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1936 31 Dec
193-		 Khusraw Bimán (Thábit) passed away in Bombay at the age of 103 or 104. [Imm:56]
  • He is the first Zoroastrian to accept the Faith in India. [Imm:44–6]
  • For the story of his life see Imm:39–60.
    		•  - Biography; - First believers by background; - In Memoriam; - Zoroastrianism; Conversion; India; Khusraw Biman; Mumbai, India first Zoroastrian to accept the Faith in India
    1936 Nov
    193-    		 Renée Szanto-Felbermann became a Bahá'í, the first to accept the Faith in Hungary. She was considered the first person to accept the Faith by some notwithstanding the events of 1913. [BW19:633]
  • See also Renée Szanto-Felbermann, Rebirth: The Memoirs of Szanto-Felbermann p104.
  • This document prepared by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'í Community of Hungary says that Mr. Arminius Vámbéry is the first believer in Hungary. See www.bahai.hu
  • See BW5p329 for the testament written by Professor Vámbéry and published in the Egyptian Gazette September 24th, 1913.
    		• - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Arminius Vambery; Budapest, Hungary; Hungary first to accept Bahá'í Faith in Hungary
    1936 (Fall)
    193-    		 Lorol Schopflocher departed for Europe to do teaching work in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, France and Geneva, Switzerland. [BN No107 April 1937 p2] Denmark; France; Geneva, Switzerland; Lorol Schopflocher; Norway; Sweden; Switzerland; Travel Teaching; United Kingdom
    1936 (Latter half of the year)
    193-    		 Mrs Randolph Bolles and her daughter Jeanne, two American Bahá'ís, (aunt and cousin of Mary Maxwell respectively), were sent to Budapest by Shoghi Effendi to open Hungary to the Faith. At the time of their departure there were seven Bahá'ís in Budapest, mostly of Jewish background. [Rebirth: Memoirs of Renée Szanto-Felbermann p103-5] - Travel teachers and pioneers, First; Budapest, Hungary; Hungary
    1936 3–16 Jul
    193-    		 The World Congress of Faiths was held in London under the auspices of the World Fellowship of Faiths. [GPB342; GT123]
  • Shoghi Effendi was asked in a personal letter from the chairman of the Congress, Sir Francis Younghusband, to contribute a paper, a task Shoghi Effendi delegated to George Townshend. [GT123; UD104]
  • George Townshend read the paper Bahá'u'lláh's Ground Plan of World Fellowship, which had been approved by Shoghi Effendi. [BW7:635; GT132–3]
  • For text of the paper see BW6:614–19.
  • For the conference programme see BW7:634–45.
    		•  * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Francis Younghusband; George Townshend; Interfaith dialogue; London, England; United Kingdom; World Congress of Faiths
    1936 1 Jul
    193-    		 The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada appointed the first Inter-America Committee, beginning an organized and coordinated effort to establish the Faith in the Republics of Central and South America. [BW10:181] National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada; United States (USA) first Inter-America Committee
    1936 (Summer)
    193-    		 While on a a cruise, on the way to Norway, Mrs French made a stop in Iceland where she distributed some Bahá'í literature. [BN No 104 December 1936 p8] Iceland; Mrs French; Reykjavik, Iceland; Teaching; Travel Teaching
    1936 Jul
    193-    		 Following on the success of the initial Race Amity conferences in Washington, DC, the National Spiritual Assembly formed a racial amity committee. For a list of the committees complete with membership from 1921 until 1932 see The Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America: Alain Locke and Robert Abbot by Christoper Buck. [Bahá'í Studies Review 17, 2011, 3–46]
  • In July, 1936 it was announced that "The National Spiritual Assembly had not appointed a Race Amity Committee that year. Its view was that race amity activities have sometimes resulted in emphasizing race differences rather than their unity and reconciliation within the Cause. Local Assemblies were requested to provide for amity meetings and regard them as a direct part of teaching." [TMW213]
    		•  Conferences, Race Amity; National Spiritual Assembly; Race; Race amity; Race unity; United States (USA); Unity
    1936 summer
    193-    		 Britain held its first Bahá'í summer school. [GT137; UD109] First summer and winter schools; Summer schools; United Kingdom first British Bahá’í summer school
    1936 Jun
    193-    		 The persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran continued. [BW18p389]
  • All Bahá'í meetings were banned throughout Iran.
  • Several local Bahá'í centres were attacked or closed down.
  • Bahá'ís in Bandar Sháh were interrogated by the police for closing their shops on Bahá'í holy days.
    		• * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Other; Bandar Shah, Iran; Holy days; Iran
    1936 Feb
    193-    		 Martha Root met with Queen Marie of Romania for the eighth and last time. [MRHK413] Martha Root; Queen Marie of Romania; Romania
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 The Seven Valleys was published in revised translation by Ali Kuli Khan by the US Bahá'í Publishing Committee. A later revision by Khan and Marzieh Gail was published in 1945. [Collins1.113; About the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys; Collins1.114]
  • In 1968 the US Bahá'í Publishing Trust bundled it with another allegorical treaties that was revealed in the late Baghdad period, under the title The Seven Valleys And the Four Valleys. It had several reprints until 1984. [Collins1.114, 1.115, 1.116, 1.117]
  • These two works were part of the publication Call of the Divine Beloved published in 2019. .
    		•  - Call of the Divine Beloved (book); `Alí Kulí Khán; Chahar Vadi (Four Valleys); Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Marzieh Gail; United States (USA)
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 The National Assembly of Australia and New Zealand first issued its news organ, the Bahá'í Quarterly. Australia; National Spiritual Assembly; New Zealand first publication Bahá’í Quarterly
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 The first woman was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of India, Shirin Fozdar. Firsts, other; India; NSA; Shirin Fozdar; Women first woman elected to NSA India
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 Mr E. R. and Mrs Loulie Mathews arrived in Guatemala, the first Bahá'í teachers to visit the country. - First Bahá'ís by country or area; E. R. Mathews; Guatemala; Loulie A. Mathews; Travel Teaching first Bahá’í teachers to visit Guatemala
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 The Bahá'í Journal was instituted in England. [United Kingdom: History of the Bahá'í Faith by Moojan Momen. Bahá'í Journal; United Kingdom
    1936 (In the year)
    193-    		 Because the Bahá'í teachings were considered "international and pacifist" the Nazi close the Bahá'í summer school in Esslingen. [SYH208] Germany; Persecution, Germany
    1936 (In the Year)
    193-    		 The publication of Massacres de Babis en Perse by A.L.M. Nicolas. * Publications; A.L.M. Nicolas; France; Massacres de Bábís en Perse; Paris, France
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