Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

World Canada

1700s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 1700s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Date 1950-00-00, descending — sort earliest first

date	event	tags	firsts
1950 (In the year) [195-]	The publication of The Covenant, An Analysis by George Townshend. It was published in Manchester by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust 15p. [Collins7.2578]	Covenant; Manchester, England
1950 (In the year) [195-]	Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in Taft. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.]	Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Taft, Iran; Iran
1950 (In the year) [195-]	The publication of Prescription for Living by Rúhíyyih Rabbani by George Ronald. The first edition was a run of 300 copies, done in a dark blue cloth, serial numbered and autographed by the author. There were subsequent printings in 1950, 1960, 1972, and 1978. [Collins7.2181-2185; CBN No 13 May 1950] In 1971-1972 the book was transcribed by Gertrude D. Schurgast of Tuscon, AZ into braille. Another "printing" was done by the Service for the Blind Committee in Stevenage, England in 1983. [Collins8.118-119]	Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; * Publications
1950 (In the decade) [195-]	In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabí to persecute and harass the Bahá'ís. [S1296] During the Pahlaví era it confined itself to this end and was called the Anti-Bahá'í Society. [SI296] See The Anti-Bahá'í Society by Mehdi Abedi and Michael M.J. Fischer.	Hojjatieh Society; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran
1950 (In the year) [195-]	The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registered a Bahá'í marriage certificate. [MBW4; UD248] This was the first time in the East, outside Israel, that a Bahá'í marriage was recognized as being legal, an important precedent for other Oriental countries. [MBW4; UD248]	Firsts, other; Marriage; Weddings; Recognition (legal); Karkuk, Iraq; Iraq	first Bahá’í marriage recognized in the East (outside Israel)
1950 (In the year) [195-]	By this year the Bahá'í population of Black Africa was probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190–1]	Statistics; - Africa