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Jun 5, 1973

Establishment of the International Teaching Centre by the Universal House of Justice


Jun 7, 1892

Unsealing and reading of Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Ahd at Bahji

Unsealing and reading of Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-Ahd at Bahji. Abdu'l-Baha ["the Centre of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah", "the Master", "the Most Mighty Branch", "the Exemplar"] is appointed as the interpreter of His teachings and the source of authority in all affairs of the faith


Jun 7, 1903

Abdu'l-Baha reveals Tablet calling for the erection of a Temple in America

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Jun 14, 1913

Abdu'l-Baha returned to Port Said in Egypt from France


Jun 17, 1913

Abdu'l-Baha arrived at Port Said in Egypt


Jun 19, 1850

The Bab arrived in Tabriz


Jun 21, 1850

End of the Nayriz upheaval


Jun 23, 1870

Death of the Purest Branch in Akka

Mirza Mihdi (the Purest Branch, Baha'u'llah's youngest son) falls through a skylight in the prison. Baha'u'llah offers to heal him but Mirza Mihdi instead offers his life as a sacrifice so that those who desire may undertake pilgrimages. Baha'u'llah accepts and the Purest Branch dies at age 22. 70 years later, his body is entombed in the Monument Gardens on Mount Carmel


Jun 29, 1850

Vahid martyred in Nayriz

Jun 29, 1912

Abdu'l-Baha hosts first Unity Feast at the Wilhelm properties in W. Englewood, New Jersey

Baha'i Calendar - Baha'i Events and Holy Days

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Jun 29, 1912

Abdu'l-Baha hosts first Unity Feast at the Wilhelm properties in W. Englewood, New Jersey

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The day of Vahid's martyrdom was the eighteenth of the month of Sha'ban, in the year 1266 A.H. Ten days later, the Báb was shot in Tabriz.

~ Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 499



Vahid's martyrdom shed an imperishable lustre upon the Faith of God. The story of his life adorns the pages of the history of the Cause and the example he has left will guide and inspire countless generations throughout the ages. He was peerless in the realm of learning and knowledge, indomitable in his faith, challenging in his public discourse, heroic in the defence of the Cause of God and unsurpassed in his love for the Báb.

In the Suriy-i-Sabr Bahá'u'lláh describes the proclamation of the Faith by Vahid and the circumstances which led to the upheaval in Nayriz. He recounts, at some length, the events which led to the incarceration of the believers and lauds their heroism, self-sacrifice, and eventual martyrdom. He portrays the agony and sufferings which were inflicted upon the survivors, mainly women and children, who were forced to accompany the heads of the martyrs which were carried aloft on lances to Shiraz and paraded in the streets and bazaars of that city. He severely condemns the perpetrators of such atrocities and warns them not to rejoice in their actions, but to fear the wrath of an almighty God who will justly, in the next world, punish them for the cruelties they have inflicted upon His loved ones.

~ Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Baha'u'llah v 1, p. 264

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On Saturday, June 30 at the historic Evergreen Cabin on Evergreen Place in Teaneck, the Bahá’í Community of Teaneck is holding its annual unity picnic. This year is the 100th anniversary of the visit of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith who in1912, traveled from then Palestine to visit America after a lifetime of imprisonment and persecution for his religious beliefs.

His journey in North America lasted 239 days, including ten days in Canada, during which He traveled to important cities from the east to the west coast and met with people of diverse backgrounds and interests. When asked why he had undertaken the journey to America, ‘Abdu'l-Bahá stated, "…I have come to America to raise the standard of universal peace and to bring unity among mankind…"

He addressed many religious groups and organizations such as the NAACP, the Theosophists, as well as audiences at Columbia, Howard and Stanford Universities. He also met with leaders of the day, including President Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Graham Bell. He visited the poor and downtrodden, proclaimed the equality of men and women, and he championed the cause of racial unity.

On June 29, 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá invited the Bahá’ís of New York and the surrounding areas to a unity feast to express his gratitude for all they had done on his behalf during his visit to the West. This gathering of appoximately 350 people of diverse backgrounds was held in Teaneck (West Englewood) at the Bahá’í property. Each year Bahá’ís gather on the last Saturday of June to commemorate this day and have a unity picnic.


Baha'i Community of Teaneck to Hold Annual Unity Picnic Saturday - Teaneck, NJ Patch

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July 4, 1964

Dedication of the Mother Temple of Europe in Langenhain, Germany



July 7, 1968

Death of Hermann Grossman, Hand of the Cause of God

For a photo of Hermann Grossman see:

Bahá'í Media Bank

He was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi December 24, 1951


July 9, 1850 (Holy Day)

The Martyrdom of the Bab

On July 9, Bahais commemorate the date on which the Bab was executed in 1850 by a 750-man firing squad in Tabriz, Persia (Iran), Execution of the Bab in Tabriz and the exposure of His mangled body on the edge of the moat outside the city.Attempted execution of the Bab in Tabriz by a firing squad of 750 soldiers in front of 20,000 witnesses fails. The Bab vanishes in the smoke and is found later completing His final instructions to His amanuensis. The leader of the first firing squad refuses to try again. A second attempt is made using a new leader at noon, this time successfully. A gale force wind, earthquake, cholera and famine immediately follow. One third of the firing squad later die in an earthquake, the remainder are executed for mutiny. The bodies of the Bab and Anis are retrieved as directed by Bahau'llah and ultimately interred at the Shrine of the Bab on the slope of Mt. Carmel, Israel

See:

Preparing for the Martrdom of the Bab..

