Chronology: Date 1863-00-00

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date	event	tags	firsts
1863 or earlier 186-	Colonel Sir Arnold Burrowes Kemball, the British Consul-General in Baghdád, offered Bahá'u'lláh the protection of British citizenship and offered Him residence in India or anywhere of Bahá'u'lláh's choosing. [BBR183, 234; BBRSM65; GPB131] Bahá'u'lláh declined the invitation, preferring to remain in Ottoman lands. [GBP131] See BBR183, 508 for details on Kemball; see BBR160–1 for a picture.	Arnold Burrowes Kemball; United Kingdom, History (general); * Bahaullah (chronology); Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq
1863 (In the year) 186-	The passing of Hájí Mubárak, the servant of the Báb. He was born in 1823 and died at the age of 40. He was buried in the grounds of the Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Iraq. He had been purchased in Bushir at the age of 5 by Hájí Mírzá Abú'l-Qásím, the great-grandfather of Shoghi Effendi and brother-in-law of the Báb and was sold to the Báb in 1842, just prior to His wedding, at the age of 19 for fourteen tomans. [BP5, 18]	Hájí Mubarak; - In Memoriam; Bushihr, Iran; Iran; Karbala, Iraq; Iraq


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