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referring tags: Alexander the Great; Archeology; Civilization; Colonialism and imperialism; Industrial Revolution; Iran, General history; Stories; United Kingdom, History (general)

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1.   from the main catalog (77 results; expand)

  1. Michael W. Sours. 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahá'í Secondary Literature, The (1998). — This edict, issued the year the Baha'i era began, permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return ...
  2. Manooher Mofidi. 'Abdu'l Bahá's Tablet of the Two Calls: Civilizing Barbarity (2005). — The relatioship between civilization and barbarity, and the capabilities of humanity.
  3. Marion Weinstein. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919) (1919-09-08). — An interview with 'Abdu'l-Baha on the League of Nations, Baha'i ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. ...
  4. G. D. Turner. Account of the Main Events in Persia during October 1912 to October 1913, An (1913-10). — Overview of developments in Iran in 1913, with passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and E.G. Browne.
  5. Laurence Oliphant. Babs and Their Prophet, The (1887). — Excerpt from a book described by E.G. Browne as "the first published notice of Beha and the Babi col...
  6. Francis Henry Skrine. Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds (1912). — An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Baha'i history and teachings, written with "express appro...
  7. Biography of Tsar Alexander: Tablet to Tsar Alexander II (Lawh-i-Malik-i-Rus) (1999). — Short biography of Tsar Alexander ll describing him as a great historical figure without the charism...
  8. Biography of Napoleon: Tablet to Napoleon III (Lawh-i-Napulyún) (1999). — Biography of Napoleon III, to whom Baha'u'llah wrote two Tablets.
  9. Biography of Pope Pius IX: Tablet to Pope Pius IX (Lawh-i-Páp) (1999). — Biography of Pope Pius IX, to whom Baha'u'llah wrote a Tablet.
  10. Abbas Amanat. British influence in Persia in the 19th century (2003). — Includes various mentions of the Babi context. Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  11. Nozomu Sonda. Bushido (Chivalry) and the Traditional Japanese Moral Education (2007). — Japanese virtues explained by Nitobe in 1900 in comparison with the Baha'i perspective on moral educ...
  12. Maude M. Holbach. Call of Mt. Carmel, The (1912). — Includes passing references to Abdu'l-Baha and Akka, a description of life in Haifa at the time, and...
  13. Ruth Moffett. Cause of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, The (1954). — A chart correlating the growth of maturity of humanity and the evolution of religions with major eve...
  14. Jack McLean. Celestial Burning, A: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2012). — Style, content, and context of the major writings of the Guardian; providential history; critique of...
  15. Universal House of Justice. Century of Light (2001). — Survey of the history and dramatic changes of the 20th Century and the Baha'i Faith's emergence from...
  16. Jack McLean. Characterization in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi: With Special Attention to Yahya (2000). — The Guardian employed a creative literary device of adding moralistic comment about historical figur...
  17. Melissa Tansik. Chronological study: Tablets to the Rulers (1998). — Timeline of the rise of nation states, 1844-1871, and the history and fate of the rulers to whom Bah...
  18. Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). — Abdu'l-Baha was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their milita...
  19. Moojan Momen. Conspiracies and Forgeries: The Attack upon the Bahá'í Community in Iran (2004). — Early attacks on the Baha'i community in Iran were made mostly on the basis of religious accusations...
  20. Alexandra Yerolimpos. Contribution to the Topography of 19th Century Adrianople, A (1993). — Overview of the layout, the ethnic neighbourhoods, and history of Adrianople, including the period o...
  21. Clive Irving. Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History (1979). — Passing mentions of Babi history and the word "Babi" being used as a label to tarnish political diss...
  22. Taj al-Saltana. Abbas Amanat, ed, Anna Vanzan, trans. Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 (1993). — Passing references to the Babis in Amanat's introduction to, and in the autobiography of, Nasir al-D...
  23. Adib Masumian. Debunking the Myths: Conspiracy Theories on the Genesis and Mission of the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Response to Iranian conspiracy theories portraying the Baha'i Faith as a subversive political group,...
