• The Báb tells him to visit the Bábís in K̲h̲uy, Urúmíyyih, Marág̲h̲ih, Mílán, Tabríz, Zanján, Qazvín and Ṭihrán before proceeding to Mázindarán. In Mázindarán he is to find `God's hidden treasure'. [DB260; MH144]
• In Ṭihrán he again meets Bahá'u'lláh. [DB261; MH148]

• Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí is alarmed by the developments at Máh-Kú and orders that the Báb be moved to C̲h̲ihríq. [B131; DB259; GPB1920]
• The Báb's presence in Máh-Kú, so close to the Russian frontier, is also a cause for concern for the Russian government. Prince Dolgorukov, the Russian Minister in Ṭihrán, asks that He be removed. It is likely that this request was made in 1847 but not carried out until now. [B131; BBR72; TN13]
• The Báb had been in Máh-Kú for nine months. [DB259]

• He remains here for two years. [BBD55; BBR73; GPB27]
• He is subjected to a more rigorous confinement than He had been at Máh-Kú and the warden is harsh and unpredictable. [B135; DB302]

• Excitement among local people eclipses that of Máh-Kú. [GPB20]
• Many priests and government officials become followers, among them Mírzá Asadu'lláh of K̲h̲uy, surnamed Dayyán. [B136; DB303; GPB20]
• So many Bábís come to C̲h̲ihríq that they cannot all be housed. [B135]
• See B136 for story of the inferior honey.
• A dervish, a former navváb, arrives from India after having seen the Báb in a vision. [B137; DB305; GPB20]
• The Báb reveals the Lawḥ-i-Hurúfát (Tablet of the Letters) in honour of Dayyán. [DB304; GPB27]

Mullá Ḥusayn proceeds to Mas̲h̲had and builds a `Bábíyyih', a centre for the Bábís, as instructed by Quddús. He and Quddús take up residence in it and begin to teach the Bábí religion.

• See DB288-90 and MH158-68 for the result of this effort.
• Among those who come to the Bábíyyih is Sám K̲h̲án, the chief of police. [MH158]
• See MH156 for a picture of the Bábíyyih.

• MH160 says that it was at this time that the Báb wrote to all the believers in Persia and Iraq instructing them to go to the aid of Mullá Ḥusayn and Quddús in the `Land of Khá (Khurásán). DB269ff implies this letter was written in 1845.

Bahá'u'lláh, who hosts and directs the event, rents three gardens, one for Quddús, another for Ṭáhirih and the third for Himself. [B168; GPB31, 68; MF200]

The conference coincides with the removal of the Báb to Tabríz for interrogation in July.

It is held near the village of S̲h̲áhrúd in Semnan province. [BBRSM23; DB292]

• `The primary purpose of that gathering was to implement the revelation of the Bayán by a sudden, a complete and dramatic break with the past — with its order, its ecclesiasticism, its traditions, and ceremonials. The subsidiary purpose of the conference was to consider the means of emancipating the Báb from His cruel confinement in C̲h̲ihríq.' [BBRSM23; BKG43; DB297-8; GPB31, 157]
• B167 says that the Bábís did not come to Badas̲h̲t to make plans to rescue the Báb. It is attended by 81 believers and lasts 22 days. [BKG43-4, 46; DB292-3; GPB312]
• Each day Bahá'u'lláh reveals a Tablet, and on each believer He confers a new name. Each day an Islamic law is abrogated. [DB293; GPB32]
• See BKG44-5, DB293 and MF201 for the story of the central event, Ṭáhirih's confrontation with Quddús and removal of her veil.
• Also see B167-9; BBD31-2; BBRSM46; BKG43-7; DB292-8; RB2:353.

• En route He stops in Urúmíyyih where the governor tests the Báb by offering Him an unruly horse to ride. The local people take away His bath water. [B138; BBR74; DB309-11]
• A sketch of the Báb is made there and later two copies of the portrait are made in water colour. The sketch and one of the water colours are now in the International Archives. [B138-9, Juhúrú'l-Ḥaqq by Asadu'lláh Fádil-i-Mázindarání p.48 quoted in World Order Winter 1974-95 p41]
• See Trial of the Báb: Shi'ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image by Denis MacEoin.

Ṭáhirih is arrested and is later taken to Ṭihrán where she is held in the home of Maḥmúd K̲h̲án, the Kalántar of Ṭihrán, until her martyrdom in August 1852.

Mullá Ḥusayn leaves the army camp near Mas̲h̲had where he has been a guest of a brother of the S̲h̲áh. He plans to make a pilgrimage to Karbalá. While making preparations for the journey he receives a Tablet from the Báb instructing him to go to Mázindarán to help Quddús, carrying a Black Standard before him. He is also instructed to wear the Báb's own green turban and to take the new name Siyyid `Alí. [B171; BKG50; DB324; MH174]

• Bahá'u'lláh travels to Núr with Ṭáhirih. He entrusts her into the care of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abú-Turáb-i-Is̲h̲tahárdí, to be taken to a place of safety. [BKG48; DB299]
• Bahá'u'lláh travels to Núr `in easy stages'. By September He is in Bandar-Jaz. [BKG48]

• This constitutes the formal declaration of His mission. [GPB22]
• The purpose of the public forum is to force the Báb to recant His views; instead He takes control of the hearing and embarrasses the clergy. After considerable argument and discussion, they decide He is devoid of reason. [GPB22]
• The Báb is bastinadoed. [B145; BBD44; DB320; GPB22; TN14-15] This is the first formal punishment He receives. [BBRSM20]
• He is first attended by an Irish physician, Dr William Cormick, to ascertain His sanity and later to treat Him for a blow to the face that occurred during the bastinado. Cormick is the only Westerner to meet and converse with Him. [B145; BBR74-5, 497-8 DBXXXIL-XXXIII]
• The clergy issue a fatwa or legal pronouncement against the Báb condemning Him to death for heresy, but to no purpose as the civil authorities are unwilling to take action against Him. [BBRSM19-20]
• For an account of the life of Dr. William Cormick see Connections by Brendan McNamara.

