- 1864-00-00 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Suriy-i- 'Ibad (Tablet of the Servants) for Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Dahaji Ismu'lla...
- 1867-09-02 — "The Most Great Idol" was cast out of the community.
Mirza Yahya's henceman, Siyyid Muhammad, con
- 1887-12-31 — E. G. Browne, the noted Orientalist, spent 12 months in Persia. An important purpose of his journey ...
- 1892-04-01 — Close to the end of His life Baha'u'llah became displeased with Mirza Àqa Jan and dismissed him fro...
- 1892-05-01 — During the lifetime of Baha'u'llah Muhammad Ali made two trips to India for seditious purposes. With...
- 1892-05-29 — The Ascension of Baha'u'llah nbsp
Baha'u'llah passed away at Bahji in His seventy-fifth year. [AB47...
- 1892-06-20 — Soon after the ascension of Baha'u'llah the Covenant-breakers led by Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, on the pre...
- 1893-05-28 — Mirza Áqa Jan, Baha'u'llah's amanuensis for almost 40 years, threw in his lot with Mirza Muhammad`A...
- 1896-11-00 — Mirza Muhammad-`Ali sent letters with misleading statements and calumnies against `Abdu'l-Baha, thus...
- 1896-11-01 — `Abdu'l-Baha was forced to withdraw from `Akka to Tiberias owing to the accusations levelled against...
- 1897-03-26 — From the time of the passing of Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-Baha endured significant family opposition to Hi...
- 1897-05-15 — Finding the situation in `Akka intolerable, `Abdu'l-Baha had moved to Haifa's Retreat of Elijah on M...
- 1897-05-30 — The Covenant-breakers living at Bahji, realized that Mirza Àqa Jan would be useful to them in their...
- 1897-12-00 — In a gathering in Akka, 'Abdu'l-Baha informed the friends of the threats of Siyyid Jamalud-Din-i-Afg...
- 1899-05-01 — Kheiralla returned to the United States from `Akka. [BFA1:xxix, 158] (After his departure from Pales...
- 1900-00-00 — For the state of affairs in Haifa just after the turn of the century see CB231-234....
- 1900-03-08 — At a meeting in Kenosha, Kheiralla publicly announced his doubts about `Abdu'l-Baha's leadership of ...
- 1900-04-26 — On the instructions of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Egyptian businessman Haji `Abdu'l-Karim-i-Tihrani arrived in Ne...
- 1900-11-04 — The Persian teachers Mirza Asadu'llah-i-Isfahani (1826-1930) and Haji Hasan-i-Khurasani, a merchant...
- 1901-05-01 — 'Aqa Jamal Burújirdi had been a member of the Islamic clergy in Burujerd and was widely known and r
- 1901-08-00 — Mirza Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpaygani arrived in North America. [BFA2:XV]
Laura Barney financed the vis...
- 1901-08-20 — Sultan `Abdu'l-Hamid re-imposed the restrictions confining `Abdu'l-Baha and His brothers within the ...
- 1902-12-00 — One of the chief promoters of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali in India was Mirza Husayn-'Aliy-i-Jahrumi.
See ...
- 1903-02-00 — Mirza Badi'u'llah, the fourth surviving son of Baha'u'llah, wrote to the Baha'is announcing his brea...
- 1904-00-04 — Mahd-i-`Ulya (Fatimih Khanum), the second wife of Baha'u'llah, died. She and all her four surviving ...
- 1904-00-05 — Through the year the Covenant-breakers plotted until the friendly governor of `Akka was replaced by ...
- 1905-00-00 — Muhammad-'Ali sent his eldest son Shu'a'u'llah to North America as his representative. It would app...
- 1905-00-09 — Following the dispatch of his eldest son Shu'au'llah to North America, Muhammad-'Ali sent Mirza Ghul...
- 1912-04-29 — Mirza Yahya died in Famagusta. [BBD243; BBR312]
He was the younger half-brother of Baha'u'llah an...
- 1912-07-05 — Talk at 309 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York, the home of Howard MacNutt. [<a href="htt...
- 1912-10-20 — Shu'au'llah, who had been living in Pasadena at the time, had persuaded a newspaper editor to write ...
- 1912-11-18 — `Abdu'l-Baha had instructed MacNutt to meet with a group of potential Covenant-breakers in Chicago a...
- 1913-08-01 — With his final year of high school over, Shoghi Effendi hastened from Beirut to Ramleh to join the M...
