Chronology: Date 1853-04

date	event	tags	firsts
1853 8 Apr	Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád Bahá'u'lláh and His family arrived in Baghdád. [BBR177; BKG106; GPB109; TN38] See BBR177–83 for conditions in Baghdád during this period. Shoghi Effendi describes this as being the lowest period of the faith of the Báb. [DB651, GPB113-114] Shortly after the family's arrival in Baghdád Navváb gave birth to a son. [CB71; CH51–2]	Bahá'u'lláh, Life of (chronology); Navvab (Asiyih Khanum); Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq
1853	Shortly after Bahá'u'lláh's arrival in Baghdad, the first messenger to reach Him was Shaykh Salmán who returned to his native Hindiyan with Tablets addressed to the friends. This became his habit, once a year he would set out on foot to see Bahá'u'lláh bringing letters and leaving wth Tablets, faithfully delivering each on for whom it was intended. He visited Him in Baghdad, Adrianople and Akka, carrying Tablets to many cities, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kashan, Tehran... During the 40 years that he continued this service and never lost a single letter or Tablet. He always travelled on foot and ate noting but bread and onions. He earned the title "The Bábí's Angel Gabriel". After the passing of Bahá'u'lláh he continued to provide courier service between Persia and the Holy Land. See An Illiterate Genius: The Early Baha'i Shaykh Salman. See Bahá'í Chronicles . He died in Shiraz. [MoF13-16]	Shaykh Salman; India; Iran
1853 or 1854	Bahá'u'lláh revealed the Lawh-i Kullu't-ta'ám (Tablet of All Food). [BRSM:62; BKG112] The revelation of this Tablet pointed out Mírzá Yahyá's lack of ability. [BKG 112] This Tablet also describes five Worlds of God. It is an esoteric scriptural Tablet expository of Qur'an 3:87 [93] and incorporating issues of Bábi authority and religiosity. It is addressed to the Bábi believer Ḥajjī Mīrzā Kamāl al-Dīn Narāqī (d. Narāq c.1298/1881). An inadequate printed text is found in Ishrāq Khavari (comp.) Mā'ida-yi āsmani IV :265-276 and a slightly better one in Rahiq-i makhtum II :416-426. A superior photocopied ms. is to be found in INBMC 36:268-277. [U of Cal. MERCED] Tablet of All Food translated by Stephen Lamden.	Bahá'u'lláh, Life of (chronology); * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Lawh Kullut-Taam (Tablet of All Food); Mírzá Yahya (Subh-i-Azal); Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq
1853 or 1854	Birth of Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí, first son of Bahá'u'lláh and His second wife, Mahd-i-'Ulyá. [CB 125] He was born in the first year of Bahá'u'lláh's arrival in Baghdád. CB125]	Mírzá Muhammad Ali; Births and deaths; Bahá'u'lláh, Life of (chronology); Bahá'u'lláh, Wives of; Bahá'u'lláh, Family of; Mahd-i-Ulya (Fatimih Khanum); Firsts, other; Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq	First son of Bahá'u'lláh and His second wife, Mahd-i-‘Ulyá; first year of Bahá'u'lláh's arrival Baghdád
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