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  1. 1907-11-26
      The first national Bahá'í conference was held in America. [BFA2:XVI; BW10:179]
    • At the invitation of the House of Spirituality of Chicago, nine Bahá'ís from various communities joined some ten from the Chicago area at a one-day conference to foster national cooperation on the Temple project and to choose a suitable site for the Temple. [BFA2:280; CT78; GPB262, 349]
    • M. Momen posits that this was probably the first Bahá'í convention. [BAHAISM xi. Bahai Conventions]
  2. 1920-12-27 — The first All-India Bahá'í Convention was held in Bombay with 175 in attendance. [AB446; BBRSM194; 115]
  3. 1921-05-19
      The first Race Amity Conference was held in Washington DC at the old First Congregational Church, 10th & G Streets NW. This church had a reputation for opposition to racial prejudice and had close ties with Howard University. It had a capacity of 2,000. [BW2:281; CoO197; SYH126]

      Referring back to this historic event, Abdu'l-Baha, in a Tablet to Roy Williams (an African-American Baha'i from New York City), wrote:

        I hope that the Congress of the White and the Colored that was instituted will have great influence in the inhabitants of America, so that everyone may confess and bring witness that the teachings of His Holiness, Baha'u'llah, assembles the White, the Black, the Yellow, the Red and the Brown under the shade of the pavilion of the Oneness of the World of Humanity; and that if the teachings of His Holiness, Baha'u'llah, be not enforced, the antagonism between the Colored and the White, in America, will give rise to great calamities. The ointment for this wound and the remedy for this disease is only the Holy Breaths [Holy Spirit]. If the hearts be attracted to the Heavenly Bounties, surely will the White and the Colored, in a short time, according to the teachings of Baha'u'llah, put away hatred and animosity and [abide in] perfect love and fellowship. (Haifa, August 2, 1921, translated by Touhi [Ruhi] M. Afnan.) [The Bahá'í "Pupil of the Eye" Metaphor—What Does it Mean? by Christopher Buck]
    • Martha Root handled the newspaper publicity for the conference and 'Abdu'l-Bahá sent a message to it via Mountfort Mills. [SYH126]
    • Mabry and Sadie Oglesby and their daughter Bertha from Boston as well as Agnes Parsons and Louis Gregory were involved. Agnes Parsons, during her pilgrimage in 1920, was instructed by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, "I want you to arrange in Washington a convention for unity between the white and colored people."[SETPE1p141-145, BW2p281]
    • For details of the conference see the article by Louis Gregory entitled "Inter-racial Amity". [BW2:281-2]
    • See article The Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America:Alain Locke and Robert Abbot by Christopher Buck [Bahá'í Studies Review, 17, pages 3-46, 2011] (includes a chronology of 29 Race Amity conferences organized in the United States between 1921 and 1935).
    • The Washington Bee (which, as part of its masthead, billed itself "Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper") published the text of the entire speech on May 25, 1912, in an article headlined, "Abdue [ sic] Baha: Revolution in Religious Worship."
    • Documentary: 'Abdu'l-Baha's Initiative on Race from 1921: Race Amity Conferences.
    • See the film Root of the Race Amiy Movement.
    • See the trailer for the film An American Story: Race Amity and the Other Tradition.
    • See the website for the National Centre for Race Amity.
  4. 1928-07-00 — The first International Religious Congress for World Peace was held at The Hague. It was attended by Martha Root. [BW3:45]
  5. 1930-12-00 — The first Asian Women's Conference was held in India. [BW17:180]
  6. 1947-00-00 — The first Chilean Teaching Conference was held in Santiago.
  7. 1953-02-12
      The first Intercontinental Teaching Conference was convened by the British National Spiritual Assembly in Kampala, Uganda. [BW12:121, MBW135-140; BN No 267 May 1953 p5-7]
    • For Shoghi Effendi's message to the conference see BW12:121–4.
    • For a report of the conference see BW12:124–30.
    • It was attended by ten Hands of the Cause, Bahá'ís from 19 countries and representatives of over 30 tribes. [PP413]
    • Over a hundred new African believers attended as personal guests of the Guardian. [PP413]
    • With this conference the Ten Year World Crusade was launched. [BBRSM158–9; BW12:253; MBW41]
    • Picture. [BW12p118]
    • See some candid video footage taken by Ted Cardell.
  8. 1953-10-08
      The Asian Intercontinental Teaching Conference was held in New Delhi. [BW12:178; CBN No 50 Mar 1953 p6-7]
    • For Shoghi Effendi's message to the conference see BW12:178–81.
    • At the request of our beloved Guardian a memorial service was held for our dearly loved Hand of the Cause, Mr. Sutherland Maxwell. Loving tributes were paid to his memory by Mr. Remey and Mr. Giachery. [CBN No 50 Mar 1953 p6]
    • For a report of the conference see BW12:181–8.
    • This was the first international Bahá'í gathering ever to be held in the East. [BW12:181; SBR171]
