- 1844-05-24 — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse">F.B. Morse</a> sent the first teleg
- 1844-08-11 — The Bab sent Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami to Najaf and Karbala to proclaim His Cause among the Shaykhis. In...
- 1845-11-01 — The Times of London carried an item on the arrest and torture of Quddús, Mulla Sadiq-i-Khurasani, M...
- 1846-12-00 — Mulla `Aliy-i-Bastami died in Istanbul naval dockyards. He was the first martyr of the Babi Dispensa...
- 1847-11-00 — Baha'u'llah, who was living in Tihran, visited the detainees from Qazvin and gave them money. [BKG41...
- 1848-09-12 — The accession of Nasiri'd-Din Shah at Tabriz. [BBR482]
He was 17 years old. [BBR158; GPB37]
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- 1850-05-16 — Martyrdom of Shaykh Muhammad-i-Túb-Chi in Zanjan, the first of the martyrs. [BBR115; DB542-3]...
- 1852-10-00 — Baha'u'llah had a vision of the Maiden, who announced to Him that He was the Manifestation of God fo...
- 1853-04-09 — Birth of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, first son of Baha'u'llah and His second wife, Mahd-i-'Ulya. [CB 125]
...
- 1863-04-22 — Thirty-one days after Naw-Rúz, which in this year fell on 22 March, Baha'u'llah left His house for ...
- 1863-12-12 — Baha'u'llah in Adrianople
Baha'u'llah and His companions arrived in Adrianople (the "remote pr...
- 1866-03-01 — The Most Great Separation
Mirza Yahya's behaviour could no longer be tolerated or concealed. Bah...
- 1866-03-03 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Lawh-i-Baha in honour of Khatún Jan, a believer and close friend of Tahiri...
- 1867-09-03 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Kitab-i-Badi', the Munajathay-i-Siyam (Prayers for Fasting), the first Tabl...
- 1868-07-00 — Principal Baha'is in Baghdad were arrested by the Turkish authorities and exiled to Mosul and other ...
- 1868-08-31 — The ship arrived in Haifa in the early morning. [BKG269; GPB182; RB3:11]
Baha'u'llah and His comp...
- 1876-02-14 — Birth of Keith Ransom-Kehler, Hand of the Cause and the first American Baha'i martyr, in Kentucky....
- 1877-06-00 — Possibly the first visit of Baha'u'llah to the Ridvan Garden outside `Akka. [BBD196-7; DH95; GPB193]...
- 1878-00-00 — The law of the Huqúqu'llah was put into practice because the work of teaching the Cause began to ex...
- 1878-00-00 — Siyyid Mustafa Rúmi arrived in Burma with Jamal Effendi.
He married into a well-to-do Indo-Burma...
- 1887-04-13 — The first mention of the concept of `Hand of the Cause' in Baha'u'llah's writings is within a Tablet...
- 1888-03-29 — The first lecture in the West on the Baha'i Faith (`Babism') was given by E. G. Browne at the Essay ...
- 1889-09-08 — Haji Muhammad Riday-i-Isfahani was martyred in `Ishqabad. He had been on of the most prominent Baha'...
- 1891-02-15 — First public lecture in the West on the Baha'i Faith was given by E. G. Browne at the Southplace Ins...
- 1893-06-17 — Áqa Muhammad-Riday-i-Muhammadabadi was killed by three men on the orders of two of the `ulama of Ya...
- 1894-02-00 — Ibrahim George Kheiralla settled in Chicago. [BFA1:XXVII, AB65]
Owing to his work, the first Ba...
- 1898-00-02 — The first anti-Baha'i polemical tracts were published by Christian missionaries in Iran. [SBB111:69]...
- 1898-11-13 — `Abdu'l-Baha commemorated Kheiralla's arrival by ending the period of mourning for Baha'u'llah and b...
