Chronology: Date 1992-05

date	event	tags	firsts
1992 May 29	The Chamber of Deputies of the government of Brazil paid homage to Bahá'u'lláh. [Bahá'í Newsreel Volume 3 Number 2] [UHJMessage 30Mar92] The tribute to Bahá'u'lláh was paid at a plenary session of that body and following that session members joined Post Office officials in the formal launching of a commemorative postage stamp. [VV133]	Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Holy Years; Stamps; Brazil
1992 May 29	The Centenary of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh was commemorated at the Guardian's Resting Place in London.	Shoghi Effendi, Resting place of; Centenaries; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; London, England; United Kingdom
1992 29 May	A statement titled Bahá'u'lláh was published by the office of the Bahá'í International Community Office of Public Information in New York marking the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh. It was bound as a booklet and given wide distribution in many national communities. The statement was formally released at a press conference in Bombay, India by Hassan Sabri. [VV126]	Bahá'u'lláh (statement); - Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; Bahá'í International Community; Office of Public Information; Hassan Sabri; Bahá'u'lláh, Life of (chronology); - Bahá'u'lláh; - Statements; * Publications; Mumbai, India; India
1992 28 May	Ibsen Valls Pinheiro, President of the Federal Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, opened a special session of the Chamber called to observe the Centenary of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, attended by 45 federal deputies. [BINS271:2; BW92–3:121] For picture see BW92–3:122. Note: VV133 says this was 29 May.	Ibsen Valls Pinheiro; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Centenaries; Brazil
1992 May 29	The Commemoration of the Centenary of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí and the walk from the German Settlement to the Shrine of the Báb, the circumambulation of the Shrine and the walk to the Seat of the Universal House of Justice for the viewing of a projected portrait of Bahá'u'lláh, and a candle-lit programme of prayers and readings. The 3 a.m. observances circled the globe in some 71,000 localities with prayers and readings beginning in the Eastern Pacific Ocean time zone and going west. At 1PM in the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, there was a viewing of the passport photo of Bahá'u'lláh taken in 1868. [BINS271:1–2; BW92–3:96–7; VV129–30, SDSC367-368] For the tribute to Bahá'u'lláh by the Universal House of Justice see BW92–3:31–6. For pictures see BINS271:10 and VV129, 130.	Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; Báb, Shrine of; Centenaries; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Holy days; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Bahá'í World Centre
1992 27 – 30 May	Three thousand Bahá'ís representing approximately 200 countries and territories, gathered at the Bahá'í World Centre to mark the Centenary of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh. [BINS271:1–2; BW92–3, 96–8, 121] On the 27th (or 28th) of May...the gathering of one hundred thirteen Knights of Bahá'u'lláh along with 19 representatives of every National Spiritual Assembly (165) and 9 representatives of every territory without a National Spiritual Assembly (40-50) at Bahjí in commemoration of the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh (some 3,000 persons). The original scroll bearing the Roll of Honour of the Knights of Bahá'u'lláh was placed by Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum in a chamber at the entrance door of the inner sanctuary of the Most Holy Shrine. [AWH90, 105; VV128; BW92-3p98; BINS271:1; Message 7 June 1992] See the Roll of Honour online at Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. For pictures see VV127-8, BINS271:9-10, BW92–3:97.	Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; Roll of Honour; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Holy days; Centenaries; - Basic timeline, Expanded; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel
1992 May	A series of postage stamps overprinted with 'Bahá'í Holy Year' was released by the postal service in Guyana. [BW92–3:122]	Stamps; Holy Years; Guyana
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