- 1913-12-00 — "Tamaddunu'l-Mulk caused mischief amongst the friends and perpetrated such disunity that the foundat
- 1914-00-04 — 'Abdu'l-Baha was forced to expel Tammaddun'ul-Mulk for corrupt behaviour. He was from Shiraz and ha
- 1914-01-21 — Mirza Abu'l-Fadl-i-Gulpaygani, Apostle of Baha'u'llah, passed away in Cairo. [AB404; BBD67]
... lea...
- 1914-06-30 — The defection of Dr Amin Farid, (b. 1882, d. 1953)`Abdu'l-Baha's translator while in America, becam...
- 1919-00-00 — Ibrahim Kheiralla died, having been abandoned by all of his followers. [CB252]
See MD16 for 'Abd...
- 1921-11-31 — Mirza Muhammad-`Ali published far and wide that he was the successor to `Abdu'l-Baha. [CB277]
T...
- 1923-01-00 — The Guardian sent `Abdu'l-Husayn, Ávarih, to Europe to deepen the believers. [CB335; SBR68; EJR223]...
- 1927-10-00 — Shoghi Effendi announced the defection of 'Abdu'l-Husayn Ávarih (Abd al-Hosayn Ayati). He had been ...
- 1927-11-00 — "Muḥammad-'Ali and Majdiddin [his cousin] has sent a message requesting us to repair the roof whic
- 1928-01-17 — A Covenant-breaker, Jamil Irani, tried to stir up trouble by implicating the Baha'is with Salaru'd-D...
- 1928-12-31 — Ruth White, who had met 'Abdu'l-Baha in New York in 1912 and who had been on pilgrimage in 1922, wro...
- 1929-02-27 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada forwarded a pamphlet published by Ru...
- 1929-04-00 — The New History Society was founded in New York by 'Abdu'l-Baha's former secretary and interpreter A...
- 1929-11-27 — The Mansion at Bahji was evacuated by the Covenant-breakers after the occupation by Muhammad-Ali and...
- 1930-05-30 — The New History Society came into conflict with the local Baha'i Assembly. Sohrab refused to allow t...
- 1930-08-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly published a statement in the Baha'i News entitled The Case of Ahmad ...
- 1930-10-07 — Ruth White wrote to the High Commissioner of Palestine stating that she had sent a photograph of 'Ab...
- 1930-11-00 — The National Assembly published a detailed supplementary statement in the Baha'i News, quoting passa...
- 1931-07-10 — The administration in Palestine wrote to Ruth White advising her that they would take no further act...
- 1937-12-00 — The writing of Episodes in the History of the Covenant by Shoghi Effendi originally written as "Waqa...
- 1937-12-20 — Muhammad-'Ali, half-brother of 'Abdu'l-Baha and Arch-breaker of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, died. [...
- 1937-12-20 — Mirza Ḥusayn-'Aliy-i-Jahrumi represented the arch-breaker of the Covenant, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, in...
- 1940-07-00 — Gerrard Sluter, a German with Canadian citizenship and previously a pioneer in Guatemala, arrived in...
- 1941-11-02 — Shoghi Effendi sent two cables the the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United Stat...
- 1941-11-31 — Some members of the National Spiritual Assembly filed suit against Sohrab to try to stop him from us...
- 1941-12-00 — The excommunication of Shoghi Effendi's sister, Mehrangiz Rabbani with this message.
"Sister Meh...
- 1942-01-01 — Shoghi Effendi announced the expulsion of his sister Mehrangiz. [<a href="https://bahai-library....
- 1943-08-16 — The passing of Sydney Sprague (b. Oshkosh WI in 1875) in Los Angeles. He was buried in Inglewood Cem...
- 1944-11-00 — Shoghi Effendi sent the cable below to the Baha'i world: "Monib Shahid, grandson of both `Abdu'l-Bah...
- 1945-04-15 — Shoghi Effendi sent the following cable to the Baha'i world: "My faithless brother Husayn, after lon...
- 1946-00-00 — The publication of <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008577291view=1upseq=...
- 1948-00-13 — War broke out in Palestine.
Many Covenant-breakers fled the country. [DH118]
...
- 1948-12-19 — Shoghi Effendi sent a further cable regarding his brother: "Faithless brother Hussein, already abase...
- 1949-04-24 — The passing of Montfort Mills.
He had been a believer since 1906 and by 1909 he had made two pil...
- 1950-11-01 — Mirza Badi'u'llah, the youngest son of Baha'u'llah, (b.1867 in Adrianople) described by Shoghi Effen...
- 1951-12-13 — Shoghi Effendi's brother Riaz Rabbani was the last of his siblings to become a Covenant-Breaker.
...