- 1899-00-01 — Miss Olive Jackson of Manhattan became the first black American woman Baha'i. [BFA1:126-7]...
- 1899-02-00 — The first Tablets of `Abdu'l-Baha arrived in America. [BFA1:143]
See BFA1:143 for the recipients....
- 1901-00-00 — William Hoar, one of the first Baha'is in America, was asked by `Abdu'l-Baha to meet with the Persia...
- 1901-06-00 — Thomas Breakwell, an Englishman living in the United States, learned of the Baha'i Faith in Paris fr...
- 1901-11-26 — The Day of the Covenant
The Day of the Covenant is a Baha'i holy day honouring the Covenant of ...
- 1902-10-10 — The Behais Supply and Publishing Board incorporates as the `Bahai Publishing Society', a non-profit ...
- 1904-10-28 — Ali Kuli Khan married Florence Breed, the first marriage between a Persian and a Western Baha'i. [BF...
- 1904-12-01 — Sydney Sprague arrived in Bombay, India. [BFA2:XVI]
He was the first American Baha'i travelling t...
- 1906-06-01 — Hippolyte Dreyfus, Marianne Jerard and Laura Barney visited Russian Turkistan and Iran, specifically...
- 1907-03-31 — The Baha'i calendar was used in North America for the first time. BFA2:247-8]...
- 1907-07-19 — The Chicago `Bahai Assembly' filed an affidavit of incorporation, the first Baha'i community to acqu...
- 1909-00-00 — The passing of Robert Turner (b. 15 October, 1855 or 1856, Virginia d. 1909 California)
the fi...
- 1909-12-00 — Charles Mason Remey and Howard Struven spoke at the first Baha'i public meeting held in Honolulu. [B...
- 1910-00-00 — Charles Mason Remey and Howard Struven arrived in Shanghai and met with Áqa Mirza `Abdu'l-Baqi Yazd...
- 1910-08-29 — `Abdu'l-Baha departed for Egypt on board the steamer Kosseur London accompanied by two attendants, M...
- 1911-06-03 — Ghodsea Khanoum Ashraf (Qudsiyyih Ashraf) (b. 22 November 1889 in Majidābād, d. 16 April 1976 in T...
- 1911-07-26 — The First Universal Races Congress was held at the University of London. It was the first important...
- 1911-08-00 — Haji Muhammad-Taqi Afnan, Vakilu'd-Dawlih, the cousin of the Bab largely responsible for the buildin...
- 1911-09-10 — `Abdu'l-Baha gave His first public address in the West in the City Temple Church in Holborn, London ...
- 1912-09-22 — The marriage of Louis G. Gregory and Louisa ("Louise") A. M. Mathew, the first interracial Baha'i co...
- 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...
- 1922-06-06 — The All-England Baha'i Council met for the first time. [SBR28; UD9, 468]
ER2 13 says it first met...
- 1923-12-20 — The Peace Court ruled in favour of giving the Baha'is possession of House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad,...
- 1925-06-00 — The International Baha'i Bureau was created by the English Baha'i Jean Stannard (1865-1944) at the
- 1927-05-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada drew up and published...
- 1927-05-01 — The funeral of a believer resident in the Holy Land, Mira Moshen Afnan, was the first entirely Baha'...
- 1928-04-26 — The National Convention of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada was held in the Foundation Ha...
- 1932-02-17 — The Chicago Baha'i Assembly incorporated, the first local spiritual assembly in the world to do so. ...
- 1932-11-23 — The passing of George Adam Benke (b. Fredericksfelt, south Russia in 1878) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Shog...
- 1933-10-23 — Keith Ransom-Kehler died of smallpox in Isfahan after a year of intensive travel around Iran. [BW5:2...
- 1936-00-02 — The first woman was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of India, Shirin Fozdar....
- 1939-09-22 — The State of Illinois issued the first Baha'i marriage licence, authorizing the Spiritual Assembly o...
