outstanding teacher, defender, and promulgator of the Bahá'í faith. [Dawn over Mount Hira, "The Poet Laureate" p19-104, or p85-98, "Nabil-e aʿzam Zaranadi, Mollā Mohammad," by Vahid Rafati, Encyclopædia Iranica, DB434-435] His other works in prose included a treatise on the Bábí-Bahá'í calendar, a treatise on Bahá'í inheritance laws (Fāżel Māzandarāni, IV pp. 1, 214), and his account on the event of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh (Nabil Zarandi, Maṯnawi-e Nabil Zarandi, Langenhain, 1995, pp. 67-108). But Nabil's most celebrated work is Maṭāleʿ al-anwār, an extensive historical narrative of the Bábí faith, written in Akka in 1888-90, which was edited and translated into English by Shoghi Effendi as The Dawn-Breakers. The work was first published in the United States in 1932. ["Nabil-e aʿzam Zaranadi, Mollā Mohammad," by Vahid Rafati, Encyclopædia Iranica; DB434-435] |
Nabil-i-Azam; Suicide; - Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Births and deaths; Cemeteries and graves; In Memoriam; Akka, Israel; Zarand, Iran; Sava, Iran; Baghdad, Iraq; Karbala, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt; Edirne, Turkey; Turkey | |
1892 5 Jul 189- |
The passing of Hand of the Cause of God Nabil-i-Akbar Áqá Muhammed-i-Qá'iní. He was born in Naw-Firist, Persia (Iran) on 29 March 1829. [Bahá'í Encyclopedia Project; MoFp1]
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Nabil-i-Akbar (Aqa Muhammed-i-Qaini); In Memoriam; * Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; - Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Hands of the Cause, referred to as such by `Abdu'l-Bahá; Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Uzbekistan; Naw-Firist, Iran; Iran | |
1892 Summer 189- |
Áqá Murtadá of Sarvistán, who had been in prison for five years, was executed in Shíráz. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; Aqa Murtada; Sarvestan, Iran; Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1892 (Summer) 189- |
Anton Haddad arrived in New York from Cairo via Alexandria. He, with Ibrahim Kheiralla, had planned to market Kheiralla's patented invention, a ticket with space for advertising, in time for the World's Columbian Exposition. Kheiralla would following him after an unsuccessful attempt to sell another invention in Russia and then in Germany.
Anton Haddad was the first Bahá'í to arrive in the New World. [BFA1p26] |
Anton Haddad; New York City, NY | the first Bahá'í to arrive in the New World. |
1892 summer 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá went to Haifa and Mount Carmel and isolated Himself in a small apartment in the stone building west of the lower cave of Elijah. [DH59, 188] | * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Cave of Elijah; Elijah (Prophet); Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel | |
1892 (In the year) 189- |
Soon after the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh the Covenant-breakers led by Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí, on the pretext that he had been unfaithful to Bahá'u'áh, plotted to murder Mírzá 'Aqá Ján. Their real motive however, was to gain control of his property. Mírzá 'Aqá Ján, upon hearing of the plot, went to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, begged for forgiveness for his misdeeds and took refuge in His house. [CoB184] | Mírzá Aqa Jan (Khadimu'lláh); Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; Akka, Israel | |
1892 19 Jun 189- |
Anton Haddad departed Cairo en route to the United States. [An Outline of the Bahá'í Movement in the United States: A sketch of its promulgator [Ibrahim Kheiralla] and why afterwards denied his Master, Abbas Effendi by Anton Haddad]
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Anton Haddad; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt; United States (USA); North America; Ayn-Zhalta, Lebanon; Lebanon | first Baha'i to reach North America |
1892 16 Jun 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá sent a message to the Bahá'ís of the world calling for steadfastness. [AB48–9; DH113]
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* `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; * Bahá'í World Centre | First message of `Abdu'l-Bahá |
1892 7 Jun 189- |
On the ninth day after Bahá'u'lláh's passing the Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh, the Kitáb-i-`Ahd (The Crimson Book) was read at Bahjí before a large assembly in His Most Holy Tomb. [AB51–2; BBD132; CB150; DH113; GPB238; RB4:419–20, BKG420-425]
