- 1862-00-02 — Haji Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, a cousin of the Bab, lived in Shanghai during this period. This is the fir...
- 1868-09-05 — The ship that had delivered the exiles to 'Akka carried on and Mirza Yahya arrived in Cyprus with hi...
- 1873-04-12 — Birth of Hippolyte Dreyfus, the first French Baha'i, in Paris. [HDB1] Named by Shoghi Effendi a Disc...
- 1894-06-05 — Thornton Chase became a Baha'i in Chicago. [BBD53; BFA1:35–6]
For some time before he heard of ...
- 1895-00-00 — Mrs Kate C. Ives of Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts became a Baha'i, making her the first Western w...
- 1895-06-00 — Miss Marion Brown became a Baha'i in London, the first European to accept the Baha'i Faith. [BFA1:37...
- 1899-06-00 — Ethel Jenner Rosenberg accepted the Baha'i Faith, the first English woman to become a Baha'i in her ...
- 1901-06-00 — Thomas Breakwell, an Englishman living in the United States, learned of the Baha'i Faith in Paris fr...
- 1902-00-05 — Baha'i groups were established in Canada and in the Hawaiian Islands. [BBRSM:106-7; BFA2:160; SBBH1:...
- 1905-00-00 — A Baha'i group was established in Germany soon after the arrival of the first Baha'i in the country,...
- 1906-00-01 — The first Baha'i of Hungarian origin, Countess Aurelia Bethien, declares her faith in the USA. [
- 1909-00-00 — Karl Kruttner, a professor in Bohemia, became a Baha'i, the first person to do so in the Austro-Hung...
- 1911-00-00 — The earliest known Baha'i activity in South Africa was the holding of Baha'i meetings in 1911 at the...
- 1912-00-00 — Margaret Stevenson was the first believer in New Zealand. [New Zealand Baha'i News, May 1997]
Se...
- 1916-00-00 — Anthony Yuen Seto and his wife Mamie Lorettta O'Connor became Baha'is in Hawaii. Mr Seto was the fir...
- 1916-04-00 — The first Chinese Baha'i in China, Chen Hai An (Harold A. Chen), became a Baha'i while studying at t...
- 1919-00-00 — The first Norwegian to accept the Faith, Johanna Christensen-Schubarth, `the mother of the Norwegian...
- 1919-09-20 — Martha Root arrived in Argentina, the first recorded visit of a Baha'i to this country. [MR101]
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- 1920-00-00 — Hyde and Clara Dunn arrived in Samoa enroute to Australia, the first Baha'is to visit the islands.
...
- 1920-08-00 — The first Argentineans to become Baha'is, Hermann Grossmann and his sister Elsa Grossman, accepted t...
- 1921-02-01 — Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Baha'i pioneer in Latin America, arrived in Rio de Janeiro. S...
- 1922-00-01 — Oswald Whitaker, a Sydney optometrist, and Euphemia Eleanor `Effie' Baker, a photographer, become Ba...
- 1924-00-00 — Miss Nora Lee, who became a Baha'i in New Zealand, was the first Baha'i to travel to Fiji, working a...
- 1925-04-21 — The first Local Spiritual Assembly in South Africa was formed in the Carey home in Arcadia, Pretoria...
- 1926-00-00 — By 1926 there was a small group of Baha'is in Yugoslavia (Petrinja, Croatia). [
- 1926-01-00 — Orcella Rexford and her husband Dr Gayne Gregory (the first to accept the Faith in Alaska) went to H...
- 1928-06-00 — Martha Root visited the parents of Milosh Wurm in Brno. He had been the first to become a Baha'i in...
- 1931-04-31 — Mr Refo Capari (Chapary), the first Albanian Baha'i, arrived in Tirana, Albania from New York where ...
- 1935-00-01 — Husayn Uskuli, a Baha'i resident in Shanghai, traveled to Taiwan, the first Baha'i known to visit th...