- 1943-00-00 — The publication of <a href="http://bahai-library.com/hofman_will_testament_abdul-baha">A Comme...
- 1944-04-00 — The first Baha'i shortwave radio broadcast was beamed from New York towards South America. [BW9:44-5...
- 1944-05-00 — The British at their national convention, decided to ask the Guardian for their own Six Year Plan. [...
- 1947-02-01 — Reflecting the unity in diversity highly valued by the Baha'i community, Amin Banani, Mildred Mottah...
- 1948-00-00 — The first Baha'i school in Haiti was inaugurated in Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. ...
- 1948-04 — The name 'Baha'i International Community' was first used to refer to the eight existing National Spi...
- 1949-04-30 — <a href="http://www.ca.bahai.org/canadian-bahai-history/act-canadian-parliament-1949">An Act t
- 1950-00-00 — The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registered a Baha'i marriage certificate. [MBW4; U...
- 1950-01-15 — The earliest observation of what has become known as World Religion Day was observed in Portland, M...
- 1951-07-30 — Louis Gregory, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Eliot, Maine, near Green Acre. [CoF163; BW12...
- 1953-04-21 — Bahji was lit for the first time by 99 four-branched wrought iron lamp posts. [GBF32; PP89-90]...
- 1953-06-20 — Shoghi Effendi designated the Maxwell home in Montreal as a Shrine. [MtC179]...
- 1954-04-21 — Adelaide Sharp, who had been in Iran since 1929, was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of I...
- 1954-04-26 — President of Israel Ben Zvi and his wife visit the Shrines on Mount Carmel, the first official visit...
- 1956-05-20 — Louisa Mathew Gregory, (b. 1 February 1866 in Penge, Kent, England) whose wedding to Hand of the Cau...
- 1957-00-00 — The first contacts with the Aboriginal people were made in Kampong Jus in Malacca by Saurajen, as re...
- 1960-07-01 — Ben and Louise Whitecow (early Peigan believers) married in Calgary, Alberta, were the first Baha'is...
- 1961-04-21 — The International Baha'i Council was elected by postal ballot of the members of the national spiritu...
- 1962-06-28 — President Tubman of Liberia visited the Shrine of the Bab.
This is the second official visit of a...
- 1963-01-18 — First Baha'i marriage in Taiwan was between Miss Yeh Chan-ching and Mr Yang Su-thou. Official gover...
- 1963-04-21 — Establishment of the Universal House of Justice
The Universal House of Justice was elected for th...
- 1963-04-22 — The results of the election of the Universal House of Justice were announced at the close of the mor...
- 1966-03-31 — While in the custody of the Portuguese authorities Eduardo Duarte Vieira died in prison in Portugues...
- 1966-05-19 — The first legally recognized Baha'i wedding in Europe took place in Finland. [BW14:154]...
- 1968-02-19 — His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa, the first reigning monarch to become a Baha'i,...
- 1969-10-29 — A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from nat...
- 1971-01-01 — The passing of Agnes Baldwin Alexander, (b. 26July 1875 in Hawaii) Hand of the Cause; "the daughter ...
- 1971-02-13 — Following the ban imposed by the government of the Central African Republic on Baha'i activities in ...
- 1971-05-00 — The first National Teaching Committee of Sierra Leone was appointed by the Regional Spiritual Assemb...
- 1972-00-03 — The first Baha'i studies seminar was held in London. For an account of the development of these semi...
- 1973-04-01 — The Baha'is of the Central African Republic broadcasted the first of their weekly radio programs on ...
- 1974-00-00 — The first Native Council took place in Haines, Alaska, attended by 50 native Baha'is....
- 1975-05-02 — The first teaching institute of the Bahamas took place in Nassau. [BW16:207]...
- 1975-10-00 — The New Era Rural Development Project, the first project of its kind in the world, began in the vill...
- 1976-10-05 — The passing of Adelaide Sharp (b. Texas, 1896) in Tehran.
