- 1798-07-01 — The start of the French invasion of Egypt. It ended in a military disaster for France, albeit a pol...
- 1819-00-00 — `Abdu'llah Pasha became the governor of `Akka in 1819. In 1832 when the Egyptians took `Akka he surr...
- 1831-00-00 — Egyptian occupation of `Akka. [BBR202; DH128; Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Pal...
- 1840-00-00 — The British fleet took `Akka from the Egyptians. [BBR202] ...
- 1862-00-03 — Haji Mirza Haydar-`Ali and six other prominent Baha'is were arrested in Cairo for being Baha'is at t...
- 1863-08-31 — Baha'u'llah was resident in the House of Shamsi Big near the mosque of Khirqiu-i-Sharifh. During thi...
- 1867-09-05 — In this period the extent of the Faith was enlarged with expansion in the Caucasus, the establishmen...
- 1868-05-00 — Baha'u'llah sent Nabil-i-A`zam Zarandi to Cairo to enquire after Haji Mirza Haydar-`Ali. He was inst...
- 1868-06-07 — Nabil had a dream in which Baha'u'llah appeared to him in his cell and assured him that he will have...
- 1868-07-21 — Mirza Abu'l-Qasim-i-Shirazi was arrested in Egypt and money extorted from him. [BBR257–8; BKG243; ...
- 1868-08-23 — The steamer left Smyrna at night for Alexandria, which she reached on the morning two days later. [B...
- 1868-08-26 — The steamer carrying Baha'u'llah and His companions docked at Alexandria, early in the morning. [BKG...
- 1868-10-00 — Nabil was released from prison in Egypt and departed for `Akka. [BKG290–1; RB3:57]
He visited C...
- 1869-11-17 — The Suez Canal was opened to navigation. At this time the canal was164km (102 miles) long and 8 metr...
- 1875-11-00 — British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli borrowed 4 million pounds to acquire the Khedive ́s holdin...
- 1879-00-02 — `Abdu'l-Baha traveled to Beirut at the invitation of Midhat Pasha, the Vali of Syria. [BKG378]
`A...
- 1882-06-00 — Baha'i books were published for the first time, in Bombay and Cairo by the Nasiri Press. The Bombay ...
- 1882-07-11 — Egypt had mounting debts and a financial crisis which had been exacerbated by the construction of th...
- 1882-07-11 — The British navy bombarded Alexandria, beginning or provoking fires that destroyed the city and forc...
- 1882-07-11 — Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Maqsud was revealed following the invasion of Egypt by the Fren...
- 1890-00-04 — Ibrahim George Kheiralla (Khayru'llah) became a Baha'i in Cairo under the tutelage of `Abdu'l-Karim-...
- 1892-06-19 — Anton Haddad departed Cairo en route to the United States. [An Outline of the Baha'i Movement in the...
- 1894-00-03 — `Abdu'l-Baha sent Mirza Abú'l-Fadl to Cairo. The Master
instructed the prominent Baha'is not to
- 1894-00-04 — From the day of
Baha'u'llah's ascension Bahiyyih
Khanum had grown so thin and feeble
and was in s...
- 1897-03-26 — From the time of the passing of Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-Baha endured significant family opposition to Hi...
- 1898-10-00 — During this period, `Abdu'l-Baha issued instructions that, under no circumstances, was the Cause of ...
- 1898-12-10 — The first Western pilgrims arrived in `Akka. [AB68; BBD13; BBRXXX; DH214; GPB257; SCU13; Baha'i Teac...
- 1901-08-20 — Sultan `Abdu'l-Hamid re-imposed the restrictions confining `Abdu'l-Baha and His brothers within the ...
- 1903-03-00 — Myron H. Phelps completed his work, Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi, when in Cairo in March 1903...
- 1903-03-21 — The passing of Gabriel Sacy, (b. Alexandria c. 1860) a Syrian Christian who had become a Baha'i afte...
- 1903-05-00 — Russian poet Isabella Grinevskaya wrote the play "Bab" which was performed in St. Petersburg in 1904...
- 1910-08-29 — `Abdu'l-Baha departed for Egypt on board the steamer Kosseur London accompanied by two attendants, M...
- 1910-11-00 — Wellesley Tudor Pole met 'Abdu'l-Baha in Alexandria. An interview with him appeared in Christian Co...
- 1911-04-09 — Louis Gregory visited Ramleh where 'Abdu'l-Baha was staying in preparation for His first visit to Eu...
- 1911-08-09 — When 'Abdu'l-Baha was about to depart on his first voyage to the West, He wrote to Albert Smiley, ho...
- 1911-08-11 — The beginning of `Abdu'l-Baha's first Western tour [AB139]
`Abdu'l-Baha departed from Egypt with a ...