- 1952-00-00 — Published on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, Dr Yúnis Afrukhtih's Khatirat-i-Nuh-Saliy-i- Akka,...
- 1952-05-18 — The case brought against Shoghi Effendi by the Covenant-breakers in connection with the demolition o...
- 1952-06-01 — In a letter written on behalf of the Guardian by the Assistant Secretary, the National Spiritual Ass...
- 1953-10-29 — Opal Jensen arrived on Réunion Island from the United States and was named a Knight of Baha'u'llah....
- 1954-03-26 — Leland Jensen arrived on Réunion Island from the United States and ws named a Knight of Baha'u'llah...
- 1954-11-01 — A plot of land of slightly less than half an acre (1,300 metres) owned by Farah Sprague (Farahangiz ...
- 1954-12-16 — Shoghi Effendi announced the death of Avarih in Iran, "CONDEMNED POSTERITY MOST SHAMELESS, VICIOUS, ...
- 1955-06-03 — Shoghi Effendi announced to all National Assemblies that Majdi'd-Din, "the most redoubtable enemy of...
- 1956-04-00 — Shoghi Effendi announced that the remaining 22 pillars of the International Baha'i Archives had been...
- 1956-12-20 — The publication in the Official Gazette of the government of Israel of the issue of an expropriation...
- 1957-04-03 — Shoghi Effendi announced that the Treasury Department of Israel had issued an expropriation order fo...
- 1957-05-31 — The judgement of the Supreme Court of Israel against the Covenant-Breakers appeal, resulted in their...
- 1957-06-00 — The Covenant-breakers completely abandoned Bahji. [CB367-9; DH215; MBW120-2; PP233-4]...
- 1957-09-06 — Shoghi Effendi announced 'the complete evacuation of the remnant of Covenant-breakers and the transf...
- 1957-12-02 — The titles to the Shrine of the Bab, the Mansion of Bahji, and all other buildings and lands which t...
- 1957-12-25 — The Hands of the Cause announced the destruction of the long, two-storey house previously occupied b...
- 1958-00-00 — In the late 1950s a meeting that was held in Famagusta at which representatives of all three main ge...
- 1958-04-20 — Mirza Ahmad (Esphahani) Sohrab, the Covenant-breaker who rebelled against Shoghi Effendi, died. [MC9...
- 1959-10-23 — The third Conclave of the Hands of the Cause of God was convened at Bahji. [BW13:351; MC127-173]
...
- 1959-11-04 — The Hands of the Cause issued a message from their third Conclave. [MC166-70]
The date for the el...
- 1960-04-21 — Hand of the Cause Charles Mason Remey claimed he was the second, 'hereditary' Guardian of the Baha'i...
- 1960-04-27 — The International Baha'i Council by unanimous vote rejected the claim of Charles Mason Remey to be t...
- 1960-04-28 — The Custodians called upon all believers to join the Hands in repudiation of the claims of Charles M...
- 1960-04-31 — Twenty-four national spiritual assemblies and five national conventions sent messages of support to ...
- 1960-05-05 — Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qasim Faizi was sent by the Custodians to France to meet with the National S...
- 1960-05-12 — Six national spiritual assemblies sent messages of support to the Custodians, repudiating the claim ...
- 1960-05-13 — The International Baha'i Council wrote to the Custodians recording its decision taken on 27 April to...
- 1960-05-31 — In a letter addressed to all National Assemblies in the Western Hemisphere and to the Auxiliary Boar...
- 1960-07-26 — The Hands of the Cause of God declared Charles Mason Remey a Covenant-breaker. [BBRSM221; MC224-5]...
- 1960-08-03 — Cable from the Hands of the Cause of God announcing the expulsion as Covenant Breakers of John Carre...
- 1962-09-00 — Following full investigation and consultation on certain information concerning the activities of Re...
- 1964-11-05 — Followers of Charles Mason Remey filed suit in the United States District Court for Northern Illinoi...
- 1965-03-23 — The case filed by the followers of Charles Mason Remey against the National Spiritual Assembly of th...
- 1965-11-11 — The Universal House of Justice announced that the 'final step' in the 'process' of the 'purification...
- 1966-03-08 — The second suit brought against the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States by the follower...
- 1966-06-01 — The counter-claim of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States against the followers of C...
- 1971-00-00 — In Germany, Hermann Zimmer resurrected the claims of Ruth White in a small book published in 1971 (E...
- 1974-02-04 — The death of Charles Mason Remey, Hand of the Cause of God (1951-60) and subsequently a Covenant-bre...
- 1997-01-31 — The Universal House of Justice wrote all National Spiritual Assemblies, Continental Counsellors, and...
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