July 9, 1950

Completion of the Arcade and Parapet of the Shrine of the Bab

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July 12, 1960

Horace Holley, prominent Baha'i and Hand of the Cause passes away in Haifa, Israel
Horace Holley (April 7, 1887 - July 12, 1960) was a prominent follower of the Baha'i Faith, having been elected to several Spiritual Assemblies and appointed by Shoghi Effendi in 1951 to be a Hand of the Cause of God and later elected to be one of the nine Custodians who stewarded the Faith from 1957-1963. He was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1887 and was introduced to the Baha'i Faith in 1909. He died in Haifa, Israel on July 12, 1960.


July 15, 1932

Baha'u'llah's daughter the Greatest Holy Leaf passes away

The Greatest Holy Leaf, Bahiyyih Khanum (1846 - July 15, 1932) was the second child and first daughter of Baha'u'llah and his wife Asiyih Khanum. The Greatest Holy Leaf was born in a rented house in Tehran in 1846 and passed away on July 15th 1931 aged 86.


Baha'i Calendar - Baha'i Events and Holy Days

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So, Which one was it? The quote above twice cites 1932 as her year of passing, but at the end says she passed away in 1931.
A quick look at Wiki says it was 1932.

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Thanks for sharing that! I didn't notice it earlier... It was July 14th, 1932...

JULY 14, 1932

GREATEST HOLY LEAF ASCENDED ABHA KINGDOM OUR
GRIEF IMMENSE OUR LOSS IRREPARABLE INFORM LOCAL
ASSEMBLIES COMMEMORATE BEFITTINGLY SACRED EXPERIENCES
SO RICH SO SUBLIME SO EVENTFUL A LIFE. MAGNITUDE
OF OUR SORROW DEMANDS COMPLETE SUSPENSION
FOR 9 MONTHS THROUGHOUT BAHÁ'Í WORLD EVERY FORM
RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY. HER MORTAL REMAINS LAID VICINITY
HOLY SHRINES.

SHOGHI

(Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Indian Subcontinent, p. 85)

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July 15, 2011

Former member of the Universal House of Justice Dr. Peter Khan passes

Dr. Peter Jamel Khan is a retired member of the Universal House of Justice. Dr. Khan was born in New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Khan served first as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was elected to the Universal House of Justice in 1987. On January 6th, 2010 it was announced that he would retire following a by-election to replace him. He retired along with Mr. Hooper Dunbar. Dr. Khan passed away in Brisbane, Australia in the early hours of Friday the 15th of July, 2011, after a sudden short illness.


July 21, 1848

Mulla Husayn hoists the Black Standard and marches from Mashad with 202 fellow disciples to assist Quddus in Mazindaran

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July 21, 1875

Birth of Hand of the Cause Agnes Alexander

Agnes Baldwin Alexander (July 21 1875 - January 1, 1971) was a prominent American Baha'i and Hands of the Cause of God. She was born in a Christian missionary family in Hawaii, and became a Baha'i in 1900 while visiting Italy. In November 1914 she moved to Japan, at the request of Abdu'l-Baha, where she lived the rest of her life. She was appointed a Hands of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi on 27 March 1957 and she passed in 1971 in Hawaii.


July 21, 1953

The Ten Year World Crusade launched during the Internatinal Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.bahaical.org/

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July 22, 1965

Death of distinguished Baha'i Leroy Ioas, Hand of the Cause and past Secretary General of the International Baha'i Council


July 24, 1953

Death of Siegfried Schopflocher, Hand of the Cause of God in Canada

Siegfried Schopflocher, or Fred Schopflocher, as he was commonly called, was born in Germany in 1877 of Jewish parentage.


July 29, 1831

Birth of Apostles of Baha'u'llah and noted historian Nabil-i-A'zam

Mulla Muḥammad-i-Zarandi (July 29, 1831 - 1892), more commonly known as Nabil-i-A'ẓam (the Great Nabil) or Nabil-i-Zarandi (Nabil of Zarand), was an eminent Baha'i historian during the time of Baha'u'llah, and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baha'u'llah. He is most famous for authoring The Dawn-breakers, which stands out as one of the most important and extensive accounts of the ministry of the Bab.


July 29, 1980

Death of Adelbert Muhlschlegel, Hand of the Cause of God and prominent German Baha'i

Dr. Adelbert Muhlschlegel (June 16, 1897 - July 29, 1980) was a Hand of the Cause and prominent German Baha'i from a Protestant family. In 1920 he became a Baha'i and translated literature and served as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi in February 1952, after which he traveled to visit the Baha'is in many countries. He died in Athens, Greece.


July 30, 1951

Death of Hand of the Cause Louis Gregory in Eliot, Maine

Louis George Gregory (June 6, 1874, Charleston, South Carolina - July 30, 1951, Eliot, Maine) was a prominent member of the Baha'i Faith. In 1951 he was posthumously appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi. He was born in an African-American family. On April 30, 1912 he was the only African-American elected to the first national administrative body of the Baha'i Faith in America. Later, he was also the first African-American to be elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada.

