1. 1925-08-03 — The opening of the 17th Universal Congress of Esperanto in Geneva. This congress marked the first public melding of the Bahá'í Faith and Esperanto. Shoghi Effendi had asked that Julia Culver join Martha Root as representatives. It was attended by Ella Goodall Cooper and Dr Adelbert Muhlsehlegel from Stuttgart who gave a short talk in Esperanto. Also in attendance were Dr Sophie and Lydia Zamenhof, daughters of the late Dr L L Zamenhof. It was here that Lidia Zamenhof first encountered the Bahá'í Faith. [MR231-233]

   See The Bahai Movement and Esperanto; Words of Baha'o'llah and Abdul-Baha by Jeanne Bolles published in Star of the West Vol 11 No 17 p286-287 and 290-291.

   Note: An Esperanto Congress has been held every year since inauguration in 1905 (with the exception of the years of the First and Second World Wars and in 2021 it was scheduled to be in Belfast but was held online due to the global pandemic. [Universal Esperanto Association]

2. 1926-07-31 — THE Eighteenth Universal Esperanto Congress was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. The report of the event from Martha Root from Bahá'i World 2 p270.
3. 1927-07-28 — THE Ninteenth Universal Congress of Esperanto in Danzig Free City. See the report by Martha Root from BW2p269-270.

   Note: At this time the port city of Danzig was under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [Wikipedia]

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