In 1929 she accompanied Dr Susan Mood...
- 1977-04-16 — The first annual Baha'i Studies Seminar supported by the Departments of Religious Studies and of Soc...
- 1977-10-12 — The first Baha'i educational and cultural radio station, HCRN-1 Radio Baha'i del Ecuador, made its i...
- 1981-05-23 — Helmut Winkelbach, Knight of Baha'u'llah for Belarus, married Olga Grigorevna Dolganova, a Russian, ...
- 1983-04-21 — The renovation of the House of 'Abdu'llah Pasha in 'Akka was completed. [BW18:77]
Delegates atten...
- 1985-10-18 — Dr. Rudolph Kirchlaeger, the President of Austria, was the first head of state to receive The Promi
- 1986-10-19 — Lorraine Kahn of Pine Springs, Arizona, is elected a delegate to the United States National Conventi...
- 1987-00-05 — The first conference on the production of Baha'i literature in Spanish was held in Argentina....
- 1987-02-06 — Maori women held the first National Women's Hui in the tribal area of Ngati Tuwharetoa, New Zealand....
- 1987-03-24 — Radio Baha'i of Liberia (ELRB), the first Baha'i-owned radio station in Africa, was inaugurated in P...
- 1988-06-30 — The Baha'i Arts Council, Canada, held the first arts festival, 'Invitation 88: A Festival of the Hum...
- 1989-09-16 — Baha'is in Liechtenstein mounted a display of Baha'i books and an exhibition at an international fes...
- 1990-00-05 — The first Adam Benke Project was organized by the Baha'i European Youth Council in Bulgaria.
Th...
- 1990-03-21 — The first local spiritual assembly formed in Eastern Europe since the Second World War was elected i...
- 1990-04-21 — The first indigenous local spiritual assembly of Amazonas State, Brazil, was formed among the Mura t...
- 1990-04-21 — Maureen Nakekea and Marao Teem were elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Kiribati, the firs...
- 1990-04-21 — For the first time, two Bush Negro women delegates attended the national convention of Surinam. [BIN...
- 1990-09-01 — Eighty leaders of thought from around the world gathered at Landegg Academy for the first Internatio...
- 1990-12-00 — The first week-long residential Baha'i study school of Guinea was held in Guéckédou....
- 1991-01-00 — Dr. Victor de Araujo, Baha'i representative to the United Nations for 23 years and the first full-ti...
- 1991-11-26 — The Office of Ḥuqúqu'llah had been established in the Holy Land under the direction of the Chief ...
- 1992-10-24 — The first Baha'i Autumn School of Central Asia was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, attended by more tha...
- 1994-03-24 — The Dalai Lama visited the Baha'i World Centre, the first time a head of a religion had visited the ...
- 1996-01-15 — A Chair for Baha'i Studies was inaugurated at the University of Lucknow. [BINS354:3]...
- 1999-06-00 — The dedication of the first academic chair in Baha'i studies in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerus...
- 2000-02-17 — The passing of Mildred Mottahedeh in New York. She had been elected to the International Baha'i Coun...
- 2000-12-17 — The first International Conference on Modern Religions and Religious Movements in Judaism Christiani...
- 2003-03-18 — The President of India, Abdul Kalam, visited the Baha'i House of Worship in New Delhi, the first off...
- 2003-04-04 — Given current conditions in the world at the time, the Ninth International Convention was cancelled....
- 2003-04-29 — The ninth election of the Universal House of Justice by postal ballot by 1,544 electors from 178 cou...
- 2003-12-16 — Shirin Ebadi, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first Muslim woman to win the coveted distincti...
- 2017-09-01 — The opening of Cambodia's first "Local House of Worship" in Battambang, just over two years after t...
- 2018-04-15 — The design for the local Baha'i House of Worship was unveiled at a gathering in Matunda Soy, Kenya a...
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