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August 1, 1927

Baha'i Summer School opened at Geyserville, California

I recall the old Geyserville School .. The "original" Bosch. See the thread dedicated to the "original" Bosch Baha'i School at:

The "original" Bosch Baha'i School:


August 6, 1845

Mulla Muhammad Sadiq Muqaddas Khurasani and Qoddus arrested and were put on trial by Hussayn-Khan Adjudan-Bashi in Shiraz

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August 10, 1968

Death of Lutfu'llah Hakim member of the first Universal House of Justice

Lutfu'llah Hakim (1888 - August 10, 1968) was a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baha'i Faith, from 1963 to 1968. Dr. Hakim was born into a family of distinguished Jewish medical doctors in Iran in 1888. His grandfather, Hakim Masih, was the first Jew to embrace the Faith of Baha'u'llah. In 1920, Abdu'l-Baha asked Lutfu'llah Hakim to accompany Shoghi Effendi to England. Dr. Hakim was in Haifa when Abdu'l-Baha passed away in November 1921. In 1924 he returned to Persia and in 1950 he moved again to England. Later the Guardian summoned him to the World Center and he was appointed to the first International Baha'i Council in 1951. He was later elected to the first Universal House of Justice in 1963.


Read more about him in Bahaikipedia:

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August 11, 1911

Abdu'l-Baha sails for Marseille , London, Paris and Egypt

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August 13, 1868

Departure of Bahau'llah from Adrianople


August 15, 1852

Attempt on the life of Nasirid-Din Shah, Imprisonment of Bahaullah in the Siyah-Chal of Tihran

Two crazed Babis attempt to kill Nasiri'd-Din Shah. They are executed on the spot. Nationwide reign of terror sweeps Persia. Anyone suspected of being Babi are killed in unspeakably gruesome and inhumane manners.


August 16, 1863

Arrival of Bahau'llah in Constantinople

Arrival in Constantinople [the Sublime Porte] at noon. The house provided was too small. Within a month they were relocated to larger quarters. The Persian government is extremely upset with the courteousness and kindness shown by the Sultan toward Baha'u'llah, Who was received as a guest. Finally the Sultan was unable to resist the political pressure and issues the edict of banishment to the remote Adrianople (modern day Edirne). Baha'u'llah sends His first of many letters to the Kings and rulers of the world, to Sultan 'Abdu'l-'Aziz

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August 16, 1863

Arrival of Bahau'llah in Constantinople

Arrival in Constantinople [the Sublime Porte] at noon. The house provided was too small. Within a month they were relocated to larger quarters. The Persian government is extremely upset with the courteousness and kindness shown by the Sultan toward Baha'u'llah, Who was received as a guest. Finally the Sultan was unable to resist the political pressure and issues the edict of banishment to the remote Adrianople (modern day Edirne). Baha'u'llah sends His first of many letters to the Kings and rulers of the world, to Sultan 'Abdu'l-'Aziz


August 16, 1912

The visit of Abdu'l-Baha to Green Acre Baha'i School during a tour of North America


August 18, 1852

The Martyrdom of Tahirih in the garden of Ilkhani in Tehran


August 21, 1868

Baha'u'llah departs from Gallipoli by steamer for Haifa and then by sail to Akka


August 31, 1868

Arrival of Bahau'llah in Akka

Arrival in Akka [the Most Great Prison, today known as Acre], a prison city for which it was said at that time that should a bird fly over it, the bird would surely fall to the ground dead for its foul air. During the first short while, almost all the prisoners became ill with malaria, dysentery or other sicknesses. Abdu'l-Baha tended to all the sick even though he himself contracted an illness. Baha'u'llah predicts that one day He will pitch His tent on Mt. Carmel. Three succumbed to their illnesses

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Martyrdom of Tahirih (Dr Jakob Eduard Polak)

An eyewitness reference to the Martyrdom of Tahirih by the Shah's Physician, Dr Jacob Eduard Polak, who was present at the execution.

This is a very rough translation by a friend - please email improvements if you have them.

Please see the end for references.

Translation

In late summer 1852 as the Shah, accompanied by an approximately 500-man guard, underwent an outing from his summer palace Riaveran, three men came towards him, whereupon one of them à bout portant fired a pistol at him, ... The shot grazed the stomach of the Shah's horse; the guard appeared to back off, leaving him to his fate, then everyone believed him to be dead and murdered at the hands of a pretender to the throne. Had there been a decaying corpse among the living it would have seemed superfluous [very loosely translated].

Only one foreign servant noticed the Shah stirring. He lunged dauntlessly and seized one of the murderers. A fight arose in which the servant received a stab wound to the stomach; in the meantime others trudged towards the murderers - and the king was saved. What resulted were only a few small grains of shot in the area of his backside. Of the assassins one recognised fanatical Babis, who wanted to avenge the death of their Prophet. The pistol and the ammunition which they operated were so poor that only a miracle could have enabled them realise their goal. The Shah immediately showed himself the wolf, in order to prevent malicious rumours... . He retorted that God had saved him: "Certainly God has saved me, because you all have forsaken me."

Then began the persecution. The Shah was encouraged to believe in a further widely networked conspiracy of Babis, shut up behind regiments, civil servants, attendants, priests, teachers, garden, in every sigh he found plotters[?] and he was not for a moment without fear for his life. Even the wife of the grand vizier, born in Masandaran, was accused belonging to the sect [...]. Seized by fear and horror from every side the Shah lapsed into Machiavellian ways to exterminate the believers. In Teheran there lived the highest of the royal farashe Haji Ali Chan, a heartless man and ready on command for any atrocity; he gave him the instruction to seek out all Babis and throw them in to jail.

