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1916 Oct
191- |
The North American Bahá'í community began a teaching campaign aiming to teach the Faith in the many states named in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, and Montreal was designated the centre of the Northern Territory of the Campaign, which was assigned the responsibility of teaching the Faith in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Mackenzie, Keewatin, Ungava, Franklin Island, and Greenland .[SoW Vol 7 No 12 16 October 1916 p112] | Canada; Greenland; Montreal, QC; Tablets of the Divine Plan | |
1916 Oct
191- |
Shoghi Effendi attended his senior year of university at the Syrian Protestant College. Due to the continuing war conditions further deteriorated in the region. More than 300,000 people lost their lives in Syria due to starvation and disease. [PG17-18] | * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Beirut, Lebanon; Haifa, Israel; Lebanon; Syrian Protestant College, Lebanon | |
1916 8 Sep
191- |
The first five Tablets of the Tablets of the Divine Plan were published in Star of the West. [BBD219; SoW Vol 8 No 10 8 September 1916p87-91]
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* Publications; Chicago, IL; Star of the West; Tablets of the Divine Plan; United States (USA) | |
1916 28 July
191- |
Mullá Nasru'lláh-i-Shahmírzádí was martyred in his home in Shahmirzád, Khurásán. [BW18:387]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Shahmirzad, Iran | |
1916 summer
191- |
Mr Vasily Eroshenko, a young blind Russian, visited Thailand, the first Bahá'í to do so. | - First travel teachers and pioneers; Thailand | First Bahá'í to visit Thailand |
1916 16 May
191- |
The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France, to which the Russian Empire assented. The agreement allocated to Britain control of areas roughly comprising the coastal strip between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan, Jordan, southern Iraq, and an additional small area that included the ports of Haifa and Acre, to allow access to the Mediterranean. France got control of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Russia was to get Istanbul, the Turkish Straits and Armenia. The controlling powers were left free to determine state boundaries within their areas. Further negotiation was expected to determine international administration in the "brown area" (an area including Jerusalem, similar to and smaller than Mandate Palestine), the form of which was to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other Allies, and the representatives of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. [Wikipedia] | - Middle East; Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel; History (general); Israel; Palestine; Sykes-Picot Agreement (Asia Minor Agreement) | |
1916 6 May
191- |
In response to the perceived threat from within the Ottoman Empire, the authorities took harsh measures against leading nationalist persons, intellectuals and activists. On this day, 21 were publicly hanged in Beirut and 10 in Damascus on the order of Jamal Pasha, the commander in chief of the Turkish forces in Greater Syria, (Present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine).
These individuals were accused of collaborating with the British and the French and were seen as leaders of the Arab nationalist movement. The day has become to be known as "Syrian Martyrs Day". [Wikipedia; Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu´l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East by Kamran Ekbal p21] |
Beirut, Lebanon; Damascus, Syria; Lebanon; Syria | |
1916 2 May
191- |
Louisa Aurora "Lua" Moore Getsinger, (b. 1 November, 1872 in Hume, Allegany County, New York) Disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá, "Mother teacher of the West" died of heart failure in Cairo. [BBD87; Find a grave; Bahaipedia; GPB257]
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- Births and deaths; - Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; - In Memoriam; Biography; Cairo, Egypt; Cemeteries and graves; Egypt; Lua Getsinger; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani | |
1916 May
191- |
The publication of Tablets of Abdul-Baha abbas Volume III by the Bahai Publishing Society of Chicago. | Chicago, IL; Illinois, USA; Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá (3 volumes) | |
1916 Apr or May
191- |
The first Chinese Bahá'í in China, Chen Hai An (Harold A. Chen), became a Bahá'í while studying at the University of Chicago through the efforts of Dr Zia Baghdádí. He returned to Shanghai that same year. [PH29-30; Video Early history of the Bahá'í Faith in China 6min40sec]
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Chicago, IL; China; United States (USA); Zia Bagdadi | The first Chinese Bahá'í in China |
1916 26 Mar-22 Apr
191- |
`Abdu'l-Bahá revealed eight of the Tablets of the Divine Plan. [AB420; BBD219 BBRSM157; SBBH132-3; TDPX; Message 29 December 2015]
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* `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); - Basic timeline, Expanded; Haifa, Israel; Tablets of the Divine Plan | |
1916 22 Feb
191- |
In Sultánábád, Mírzá `Alí-Akbar, his wife, his sister-in-law (aged 12) and their four children (aged from 46 days to 11 years) were killed by having their throats cut. [BW18:387; GPB299]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Sultanabad, India | |
1916 11 Feb
191- |
In 1915 Ahmad Yazdání and two other Bahá'ís had written a paper on Bahá'í principles in French and submitted it to the Central Organization for a Durable Peace which had been formed in the Hague. After correspondence with Ahmad Yazdáni, the Executive of the Central Organization for a Durable Peace sent a letter to Tehran to be delivered to 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Communications were disrupted because of the war and the letter was not delivered to Him in Haifa until the 17th of December, 1919. [Bahaipedia] | Ahmad Yazdani; Central Organization for a Durable Peace; Iran; Netherlands; Tehran, Iran; The Hague, Netherlands | |
1916 (in the year)
191- |
The United States census showed 2,884 Bahá'ís. [BBRSM:105; SBBH1:117] | Statistics; United States (USA) | |
1916 (in the year)
191- |
Anthony Yuen Seto and his wife Mamie Lorettta O'Connor became Bahá'ís in Hawaii. Mr Seto was the first Chinese Bahá'í in the Hawaiian Islands and the first Chinese-American Bahá'í in the United States. [PH30; BW13p886-889] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Hawaii, USA | The first Chinese-American Bahá'í in the United States. the first Chinese Bahá í in the Hawaiian Islands |
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