  24. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith, The Importance of (1991).
  25. Universal House of Justice. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan (2022-11-01). — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
  26. Nasir al-Din Shah. J. W. Redhouse, trans. Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in 1873, The (1874). — Contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but is useful for historical context, and a window...
  27. Necati Alkan. Divide and Rule: The Creation of the Alawi State after World War I (2013-11). — Summary of 20th-century history of the Nusayri/Alawi Shi'i movement in Syria and Turkey. (No mention...
  28. Robert D. Crews. Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed, An (2009). — History of the establishment of Tsarist power in Turkestan and the goal of earning support from thei...
  29. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  30. Ann Boyles. Epistolary Style of Shoghi Effendi, The (2022-09). — The purposes of this paper are to investigate the new style of the epistle and the roots of its deve...
  31. Eileen Estes, Richard Hollinger, Steven Scholl. Exile from El Salvador: A Conversation with Antonio (1987). — Interview with a former member of the Salvadorean Baha'i community about his history, and about thre...
  32. James B. Thomas. Exposition of the Tablet of the World (Lawh-i-Dunyá), An (2003). — To fully appreciate the historical significance of the Tablet of the World, this essay first portray...
  33. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
  34. Necati Alkan. Fighting for the Nuṣayrī Soul: State, Protestant Missionaries and the ʿAlawīs in the Late Ottoman Empire (2012). — Overview of the Alawites/Nusayris (Syrian Shi'is) in the start of the 19th century, political attitu...
  35. Universal House of Justice. Five Questions: Loss of Voting Rights, Mani, Magi, Five-Pointed Star, Joseph Smith (1991-01). — Responses to various questions. Closes with quotations on Confucianism and Genesis.
  36. Harry Liedtke. German Baha'i Community under National Socialism, The: A Historical Perspective With Notes, Postscript, and Photographs (1999/2000). — Examination of why Baha’is, as an international Community or as individuals, did not play an activ...
  37. Elham Afnan. Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations, The: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature (1989). — The Baha'i Writings, with their new understanding of human destiny, can bridge the gap between utopi...
  38. Harry Liedtke. Guardian's Wartime Travels, The (2016). — Brief chronology of world events 1938-1940 juxtaposed with Shoghi Effendi's travels in 1940, when he...
  39. Amy Suzanne Hollander. Historical Development of Genoa Square in Acre Israel from the Seventh Century to the Present Day, The (1995). — A study of the structure, development, space, and historic preservation of a portion of Akka, includ...
  40. John William Draper. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1864). — A selection of excerpts from the book. Contains no mention of the Baha'i Faith, but is of interest p...
  41. Universal House of Justice. Infallibility and Historical Knowledge of the Guardian (2005). — While the Guardian's infallibility applies to interpretation of revelation, it does not include hist...
  42. Ervand Abrahamian. Iran between Two Revolutions (1982). — Multiple references to the Baha'i Faith, in an academic book of history.
  43. W. St. Clair Tisdall. Islam in Persia (1906). — Passing discussions of Babis and Baha'is in Iran at the start of the 20th century (pages 115-118, 12...
  44. Robert G. Wilson. Ita and the Sandinista Revolution (1987). — An interview with Ita, one of the earliest participants in the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua th...
  45. Jean-Marc Lepain. Les Paradigmes cachés de l'histoire: Comparaison de l'histoire des premiers siècles du christianisme et de la foi bahà'ie (1994). — Exploration of some lessons from history relevant to our era and our near future, from the perspecti...
  46. Juan Cole, Moojan Momen. Mafia, Mob and Shiism in Iraq: The Rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1824-1843 (1986). — On the role of gangs in urban social history of the 19-century Ottoman empire; with a decline in gov...
  47. Phillip Berryman. Making of Central America, The: Intervention, Dictatorship, and Revolution (1986). — History of Western and Christian involvement in Latin America. (No mention of the Baha'i Faith.)
