Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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Date 1851-0, descending sort earliest first

date event tags firsts refs
1851 28 Aug Bahá'u'lláh arrived in Karbalá via Baghdád on His pilgrimage. He stayed for 10 months. [BKG67; DB593; GPB70]
  • See BKG68 and DB593–4 for those who became Bábís in Karbalá in this period.
  • Bahá'u'lláh, Life of; Pilgrimage; Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Karbala, Iraq; Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq
    1851 4 Aug Áqá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Hakkák was blown from a canon after refusing to recant. [BW18:382] Canons; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution
    1851 Aug Bahá'u'lláh spent most of August in Kirmánsháh. [BKG67; DB90, 591] Bahá'u'lláh, Life of; Kirman, Iranshah; Iran
    1851 23 Jul Áqá Muhammad-Sádiq-i-Yúzdárání was beaten to death in Yazd after refusing to recant. [BW18:382] Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
    1851 Jun c. Mírzá Taqí Khán met with Bahá'u'lláh and told Him that it would be advisable for Bahá'u'lláh to leave Tihrán temporarily. A few days later, He left for the 'Atabát (the Sacred Thresholds) on pilgrimage. [BKG66; DB587, 591] Mírzá Taqi Khan; Bahá'u'lláh, Life of; Tehran, Iran; Iran; Karbala, Iraq; Iraq
    1851 1 May Áqá Husayn was blown from a canon in Yazd. [BW18:382] Canons; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
    1852 (In the year) It was sometime when 'Abdu'l-Bahá was seven years old that he contracted tuberculosis and all indications were that there was no hope of recovery. He recounted while in Paris that He was rarely sick and that if He fell sick there was a purpose. `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); Tuberculosis; Tehran, Iran
    1851 30 Apr Mullá Hasan-i-Fadíl was executed in Yazd when he refused to recant. [BW18:382] Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
    1851 2 Mar Four Bábís brought from Zanján were executed in Tihrán. [BW18:382] Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Tehran, Iran; Zanjan, Iran; Iran
    1851 2 Jan c. End of the Zanján upheaval. [BW18:382]
  • Hujjat, wounded in the right arm by a bullet 19 days previously, succumbed to his wounds. With the death of Hujjat the Bábí resistance weakens. A general assault by the royal forces ended the siege. [B187; BBR122; BW18:382; DB573–4]
  • See Bab187 and DB574–7 for the fate of the survivors.
  • See Bab187 and DB577–9 for the fate of Hujjat's body.
  • About 1,800 Bábís were killed during the upheaval. [DB580, 598]
  • Hujjat; Zanjan upheaval; Upheavals; Zanjan, Iran; Iran
    1851 (In the year) Mullá Zaynu'l-'Abidín (Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin), a prominent mujtahid, became a Bábí, in Najafábád. Zaynul-Muqarrabin (Mulla Zaynul-Abidin); Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran

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