- 1850-05-00 — The start of the Zanjan upheaval. Hujjat had converted a sizeable proportion of the town and tension ...
- 1850-05-27 — First Nayriz upheaval. Vahid traveled from Yazd towards Shiraz, eventually coming to Nayriz. He went ...
- 1850-06-17 — At Nayriz, Vahid received a message from the Governor offering a truce and a promise of safety writt ...
- 1852-08-15 — "In the hecatomb of 1852-1853 the ranks of the Babis were drastically thinned.
Most of the leading
- 1867-04-00 — The appeal by 53 Baha'is "in Baghdad" addressed to the United States Congress arrived at the America ...
- 1868-08-01 — Mulla Muhammad-Rida, Rida'r-Rúh was poisoned in Yazd. [BW18:383] ...
- 1870-00-00 — In Zanjan, Áqa Siyyid Ashraf was arrested, condemned to death as a Babi and executed. [BWG470]
H ...
- 1889-07-18 — The Baha'is were persuaded to leave the Telegraph Office in Isfahan after being assured that they wo ...
- 1889-08-00 — Baha'is of Sidih and Najafabad, after having received no help or protection, went to Tihran to petit ...
- 1901-00-00 — William Hoar, one of the first Baha'is in America, was asked by `Abdu'l-Baha to meet with the Persia ...
- 1911-08-23 — 'Abdu'l-Baha went for a carriage ride in the nearby hills. ["With 'Abdu'l-Baha in Switzerland" by Ju
- 1925-05-10 — A Muslim Court in Egypt pronounced the Faith to be an independent religion. [BBRSM173; BW2:31;BW3:49 ...
- 1928-04-00 — As part of a general anti-religious campaign launched under Stalin, the Soviet authorities abrogated ...
- 1934-00-04 — The government of Iran took several measures against the Baha'is throughout the country. [<a href ...
- 1934-12-06 — The Tarbiyat Baha'i Schools in Tihran and all other Baha'i schools across the country were closed by ...
- 1935-00-02 — The persecution against the Baha'is in Iran continued. [<a href="https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E ...
- 1936-06-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued. [<a href="https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%9 ...
- 1937-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is in Iran continued throughout the country. [<a href="https://baha ...
- 1937-05-21 — All Baha'i activities and institutions were banned in Germany by a special order of the Reichsführe ...
- 1938-00-00 — Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the country. [<a href="https://bahai.wo ...
- 1938-02-05 — Baha'is in the Soviet Union were persecuted by the authorities. [BBR473, BW8p87-90, 179-81, BW14p479 ...
- 1939-04-21 — The first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Budapest was elected. There were about 14 believers ...
- 1940-00-00 — Baha'is in Argentina faced opposition throughout the decade with both the police and nationalists in ...
- 1941-09-16 — In Iran, Rida Shah abdicated and Muhammad-Rida Shah ascended to the throne. His rule was to last unt ...
- 1944-08-08 — Three Baha'is were murdered in Shahrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Baha'i agitation. Many Baha ...
- 1944-09-00 — Following the murder of Baha'is at Shahrúd, Iran, and the widespread publicity on the outcome of th ...
- 1945-08-14 — The German Baha'is, 80 per cent of whom lived in the American sector of occupied Germany, obtained p ...
- 1950-00-00 — In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabi to persecute and harass the Bah ...
- 1951-00-04 — Throughout Iran, the government introduced repressive measures against Baha'is. [BW18:390]
Baha'i ...
- 1953-00-00 — Anjoman-e Hojjatieh ("Society of Allah's Proof Over Creation"), also called the Hojjatieh Society wa ...
- 1954-12-08 — Baha'is in Ádharbayjan were dismissed from their employment in the Ministries of Health and Public ...
- 1955-00-06 — Twenty-two African Baha'is were expelled from the Belgian Congo. ...
- 1955-02-04 — Baha'i women in Hisar, Khurasan, Iran, were assaulted. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-00 — Persecutions against the Baha'is continued throughout Iran. [<a href="https://bahai.works/Bah% ...
- 1955-05-02 — The police locked the doors of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran thus preventing the holding of t ...
- 1955-05-07 — The Iranian army occupied the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-08 — Baha'is were beaten at Damghan, Khurasan, Iran. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-08 — The Baha'i centre at Rasht, Iran, was attacked and taken over. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-09 — Baha'i houses were attacked and looted at Shiraz, Iran. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-09 — The Baha'i centre at Ahvaz, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-16 — The Baha'i centre at Isfahan, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390] ...
- 1955-05-17 — The Iranian Minister of the Interior announced in parliament that the Government had issued orders f ...
- 1955-05-22 — The dome of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran was demolished with the personal participation of s ...
- 1955-05-24 — The Baha'i centre at Karaj, Iran, was taken over. [<a href="https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80% ...