  48. Brian A. Miller. Mid-East History during the Islamic Period: Chronology and Commentary (2000). — Brief overview of Islamic history.
  49. Benjamin Schewel. Modernity as an Age of Transition (2023-01-16). — Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern...
  50. Alí-Akbar Furútan. Negahi-bi-Tarikh (1985). — This book, "Examination of history," is about the word history. It talks about history in general a...
  51. Douglas Martin. Notes on the Twentieth Century (2001-09). — Multiple transcriptions of talks given in Atlanta, New York, and Massachusetts in September and Octo...
  52. Universal House of Justice. One Common Faith (2005). — Review of relevant passages from both the writings of Baha'u'llah and the scriptures of other faiths...
  53. Hoda Mahmoudi. Permanence of Change, The: Contemporary Sociological and Bahá'í Perspectives (2008). — Sociohistorical changes of the Axial Age and the Renaissance, sociological views on modernity and it...
  54. John Huddleston. Phoenix and the Ashes: The Bahá'í Faith and the Modern Apocalypse, by Geoffrey Nash: Review (1988). — 19th-century optimism, disillusionment with contemporary society, philosophy of history, political t...
  55. Sholeh A. Quinn. Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat: Review (1998).
  56. Paul Pearsall. President Wilson and the Bahá'í Connection (1988-10). — Short overview of myths and facts on the Wilson-Baha'i connection. Includes addenda on the League of...
  57. Shoghi Effendi. Promised Day is Come, The (1980). — A book-length letter written by Shoghi Effendi to the Baha’is of the West, dated 28 March 1941, ab...
  58. Sathia Varqa. Prophecy of Bahá'u'lláh, The: A Backward Bending Supply Curve Theorem (2006). — The fates of some of the dictators to whom Baha'u'llah addressed his tablets, and the choices and co...
  59. Brian D. Lepard. Protecting the Human Family: Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and Bahá'í Principles (2003). — The moral and legal problems raised by the use of military force to aid human rights victims. Releva...
  60. Matthew Hughey. Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá'í Theology and Critical Sociology (2017). — Review of the concepts of race and racism based on social scientific understanding, in order to bett...
  61. Amin E. Egea. Reading Reality in Times of Crisis: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Great War (2021-05-08). — How ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s analysis of the crises of His time was profoundly distinct from contemporan...
  62. Anjam Khursheed. Religion in the Modem World (2001). — On aspects of the Western secular rebellion against theocracy and the rise of free enquiry and freed...
  63. Moojan Momen. Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran (1995).
  64. Roshan Danesh, Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023-01-08). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
  65. Jack Boyd. Road, The: Reflections on Scottish history (2005). — Essays on the birth of Scotland, Saint Patrick, William Wallace, Robert Bruce, and Rob Roy MacGregor...
  66. Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzieh Gail, trans. Secret of Divine Civilization (1957). — Originally issued anonymously in 1875, this was ʻAbdu'l-Baha's program for the developmental reform...
  67. Jamar M. Wheeler. Seeking Light in the Darkness of "Race" (2017). — A historical sketch of how race concepts evolved, with analysis at macro and micro levels of society...
  68. Bradford W. Miller. Seneca Falls First Woman's Rights Convention of 1848: The Sacred Rites of the Nation (1998). — Explores parallels between the Seneca Fails First Woman’s Rights Convention in the USA and the Bad...
  69. Sandra Lynn Hutchison. Shoghi Effendi and the American Dream (1997 Fall). — Context and import of Advent of Divine Justice, American destiny, the American frontier, ethical imp...
  70. Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi's View of Providential History in Light of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition (2005). — The Guardian's letters reveal six feature of his historicity: palingenesis and transitional history;...
  71. Universal House of Justice. Tablet of Maqsud (2001-05-01). — Date of the revelation of the Tablet of Maqsúd and its mention of "Two great powers."
  72. Ramin Neshati. Tablet of Maqsúd (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Guidance on Human Nature and Leadership (2003). — Reference to human aptitude and potential being contingent upon education; the need for a global con...