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Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Bahá'u'lláh, Will and Testament of; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; - Basic timeline, Condensed; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Covenant; Crimson Book; Crimson; Bahji, Israel | |
1892 (In the year) 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá rented the house now known as the Pilgrim House (or the "Tea House") at Bahjí from its Christian owner Iskandar Hawwá', the husband of `Údí Khammár's daughter Haní. [DH114, 226] | * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Pilgrim Houses; Pilgrim house, Bahji; Tea House; Udi Khammar; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; * Bahá'í World Centre; Bahji, Israel | |
1892 (After the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh) 189- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá asked Nabíl-i-Azam to choose a number of passages from the writings of Bahá'u'lláh to be used as a tablet of visitation. Nabil selected four passages and composed the text which is known as the Ziārat-nāma. This Tablet is also used at observances commemorating the Martyrdom of the Báb. [BBD234; BKG427; GPB222; RB4:419, "Nabil-e aʿzam Zaranadi, Mollā Mohammad," by Vahid Rafati, Encyclopædia Iranica]
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Nabil-i-Azam; Tablets of Visitation; Bahji, Israel | |
1892 29 May 189- |
At the time of His passing Bahá'u'lláh left approximately 50,000 believers scattered in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries (ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ, Majmūʿa-ye makātīb, Tehran, 1975, no. 13, photocopied ms., p. 3)". [BAHAISM v. The Bahai Community in Iran by V. Rafati]
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Statistics; Azerbaijan | |
1892 29 May 189- |
Shoghi Effendi in his book God Passes By describes Bahà'u'lláh's life in terms of four phases.
Part 2: From 1844 to 1853, a period "of active and exemplary discipleship" in the service of the Báb. Part 3: The four month period of Bahà'u'lláh's imprisonment in the Síyáh Chál in 1853 "overshadowed throughout by mortal peril, embittered by agonizing sorrows, and immortalized, as it drew to a close, by the sudden eruption of the forces released by an overpowering, soul-revolutionizing Revelation." Part 4: Bahà'u'lláh's thirty-year ministry from 1853 through to 1892, during which, as He endured three exiles, His afflictions intensified as the orb of His revelation rose to its zenith. He withstood the opposition of potentates, clergy, the corruption of officials, the cowardice and betrayal of His brother and others. All the while this contrasted sharply to the dignity, the courage and the uprightness that characterized His conduct. [GBP107] |
* Bahaullah (chronology); - Basic timeline, Expanded; * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline | |
1892 29 May 189- |
The Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh   Bahá'u'lláh passed away at Bahjí in His seventy–fifth year. [AB47; BBRXXIX, 233; BKG420; CB148; GPB221; RB4:411] "The news of His ascension was instantly communicated to Sultán 'Abdu'l-Hamíd by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in a telegram which began with the words "the Sun of Bahá has set". [GPB222; AB47; BKG420] "Say: Let not your hearts be perturbed, O people, when the glory of My Presence is withdrawn, and the ocean of My utterance is stilled. In My presence amongst you there is a wisdom, and in My absence there is yet another, inscrutable to all but God, the Incomparable, the All-Knowing. Verily, We behold you from Our realm of glory, and shall aid whosoever will arise for the triumph of Our Cause with the hosts of the Concourse on high and a company of Our favoured angels." "Be not dismayed, O peoples of the world, when the day-star of My beauty is set, and the heaven of My tabernacle is concealed from your eyes. Arise to further My Cause, and to exalt My Word amongst men. We are with you at all times, and shall strengthen you through the power of truth. We are truly almighty. Whoso hath recognized Me will arise and serve Me with such determination that the powers of earth and heaven shall be unable to defeat his purpose." [GWB137]
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Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; * Bahaullah (chronology); Holy days; Sultán `Abdu'l-Hamid; Covenant-breaking; Covenant; Qiblih; - Basic timeline, Condensed; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Boxes containing Writings; Boxes; Seals; Obligatory prayer; - Missing, lost or destroyed Writings; Bahji, Israel | |
1877 - 1892 189- |
See Bibliography for the Tablets of Baha'u'llah: List of citations and resources for Tablets revealed 1877-1892 compiled by Jonah Winters.