    • It was attended by 489 Bahá'ís representing 31 countries. [BW 12:181]
    • The design for the International Bahá'í Archives was revealed to the Bahá'ís of the world for the first time at this conference. [DH168]
    • Following the New Delhi conference the Hands of the Cause and other visiting Bahá'ís travelled the length and the breadth of the country speaking in universities, teachers' training colleges, agricultural schools, theatres, hotels, Y.M.C.A.'s, at service clubs, and theosophical societies. Prominent citizens representative of the Hindu, Moslem and Christian faiths were chairmen at many of these meetings. There were numerous press conferences and wide-spread newspaper publicity. The Hands of the Cause were able to present Bahá'í books to world famous Indian scholars, to the family of the Maharaja of Indore and to representatives of the press. Perhaps never since Abdu'l·Bahá visited America has the Faith been presented in such a variety of places in so short a time. Dorothy Baker was one of the Hands who participated in this post-conference proclamation. [CBN No54 Jul 1954 p5]
  9. 1955-09-23 — International Teaching Conference was held in Nikko, Japan. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze p87, 97]
  10. 1956-11-11 — First All-Taiwan Teaching Conference was held in Tainan, Taiwan. The conference was attended by then Auxiliary Board Member Agnes Alexander from Japan. She would visit Taiwan two more times, in 1958 and 1962-as a Hand of the Cause. [The Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle by Barbara R. Sims p17]
  11. 1958-01-23
      The first Intercontinental Conference held at the mid-point of the Crusade convened in Kampala, Uganda. [BW13:317]
    • Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, who had been designated by the Guardian as his representative, attended, accompanied by Dr Lutfu'lláh Hakím.
    • For the message of the Custodians to the conference see MC56–60.
    • For a report of the conference see BW13:317.
  12. 1963-04-28
      The first Bahá'í World Congress, the 'Most Great Jubilee', was held in London to celebrate the centenary of the declaration of Bahá'u'lláh. The beloved Guardian had wanted this long-planned gathering to take place in Baghdad, but the situation did not allow the gathering to take place there. In 1961, the Hands of the Cause of God residing at the Holy Land decided to hold the Congress in London, which would also enable the participants to visit the resting place of the Guardian. [BW14:57]
    • For a detailed account and many pictures see BW14:57–80.
    • For the programme of speakers see BW14:60–1.
    • Some 6,000 Bahá'ís attend.
    • The closing talk at the Bahá'í world congress by Hand of the cause Abu'l-Qasim Faizi.
  13. 1968-07-27 — The first National Youth Conference of Honduras opened in Santa Rosa de Copán. [BW15:328–9]
  14. 1969-04-04
      The first National Youth Conference of Australia opened at Bolton Place summer School. [BW15:329]
    • For picture see BW15:328.
  15. 1969-05-24 — The first Bahá'í Youth Conference of Japan opened on Jogashima Island. [BW15:329]
  16. 1969-12-29
      The First Pacific Area Bahá'í Youth Conference took place in Apia, Western Samoa. [BW15:329–30]
    • For picture see BW15:330.
  17. 1970-00-03 — A Bahá'í International Youth Conference was held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
  18. 1970-00-04 — Botswana held its first National Youth School. [BW15:329]
  19. 1970-12-25
      The First International Bahá'í Youth Winter School took place in Salzburg, Austria, attended by 600 people from 25 countries. [BW15:332]
    • For picture see BW15:332.
  20. 1971-08-27
      The first Bahá'í Youth Conference for Western Asia took place in New Delhi. [BW15:335]
    • Two thousand people enrolled during the conference and the week following. [BW15:335]
  21. 1971-11-01 — The first Bahá'í Youth Conference of the Antilles took place in the Dominican Republic. [BW 15:217]
  22. 1972-12-01 — The first International Youth Conference of Surinam took places in Paramaribo. [BW15:341]
  23. 1972-12-29 — The first West African Bahá'í Youth conference was held in The Gambia.

    The Continental Board of Counsellors sponsored the first West African Bahá'í Youth Conference in conjunction with the National Spiritual Assembly of Upper West Africa. The Conference was held in The Gambia on the campus of Yundum College some fifteen miles from the capital city of Bathurst. Youth representing nine countries in this zone attended: Nigeria, Upper Volta, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania, plus pioneers originating from the United States, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, and friiq. A young Bahá'í from Sweden was able to greet the friends during a brief stop on a boat cruise. Counsellors Mr. H. R. Ardikani and Dr. William Maxwell Jr., were present as well as six of their Auxiliary Board members, Mr. Amos Agwu, Mr. Muhammad Al-Salihi, Mrs. H. Vera Edwards, Mr. Friday Ekpe, Mr. Shidan Kouchekzadeh and Dr. B. Sadiqzadeh. A total of fifty-six persons attended. [Bahá'í News 504]