  73. Universal House of Justice, Juan Cole. Tablet of The Desired One (Lawh-i-Maqsúd): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
  74. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet of Wisdom Questions and Answers (1995). — Authorized translation of unpublished Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Baha to Ethel Rosenberg in 1906 in reply to ...
  75. Todd Lawson. Tafsir and the Meaning of the Qur'an: The Crucifixion in Muslim Thought (2010-10-23). — Using Qur'an 4:156-7 as an example, classical tafsīr, “scholastic" exegesis, has not always taken...
  76. Ismael Velasco. "Two Great Powers" in the Lawh-i Maqsud (2014). — On the identity of the two countries that arose against the followers of Moses, referenced by Baha'u...
  77. Charles O. Lerche. Us and Them: A Study of Alienation and World Order (1994). — The division of the world into mutually exclusive identity groups and its implications for internati...

2.   from the Chronology (93 results; expand)

  1. 1797-06-17 — Áqa Muhammad Khan, leader of the Qajars, (b. 5 September, 1772, d. 23 October, 1834) proclaimed him...
  2. 1797-08-00 — Crown Prince Fath-`Ali Mirza assumed leadership of Persia. (1797 (or 1798) to 1834)...
  3. 1798-03-21 — Fath-`Ali Khan was crowned second Qajar Shah during Naw-Rúz festival. ...
  4. 1799-00-00 — Napoleon, returning from Egypt, captured Jaffa and laid siege to Acre. At this junctur
  5. 1799-03-21 — Fath-`Ali Shah's son, `Abbas Mirza (aged 9), was designated Crown Prince of Persia. ...
  6. 1804-00-00 — Russo-Persian War resulted in a Russian victory. The Battle of Aslan Duz on 31 October 1812 was the ...
  7. 1819-00-00 — `Abdu'llah Pasha became the governor of `Akka in 1819. In 1832 when the Egyptians took `Akka he surr...
  8. 1828-02-10 — Defeat of the Persians at the hands of the Russians. The Russo-Persian War of 1826–28 was the ...
  9. 1831-00-00 — Egyptian occupation of `Akka. [BBR202; DH128; Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Pal...
  10. 1839-00-01 — Defeat of Persia at the hands of the British. [BBRSM55] ...
  11. 1840-00-00 — The British fleet took `Akka from the Egyptians. [BBR202] ...
  12. 1843-01-10 — The sacking of the holy city of Karbala at the hands of the Turks. Thousands of its citizens were ki...
  13. 1844-03-21 — Edict of Toleration was issued by the Sultan of Turkey: The Muslim government of the Ottoman Empire ...
  14. 1844-05-24 — F.B. Morse sent the first telegraphic message over an experimental line from Washington D.C. to Balt...
  15. 1845-06-28 — Prince Dolgorukov was appointed Russian ambassador to Tihran. He was previously first secretary of t...
  16. 1848-09-04 — The death of the chronically ill Muhammad Shah whom Shoghi Effendi described as bigoted, sickly and ...
  17. 1848-09-12 — The accession of Nasiri'd-Din Shah at Tabriz. [BBR482] He was 17 years old. [BBR158; GPB37] ...
  18. 1848-10-19 — Entry of Nasiri'd-Din Shah into Tihran. [BBR482] MH240 says it took him 45 days to travel to Tih...
  19. 1852-08-15 — Attempt on the life of the Shah in Afcha, near Tehran. [BBR128; BBRSM:30; BKG74–5; DB599; ESW20; G...
  20. 1856-00-04 — The Anglo-Persian War. [BBR165, 263]...
  21. 1862-08-22 — Concessions by the Persian government in the Qajar period (1789-1925) included grants of political a...
  22. 1863-12-15 — During this period Baha'u'llah made His proclamation to the kings and rulers. Also during this pe...
  23. 1867-12-15 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Súriy-Mulúk (Súrih of Kings). [BKG245; GPB171–2; RB2:301-336; BW19p58...
