- 1905-00-00 — Agnes Alexander arrived in Alaska, the first Bahá'í travelling teacher to visit the territory. [BBRSM:107]
- 1915-06-16 — Miss Margaret Green of Washington DC arrived in Alaska, the first known resident Bahá'í. She settled in Juneau from 1915 to 1918 and worked as a public librarian. [NSA site]
- 1926-01-00 —
Orcella Rexford and her husband Dr Gayne Gregory (the first to accept the Faith in Alaska) went to Haifa on pilgrimage and were technically the first from Alaska to do so. They were in the process of moving from Alaska to the Continental USA. [SETPE1p112-113
]
- See BW11p495-498 for for details of the life of Orella Rexford.
- 1939-00-00 — Honor Kempton opened a bookshop lending library, calling it "The Book Cache". [Bahá'í News No 131 November 1939 pg3]
- 1939-00-00 — Miss Janet Whitenack, relocated from New York to Alaska, became the first person to declare in Alaska. She had studied the Cause previously in New York. The young woman was a graduate of Syracuse University. [Bahá'í News No 131 November 1939 p4]
- 1943-09-04 — The first local spiritual assembly in Alaska was established at Anchorage.
- 1949-00-00 — Agnes Harrison (née Parent), an Athabascan, became a Bahá'í in Alaska, the first Native Alaskan to accept the Faith in the country.
- 1952-11-12 —
Dagmar Dole, pioneer to Alaska and Denmark, passed away in Glion, Switzerland.
- Shoghi Effendi said she was the 'first to give her life for the Cause in the European project'. [BW12:702; ZK66–7]
- For her obituary see BW12:701–2.
- See also Bahá'í Chronicles and Find a Grave.
- 1954-00-02 — The first Tlinget from Alaska to become a Bahá'í, Eugene King, enrolled.
- 1954-05-01 — Elinore Putney arrived in the Aleutian Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449]
- 1956-00-00 — The first Tlinget to become a Bahá'í in Alaska, Joyce Anderson Combs, enrolled.
- 1957-04-21 —
The National Spiritual Assembly of Alaska was formed and incorporated immediately upon formation. [HE31]
- This was the first time a political entity (i.e. the United States) was subdivided to form a national spiritual assembly. [BW13:270]
- In 1927 the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada resolved, in their Declaration of Trust and By-law of the National Spiritual Assembly, to exclude Alaska and Hawaii and all United States trusts and territories including Puerto Rico from their jurisdiction. [Constitution of the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States]
- Picture.
- 1958-00-00 — The first Aleut to become a Bahá'í, Vassa Lekanoff, enrolled in Unalaska.
- 1959-00-02 — The first Inuit in Alaska to become a Bahá'í, William Wiloya, enrolled in Nome.
- 1974-00-00 — The first Native Council took place in Haines, Alaska, attended by 50 native Bahá'ís.
- 1974-04-21 — The first local spiritual assembly of Kotzebue, an Iñupiat Eskimo community situated north of the Arctic Circle, was formed.
- 1976-01-10 — The most northerly-located local spiritual assembly in the world was formed in the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.
- 1976-07-23 —
An International Teaching Conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, attended by 1,005 Bahá'ís. [BW17:81]
- For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:130–1.
- For pictures see BW17:110, 113, 116–17.
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