Then he ordered every corps, ever branch of the civilian and military detail to surrender at least one Babi in case within one or the other corps were still secret members of the sect [...].This plan should go ahead. Haji Ali an innovative mind came up with abominable, crucifying methods of execution [... passage about torture]. The martyrs demonstrated the courage and steadfastness of fanaticism; no recanting of faith, no hint of a cry of pain.

I was witness to the execution of Qurret el ayn, who was executed by the war minister and his adjutants; the beautiful woman endured her slow death with superhuman strength

[Ich war Zeuge von der Hinrichtung der Kurret el ayn, die vom Kriegsminister und seinen Adjutanten vollzogen wurde; die schöne Frau erduldete den langsamen Tod mit übermenschlicher Stärke.].

[ The New Zealand Star, Issue 9525, 24 April 1909, Page 2, has : "I was witness of the martyrdom of Karrattu'l Ayn, who was murdered by the Minister of War and his adjutants. The beautiful woman endured a lingering death with superhuman fortitude."]


Martyrdom of Tahirih (Dr Jakob Eduard Polak)



To read more about Dr. Jacob Eduard Polak see:

http://www.iranicaonline.org/article...k-jakob-eduard

"In the dead of the night in secret, Táhirih was taken to the nearby garden Ilkhani in Tehran, and with her own veil was strangled to death. Her body was thrown into a shallow well and stones thrown upon it.[34] A prominent Bábí, and subsequently Bahá'í, historian cites the wife of an officer who had the chance to know her that she was strangled by a drunken officer of the government with her own veil which she had chosen for her anticipated martyrdom.[12] One of her most notable quotes is her final utterance, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women."[12] She was then aged about 35, and was the mother of three children.[1][3][11] Dr Jakob Eduard Polak, the Shah's physician,[52] was an eye-witness to the execution and described it as: "I was witness to the execution of Qurret el ayn, who was executed by the war minister and his adjutants; the beautiful woman endured her slow death with superhuman fortitude".[53] `Abdu'l-Bahá eulogized Táhirih writing that she was a "woman chaste and holy, a sign and token of surpassing beauty, a burning brand of the love of God".[28] The Times on the 13th of October 1852 reports the death of Táhirih, describing her as the "Fair Prophetess of Kazoeen",[54] and the "Bab's Lieutenant".[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1...Final_Sentence

Prison of Táhirih:

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September 1, 1984

The Dedication of the House of Worship of Samoa

The Baha'i Temple of the Pacific Ocean located in Apia, Western Samoa, the foundation stone was laid 27 January 1979, and the dedication was on 1 September 1984


September 2, 1868

The Governor of Akka visits the "desperate criminals"

The Governor of Akka visits the "desperate criminals" and is deeply impressed by Abdu'l-Baha. He is moved to improve their conditions. Another visitor states that "such pure and sanctified souls had never before been seen in Akka". Meanwhile, Siyyid Muhammad and Aqa Jan Big, the source of all the lies to the authorities, convinced some guards to move their quarters to overlook the land gate so that they could identify anyone who arrived if they were Bahai and thus warning the guards, the pilgrims who had walked for weeks would be turned back without even a glimpse of Baha'u'llah through His cell window

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September 10, 1844

Bab leaves Shiraz to start pilgrimage

(I'll see if we can add to the information on this Haj as I have been given opportunity to do so..)


September 16, 1961

Dedication of the House of Worship in Sydney, Australia

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THE letter of Mulla Husayn decided the Bab to undertake His contemplated pilgrimage to Hijaz. Entrusting His wife to His mother, and committing them both to the care and protection of His maternal uncle, He joined the company of the pilgrims of Fars who were preparing to leave Shiraz for Mecca and Medina.(1) Quddus was His only companion, and the Ethiopian servant His personal attendant. He first proceeded to Bushihr, the seat of His uncle's business, where in former days He, in close association with him, had lived the life of a humble merchant. Having there completed the preliminary arrangements for His long and arduous voyage, He embarked on a sailing vessel, which, after two months of slow, stormy, and unsteady sailing, landed Him upon the shores of that sacred land.(2) High seas and the complete absence of comfort could neither interfere with the regularity of His devotions nor perturb the peacefulness of His meditations and prayers. Oblivious of the storm that raged about Him, and undeterred by the sickness which had seized His fellow-pilgrims, He continued to occupy His time in dictating to Quddus such prayers and epistles as He felt inspired to reveal.


THE DAWN-BREAKERS---Chapter VII

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C. Pilgrimage to Mecca. On 10 September 1844 the Báb departed for Mecca to join the annual pilgrimage. In Mecca He declared His claim publicly at the Kaaba and to the Sharif of Mecca, the custodian of the Kaaba. But the Báb was not accepted.

The pilgrimage trip lasted nine and a half months, ending in mid June 1845, when the Báb reached Bushihr in southern Iran again. During this period He wrote extensively. Some of His more important works were the following:

Khasá'il-i-sab'ih: A work composed by the Báb on His sea journey back to Bushihr after His pilgrimage, which listed some regulations to be followed by the Bábí community. A copy of the manuscript probably still exists in Iran.

Kitáb-i-Rúh ("Book of the Spirit"): This book contains 700 or 900 verses and was revealed while the Báb was sailing back to Bushihr from pilgrimage. The original was nearly destroyed when the Báb was arrested. Several manuscript copies are extant.