- 1936-00-01 — Mr E. R. and Mrs Loulie Mathews arrived in Guatemala, the first Baha'i teachers to visit the country...
- 1936-11-00 — Renée Szanto-Felbermann became a Baha'i, the first to accept the Faith in Hungary. She was consider...
- 1938-00-00 — William DeForge became the first Baha'i to visit the Dominican Republic. He made a one-day trip from...
- 1938-00-00 — The first Baha'i to be resident in Finland, Aminda Josephine Kruka, an American nurse, arrived in th...
- 1938-07-00 — The first Finnish Baha'i, Pastor Väinö Rissanen, accepted the Faith. He was taught by Miss Joseph...
- 1939-00-00 — The first believer in El Salvador was Sra. Angela Ochoa Velazquez. [
- 1939-08-27 — The first Baha'i resident in Guatemala, Gerrard Sluter-Schlutius, arrived in the country from Toront...
- 1939-10-00 — Antonio Roca, the first Baha'i in Honduras, entered the country.
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- 1939-11-00 — F. Ferrari became a Baha'i, the first to accept the Faith in Honduras.
Another source says that S...
- 1939-11-02 — The first people to become Baha'is in El Salvador, Luis O. Pérez, Emilio Bermudez and José Manuel ...
- 1939-12-00 — The first pioneers to Cuba were Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Marangella and Sr. Perfecto Perez Toledo was th...
- 1939-12-08 — Margaret Lentz, a German stenographer, arrived in the Dominican Republic from Geneva, the first Baha...
- 1940-00-00 — By the mid-1940s Corporal Thomas Bereford Macauley became a Baha'i in Nigeria, the first Baha'i in t...
- 1940-00-00 — First believer in Honduras was Sra. Angela Ochoa Velazquez (Tegucigalpa). [
- 1940-00-00 — First believer in Honduras was Sra. Angela Ochoa Velazquez (Tegucigalpa).
. [
- 1940-00-00 — The first pioneer to Uruguay was Wilfrid Barton. [The Beginnings of the
- 1940-01-13 — Maria Teressa Martin de López (Irizarry), from Puerto Rico, became a Baha'i in the Dominican Republ...
- 1940-03-01 — May Bolles Maxwell (b. 14 January 1940 in Englewood, NJ) passed away in Buenos Aires. [BBD153; TG49]...
- 1940-08-00 — The first four people to become Baha'is in Costa Rica accepted the Faith after Gayle Woolson and Ame...
- 1940-10-20 — Ralph Laltoo, the first Trinidadian to become a Baha'i, accepted the Faith in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1940-12-00 — Luis Carlo Nieto became the first Baha'i in Colombia.
He soon left the Faith and Aura Sanchez, wh...
- 1940-12-00 — Gerald and Vivian MacBeans, a Jamaican couple, and their niece, Miss May Johnson, became the first p...
- 1941-00-00 — Aura Sanchez became a Baha'i in Colombia, considered the first Baha'i of the country. She enrolled i...
- 1941-05-18 — Yvonne Cuellar, a French woman, became a Baha'i in Bolivia.
Although Marina del Prado was the fir...
- 1942-00-00 — Dr Malcolm King, a Jamaican who had become a Baha'i in the United States, introduced the Faith to hi...
- 1942-11-16 — Manuel Bergés Chupani, of Sanchez, Dominican Republic, became a Baha'i, perhaps the first native Do...
- 1946-06-00 — Rita Marshall, the first person native to St Vincent in the Caribbean to become a Baha'i, accepted t...
- 1947-05-00 — Clarence Iverson visited the Bahamas, the first recorded visit to the islands by a Baha'i.
- 1947-07-05 — Manuel Garcia Vasquez became a Baha'i in Spain, the first believer in the country.
- 1947-09-00 — Léa Nys became a Baha'i in Belgium in 1947, the first Belgian to accept the Faith after World War T...
