- 1897-03-01 — The birth of Shoghi Effendi, in the house of `Abdu'llah Pasha. [BBD208; BKG359; DH60, 214; GBF2]
He...
- 1912-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi was enrolled in the preparatory school associated with the Syrian Protestant College ...
- 1913-08-01 — With his final year of high school over, Shoghi Effendi hastened from Beirut to Ramleh to join the M...
- 1913-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi returned to Beirut and the Syrian Protestant College to start his college education i...
- 1914-08-00 — Shoghi Effendi returned to Haifa after completing his first year of college at the Syrian Protestant...
- 1914-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi returned to Beirut from Haifa to take up his sophomore year of university at the Syri...
- 1915-08-00 — Shoghi Effendi returned from the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut to Haifa. Because of the naval...
- 1915-10-00 — Shoghi returned to Beirut to commence his junior year at the Syrian Protestant College. [PG16]...
- 1916-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi attended his senior year of university at the Syrian Protestant College. Due to the c...
- 1917-04-06 — The United States entered World War I.
See CF36 for Shoghi Effendi's opinion of its participati...
- 1917-06-13 — Shoghi Effendi graduated from the Syrian Protestant College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. [PG...
- 1917-10-09 — Shoghi Effendi registered at the Syrian Protestant College and started the term as a graduate studen...
- 1919-12-25 — Shoghi Effendi presented a precious gift to his friend Dr Esslemont, "a drop of the coagulate and sa...
- 1920-01-04 — The arrival of 'Abdu'l-Baha's hand-built seven-seater Cunningham touring car made in Rochester NY by...
- 1920-04-20 — Shoghi Effendi left Haifa for France with the intention of taking up his study of English at Oxford ...
- 1920-05-15 — Shoghi Effendi arrived in England to take up his studies at Oxford. His stated objective was:
"My ...
- 1920-06-11 — Shoghi Effendi made application to Balliol College at Oxford University as a non-collegiate student ...
- 1920-07-19 — Shoghi Effendi departed from France two weeks after receiving 'Abdu'l-Baha's permission to study at ...
- 1920-07-28 — Shoghi Effendi journeyed from Oxford to London to attend the weekly public Baha'i meeting at Lindsa
- 1920-10-01 — Shoghi Effendi entered Balliol College, Oxford University. [CB284; DH149; GBF11-12]
For his pur...
- 1920-10-16 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - The Michaelmas Term 1920
Because there wasn't a vacancy in Balliol C...
- 1921-01-15 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - The Hilary Term 1921
Permission was issued by the Non-Collegiate Deleg...
- 1921-03-15 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - Spring Vacation 1921
27 March: He visited his sister Rúhangiz in Scot...
- 1921-04-25 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - The Trinity Term at Balliol College 1921
The Trinity Term — 15 Sundays...
- 1921-06-20 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - The Long Vacation 1921
Those students who wished to continue their stu...
- 1921-09-00 — Roy Wilhelm had sent three generators to the Holy Land and had asked permission from 'Abdu'l-Baha to...
- 1921-10-06 — Shoghi Effendi at Oxford - The Michaelmas Term 1921
Shoghi Effendi continued his translation work...
- 1921-11-28 — Ascension of `Abdu'l-Baha
`Abdu'l-Baha passed away at about 1:00 a.m., in Haifa. [AB452; BBD4; BBR3...
- 1921-11-30 — A cable was sent to London with news of `Abdu'l-Baha's passing. Shoghi Effendi was summonsed to the ...
- 1921-12-01 — Dr Esslemont made a trip from Bournemouth to London to visit Shoghi Effendi and offer support. He in...
- 1921-12-16 — Shoghi Effendi left England for Haifa in the company of Lady Blomfield and his sister Rouhangeze [R...
- 1921-12-29 — Shoghi Effendi arrived in the Holy Land from England by train from Egypt. [GBF14; PP42]
An enve...