- 1955-05-30 — Baha'is were attacked and wounded and their houses attacked at Ábadih, Iran. [<a href="https:/ ...
- 1955-06-01 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Mazandaran, Iran, was taken over. [<a href="https://bahai.wo ...
- 1955-08-00 — Appeals were made by National Spiritual Assemblies around the world through the Baha'i International ...
- 1955-09-00 — Baha'is in Iran continued to be dismissed from their employment. Baha'i students were expelled from ...
- 1957-00-00 — Baha'i activity in Czechoslovakia was banned by the authorities, several members of the Prague commu ...
- 1961-00-00 — The military government in Indonesia issued instructions to local authorities to ban all Baha'i acti ...
- 1961-12-07 — An article appeared in the nationally prominent Moroccan newspaper Al Alam lamenting the decline of ...
- 1962-00-01 — Baha'i homes in Morocco were searched by the police and Baha'i literature seized. [MoC17] ...
- 1962-00-03 — The administrative institutions of the Faith were banned in Indonesia by President Sukarno. [BW19:41 ...
- 1962-01-25 — A Baha'i Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Tetuan, Morocco, Faouzi Zine Al Abidine, was di ...
- 1962-04-10 — Four Baha'is were arrested in Nador, Morocco. [BW13:289; BW14:97]
Eventually 14 Baha'is in total ...
- 1962-08-22 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to make representations to t ...
- 1962-09-23 — The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to obtain an interview with ...
- 1962-12-17 — The Custodians asked the Baha'i International Community to issue press releases deploring Morocco's ...
- 1962-12-21 — Telegrams were sent by the Baha'i International Community to Secretary-General U Thant and 35 United ...
- 1962-12-23 — The Custodians asked national spiritual assemblies to cable Secretary General of the United Nations ...
- 1962-12-27 — The Custodians asked national and local spiritual assemblies to write to the Moroccan ambassador in ...
- 1963-00-01 — 15 years after the establishment of Israel and during the course of the unrest that swept through Ir ...
- 1963-01-01 — The Custodians ask all national and local spiritual assemblies to cable the King of Morocco appealin ...
- 1963-01-31 — Roger Baldwin, Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man, appeared before the UN su ...
- 1963-03-31 — King Hassan II of Morocco stated in a televised interview in the United States that the Baha'i Faith ...
- 1963-04-02 — King Hassan II of Morocco made a public statement promising that if the Supreme Court upheld the dec ...
- 1963-04-04 — The Custodians issued a statement of information to the national spiritual assemblies of the United ...
- 1963-06-05 — Throughout Iran, advantage is taken of the general anti-government disorder to launch attacks on Bah ...
- 1963-11-23 — At the request of the Universal House of Justice, Baha'is around the world prayed at the Feast of Qa ...
- 1963-12-13 — The Baha'i prisoners in Morocco were released on order of the Supreme Court. [BW14:98; MoC19]
For ...
- 1966-12-00 — A campaign was launched against the Baha'is of Saysan, Ádharbayjan, by Mulla Mihdi Sultanpúr. [BW1 ...
- 1968-00-00 — Throughout Iran, pressure on Baha'is intensified. [<a href="https://bahai.works/Bah%C3%A1%E2%80% ...
- 1968-11-04 — Following the participation of Algerian Baha'is in the first Oceanic Conference in Palermo, Sicily, ...
- 1968-11-07 — Sixteen Persian Baha'is in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; ...
- 1969-04-01 — The Baha'i Faith was banned in Algeria by official decree, all Baha'i institutions were disbanded an ...
- 1970-05-01 — In Iraq the Baathist Revolutionary Command Council issued Decree No. 105 to ban Baha'i activities a ...
- 1975-00-00 — Following the creation of the Rastakhiz political party by the Shah of Iran and the refusal of the B ...
- 1975-02-03 — The Arab Boycott Office, at its meeting in Cairo, announced that the Baha'i Faith had been placed on ...
- 1977-12-03 — Properties confiscated by the Iraqi government belonging to individual Baha'is were returned; proper ...
- 1978-00-00 — In Iran, many local Baha'i centres were seized by armed men of the revolutionary committees, along w ...
- 1978-10-01 — Three hundred Baha'i homes near Shiraz were burned or destroyed and in another 200 homes the Baha'is ...
- 1978-12-03 — Baha'i homes in Andarún, Iran, were besieged; one Baha'i was badly beaten. [BW18:275-6] ...
- 1978-12-15 — A cabled message was sent to 93 national spiritual assemblies stating that the Baha'is in Iran and t ...
- 1979-00-00 — The Siyah-Chal in Tihran and the houses of Quddús and Hujjat were seized and occupied by members of ...
- 1979-00-00 — Baha'i cemeteries across Iran were confiscated, including the cemetery in Tihran, which contains the ...