- 1947-12-12 — The first pioneer to Portugal, Valeria Lamb Nicols, arrived from a pioneer post in Denmark.
- 1947-12-31 — Suzette Hipp became a Baha'i in Luxembourg, the second Luxembourger to accept the Faith and the firs...
- 1948-12-00 — Amjad Ali arriveed in East Pakistan, from Chapra in Bihar, northern India, the first pioneer in the ...
- 1949-00-00 — Agnes Harrison (née Parent), an Athabascan, became a Baha'i in Alaska, the first Native Alaskan to ...
- 1949-03-26 — Susam Mckechnie (b. 4 May 1901, d. 2 May 1994) became the first Glaswegian to accept the Faith. [
- 1950-10-23 — Nur Ali, a well-known and respected public servant in Suva, became a Baha'i, the first to accept the...
- 1950-11-00 — Brian Burland, the first Bermudian to become a Baha'i, accepted the Faith in Canada.
- 1951-00-08 — By this year the first Canadian Inuit had become a Baha'i.
- 1951-05-23 — Jamshed and Parvati Fozdar arrived in Kuching with their son, Vijay, and became the first Baha'is to...
- 1951-07-00 — Mr P. K. Gopalakrishnan Nayer, an Indian, became a Baha'i in Dar-es-Salaam, the first person to acce...
- 1951-12-00 — Brothers-in-law Fred Bigabwa, a Mutoro, and Crispin Kajubi, a Muganda, became Baha'is in Uganda, the...
- 1952-00-02 — Mr Narain Das, a textile salesman from India working in Singapore, became a Baha'i, the first person...
- 1952-00-05 — Walli Khan, a Fiji Indian, became a Baha'i, the first person in Fiji to accept the Faith.
- 1952-03-00 — Mariette Bolton of Australia visited New Caledonia, the first Baha'i to visit the islands. [BW15p43...
- 1952-06-02 — Mr C. C. Cheng, a newspaper reporter; Professor L. S. Tso, a professor of engineering; and Miss Rosi...
- 1952-06-03 — Aaron ('Arthur') B. Wellesley Cole, a Sierra Leonean barrister, returned to Sierra Leone from Englan...
- 1953-00-00 — Alfred Amisi (Maragoli), Jacob Kisombe (Mtaita), Laurence Ouna (Mluhya), Labi Mathew (Zulu), and Zab...
- 1953-04-21 — Mrs Meherangiz Munsiff, the wife of an Indian diplomat in London, arrived in Madagascar and was ackn...
- 1953-10-15 — Enoch Olinga arrived in Victoria (Limbé) and was named a Knight of Baha'u'llah for the British Came...
- 1953-10-48 — Albert Nyarko Buapiah became a Baha'i in Ghana, the first Ghanaian to become a Baha'i in the country...
- 1953-12-00 — 'Abdu'l-Karim Amin Khawja became a Baha'i in Algeria, the first person to accept the Faith in that c...
- 1953-12-19 — Yan Kee Leong became a Baha'i, the first person to accept the Faith in Malaya.
- 1954-00-02 — The first Tlinget from Alaska to become a Baha'i, Eugene King, enrolled.
- 1954-00-03 — The first person to become a Baha'i in the Balearic Islands, C. Miguel, enrolled.
- 1954-00-06 — Mr and Mrs Sandikonda, Eliam Chisengalumbwe, Mr Musonda, Peter Chitindi and Elias Kanayenda became B...
- 1954-00-07 — José Mingorance Fernandez and his wife, Carmen Tost, a Spanish couple, accepted the Baha'i Faith; t...
- 1954-03-04 — The arrival of Knights of Baha'u'llah Elena (Marsella) and Roy Fernie in Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)....
- 1954-04-06 — The first native Fijian, the first Pygmy, the first Berber and the first Greenlander to accept the B...