- 1922-01-03 — The Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha was read aloud for the first time, to a group of nine men, ma...
- 1922-01-07 — The Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha was read publicly at his house to an assembled gathering of B...
- 1922-01-16 — The Greatest Holy Leaf cabled the United States with the news that Shoghi Effendi had been appointed...
- 1922-01-21 — Shoghi Effendi wrote to the two major communities of the Faith, Persia and America, urging the belie...
- 1922-02-00 — Shoghi Effendi called together a group of well-known Baha'is to discuss the future development of th...
- 1922-02-25 — The Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha was written entirely in 'Abdu'l-Baha's own hand and it was Sh...
- 1922-03-05 — Shoghi Effendi wrote to the American Baha'is calling for the establishment of local assemblies where...
- 1922-04-00 — Shoghi Effendi sent verbal messages through Consul Schwarz to Germany and Ethel Rosenberg to Britain...
- 1922-04-02 — Shoghi Effendi, in a letter to Bahiyyih Khanum, advised her that he would be taking a leave of absen...
- 1922-04-03 — To the United States and Canada Shoghi Effendi sent a message to transform the 'Executive Board' int...
- 1922-04-05 — Shoghi Effendi left the affairs of the Faith in the hands of the Greatest Holy Leaf and departed the...
- 1922-04-08 — Bahiyyih Khanum wrote a general letter to the friends acknowledging the letters of allegiance receiv...
- 1922-04-21 — The Shrines of Baha'u'llah and the Bab were electrically illuminated for the first time. [PP69]
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- 1922-04-25 — A National Spiritual Assembly was elected in the United States to replace the Executive Board of the...
- 1922-10-00 — The Greatest Holy Leaf sent Shoghi Effendi's mother and other family members to Switzerland to ask h...
- 1922-12-15 — Shoghi Effendi returned to the Holy Land to take up his duties as Guardian. [PP63-4]
He sent cabl...
- 1923-01-00 — The Guardian sent `Abdu'l-Husayn, Ávarih, to Europe to deepen the believers. [CB335; SBR68; EJR223]...
- 1923-02-00 — Shoghi Effendi sent his early translation of The Hidden Words to America. [PP205]...
- 1923-02-08 — The keys to the Shrine of Baha'u'llah were returned to Shoghi Effendi. [GBF23; PP71]...
- 1923-03-12 — Shoghi Effendi wrote to Baha'is in America, Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Japa...
- 1923-06-00 — Shoghi Effendi left Haifa for Switzerland. [PP72; BBRSM116]
He returned to Haifa in November 19...
- 1923-11-05 — Shoghi Effendi returned from Switzerland. [PP73]...
- 1924-03-22 — Shoghi Effendi left the Holy Land in an effort to recuperate his health. [BKC200-208]...
- 1924-09 — Shoghi Effendi returned to the Holy Land after an absence of some six months. [BA65-7; BBRSM117; UD2...
- 1924-09-22 — The conference `Some Living Religions within the British Empire' was held in London. [BW2:225; ER233...
- 1924-11-21 — Dr John E. Esslemont arrived in Haifa to help Shoghi Effendi with his work. [DJEE31; SBR233]...
- 1925-10-00 — Faced with the possibility of Jewish developments on land near the Shrine of the Bab, Shoghi Effendi...
- 1926-05-29 — Shoghi Effendi departed Palestine for Switzerland. [PP97, SETPE1p131, GBF36]
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- 1926-10-15 — Shoghi Effendi returned from Switzerland where he had been joined by his mother and sister in August...
- 1927-00-00 — Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, a 19-year-old student who had attended the Tarbiyat School in Tehran but was now ...
- 1927-03-00 — Shoghi Effendi retranslated the Hidden Words.
He was assisted by George Townshend and Ethel Rosen...
- 1927-04-29 — The British delegates, at their first National Convention, elected ten members because there were an...
- 1927-06-00 — Shoghi Effendi left Palestine destined for Switzerland in the company of his sister. [Ambassador at ...