  24. 1868-10-30 — Christoph Hoffman, founder of the Templers, and Georg David Hardegg, his principal lieutenant, lande...
  25. 1869-00-00 — A great famine occurred in Iran in which about 10 per cent of the population died and a further 10 p...
  26. 1870-07-00 — The Roman Catholic Vatican Council under Pope Pius IX formulated the doctrine of papal infallibility...
  27. 1870-07-19 — Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German s...
  28. 1870-09-01 — Battle of Sedan. Napoleon III suffered defeat at the hands of Kaiser Wilhelm I. It resulted in the c...
  29. 1872-07-25 — The Baron de Reuter concession in 1872 was a significant agreement between the government of Persia ...
  30. 1876-05-30 — Sultan `Abdu'l-`Aziz was deposed. He had ruled from 1861. [BBR485]...
  31. 1876-06-04 — `Abdu'l-`Aziz either committed suicide or was assassinated. [BBD2; BBR485; GPB225] Accession of M...
  32. 1877-00-00 — As a result of the war between Russia and Turkey some 11 million people were freed from the Turkish ...
  33. 1878-07-12 — The British government took over the administration of Cyprus. [BBR306]...
  34. 1882-07-11 — Egypt had mounting debts and a financial crisis which had been exacerbated by the construction of th...
  35. 1882-07-11 — The British navy bombarded Alexandria, beginning or provoking fires that destroyed the city and forc...
  36. 1882-07-11 — Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Maqsud was revealed following the invasion of Egypt by the Fren...
  37. 1889-08-19 — Baron Julius de Reuter, a British-German financier with a history of financial agreements in Persia,...
  38. 1890-03-00 — Nasiri'd-Din Shah entered into contract of 50 years duration with British interests that would provi...
  39. 1896-04-19 — Nasiri'd-Din Shah was assassinated on the eve of the celebration of his jubilee. He had ascended to ...
  40. 1896-05-01 — Muzaffari'd-Din became the shah of Persia. He was the son of Nasiri'd-Din Shah. He had been sent as ...
  41. 1905-09-05 — The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War. It was signed on September...
  42. 1906-08-05 — After an almost bloodless revolution Muzaffari'd-Din Shah was forced to sign a royal decree called ...
  43. 1907-01-08 — The death of Muzaffari'd-Din Shah just a few days after he had signed the constitution. [BBR354, 482...
  44. 1907-01-19 — The accession of Muhammad-`Ali Shah to the throne of Iran. He reigned until 1909. He attempted to re...
  45. 1907-08-31 — Anglo-Russian Convention relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet, was signed in Saint Petersburg,...
  46. 1908-06-23 — Muhammad-`Ali Shah undertook a successful coup d'état in Iran and abolished the Constitution. [BBR3...
  47. 1908-07-23 — The Young Turks issued a declaration demanding the restoration of the old constitution of Midhat Pas...
  48. 1908-07-24 — In Constantinople, a bomb intended for Sultan 'Abdu'l-Hamid as he returned from the mosque on Friday...
  49. 1909-04-27 — `Abdu'l-Hamid II was deposed. [BBR486] Sultan 'Abdu'l-Hamid II lived from 1842 to 1918) and rei...
  50. 1909-07-18 — The accession of Ahmad Shah Qajar, the boy-king, to the throne of Iran. He was twelve years old and ...
  51. 1910-08-30 — The Ottoman officials, architects and masons came from Constantinople for the express purpose of pla...
  52. 1911-05-11 — W. Morgan Shuster was an American chosen by the Persian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, Mirza Ali...
  53. 1911-09-29 — The start of the Italo-Turkish war which lasted until the 18th of October 1912 when the Ottoman Empi...
  54. 1911-10-21 — News of the Battle of Benghazi (17 October) was headline news. It was one of the opening salvos of t...
  55. 1912-10-08 — The start of the the First Balkan War when Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia constituting the ...
  56. 1914-06-28 — The heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo....