- 1954-06-18 — The first islander to become a Baha'i in the Seychelles, Marshall Delcy, a local school teacher, enr...
- 1954-06-19 — The first Canary Islander to become a Baha'i, Sr. José Jacinto Castillo y Gonzalez, enrolled.
- 1954-07-04 — Reginald Stone and Allan Delph became Baha'is in British Guiana, the first two people to accept the ...
- 1954-07-06 — The first Somali to become a Baha'i in Djibouti, 'Ali 'Abdu'llah, a 21-year old employee of a commer...
- 1954-07-12 — The first South African to become a Baha'i enrolled in the Faith on this day. [That Promising Contin...
- 1954-10-04 — The first person to become a Baha'i in Nassau, Bahamas, Winfield Small, a young police officer from ...
- 1954-11-20 — The first person to become a Baha'i in Tonga, Harry Terepo, born in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, enrolle...
- 1955-00-01 — The first person to become a Baha'i in The Gambia, Mr Nichola Banna, a Lebanese merchant, enrolled.
- 1955-00-02 — The first indigenous Samoan to become a Baha'i, Sa'ialala Tamasese, enrolled.
He was a member of ...
- 1955-00-04 — Labib Isfahani arrived in Abidjan, French West Africa, from Dakar, the first Baha'i to settle in wha...
- 1955-00-05 — The first person to become a Baha'i in Spanish Sahara, 'Abdu'l-Salam Salim Al-Sbinti, enrolled.
- 1955-02-00 — The first local person to become a Baha'i in Mauritius, Mr Yam-Lim, a Chinese Catholic, enrolled.
- 1955-02-08 — The first people to become Baha'is in Réunion, Paul and Françoise Tayllamin (8 Feb) and Jean Donat...
- 1955-03-00 — The first person to become a Baha'i in the Solomon Islands, William Gina, a 43-year-old Solomon Isla...
- 1955-03-04 — The first Tongan to become a Baha'i in Tonga, Tevita Ngalo'afe, enrolled.
- 1955-03-14 — The first person to become a Baha'i in Guam, Charles T. Mackey, a United States civil service employ...
- 1955-04-02 — The first person to become a Baha'i in the Bahamas, Molly Newbold, enrolled.
As she did not remai...
- 1956-00-00 — The first Tlinget to become a Baha'i in Alaska, Joyce Anderson Combs, enrolled.
- 1956-00-00 — The first people to become Baha'is in Cape Verde enrolled.
- 1956-00-00 — The first person in Tibet to become a Baha'i, Chiten Tashi, a young businessman from the village of ...
- 1956-02-12 — The first four people to become Baha'is in Hong Kong, Nari Sherwani, Ng Ying Kay, Chan Lie Kun and C...
- 1956-02-21 — The first Baha'i pioneer, Marguerite Allman, (later Miners), formerly of Hamilton and her pioneer po...
- 1957-00-00 — Charles Winfield Small, a native of Barbados and the first to become a Baha'i in the Bahamas, return...
- 1958-00-00 — The first Aleut to become a Baha'i, Vassa Lekanoff, enrolled in Unalaska.
- 1959-00-02 — The first Inuit in Alaska to become a Baha'i, William Wiloya, enrolled in Nome.
- 1960-00-03 — The first Côte d'Ivorian to become a Baha'i, Mr Un Bodo, a Bété from the region of Gagnoa working...
- 1961-00-00 — Knud Jensen (of mixed Danish, St Thomanian parentage), the first local person to become a Baha'i in ...
- 1962-03-01 — Aboubacar Kâ, a school teacher and the first Senegalese known to become a Baha'i, enrolled.
- 1962-05-22 — The first Athabascan Indian north of the Arctic Circle to become a Baha'i, Charley Roberts, enrolled...
- 1963-11-01 — The first person on Saipan to become a Baha'i, Patience Robinson, enrolled.
- 1964-03-22 — The Faith was brought to St Vincent for the first time by Shirley Jackson, who returned to the islan...