- 1927-10-0- — Shoghi Effendi retired to the mountains of Switzerland to rest and re-gain his strength. (SETPE1p150...
- 1927-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi entrusted Dr William Slater and his wife Ida Slater, who were visiting Haifa on a 19-...
- 1928-00-00 — The publication of Baha'i Administration, a collection of communications to the American Baha'i comm...
- 1929-02-14 — Work began on the three additional chambers of the Shrine of the Bab after the rock had been excavat...
- 1929-09-00 — Shoghi Effendi sailed from England to Cape Town and proceeded overland to Cairo. [PP180–1, SETPE1p...
- 1930-07-00 — Shoghi Effendi completed his translation of the Kitab-i-Íqan (The Book of Certitude), the first ...
- 1930-10-07 — Ruth White wrote to the High Commissioner of Palestine stating that she had sent a photograph of 'Ab...
- 1932-00-00 — Shoghi Effendi's translation of Nabil's Narrative entitled The Dawn-Breakers was published. Maṭāl...
- 1932-07-15 — The Greatest Holy Leaf, Bahiyyih Khanum, 'outstanding heroine of the Baha'i Dispensation' passed awa...
- 1934-01-23 — Shoghi Effendi gave Queen Marie of Romania the gift of a Tablet in the handwriting of Baha'u'llah. [...
- 1934-10-20 — The publication of the ...
- 1936-07-03 — The World Congress of Faiths was held in London under the auspices of the World Fellowship of Faiths...
- 1937-03-25 — Shoghi Effendi married Mary Maxwell, Amatu'l-Baha Rúhiyyih Khanum. [PP151; UD115; BN No107 April 19...
- 1937-04-20 — In the period from the inception of the Guardianship to 1937 Shoghi Effendi laid the foundation of t...
- 1938-00-00 — Shoghi Effendi remained in Europe for the year owing to terrorist activities in Palestine. [PP219]
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- 1938-04-30 — Munirih Khanum, the Holy Mother, wife of 'Abdu'l-Baha, passed away. [BBD166; BW8:260; CB358; DH161]
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- 1939-00-02 — Shoghi Effendi ordered twin monuments from Italy similar in style to that of the Greatest Holy Leaf ...
- 1939-12-03 — Shoghi Effendi obtained permission from the British authorities in Palestine to reinter the bodies o...
- 1939-12-05 — Shoghi Effendi disintered the remains of Navvab and the Purest Branch. [DH162; PP260]
He went to ...
- 1939-12-24 — Shoghi Effendi reinterred the remains of Navvab and the Purest Branch. [DH162; GBF116; GPB347–8]
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- 1940-02-09 — The monuments of Navvab and the Purest Branch were dedicated at a ceremony in Haifa. [ZK293]
For ...
- 1940-05-15 — Shoghi Effendi determined to go to England; he and Rúhiyyih Khanum left Haifa for Italy via aquapla...
- 1940-05-25 — After having obtained a visa for Britain in Rome, Shoghi Effendi and Rúhiyyih Khanum left for Engla...
- 1940-06-02 — Shoghi Effendi, Rúhiyyih Khanum and Sutherland Maxwell left St Malo, France, for England and arrive...
- 1940-07-28 — Shoghi Effendi, Rúhiyyih Khanum and Sutherland Maxwell left England for South Africa aboard the SS ...
- 1940-12-27 — Shoghi Effendi and Rúhiyyih Khanum returned Haifa. [PP181]...
- 1942-12-31 — Shoghi Effendi asked Sutherland Maxwell to design the superstructure of the Shrine of the Bab. [BBD2...
- 1944-05-23 — Shoghi Effendi unveiled the model of the Shrine of the Bab at the centenary celebration of the Decla...
- 1944-11-15 — The publication of God Passes By, a survey of the history of the first century of the Babi and Baha'...
- 1946-04-11 — Shoghi Effendi instructed Sutherland Maxwell to set plans in motion for the first stages of the buil...