- 1911-12-07 — 'Abdu'l-Baha departed Marseilles for Egypt on board Le Portugal. It travelled to Beirut via Alexandr
- 1911-12-12 — 'Abdu'l-Baha arrived in Egypt for His second stay in the country. This sojourn lasts 3 months and
- 1912-03-20 — 'Abdu'l-Baha gave a talk on the festival of Naw-Rúz at the Hotel Victoria in Ramleh, a suburb of Al
- 1912-03-25 — 'Abdu'l-Baha ended His second stay in Egypt which lasted 3 months and 14 days.
- 1912-03-25 — `Abdu'l-Baha's second Western tour
'Abdul'-Baha and His party embarked from Alexandria on the Whi...
- 1912-08-22 — The International Moral Education Congress was an international academic conference held in Europe s...
- 1913-04-18 — `Abdu'l-Baha left Budapest and travelled to Vienna by rail, reaching the city in the evening and tak...
- 1913-06-13 — `Abdu'l-Baha left Marseilles on the S. S. Himalaya for Port Said. Sailing with Him were: Mirza Ali-...
- 1913-06-16 — 'Abdul-Baha began His third stay in Egypt which lasted 5 months and 16 days.
At some time during
- 1913-06-23 — Àbdu'l-Baha gave a talk in which He mentioned a certain cardinal that He had encountered while in t...
- 1913-06-30 — Immediately upon return from the latest trip to the West, Mirza Mahmúd-i-Zarqani began to document ...
- 1913-07-10 — `Abdu'l-Baha went to Isma`iliyyah, where the weather is less humid. He took up short-term residence ...
- 1913-07-17 — `Abdu'l-Baha traveled to Ramleh. It was hoped that the drier climate would be more salubrious than t...
- 1913-07-23 — Lua Getsinger arrived at Port Said and was given permission to join 'Abdu'l-Baha the following day. ...
- 1913-08-01 — With his final year of high school over, Shoghi Effendi hastened from Beirut to Ramleh to join the M...
- 1913-08-19 — 'Abdu'l-Baha took the decision to send Lua Getsinger to India. His words to her were published SoW V
- 1913-08-28 — 'Abdu'l-Baha revealed a tablet to an unnamed woman saying that only two things were not open to wome
- 1913-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi returned to Beirut and the Syrian Protestant College to start his college education i...
- 1913-12-00 — "Tamaddunu'l-Mulk (Mirza 'Abdu'l-Husayn Khan Qalati Shirazi) caused mischief amongst the friends and
- 1913-12-02 — `Abdu'l-Baha boarded a Lloyd Triestino boat (then called Lloyd Austriaco) bound for Haifa with stop...
- 1914-01-21 — Mirza Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpaygani, Apostle of Baha'u'llah, passed away in Cairo. [AB404; BBD67]
... lea...
- 1915-01-00 — Lua Getsinger arrived in Haifa and remained there as a guest of the Holy Family for seven months. Th...
- 1915-09-00 — Lua Getsinger arrived in Port Said tired and exhausted. Leaving Port Said, Lua sailed to Cairo expec...
- 1916-05-02 — Louisa Aurora "Lua" Moore Getsinger, (b. 1 November, 1872 in Hume, Allegany County, New York) Disci...
- 1919-04-00 — The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: From 1883 to 1914, the successive Khedives of Egypt and Sudan, unde...
- 1921-11-31 — Mirza Muhammad-`Ali published far and wide that he was the successor to `Abdu'l-Baha. [CB277]
T...
- 1921-12-29 — Shoghi Effendi arrived in the Holy Land from England by train from Egypt. [GBF14; PP42]
An enve...
- 1924-04-21 — The formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt. It was the first national ...
- 1925-05-10 — A Muslim Court in Egypt pronounced the Faith to be an independent religion. [BBRSM173; BW2:31;BW3:49...
- 1929-09-00 — Shoghi Effendi sailed from England to Cape Town and proceeded overland to Cairo. [PP180–1, SETPE1p...
- 1934-00-05 — The Declaration of Trust was legalized in Egypt as a result of the work of Montfort Mills and 'Abdu'...
- 1934-00-06 — In Egypt, a certain learned Shaykh el Kharashi attacked the Faith in a series of articles under the ...
- 1934-12-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and the Sudan incorporated. [GPB336; BN No 321 November 195...
- 1937-12-20 — Mirza Ḥusayn-'Aliy-i-Jahrumi represented the arch-breaker of the Covenant, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, in...
- 1939-02-21 — Situation in Egypt: Background Information
"riots which broke out with exceptional fury in Isma'ili...
- 1940-00-00 — The first Egyptian Baha'i summer school was held in the mid-1940s....
- 1940-07-28 — Shoghi Effendi, Rúhiyyih Khanum and Sutherland Maxwell left England for South Africa aboard the SS ...
- 1941-00-05 — 'Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'ad translated The Dawn-Breakers into Arabic. His translation was published but
- 1942-06-25 — 'Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'ad died in Egypt and Shoghi Effendi appointed him to the rank of Hand of the Ca
- 1942-12-18 — The Assembly of Egypt, after obtaining government permission to maintain a Baha'i cemetery, arranged...