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* Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of | |
1892 c. 24 May 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh called all the believers and many pilgrims to His bedside for their last audience with Him. [GPB222] | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahji); Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Pilgrims; Bahji, Israel | |
1892 8 May 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh contracted a slight fever. [GPB221]
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House of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahji); * Bahaullah (chronology); Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Bahji, Israel | |
1892 Prior to the passing of Bahá'u´lláh 189- |
During the lifetime of Bahá'u'lláh Muhammad Ali made two trips to India for seditious purposes. With the help of Nazir, he plotted to prepare the way to become the leader of the Cause after the departure of Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'u'lláh was well aware of these plans as is testified by many Tablets especially by the Revelation of the Book of His Covenant prior to His ascension. In this book, He clearly appointed 'Abdu'l-Bahá as the One to whom all, including the Branches, were to turn for light and guidance. [SUR247] | Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Covenant-breaking; Nazir; Akka, Israel | |
1892 (About 2 mos before 29 May) 189- |
Close to the end of His life Bahá'u'lláh became displeased with Mírzá Àqá Ján and dismissed him from His service. He had served as His servant, with the title of Khádim (Servant) and later Khádimu'lláh (Servant of God) as well as His amanuensis and companion for almost forty years [CoB182; MBBA71] | Mírzá Aqa Jan (Khadimu'lláh); Covenant-breaking; Akka, Israel | |
1892 (In the year) 189- |
Mu'tuminu's-Saltanih was poisoned in Tihrán on the orders of Násiri'd-Dín Sháh. [BW18:384] | Mutuminus-Saltanih; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Assassinations; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1891 3 Oct 189- |
Mullá Muhammad-`Alíy-i-Dihábádí was martyred, one of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd who were killed at the hands of Jalálu'd-Dawlih and Zillu's-Sultan. [BW18:384] | Mullá Muhammad-`Alíy-i-Dihabadi; Jalalud-Dawlih; Zillus-Sultan; Seven martyrs of Yazd; Seven martyrs of Hurmuzak; Yazd upheaval; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1891 Jul-Aug 189- |
Members of the Afnán family met Bahá'u'lláh in Haifa during His visit. [BKG374, 406]
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Afnan; * Bahaullah (chronology); Haifa, Israel | |
1891 27 Jun 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh visited Haifa for the fourth time. [BKG374; DH109; GPB194; RB4:351]
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Zikrullah Khadem; Báb, Shrine of; Carmelite monastery, Israel; Cave of Elijah; Elijah (Prophet); Lawh-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel); Charters of the Bahá'í Faith; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; House of Ilyas Abyad; Templer Society (German Templer colony); - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; * Bahá'í World Centre; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahaullah (chronology); * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel | |
1891 Apr c. 189- |
Two believers were arrested during the same period of intense persecution. Hájí Amín was sent to the prison of Qazvín, and Hand of the Cause Ibn-i-Abhar was consigned for four years in Tíhran, in which he bore the same chains as Bahá'u'lláh did, during the Latter's imprisonment in 1852. [Essay by Mehdi Wolf] | Hájí Amin (Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikani); Ibn-i-Abhar (Mulla Muhammad Taqi); * Hands of the Cause; Chains; Imprisonments; Qazvin, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1891 after 19 May 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh revealed the Lawh-i-Times, Tablet to the Times in which He recounted the circumstances of the martyrdoms in Yazd. [RB4:348–50, BW18p976-7] | Bahji, Israel; Times (newspaper); Newspapers; Press (media); Media (communication); Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahaullah (chronology); Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Seven martyrs of Yazd; Seven martyrs of Hurmuzak; Yazd upheaval; * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Akka, Israel; London, England; United Kingdom; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1891 19 May 189- |
The execution of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd. [BBRXXIX, BW18:384]
Seven Bahá'ís were executed on the order of the governor of Yazd, Husain Mírzá, Jalálu'd-Dín-Dawlih (the grandson of the shah and the son of Zillu's-Sultán) and at the instigation of the mujtahid, Shaykh Hasan-i-Sabzivárí. [BW18p384]
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Jalalud-Din-Dawlih; Shaykh Hasan-i-Sabzivari; Seven martyrs of Yazd; Seven martyrs of Hurmuzak; Yazd upheaval; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Zillus-Sultan; Hájí Sayyah; - Sháh; Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World); Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1891 15 Feb 189- |
First public lecture in the West on the Bahá'í Faith was given by E. G. Browne at the Southplace Institute, London.