- 1947-07-09 — Shoghi Effendi, as Head of the Baha'i Faith resident in the Baha'i World Centre, received a letter f...
- 1948-04 — The name 'Baha'i International Community' was first used to refer to the eight existing National Spi...
- 1949-00-00 — Construction began on the superstructure of the Shrine of the Bab. [BBD210]
The architect, Suther...
- 1949-01-21 — Shoghi Effendi had a private interview with Prime Minister Ben Gurion of Israel. [GBF136; PP174–5,...
- 1950-11-03 — Shoghi Effendi entered into negotiations with the government of Israel to exchange some farm land ne...
- 1951-00-03 — Shoghi Effendi received the original manuscript of The Kitab-i-Íqan, in the handwriting of 'Abdu'l-...
- 1951-01-09 — Shoghi Effendi announced the formation of the International Baha'i Council. [BBD118; BBRSM127; GBF10...
- 1951-03-02 — Shoghi Effendi announced the completion of the restoration of the House of 'Abbúd. [MBW8]...
- 1951-04-25 — Shoghi Effendi cabled the Baha'i world with list of the successes of the Baha'i work in the past yea...
- 1951-04-26 — The Baha'i International Fund was established. [MBW13–14]...
- 1952-10-08 — Shoghi Effendi announced his decision to launch 'the fate-laden, soul-stirring, decade-long world-em...
- 1953-04-19 — Shoghi Effendi announced plans to build a House of Worship in Frankfurt. [BW13:733; LDG191–2]l
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- 1953-04-21 — The Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) was launched. See MBW151-156, MBW151.
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- 1953-05-02 — The House of Worship in Wilmette, the Mother Temple of the West, was dedicated in a public ceremony....
- 1953-06-20 — Shoghi Effendi designated the Maxwell home in Montreal as a Shrine. [MtC179]...
- 1953-10-00 — The superstructure of the Shrine of the Bab was completed. [BBD210; CB324–5; PP235; ZK85–6]
M...
- 1953-10-14 — Shoghi Effendi announced the settling of 13 further Knights of Baha'u'llah, with 178 territories now...
- 1953-11-11 — Shoghi Effendi announced the settling of a further contingent of Knights of Baha'u'llah in 21 virgin...
- 1954-04-06 — Shoghi Effendi announced the creation of five Auxiliary Boards with the following number of members:...
- 1954-04-06 — Five Continental Baha'i Funds were inaugurated by Shoghi Effendi. [MBW59, 63]...
- 1954-04-06 — Shoghi Effendi announced that plans for the International Baha'i Archives had been completed and tha...
- 1954-04-12 — Shoghi Effendi accepted the bid made by the firm of Enrico Pandolfini of Pietrasanta in Tuscany, Ita...
- 1954-05-26 — Shoghi Effendi, Rúhiyyih Khanum and Leroy Ioas returned the visit of President Ben Zvi by visiting ...
- 1954-11-27 — Shoghi Effendi described the significance of the world administrative centre of the Faith and the 's...
- 1955-08-23 — Shoghi Effendi announced plans to begin construction on the House of Worship in Kampala, Uganda in l...
- 1957-04-02 — Shoghi Effendi announced that the Faith had been established in 251 countries, that there were more ...
- 1957-04-21 — In his last Ridvan message Shoghi Effendi announced that the exterior of International Baha'i Archiv...
- 1957-05-07 — Shoghi Effendi sent a fragment of the plaster from the room of the Bab in the Fortress of Mah-Kú to...
- 1957-10-02 — Shoghi Effendi designated the Hands of the Cause the 'Chief Stewards of Baha'u'llah's embryonic Worl...
- 1957-11-04 — Passing of Shoghi Effendi
Shoghi Effendi passed away in London of coronary thrombosis after a bou...
- 1957-11-25 — A proclamation was issued stating that Shoghi Effendi left no heir and made no appointment of anothe...
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