  24. 1973-00-00 — The first International Youth Conference of Mexico took place in Puebla City, was attended by 200 youth from five countries. [BW15:343]
  25. 1973-11-00 — The first youth conference of Papua New Guinea took place in Sogeri with 40 youth and visitors. [BW16:276]
  26. 1974-00-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward and Virgin Islands held its first annual National Teaching Conference. [BW16:187]
  27. 1974-00-00 — The first International Bahá'í Youth Conference to be held in Botswana took place in Mahalapye. [BW16:150]
  28. 1974-05-00 — The first National Youth Conference of Burma took place during the visit of Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum. [BW16:251]
  29. 1974-08-04
      The first International Youth Conference, the largest conference ever held in Hawaii to date, took place in Hilo. [BW16:229]<
    • For picture see BW16:232.
  30. 1974-08-11 — The first Teaching Conference of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe took place in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. [BW16:110]

    The conference was seen as an historic one in that it was the first to which participants had come to order to discuss the whole area of the European Arctic and sub-Arctic stretching from Finland in the west in Greenland in the east, from Svalbard in the extreme north to the Scottish islands in the south.

    Iceland is the only country in Europe that has planned and systematically carried out, year by year, a program of proclamation (now in its fourth year) that has taken the Faith throughout the entire country, north, south, east and west. (Betty Reed, Continental Board of Counsellors for Europe) [BN No 525 8 December 1974 p10-11]