- 1965-00-00 — Emma Reinert, the first Faroese to become a Baha'i, enrolled.
- 1965-02-01 — Jean and Ivanie Désert and their three children arrived in Guadeloupe from Haiti, the first Baha'is...
- 1965-04-00 — Franklin Bozor, an agricultural labourer, and Pierre Defoe were the first persons to become Baha'is ...
- 1965-07-15 — Hendrik Olsen, the first indigenous Greenlander to become a Baha'i, enrolled. [Bahaipedia; CBN Np 19...
- 1965-08-02 — Thaddeus Smith, Clara Smith, Nando Valle, Evert Scott, Gloria Scott, Thomas Seymour and Lawrence Jeb...
- 1965-09-19 — Walter Garland and Miss Annie Lourie Williams, the first to become Baha'is on Grand Turk Island, enr...
- 1966-00-00 — Tommy Kabu, a prominent person from the village of Ara'ava in the Gulf Province and the first in the...
- 1966-04-17 — Ivor Ellard, a British resident of the United States, arrived Dominica, the first pioneer to the isl...
- 1967-00-00 — Cleophas Koko Vava, a Togolese employed at the American Cultural Centre as a librarian to the United...
- 1967-05-03 — Patsy Vincent, a youth from Castries and the first St Lucian to become a Baha'i, enrolled.
- 1968-07-00 — Christian and Elanzo Callwood, Norris Duport and Ethien Chinnery, the first people to become Baha'is...
- 1968-07-00 — Louis Joseph, the first Baha'i indigenous to Dominica, enrolled in Roseau.
- 1969-08-01 — The first 12 new Baha'is enrolled on Union Island in the Grenadines during a visit of Patricia Pacca...
- 1970-01-25 — Valde Nyman, the first full Gypsy in Finland to become a Baha'i, enrolled in Helsinki.
- 1971-00-00 — The first three people to become Baha'is in Guinea enrolled. [BINS45]
- 1975-01-01 — Shidan and Susan Kouchekzadeh, an Iranian-British couple pioneering in Sierra Leone, arrived in Cona...
- 1978-03-04 — Christaline Francis, the first woman of the Caribs to become a Baha'i, enrolled in Dominica.
- 1980-00-02 — Yee Wah Sing, the first Fiji-born person to become a Baha'i in Fiji, enrolled. [BN596:14]
- 1982-08-01 — Shakontala ('Shaku') Aswani, the first Gibraltarian to become a Baha'i, enrolled in Northern Ireland...
- 1984-02-28 — The passing of Renée Szanto-Felbermann (b 21 June, 1900, d. 28 February, 1984) in Freiburg, Germany...
- 1984-06-04 — Vladimir Malai, the first Moldovan to become a Baha'i in Moldova, enrolled. [Candle 9]
- 1989-08-02 — The first Mongolian to become a Baha'i, Ms Oyundelger, a 22-year-old English-language pupil of Sean ...
- 1989-08-03 — The first Latvian resident in Latvia to become a Baha'i, Lilita Postaza, a renowned tapestry artist,...
- 1990-03-01 — Fourteen-year-old Olga Anatolevna Kirushkin (Olga Kiryushkina) from Bobruisk became the first known ...
- 1992-00-00 — Priscilla Rhodes was the first pioneer to settle in Venezuela.
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- 1992-07-28 — The passing of Léa Nys (b. 27 December 1910 in Brussels). She was "the first to accept the Message ...
- 1993-04-21 — The first person resident on Norfolk Island to become a Baha'i enrolled. [BINS293:8]
- 1999-06-21 — The passing of Meherangiz Munsiff in London (b. 23 November, 1923 Bombay, India) Born into a Baha'i ...
- 2003-07-25 — The passing of Elisabeth Charlotte (Lottie) Tobias. She was described by the National Spiritual Asse...
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