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E. G. Browne; Southplace Institute, London; Firsts, other; London, England; United Kingdom | First public lecture in West on Bahá'í Faith |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
Mirzá Adu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpáygání visited Kashgar during his trip to Central Asia. [Video Early history of the Bahá'í Faith in China 2min56sec] | China; Kashgar, China | |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
Bishárát (Glad-Tidings) is considered one of the major writings of Bahá'u'lláh. [Bahá'u'lláh's Bishárát (Glad-Tidings):
A Proclamation to Scholars and Statesmen by Christopher Buck and Youli A. Ioannesyan]
The Tablet of Glad-Tidings is a selective compendium of Bahaullah's laws and principles, sequentially presented in a series of 15 Glad-Tidings. As the Arabic term Bisharat suggests, these Glad-Tidings were a public announcement of some of the essential teachings of the new Bahá'í religion. The Glad-Tidings is the most extensive of several tablets by Bahá'u'lláh that present key teachings in a numbered structure. The Glad-Tidings may, in part, be regarded as serially articulated world reforms intermixed with religious reforms emanating from Bahá'u'lláh in his professed role as World Reformer. The Glad-Tidings also functioned analogously (albeit anachronistically) to a press release, serving not only as a public proclamation but to rectify the inaccuracies and gross misrepresentations that had previously circulated in print. Intended for widespread translation and publication, the Glad-Tidings was sent to scholars notably Russian orientalist, Baron Viktor Rosen (1849-1908) and Cambridge orientalist, Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) and possibly pre-revolutionary Russian statesmen as well. As a Proclamatory Aqdas, the Tablet of Glad-Tidings was part of a much broader proclamation by Bahaullah, who proclaimed his mission to the political and religious leaders of the world. |
* Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Bisharat; Glad Tidings; Baron Rosen; E. G. Browne | |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
Tablet of Visitation for Imám Husayn was revealed by Bahá'u'lláh. It was originally revealed as "Lawh-i-Zíyárat-Namih-i-Imám Husayn".
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Lawh-i-Ziyarat-Namih-i-Imam Husayn (Tablet of Visitation for Imam Husayn) | |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
A Traveller's Narrative was published in two volumes by the Cambridge University Press. [BBD226; EGB55] It is an historical account written by 'Abdu'l-Bahá around 1886 and first published anonymously in Persian in 1890. This English translation was prepared by Professor Edward G. Browne. |
Travelers Narrative (book); * Publications; - First publications; Cambridge, England; United Kingdom | |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh revealed the Kitáb-i-`Ahd. [BBD32; CB142; GPB236–40, BKG420–5; RB4:419–20]
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Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Bahá'u'lláh, Will and Testament of; Crimson Book; Covenant; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahaullah (chronology); * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Bahji, Israel; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Akka, Israel | |
1891 (In the first half of the year) 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh revealed Epistle to the Son of the Wolf addressed to Shaykh Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Najafí (Shaykh Najafí), a powerful Shi'a-Muslim priest of Isfahan, the son of Shaykh Muhammad-Báqir. [BBD78, 164; BKG382; RB4:368]
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Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf); Aqa Najafi (Son of the Wolf); Shaykh Muhammad-Taqiy-i-Najafi (Shaykh Najafi); Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahaullah (chronology); * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Bahji, Israel; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1891 (In the year) 189- |
In Bombay, on the instructions of Bahá'u'lláh, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas was published for the first time. [SA250]