Sahífih baynu'l-Haramayn ("Treatise between the Two Sanctuaries"): This Arabic work was revealed while the Báb traveled from Mecca to Medina in early 1845 and is in response to questions posed to Him by a prominent Shaykhí leader.

Kitáb-i-Fihrist ("The Book of the Catalogue"): A list of the Báb's works, composed by the Báb Himself after He returned from pilgrimage to Mecca, 21 June 1845. It is an invaluable bibliography of His earliest writings.

Some Notes on The Báb

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The journey to Jiddah was long, tedious and exhausting. Seas were rough and storms frequent. An Arab sailing-boat did not afford much comfort. 'For days we suffered 71 from the scarcity of water. I had to content myself with the juice of sweet lemon,' the Báb writes in the Persian Bayan.(3) Haji Abu'l-Hasan recounts:

During the entire period of approximately two months,
from the day we embarked at Bushihr to the day when we
landed at Jaddih, the port of Hijaz, whenever by day or
night I chanced to meet either the Báb or Quddus, I
invariably found them together, both absorbed in their
work. The Báb seemed to be dictating, and Quddus
was busily engaged in taking down whatever fell from
His lips. Even at a time when panic seemed to have seized
the passengers of that storm-tossed vessel, they would be
seen pursuing their labours with unperturbed confidence
and calm. Neither the violence of the elements nor the
tumult of the people around them could either ruffle the
serenity of their countenance or turn them from their
purpose.(4)

~ H.M. Balyuzi, The Bab - The Herald of the Day of Days, p. 69

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The importance of the Bab going on Hajj in 1844 is sometimes overlooked... as of course more emphasis is placed on the Declaration of the Bab to Mullah Husayn in Shiraz but some more study on the subject will show how important it is in fulfillment of prophecy...

Haji Mirza Habibu'llah-i-Afnan, quoting Haji Abu'l Hasan, relates in his chronicle that after the completion of the rites of the Haji, at a time when the court of the House of Ka'bah and the roofs of adjoining houses teemed with pilgrims, the Báb stood against the structure of the Ka'bah, laid hold of the ring on its door and thrice repeated, in a clear voice:
[1 A sheet of cloth, unstitched.]

I am that Qá'im whose advent you have been awaiting.

Haji Abu'l-Hasan recalled, many years later, that a sudden hush fell upon the audience. The full implication of those momentous words must, at the time, have eluded that vast concourse of people. But the news of the claim of the young Siyyid soon spread in an ever-widening circle.

~ H.M. Balyuzi, The Bab - The Herald of the Day of Days, pp. 71-72

So this was a public declaration rather than a more private one on May 23rd 1844. It is also true that around late October ..early November 1844 there was an expectation of the return Christ by many of the Millerites in North America...

October 22 passed without incident, resulting in feelings of disappointment among many Millerites. Henry Emmons, a Millerite, later wrote,


I waited all Tuesday [October 22] and dear Jesus did not come;– I waited all the forenoon of Wednesday, and was well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o’clock I began to feel faint, and before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain– sick with disappointment.[5]

William Miller continued to wait for the second coming of Jesus Christ until his death in 1849.[citation

Great Disappointment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

•His message to the Sherif of Mecca, and the account related by Haji Niyaz-i-Baghdadi 138
Wrote letter to Sherif right after completing last rites of pilgrimage, calling him to embrace the Cause. Quddús delivered letter.

The Sherif failed to respond to the call.

Hájí Níyáz-i-Baghdádí told Nabíl that in 1850-1851 he went on pilgrimage and met the Sherif who told him that he had met a Youth in the year '60 during pilgrimage Who presented him with a sealed book which he accepted but was too preoccupied to read. After pilgrimage he read it, was moved, and gathered from it that a Persian man was announcing the coming of the Qá'im. Hájí Níyáz told him of the Youth Who publicly asserted He could reveal verses to surpass the Qur'án in volume and beauty and that He had been martyred. The Sherif expressed indignation at their cruel treatment (as they had their illustrious ancestors) and ended the conversation.

THE DAWN-BREAKERS---Chapter VII

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September 16, 1961

Dedication of the House of Worship in Sydney, Australia


September 18, 1844

Bab arrives port Bushihr

Bab arranges supplies for 2 month boat trip to pilgrimage in Mecca and Madina with his most prominent disciple Jinab-i-Quddus


September 22, 2007

Passing of Dr. Ali-Muhammad Varqa, the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God

Dr. Ali-Muhammad Varqa was the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God, and was also and the trustee of Huququ'llah. Dr. Varqa was born in 1912 in Tehran, Iran. He was born to a distinguished Iranian Baha'i Family. His grandfather, from whom he received his name was an Apostle of Baha'u'llah and his father Valiyu'llah Varqa, was also the trustee of the Huququ'llah and a Hand of the Cause. Dr. Varqa traveled to many countries as a representative first of Shoghi Effendi, then of the Universal House of Justice. His funeral took place on the morning of September 24, with burial in the Baha'i cemetery in Haifa.

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September 23, 1893

First public mention of the Baha'i Faith in the West

First public mention of the Baha'i Faith in the West. In a session of the World's Parliament of Religions, the Reverend George A. Ford, a Syrian missionary, reads a paper talking about Baha'ullah.