  57. 1914-07-28 — The Great War (1914–18) broke out in Europe. (28 July, 1914 to 11 November, 1918)Austria declared ...
  58. 1914-08-04 — England declared war on Germany....
  59. 1914-11-01 — Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers. Palestine was blockaded and Haifa was b...
  60. 1915-07-00 — The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was a series of ten letters exchanged from July 1915 to March 1...
  61. 1916-05-16 — The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreeme...
  62. 1917-00-00 — Foreign troops occupied nearly all of neutral Iran. [AB416; BBRSM:87] ...
  63. 1917-04-06 — The United States entered World War I. See CF36 for Shoghi Effendi's opinion of its participati...
  64. 1917-11-02 — The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent to Lord Walter Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Ar...
  65. 1918-01-08 — President Woodrow Wilson in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress outli...
  66. 1918-09-23 — "During the early years of World War I, though no longer imprisoned, 'Abdu'l-Baha faced repeated thr
  67. 1918-11-11 — The end of the First World War or the Great War. It was a global conflict originating in Europe ...
  68. 1919-06-28 — The Treaty of Versailles was concluded. The United States never signed the Treaty of Versailles, ne...
  69. 1919-08-19 — The Anglo-Persian agreement was signed whereby Persia would get advisors for every department and g...
  70. 1920-00-00 — The British Mandate for Palestine began. [BBR488] For `Abdu'l-Baha's attitude to the administra...
  71. 1921-02-02 — Ahmad Shah, who succeeded to the throne at age 11, (reigned 1909–25) was deposed in a coup d'état...
  72. 1925-12-13 — Rida (or Reza) Shah acceded to the throne of Iran. The Pahlavi dynasty commenced. [BBR482] During...
  73. 1932-10-03 — The term of The Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration or "Mandatory Iraq" came to an end. It ...
  74. 1938-00-00 — Shoghi Effendi remained in Europe for the year owing to terrorist activities in Palestine. [PP219] ...
  75. 1939-09-03 — World War II began with Britain and France declaring war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland....
  76. 1941-03-28 — The publication of The Promised Day is Come. It was, in effect, a survey of the world in relation t...
  77. 1941-09-16 — In Iran, Rida Shah abdicated and Muhammad-Rida Shah ascended to the throne. His rule was to last unt...
  78. 1945-05-08 — The war in Europe ended. For Shoghi Effendi's response see MA80–1, PP185 and UD175. For the ...
  79. 1945-09-02 — The war in Japan ended....
  80. 1945-10-24 — The United Nations was formally established. There were Baha'i representatives in San Francisco in ...
  81. 1948-00-13 — War broke out in Palestine. Many Covenant-breakers fled the country. [DH118] ...
  82. 1948-04-21 — The 2nd Battle of Haifa: A Jewish offensive to gain control of the strategic port of Haifa. Prior to...
  83. 1948-05-14 — The British Mandate in Palestine ended and the state of Israel was proclaimed. The notion of a Je...
  84. 1948-12-09 — The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Resolution entitled Convention on the Prevent...
  85. 1954-11-01 — The members of the Algerian National Liberation Front initiated an armed conflict on French targets ...
  86. 1963-00-01 — 15 years after the establishment of Israel and during the course of the unrest that swept through Ir...
  87. 1969-10-29 — A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from nat...
  88. 1979-01-17 — Mohammad Rezā Pahlavi‎, known as Mohammad Reza Shah, entitled Shāhanshāh ("Emperor" or "King of...
  89. 1979-02-01 — Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France. On the 11th of February, the revolutionar...
  90. 2001-03-00 — The publication of Century of Light, a statement by the Universal House of Justice. The purpose of t...
  91. 2003-04-27 — Baha'is from the north and south of Cyprus met when they were permitted to cross the demarcation lin...
  92. 2012-06-00 — After the January 25th revolution against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the...
  93. 2014-05-28 — In the presidential election in Egypt, former Egyptian defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was ele...
 
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