- 1946-12-13 — The passing of Muhammad Taqi Isfahani. He had been born in Persia and was horrified by the behaviou...
- 1948-04-21 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt and Sudan launched a Five Year Plan (1948-19...
- 1950-04-21 — Shoghi Effendi announced the Africa Campaign (1951-1953) in a cable to the British National Conventi...
- 1951-00-07 — Baha'i women in Egypt were extended the right of membership on local spiritual assemblies. [MBW12]
...
- 1951-04-21 — Several National Spiritual Assemblies-Britain, Egypt, India, Iran and the United States, joined forc...
- 1953-12-03 — The arrival, from Egypt, of Knight of Baha'u'llah Labib Isfahani in Dakar, Senegal. He was followed ...
- 1956-04-00 — Shoghi Effendi announced the extension to Egyptian Baha'i women of the right to be elected to the Na...
- 1956-04-21 — The Regional Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa was formed by expanding the jurisdiction of the...
- 1960-08-01 — All Baha'i activity in Egypt was prohibited by Presidential Decree No 263 issued by President Nasser...
- 1971-00-00 — Following the prohibition of Baha'i activity in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Baha'is put forward a petiti...
- 1971-10-13 — Following the banning of Baha'i activities in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Baha'is submitted a petition t...
- 1975-00-00 — The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt decided that the 1960 decree of President Nasser banning a...
- 1975-02-03 — The Arab Boycott Office, at its meeting in Cairo, announced that the Baha'i Faith had been placed on...
- 1980-07-27 — The death of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in Cairo. (b.26 October, 1919 in Tehran).
Shah of Iran fr...
- 1981-08-15 — The passing of Muhamad Mustafa (b.1898 in El Dhahriya, Egypt), stalwart servant and mainstay of the ...
- 1983-07-22 — The number of Local Spiritual Assemblies in Africa rose to some 7,200 and localities
where Baha'is ...
- 1985-02-23 — Forty–one Baha'is from various parts of Egypt were arrested, charged with offences against laws in...
- 1985-05-07 — The court hearings open on the cases of the Baha'is arrested in Egypt in February on charges of disr...
- 1985-10-05 — The court cases against the Baha'is arrested in Egypt for contravening the 1960 ban on Baha'i activi...
- 1986-01-21 — The Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar University in Cairo published in a number of newspapers a ...
- 1994-09-05 — The Baha'i International Community attended the United Nations International Conference on Populatio...
- 2001-01-14 — Sixteen Baha'is were arrested in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag. The charges brought against th...
- 2003-00-00 — A fatwa was issued against the Baha'i Faith in Egypt by Al-Azhar, the prominent religious institutio...
- 2004-00-01 — The 2004 Circular 49/2004 issued by the Ministry of the Interior specifically instructed officials t...
- 2004-04-19 — The passing of Mr Aziz Ismayn Yazdi (b. Alexandria, Egypt in 1909) in Vancouver, Canada at the age o...
- 2006-04-04 — In late 2004 or early 2005 the government of Egypt introduced a computerized identity card system th...
- 2006-05-15 — In Egypt the government appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court and th...
- 2006-09-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court again postponed its hearing on the government appeal of a ...
- 2006-11-20 — In Egypt lawyers representing a Baha'i couple seeking to have their religious affiliation properly i...
- 2006-12-16 — Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled against the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on...
- 2006-12-21 — A message was sent from the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of Egypt regarding the recent ...
- 2007-11-12 — Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights released a report that stated tha...
- 2007-12-20 — The two Egyptian Human Rights cases, the first by the father of twin children who was seeking to obt...
- 2008-01-29 — In Egypt a victory for religious freedom, a lower administrative court ruled in favour of two lawsui...
- 2009-03-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court removed any grounds for preventing Baha'is from receiving ...
- 2009-04-17 — With respect to the Supreme Administrative Court decision of 16 March 2009, the decree, dated 19 Mar...
- 2009-08-08 — Two young Egyptian Baha'is, Imad and Nancy Rauf Hindi, received the new identity cards. They had bee...
- 2011-01-25 — January 25th marked the beginning of the revolution in Egypt where millions of protesters from all s...
- 2011-04-02 — In an open letter to their fellow citizens, the Baha'is of Egypt offered some advice regarding the f...
- 2012-06-00 — After the January 25th revolution against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the...
- 2014-05-28 — In the presidential election in Egypt, former Egyptian defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was ele...
- 2018-11-19 — The second annual Arab Sustainable Development Week was held in Cairo from 19 to 22 November to adva...
- 2019-12-31 — Baha'i Communities in a number of countries experienced persecution during 2019:
In Egypt where i...
- 2021-00-00 — By 2021 the situation for the Baha'is in Egypt had not changed much. The constitution identified Isl...
- 2022-12-20 — The Appeals Examination Circuit of Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ruling issued by th...
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