September 23, 1918

Akka is liberated by British and Indian cavalry and Abdu'l-Baha is again freed


September 24, 1920

Excavation begins for the foundation of the House of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois

Baha'i Calendar - Baha'i Events and Holy Days

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October 1, 1844

Bab sailed to Bushehr for His pilgrimage in Mecca


October 2, 1844

Bab receives Mulla Husayn letter from Mashad then set sail to Jiddah enroute to Mecca

http://books.google.com/books?id=BPg...jeddah&f=false


October 12, 1848

Beginning of the upheaval at Fort Shaykh Tabarsi


October 14, 1844

Mulla Aliy-Bastami arrive Najaf, Iraq with copy of Surih of Joseph

Baha'i Calendar - Baha'i Events and Holy Days

As Shoghi Effendi, The Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith explains. "Already the energetic and audacious Mulla Ali...who in the presence of one of the leading exponents of Shi'ah Islam, the far-framed Shaykh Muhammad Hasan, had audaciously asserted that from the pen of his new-found Master within the space of forty-eight hours, verses had streamed out that equaled in number those of the Qur'an, which it took its Author twenty-three years to reveal"[2] (meaning that it took The Bab 48 hours to reveal equal amount of verses as Muhammad revealed in the Qur'an in 23 years). He also to this same Shaykh presented the copy of the Bab's Qayumu'l-Asma. After this incident, Shaykh Muhammad excommunicated, chained and disgraced Mulla Ali. Mulla Ali continued to give the message of the new revelation to all the main religious leaders, religious schools, previous students of Siyyid Kazim in Iraq, authorities, general public and who ever he found capable of hearing the message of the Bab.

http://bahai-library.com/rahbar_biog...la_ali-bastami

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October 12, 1848

Beginning of the upheaval at Fort Shaykh Tabarsi...

A question..

How long did the Babis hold out against the Shah's forces...?

A systematic campaign against the new Faith had been launched in Persia by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities combined. The believers, cut down wherever they were isolated, banded together when they could, for protection against the Government, the clergy, and the people. Betrayed and surrounded as they passed through the forest of Mazindaran, some 300 believers, mostly students and recluses, built the Fort of Shaykh Tabarsi and held out against the armies of Persia for eleven months. Cf. The Dawn-Breakers, chapters XIX and XX; God Passes By, p. 37 et seq.]

(Abdu'l-Baha, Memorials of the Faithful, p. 202)

So the answer is eleven months.

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October 14, 1844

Mulla Aliy-Bastami arrive Najaf, Iraq with copy of Surih of Joseph

More on the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph:


The Commentary on the Súrih of Joseph had, in the first year of this Revelation, been widely distributed. Nevertheless, when the people realized that fellow supporters were not forthcoming they hesitated to accept it; while it never occurred to them that the very Qur’án whereunto unnumbered souls bear fealty today, was revealed in the midmost heart of the Arab world, yet to outward seeming for no less than seven years no one acknowledged its truth except the Commander of the Faithful [Imám ‘Alí]—may the peace of God rest upon him—who, in response to the conclusive proofs advanced by God’s supreme Testimony, recognized the Truth and did not fix his eyes on others. Thus on the Day of Resurrection God will ask everyone of his understanding and not of his following in the footsteps of others.

Bahá'í Reference Library - Selections From the Writings of the Báb, Pages 89-91

And in the first book which He wrote in explanation of the Surih of Joseph,* He addressed Himself in all passages to that Person unseen from Whom He received help and grace, sought for aid in the arrangement of His preliminaries, and craved the sacrifice of life in the way of His love.

(Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 4)

A more significant light, however, is shed on this episode, marking the Declaration of the Mission of the Báb, by the perusal of that "first, greatest and mightiest" of all books in the Bábí Dispensation, the celebrated commentary on the Surih of Joseph, the first chapter of which, we are assured, proceeded, in its entirety, in the course of that night of nights from the pen of its divine Revealer.

(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 6)

It was this remarkably gifted woman (Tahirih) who undertook the translation of the Báb's lengthy commentary on the Surih of Joseph (the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá') for the benefit of her Persian co-religionists, and exerted her utmost to spread the knowledge and elucidate the contents of that mighty Book.

(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 74)

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October 27, 1933

Death of Keith Ransom-Kehler, Hand of the Cause of God in Isfahan, Ira

Keith Ransom-Kehler (February 14, 1876 - October 27, 1933) was an American Baha'i, Hand of the Cause of God and regarded as the first American martyr of the Faith. She carried out extensive travel teaching in the United States and Canada in the late 1920's before leaving her homeland in the 1930's to visit Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America. She died of small pox in Isfahan, Iran in 1933 during a mission to promote Baha'i Administration and alleviate the suffering of Persian Baha'is at the hands of the Iranian government.

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Some of the background of Keith Ransom-Kehler..

"Keith Bean attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, an outstanding tertiary educational institution for women, and received a bachelor’s degree in child psychology in 1898. In 1901, at the age of twenty-five, she married Ralph Ransom, a young painter from Saint Joseph who had attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She spent some time with him in Paris, where he studied with the influential American painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler, completing his studies at the Académie Delecluse in Paris in 1906. Meanwhile, Keith Ransom continued to pursue her own interests. Her file at Vassar College indicates that she attended Albion College in Michigan in 1903–04, earning a master’s degree in 1904, and then taught English literature there in 1904–05; she also studied at the University of Michigan (1904), the University of Arizona (1907), and the University of Chicago (1910). On 11 February 1907 she gave birth to a daughter, Julia Keith Ransom. A little over a year later, on 5 June 1908, Ralph Ransom died, apparently of tuberculosis. His mother, Mary Ransom, who lived in Saint Joseph, appears to have played a role in raising young Julia when Keith Ransom was traveling (to Europe with her father, for example, in 1908–09), studying, or working in Chicago."