- 1979-00-00 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran was confiscated by the revolutionary government of Iran. [BW17:79 ...
- 1979-00-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of Afghanistan was disbanded owing to persecution of the Baha'is and ...
- 1979-01-12 — Baha'i members of the Sadat-Mahmúdi clan of the Buyr-Ahmad tribe of central Iran were driven from t ...
- 1979-02-00 — In Iran, Baha'i representatives met with high-ranking clergy in Shiraz, Qum and Mashhad to combat th ...
- 1979-02-03 — Revolutionary Guards raided the offices of Nawnahalan, a Baha'i investment company, and the Umana' C ...
- 1979-02-15 — The National Haziratu'l-Quds of Iran was seized by the Revolutionary Guards. [BW18:250]
All the r ...
- 1979-03-30 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Iran, was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government. [BW18:289] ...
- 1979-04-03 — Revolutionary Guards in Iran occupied the House of the Bab in Shiraz and neighbouring Baha'i propert ...
- 1979-06-21 — In Iran, the offices of Nawnahalan and the Umana' Corporation were taken over by Revolutionary Guard ...
- 1979-09-01 — Revolutionary committees in Shahsavar, 'Ábadan and Tabriz, Iran, ordered the arrest of Baha'is. [BW ...
- 1979-10-01 — In Iran, Baha'is in the ministries of education, health and social administration were dismissed fro ...
- 1979-11-00 — Baha'i meetings were prohibited in Shasavar, Iran. [BW18:255] ...
- 1980-09-00 — The European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United Nations ...
- 1982-00-01 — One of the members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Vietnam sent to a 're-education' camp was r ...
- 1982-05-25 — The Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Foreign Affairs Committee of ...
- 1983-00-06 — During its first decade in power, the Islamic regime openly persecuted and killed Baha'is. These per ...
- 1983-08-23 — Seyyed Hussein Musavi Tabrizi, the Attorney General of Iran, declared all Baha'i administrative acti ...
- 1985-07-01 — Three Baha'i youths in Mentawai were imprisoned for having married according to Baha'i law. [BW19:42 ...
- 1985-10-22 — The 14th Muzakarah (Conference) of the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious ...
- 1985-12-13 — For the first time, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the human rights sit ...
- 1986-00-00 — Iran's hugely unsuccessful attempt to convince the international community that Baha'is were indeed ...
- 1988-12-08 — The plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution concerning hu ...
- 1989-03-09 — The Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution expressing grave concern at human rights violati ...
- 1989-04-04 — The Universal House of Justice announced a vast majority of prisoners that had been held by authorit ...
- 1990-05-00 — The US Senate unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution condemning Iran's continued repression of ...
- 1991-02-25 — In Iran, a secret government memorandum (known as the Golpaygani Memorandum) was drawn up by Iran's ...
- 1993-01-00 — Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the United Nations' special representative in charge of monitoring the human ...
- 1993-06-00 — The bodies of Baha'is buried in the Baha'i section of a Tihran cemetery were exhumed and taken by lo ...
- 2003-06-01 — A fatwa was issued by the Mufti of Sabah State Government that declared that the Baha'i teachings we ...
- 2004-00-01 — The 2004 Circular 49/2004 issued by the Ministry of the Interior specifically instructed officials t ...
- 2006-04-04 — In late 2004 or early 2005 the government of Egypt introduced a computerized identity card system th ...
- 2006-05-02 — Letter, from the Trades, Production, and Technical Services Society of Kermanshah to the Iranian Uni ...
- 2006-05-15 — In Egypt the government appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court and th ...
- 2006-08-19 — Iran's Ministry of Interior ordered officials throughout the country to step up the surveillance of ...
- 2006-09-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court again postponed its hearing on the government appeal of a ...
- 2006-11-20 — In Egypt lawyers representing a Baha'i couple seeking to have their religious affiliation properly i ...
- 2006-12-16 — Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled against the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on ...
- 2006-12-21 — A message was sent from the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of Egypt regarding the recent ...
- 2007-00-00 — This increase in the activities of the Yaran-e Iran mandated the addition of more members; as a resu ...
- 2007-11-12 — Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights released a report that stated tha ...
- 2007-12-20 — The two Egyptian Human Rights cases, the first by the father of twin children who was seeking to obt ...
- 2008-01-29 — In Egypt a victory for religious freedom, a lower administrative court ruled in favour of two lawsui ...
- 2008-05-14 — Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri issued a fatwa stating that, since (Baha'is) were the ...
- 2008-09-00 — After enduring 3.5 months of solitary confinement, the imprisoned members of the Yaran were transfer ...
- 2008-10-31 — The Universal House of Justice sent a <a href="http://www.payamha-iran.org/node/183?language=en"& ...
