Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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Date 1951-00, descending sort earliest first

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1951 (In the year) Palle Benemann Bischoff, the first to become a Bahá'í in Denmark, settled in Aasiaat, and became the first Bahá'í to live in Greenland. [MC22]
  • He was best known for being the first person to teach the Greenlanders to ski and for having organized the first ski competition in West Greenland.
  • Palle Benemann Bischoff; Greenland first Bahá’í in Denmark; first Bahá’í resident in Greenland
    1951 (In the year) By this year the first Canadian Inuit had become a Bahá'í. First Bahá'ís by country or area; First believers by background; Inuit; Canada first Canadian Inuit Bahá'í
    1951 (In the year) Bahá'í women in Egypt were extended the right of membership on local spiritual assemblies. [MBW12]
  • Shoghi Effendi called this 'a notable step in the progress of Bahá'í women of the Middle East'. [MBW12]
  • Local Spiritual Assembly; Women; Egypt
    1951 (In the year) Bahá'ís in Árán, Káshán, Iran, were attacked, and one died. [BW18:390] Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Aran; Kashan, Iran; Iran
    1951 (In the year) Throughout Iran, the government introduced repressive measures against Bahá'ís. [BW18:390]
  • Bahá'ís were dismissed from government positions. [BW18:390]
  • Fifty Bahá'í employees of the public hospital in Mashhad were dismissed. [BW18:390]
  • Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Persecution; Mashhad, Iran; Iran
    1951 (In the year) Shoghi Effendi received the original manuscript of The Kitáb-i-Íqán, in the handwriting of 'Abdu'l-Bahá with some marginal additions by Bahá'u'lláh, and placed it in the International Bahá'í Archives. International Bahá'í Archives; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Shoghi Effendi, Life of; - Bahá'í World Centre
    1951 (In the year) Muhammad Kayvani was murdered in Najafabad. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.] Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Deaths; Persecution; Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran
    1951 (In the year) Portuguese Bahá'ís Mr António and Mrs Ema Rocha, Mrs Guedes DeMelo Rocha and Mrs D. Laura Rodriquez, the first pioneers to Angola, took up residence in Luanda. First travel teachers and pioneers; Luanda; Angola first pioneers to Angola
    1951 (In the year) Khadaram and Parvin Payman were the first pioneers in Indonesia. [PH62] Khadaram Payman; Parvin Payman; Indonesia

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