For more read:

Ransom-Kehler, Keith Bean

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November 1, 1845

The Times of London published the first known reference in print to the religion of the Bab

The first published account was that of proclamation by the Bab of his mission in Mecca and the arrest and punishment of four of the Bab's disciples in Shiraz, and the arrest of the Bab. This account appeared in The Times of London on 1 November 1845.


November 4, 1870

Release from prison barracks to house within Akka

Release from prison barracks to house within Akka (the house of Udi Khammar). This house was attached to the house of Abbud. The partition between them was later removed and became known as simply the house of Abbud


November 4, 1957

The Guardian dies in England of Asian flu

Although provisions permitted successive Guardians, Shoghi Effendi had not appointed one (no living direct descendants of Baha'u'llah were faithful to His Covenant). The Guardian had indicated that at the completion of the Crusade, conditions were ripe for the election of the Universal House of Justice. The Hands of the Cause of God, collaborating with the national spiritual assemblies, worked to complete the goals of the Ten Year World Crusade

If you can get a copy of "Meditations on the Eve of November 4th" by Hand of the Cause of God Mr. Faizi I'd read it!

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Aside from the Holy Day of the Birth of Baha'u'llah it is also notable that some Hands of The Cause ascended around the same calendar day...


November 12, 1817 (Holy Day)

Birth of Baha'u'llah

Bahais commemorate the birth of Baha'u'llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Bahai Faith. In 1817, Baha'u'llah was born in Tehran, Persia (Iran), Birth of Baha'u'llah [Mirza Husayn-Ali] in Tihran, to one of the wealthiest families in Persia. Baha'u'llah, never having attended school, is taught calligraphy, riding, classical poetry and a good reading knowledge of the Qur'an which was customary for a nobleman's son at that time


November 12, 1936

Birth of former member of Universal House, Justice Peter Khan

Dr. Peter Jamel Khan is a retired member of the Universal House of Justice. Dr. Khan was born in New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Khan served first as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was elected to the Universal House of Justice in 1987. On January 6th, 2010 it was announced that he would retire following a by-election to replace him. He retired along with Mr. Hooper Dunbar. Dr. Khan passed away in Brisbane, Australia in the early hours of Friday the 15th of July, 2011, after a sudden short illness.


November 12, 1955

Death of Hand of the Cause and trustee of Ḥuququ'llah, Valiyu'llah Varqa

Mirza Valiyu'llah Khan-i-Varqa was a prominent Persian Baha'i, and appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi. He was the son of Varqa, the martyr-poet, and the father of Ali-Muhammad Varqa, the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God. Valiyu'llah Varqa joined Abdu'l-Baha's entourage while he traveled across America. He was appointed Trustee of the Huququ'llah in 1940 and a Hand of the Cause of Cause in 1951.


November 12, 1986

Death of Zikru'llah Khadim, Hand of the Cause of God

He was appointed by Shoghi Effendi to be a Hand of the Cause in 1952. He served as treasurer of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iran for a time, and later became the first Hand of the Cause to move to the Western Hemisphere. He also traveled around the world for Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, to over 50 countries including Canada, Malaysia and Japan. At the Baha'i Nikko Conference in Nikko, Japan Zikru'llah Khadem was the Guardian's representative.

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November 18, 1960

Death of Clara Dunn, Hand of the Cause of God

Clara was born in London, England, on 12 May 1869. She was the sixth of eight children of Thomas Holder and Maria McHugh. In 1870, her family moved to Ontario, Canada. Clara and John Hyde Dunn married in July 1917. In 10 April 1920 sailed to Australia from the United states. They were the first Baha'i sailed to Australia. Clara Dunn died in Sydney on 18 November 1960 and was buried beside her husband in Woronora Cemetery in metropolitan Sydney.

Check out this site:

Baha'i Hyde and Clara Dunn song, music, poetry and quotes


November 22, 1925

Death of John Esslemont, Hand of the Cause of God

John Ebenezer Esslemont was a prominent British Baha'i from Scotland. He was the author of the well-known introductory book on the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, which is still in circulation. He was named posthumously by Shoghi Effendi as the first Hand of the Cause he appointed, and as one of the Disciples of Abdu'l-Baha. He was also an accomplished medical Doctor and linguist becoming proficient in western and eastern languages. Esslemont died in 1925 from his tuberculosis and is buried in the Baha'i Cemetery in Haifa along with several other well known Baha'is.

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November 26

Day of the Covenant

The Day of the Covenant is the day when Baha'is celebrate the appointment of Abdu'l-Baha as the Centre of Baha'u'llah's Covenant. It occurs yearly on November 26. Abdu'l-Baha gave them November 26, 180 days after the ascension of Baha'u'llah, to be observed as the day of the appointment of the Centre of the Covenant. The holiday was originally known as the Jashn-i-A'zam in Persian (The Greatest Festival), because Abdu'l-Baha was known as the the Greatest Branch in the West, the holiday became known as the Day of the Covenant.