  31. 1975-00-00
      The first all-Quechua Bahá'í Conference was held in Cusco, Peru, attended by Bahá'ís from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. [BW16p445]
    • This conference was attended by Rúhíyyih Khánum and some of her companions on the Green Light Expedition. [BW16p439]
    • The supreme deity of the Incas, Ilya-Tiqsi Viracocha Pachayachachiq ("Ancient Foundation, Lord, Teacher"), was incarnated and dwelled among men as the Inca prophet of God. Viracocha promised to return one day and that hope has been realized. [Indigenous Messengers of God by Christopher Buck and Kevin Locke p13; Native Messengers of God in Canada?: A Test Case for Bahá'í Universalism by Christopher Buck]
  32. 1975-02-00 — The first National Teaching Conference in Sierra Leone took place in Bo. [BW16:172]
  33. 1975-02-01 — The first Bahá'í Women's Conference of the Solomon Islands took place at Auki, Malaita Island, attended by more than 90 women. [BW16:282]
  34. 1975-03-29 — The first Bahá'í Youth Conference of the Canary Islands was held in Santa Cruz. [BW16:313]
  35. 1975-07-09 — The first International Bahá'í Youth Conference of Iceland took place in Njardvik with youth from nine countries. [BW16:301]
  36. 1975-12-00 — The first International Youth School to be held in Rhodesia took place near Bulawayo. [BW16:155]
  37. 1975-12-00 — The first National Teaching Conference to be held in Senegal took place in Dakar. [BW16:175]
  38. 1976-03-24 — The first Continental Youth Conference of Western Asia took place in Karachi, Pakistan. [BW16:265]
  39. 1977-04-01 — The first National Bahá'í Children's Conference of Samoa took place. [BW17:211]
  40. 1977-12-02
      The first International Conference of Bahá'í Women in South America was held in Lima, Peru, attended by 200 women from 12 countries. [BW17:172]
    • For picture see BW17:211.
  41. 1978-01-15 — The first National Bahá'í Women's Conference of Niger took place.
  42. 1980-05-03 — The first Bahá'í International Conference on Health and Healing was held in Ottawa, Canada, under the sponsorship of the Association for Bahá'í Studies. [BW 18:201]
  43. 1982-04-09 — The first Conference on Bahá'í Scholarship to be held in Australia took place at Yerrinbool Bahá'í School in New South Wales. [BW18:202-203]
  44. 1983-08-05 — The first Los Angeles Bahá'í History Conference was held at the University of California at Los Angeles. [BW19:369–70]
  45. 1984-12-24 — The first National Bahá'í Youth Conference to be held in Greece took place in Athens. [BW19:319]
  46. 1985-04-30 — The first annual conference of the Association for Bahá'í Studies, Brazil, took place in Saõ Paulo. [BW19:358]
  47. 1985-09-00 — The first Bahá'í Studies conference in Hawaii took place at the national Bahá'í centre. [BW19:360]
  48. 1985-10-00 — The first National Bahá'í Youth Conference in Nepal took place, attended by 120 Bahá'ís, the largest Bahá'í gathering ever held in the country. [VV74]
  49. 1987-01-16 — The first Youth Conference of the Bahamas was held with representation from three islands. [BINS173:9]
  50. 1987-12-00 — The first Children's Conference of Uganda was held in Kikaaya, Kampala. [BINS173:7]
  51. 1988-00-00 — The first Caribbean Bahá'í Women's conference took place in Antigua.
  52. 1988-07-14 — The Bahá'í Association for Arts (BAFA) helds its first arts festival at the Bahá'í conference centre De Poort, Netherlands. [BINS180:4]
  53. 1988-09-25 — The first annual Bahá'í Studies Conference of Spain was held in Barcelona. [BINS192:5]
  54. 1988–12- — The first National Youth Conference of Côte d'Ivoire took place. [BINS196:9]
  55. 1989-03-23 — The First National Women's Conference of Spain was held in Madrid. [BINS201:6]
  56. 1989-07-02 — The first European Bahá'í Women's Conference was held at De Poort Conference Centre, the Netherlands. [BINS203:2]
  57. 1989-12-18 — During the Youth Winter School in Traben-Trarback participants from 12 countries including East Germany, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union gathered for the first time since the Second World War. [BINS215:2]
  58. 1990-01-24 — The first All-Union Bahá'í Conference was held in Moscow with 250 people gathered from all over the Soviet Union and from 17 other countries. This was the first national Bahá'í conference held in the USSR in about 60 years. [BINS224:8; VV112]
  59. 1990-03-31 — The first Bahá'í International Chinese Symposium was held in San Francisco, California; it was attended by 362 Bahá'ís from eight countries. [BINS222:6]
  60. 1990-10-20 — The first National Children's Conference of Nicaragua was held in Retiro, Aurora, Managua, attended by more than 40 children. [BINS243:8]
  61. 1990-11-30 — The First National Teaching Conference of the Bahá'ís of Romania was held near Poiana Brasov, in the Carpathian mountains. [CBN Feb 91p14]
  62. 1990-12-08 — The first All-Union Bahá'í Consultative Conference was held in Moscow attended by Bahá'ís from every part of the Soviet Union, members of three Continental Boards of Counsellors and representatives of all those National Spiritual Assemblies having responsibility for the work of the Faith in that area. [BINS 238:6] [CBN Mar91Vol3no8] [VV112]
  63. 1992-01-01 — The first teaching conference of Southern Yugoslavia was held, attended by 40 Bahá'ís representing 12 nationalities. [BINS264:8]
  64. 1992-01-10 — The first teaching conference of Croatia and Slovenia was held in Kranj. [BINS263:1–2]
  65. 1992-04-04 — The first Children's Festival and Family Conference of Turkey was held in Cankaya, Ankara. [BINS269:5–6]
  66. 1993-01-29 — The first Latin American Bahá'í Social and Economic Development Seminar took place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. [BINS308:2; BW92–3:139]
  67. 1993-10-02 — The first European Bahá'í Medical Conference was held in De Poort, Netherlands, attended by people from 26 countries. [BW93–4:104–5]
  68. 1994-09-09
      The first National Youth Conference of Liberia was held, attended by 75 youth. [BW94–5:188–9]
    • For picture see BW94–5:189.
  69. 1995-01-00 — The first National Teaching Conference of Cambodia was held in Phnom Penh, attended by more than 50 Bahá'ís. [BINS334:2]
  70. 1995-06-08 — The First European Baha'i Conference on Law and International Order was held in De Poort, the Netherlands. The Dr Àziz Navidi Memorial Lecture, The Theme of Service in the Evolving World Order of Bahá'u'lláh was delivered 9 June by Kiser Barnes.

    For the proceedings see Law and International Order: Proceedings of the First European Bahá'í Conference on Law and International Order and for a review of the book by Joshua Lincoln see Bahá'í Library Online.

  71. 1995-12-28 — The first teaching conference of Lithuania was held in Vilnius, attended by Bahá'ís from five countries. [BINS355:1]
  72. 1996-03-23 — The first National Women's Seminar of Bulgaria was held in Sofia, organized by the European Task Force for Women. [BINS365:8]
  73. 1997-10-24
      The International Environment Forum was launched at the first International Bahá'í Environment Conference in de Poort, Netherlands, with participants from nine countries, who were joined electronically by people from 21 countries participating in the e-mail version of the conference.
    • A Bahá'í Perspective on the Environment and Sustainable Development was presented by Michael Richards of the Overseas Development Institute in London.
    • At the conference, the objectives, activities and structure of the Forum were agreed and statutes adopted, and a governing board of five people was elected.
    • It is a Bahá'í-inspired non-governmental organization that linked together Bahá'ís and others interested in the fields of environment and sustainable development. Development of the Forum had been encouraged and guided by the Bahá'í International Community, although it had no formal link with the Bahá'í administration.

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1980-05-03 — The first Bahá'í International Conference on Health and Healing was held in Ottawa, Canada, under the sponsorship of the Association for Bahá'í Studies. [BW 18:201]
 
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