- 2009-02-03 — The publication of "We are Ashamed," an open letter from a group of academics, writers, artists, jou ...
- 2009-03-16 — In Egypt the Supreme Administrative Court removed any grounds for preventing Baha'is from receiving ...
- 2009-04-17 — With respect to the Supreme Administrative Court decision of 16 March 2009, the decree, dated 19 Mar ...
- 2009-08-08 — Two young Egyptian Baha'is, Imad and Nancy Rauf Hindi, received the new identity cards. They had bee ...
- 2010-05-10 — New information was obtained regarding the conditions in which the seven Baha'i prisoners were being ...
- 2011-01-25 — January 25th marked the beginning of the revolution in Egypt where millions of protesters from all s ...
- 2011-05-20 — Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet were returned to Evin Prison in Tehran. They had spent a brief t ...
- 2012-02-24 — The inaugural screening of Iranian Taboo by Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh in Los Angeles ...
- 2012-05-11 — The Universal House of Justice sent a message to the Baha'is of Iran near the four-year anniversary ...
- 2012-06-00 — After the January 25th revolution against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the ...
- 2012-10-29 — The Baha'i International Community published a special report on <a href="https://www.bic.org/vid ...
- 2013-03-00 — The publication of the report entitled Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Bah ...
- 2013-05-14 — The Baha'i International Community launched the Five Years Too Many campaign to protest the 20-year ...
- 2013-10-28 — The release of the video Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Baha'i Community ...
- 2014-11-00 — Fariba Kamalabadi, after having her fourth request to join her daughter Taraneh for her wedding deni ...
- 2015-05-14 — A global campaign called "Seven Days in Remembrance of Seven Years in Prison for the Seven Baha'i Le ...
- 2015-12-21 — Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a senior Muslim cleric in Iran, had courageously called on hi ...
- 2016-04-29 — In observance of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of seven Iranian Baha'i lead ...
- 2016-05-12 — In commemoration of the incarceration of the Yaran in Iran in 2008 the International Baha'i Communit ...
- 2016-05-13 — Fariba Kamalabadi, while on a five-day furlough from Evin Prison, met with former Tehran MP Faezeh H ...
- 2016-10-26 — The report from the offices of the Baha'i International Community entitled The Baha'i Question Revis ...
- 2016-11-24 — From her cell in Evin prison, In a open letter to her six-month old granddaughter, Bajar, Fariba Kam ...
- 2017-04-25 — The formation of the human rights organization, "The Yemeni Initiative for Defending Baha'i Rights". ...
- 2017-04-28 — Amnesty International sent a Joint Public Statement to the Huthi-Saleh authorities in Yemen calling ...
- 2017-05-12 — The Baha'i International Community launched a global campaign calling for the immediate release of t ...
- 2017-05-15 — Hundreds of Yemenis gathered in front of the Criminal Prosecution building in the capital city of Sa ...
- 2017-09-19 — Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha'is in Iran known ...
- 2017-10-18 — The Iranian Baha'i community was targeted during the bicentenary period. Between 18 and 21 October, ...
- 2017-10-23 — Yemeni security forces raided a Baha'i gathering in Sana'a opening fire on the small group of people ...
- 2017-10-31 — Fariba Kamalabadi, a member of the former leadership group of the Baha'is called the "Yaran", conclu ...
- 2017-11-17 — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Iran by a vote of 83 to 30 with 68 abst ...
- 2017-12-05 — The release of Behrooz Tavakkoli, 66, from prison after serving a 10-year term. He was the third me ...
- 2018-01-02 — The Specialized Criminal Court of the Houthi militia in Yemen sentenced 52 year-old detainee Hammed ...
- 2018-02-16 — The release of Saeid Rezaie, one of the seven members of the Yaran, the former leadership group of t ...
- 2018-02-18 — In an <a href="Https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/documents/uploaded-documents/Open_Letter_to_Mr._La ...
- 2018-02-20 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, a former member of the Yaran, was transferred from Evin Prison to a hospita ...
- 2018-03-16 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, at 85 the oldest member of the Yaran to be imprisoned, was released after s ...
- 2018-03-19 — The release of Mr. Vahid Tizfahm from the Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj after having completed his 10 ...
- 2018-03-23 — Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, the Secretary-General of Yemen's Shia political party Ansar ...
- 2018-04-01 — The launch of a fierce campaign of hatred against members of the Baha'i Faith, as well as other agai ...
- 2018-09-15 — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi authorities held a court hearing that targeted some 20 or 24 Baha'is, mos ...
- 2018-09-29 — In the second court hearing presided over by judge Abdu Ismail Hassan Rajeh, three additional Baha'i ...
- 2019-01-08 — Imprisoned Baha'i Hamed bin Haydara, 55, who had been sentenced to death, appeared in court in Sana ...
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