For a study on the Covenant see:

The Baha’i Covenant | The Covenant of Baha’u'llah » The Covenant — A Compilation


November 26, 2003

Death of Ali-Akbar Furutan, Hand of the Cause of God

Ali-Akbar Furutan was appointed Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi in 1951 and served in that capacity until his death in Haifa at the age of 98.




November 27, 1848

Arrival of Quddus at the fort of Shaykh Tabarsi


November 27, 1929

Restoration of the Mansion at Bahji begins


November 28, 1921

Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Center of the Cause of Baha'i Faith

Baha'is somberly commemorate the day in 1921 when 'Abdu'l-Baha passed away.


November 28, 1928

Construction begins on the first Baha'i House of Worship (Ishqabad, Russia)

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December 3, 1982

Death of Paul Haney, Hand of the Cause of God in Haifa, Israel

Paul Edmond Haney (August 20, 1909 - December 3, 1982) was a Custodian and Hand of the Cause of God in the Baha'i Faith. He was appointed by Shoghi Effendi as a Hand of the Cause of God on March 19, 1954 while serving as chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States.


December 5, 1913

Abdu'l-Bahas return to the Holy Land from Europe and North America

Abdu'l-Baha sails for England, visits Liverpool, London, Bristol and Edinburgh. He visits Paris, Stuttgart, Budapest and Vienna


December 9, 1909

Birth of Mrs. Gertrude Blum, Knight of Baha'u'llah named for pioneering to the Solomon Islands

Mrs. Blum's services to the community and the Baha'i Faith were recognized when she was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal by Elizabeth II, Queen of England, in 1989. She was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia and New Zealand, the first Regional Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific, and the first National Assembly of the South West Pacific Ocean.


December 10, 1898

Arrival of the first group of Western pilgrims in Akka

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Check it out... Shoghi Effendi is sitting in the lap of a western pilgrim!




Early Western Bahá'í pilgrims. Standing left to right: Charles Mason Remey, Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and Laura Clifford Barney; Seated left to right: Ethel Rosenberg, Madam Jackson, Shoghi Effendi, Helen Ellis Cole, Lua Getsinger, Emogene Hoagg

(From wikipedia)

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December 10, 1922

Formation of the first Local Spiritual Assembly in Canada in Montreal


December 10, 1964

Death of Alyce Janssen, Knight of Baha'u'llah named for pioneering to Spanish Morocco


December 12, 1844

The Bab, accompanied by His foremost disciple Quddus

The Bab and Quddus undertakes a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina where He performs His first public declaration of His divine mission.


December 12, 1863

Arrival of Bahau'llah in Adrianople

Arrival in Adrianople [the Land of Mystery] after a bitterly cold 12 day journey. Here, Baha'u'llah publicly announces His mission, both to His followers and to the world in letters to the Kings, rulers, religious leaders and mankind in general including elected officials

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And in December 1848:

December 1848: Baha’u’llah sets out to visit the Bábis at Shaykh Tabarsi
In December 1848, to fulfill His promise to visit Shaykh Tabarsi for a second time, Baha'u'llah set out with a number of the Bábis intending to visit the besieged fortress.

Those who went with Him included

· Haji Mirza Janiy-i-Kashani,[The merchant who had acted as host to the Báb in Kashan, and the first chronicler of His Faith, who was martyred in August 1852.]

· Mulla Baqir-i-Tabrizi (one of the Bab's Letters of the Living),
· Shaykh Abu-Turab-i-Ishtahardi,
· Aqa Siyyid Hasan-i-Khu'i,
· Aqa Siyyid Husayn-i-Turshizi (one of the Seven Martyrs of Tihran),
· 'Abdu'l-Vahhab Big,
· Muhammad-Taqi Khan-i-Nuri and
· Mirza Yahya, Subh-i-Azal.

But Baha'u'llah did not succeed in fulfilling His intention, for He and His companions were arrested and detained when they reached a village some nine miles from Shaykh Tabarsi.

(Balyuzi, Baha’u’llah King of Glory, p.56)

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December 15, 1946

Completion of plans for erection of arcade of the Shrine of the Bab

http://assets.bahai.org/2/news/shrin...estored_17.jpg


December 16, 1950

Mazraih leased from Israeli authorities

Bahá'í Media Bank


December 19, 1920

Commencement of the construction of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar in Wilmette, Illinois

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Take a virtual tour of the House of Worship:

http://benningphoto.com/New%20Flash%...7i%20Front.swf

Build youir own model of the House of Worship:

How to Build the Bahai Temple

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December 25, 1939

Remains of Abdu'l-Baha's Mother and Brother (The Purest Branch) interred together on Mt. Carmel




December 29, 1921

Shoghi Effendi arrives in Haifa, accompanied by Lady Blomfeld and Rouhangeze


December 29, 1979

Death of Rahmatu'llah Muhajir, Hand of the Cause of God and Knight of Baha'u'llah

Rahmatu'llah Muhajir (1923-1979) was a prominent fourth generation Baha'i, born on 4 April 1923 in the town of 'Abdu'l-'Azim, Iran. He was named as Knights of Baha'u'llah by Shoghi Effendi in March, 1954. Dr Muhajir was elected as a member of the Regional Spiritual Assembly in 1957, and in October of that year he was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi. He died in Ecuador in 1979.