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Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Publishing; * Publications; - First publications; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahaullah (chronology); Mumbai, India; India | First publication of The Kitáb-i-Aqdas in Bombay |
1890 Nov 189- |
Nabíl presented his chronicle, The Dawn-Breakers, to Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá for approval. [DBXXXVII] | Nabil-i-Azam; Dawn-Breakers (book); Akka, Israel | |
1890 Aug-Sep 189- |
Mullá Hasan and his two brothers were arrested and beaten in Sarcháh, Bírjand. [BW18:383] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Bírjand, Iran; Iran | |
1890 15–20 Apr 189- |
E. G. Browne was granted four successive interviews with Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí. [BBD43; BBR225; BKG371; GPB193]
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E. G. Browne; * Bahaullah (chronology); Bahá'u'lláh, Pen portraits of; Pen portraits; Portraits; Travelers Narrative (book); Zaynul-Muqarrabin (Mulla Zaynul-Abidin); Bahji, Israel; Junayn gardens; Akka, Israel | |
1890 1 Apr 189- |
Bahá'u'lláh visited Haifa for a third time. He spent about two weeks there on this visit. [BBD94; BPP173; DH109; GPB194; RB4:351]
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Templer Society (German Templer colony); * Bahaullah (chronology); Oliphant House; Bayt-i-Zahlan; Tents; Haifa, Israel | |
1890 Mar 189- |
Násiri'd-Dín Sháh entered into contract of 50 years duration with British interests that would provide him with an annual payment plus 25% of the profits for the production and sale of tobacco. Prior to this, in the 1870s and 1880s the country's telegraph and mail systems, its fisheries, and many of its mines were sold to Western, mostly British, interests.
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Tobacco Revolt; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Iran, General history; History (general); Smoking (tobacco); Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership); Colonialism and imperialism; Iran | |
1890 25 Feb 189- |
Seven Bahá'ís from Sidih who had gone to Tihrán to petition the Sháh for protection, secured a decree from him permitting them to return home. When they try to enter Sidih they were killed. [BBRXXIX, 285–9; BW18:383] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Petitions; Sidih, Iran; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1890 (In the year) 189- |
A number of people of the Jewish, Zoroastrian and Buddhist Faiths became Bahá'ís. [BBR248–9; GPB195] | - Judaism; Jews; - Zoroastrianism; - Buddhism; Conversion; Interfaith dialogue | |
1890 c. 189- |
E. G. Browne was in `Akká. Bahá'u'lláh was staying in the Templer colony in Haifa when he arrived. [BBR253] | E. G. Browne; Templer Society (German Templer colony); * Bahaullah (chronology); Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel | |
1890 c. 189- |
Ibrahim George Kheiralla (Khayru'lláh) became a Bahá'í in Cairo under the tutelage of `Abdu'l-Karím-i-Tihrání. [BFA1:19]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; First believers by background; - Christianity; Conversion; Interfaith dialogue; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt | first Bahá'í from Syrian Christian background |
1890 (In the year) 189- |
Hájí Ákhúnd, Hájí Amín and Ibn-i-Abhar were arrested. Hájí Ákhúnd was imprisoned in Tihrán for two years; Hájí Amín was imprisoned in Qazvín for two years; and Ibn-i-Abhar was imprisoned in Tihrán for four years. [BW18:383–4]
Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Furúghí was arrested in Furúghí and sent to Mashhad. From there he was sent to Kalát-i-Nadírí where he was imprisoned for two years. [BW18:384] In Mashhad a mob set out to kill Mírzá Husayn-i-Bajistání, but failing to find him they looted his shop. [BW18:384] |
Hájí Ákhúnd (Mullá `Alí-Akbar-i-Shahmírzádí); Hájí Amin (Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikani); Ibn-i-Abhar (Mulla Muhammad Taqi); Mírzá Mahmud-i-Furughi; Mírzá Husayn-i-Bajistani; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Mobs; - Persecution; Tehran, Iran; Qazvin, Iran; Kalat-i-Nadiri, Iran; Mashhad, Iran; Iran | |
1890 (In the year) 189- |
By 1890 about a thousand Bahá'ís had settled in `Ishqábád. [BBRSM91, SDOH99] | Statistics; Ashgabat; Turkmenistan |
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