• Their numbers swell into hundreds, possibly 300 and beyond. [B172; BKG50]
• The Black Standard is raised on the plain of K̲h̲urásán. [B171, 176-7; BBD46; BBRSM52; MH175]
• The Black Standard will fly for some 11 months. [B176-7; DB351]
• See DB326 and MH177-83 for details of the journey.
• See MH182 for Mullá Ḥusayn's prophecy of the death of Muḥammad S̲h̲áh.

• B147 says He must have arrived in the first days of August.
• On His return the Báb writes a denunciatory letter to Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí. He sends it to Ḥujjat in Ṭihrán, who delivers it personally. [B147; DB323; GPB27]
• The Báb completes the Arabic Bayán. [BBR45; GBP25]

• The Russian agent at Bandar-Jaz offers Him passage on a Russian ship at anchor there but He refuses. [BKG50]
• Birth of Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥasan, Adíb, Hand of the Cause and Apostle of Bahá'u'lláh, in Ṭáliqán.

• This precipitates the downfall of the Grand Vizier, Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí. [B147; BBD19; BBR156]
• For details of his life, fall and death, see BBR154-6 and BKG52-5.
• The edict for Bahá'u'lláh's arrest is rendered null. [BKG50; BW18:381]

• He is 17 years old. [BBR158; GPB37]
• He ruled from 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated on the eve of his jubilee. [BBD168; BBR482]
• The first four years of his reign were marked by the `fiercest and bloodiest of the persecutions of the religion of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh'. During the whole of his reign there were `sporadic persecutions and, in at least some cases, he himself was directly responsible for the death of the martyrs'. [BBR157]
• For the first time in the Faith's history the civil and ecclesiastical powers banded together in a systematic campaign against it, one that was to `culminate in the horrors experienced by Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-C̲h̲ál' and `His subsequent banishment to Iraq'. [GPB37]
• See BBRSM25 for an explanation of why the Bábí religion was a challenge to the secular regime.
• See SB86 for a reason for Náṣiri'd-Dín S̲h̲áh's cruelty towards the Bábís and Bahá'ís.
• See RB3:201 for an explanation of his lengthy reign.
• He chose as his prime minister Mírzá Taqí K̲h̲án-i-Faráhání, known as a great reformer and a founder of modern Iran. [BBD221; BBR160]
• It was not until the spring of 1849 that the new regime was in firm control.

• MH188 says that the journey from Mas̲h̲had had taken 83 days.
• In the ensuing battle, the townspeople are worsted. They beg for peace and a truce is agreed. [B172; DB336; MH197]
• It was here that Mullá Ḥusayn cut a man, a musket and a tree with one blow from his sword. [B172; DB 330-1; MH193]
• Mullá Ḥusayn and his companions take shelter in a caravanserai. Three young men who mount the roof to raise the call to prayer are each met with a bullet and killed. Mullá Ḥusayn gives the command to attack the townspeople, who are again routed. [BW18:381; DB337-8; MH201-5]
• Mullá Ḥusayn and his companions are offered safe passage by the town's leaders if they will leave Bárfurús̲h̲. They agree but are attacked by their escort, K̲h̲usraw-i-Qádí-Kalá'í and his hundred men. [B172; DB338-42; MH206-9]

• See BBD217, BW18:381, DB345-413 and MH221-85 for chronicle of events.
• The episode lasts seven months. [BBRSM26; BW18:381]
• See BBRSM26 for the Bábís' intentions.
• See DB343-5 for pictures and DB348, MH217-18 for sketches.
• See MH212 for a diagram of the fortifications.
• Bahá'u'lláh visits the fortress and approves the fortifications. [BKG51, DB347-9; MH227]
• He advises Mullá Ḥusayn to seek the release of Quddús. Mullá Ḥusayn sets out immediately and secures the release of Quddús, who has been in detention for 95 days. [B173; BKG51; DB349-50; MH227]
• Quddús arrives towards the end of the year. Some sources say October 20. [B173]
• See DB352-4 for the entry of Quddús into S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Ṭabarsí. His arrival brings the number of Bábís in the shrine to 313. [DB354]
• Note: BBRSM26 and MH233-4 say that the number of defendants rose to 500-600 individuals.
  • 37 per cent of the identified participants were of the `ulamá class. [BBRSM50]
  • The siege begins with the arrival of `Abdu'lláh K̲h̲án's forces on 19 December.
  • it is said that 2000 soldiers were involved in the siege.

• MH240 says it took him 45 days to travel to Ṭihrán to occupy his father's throne.

  Mírzá Taqí K̲h̲án-i-Faráhání takes up post as prime minister. [BBR482]

• When the governor returns to his home he orders that Bahá'u'lláh and His companions be released and arranges a safe conduct for them to Ṭihrán. [B174; BBD44; BKG56-60; BW18:381; DB369-76; GPB68; SB7]
• See BKG57 and DB70 for pictures.

• DB361 says this was 1 December.
• There are about 12,000 troops. [MH245]
• The supply of bread and water to the fort is cut. A rainfall replenishes the water supply and ruins the munitions of the government forces. Snow further hampers the army's movement. [DB361, MH243]

• For the next 19 days the defenders dig a moat. [DB363]

• Note: According to one source, she was married to the famous cleric Mírzá Muḥammad Taqí 'Allámi-yi-Núrí and widowed before Bahá'u'lláh married her.

• He sets up camp and his headquarters in the village of Vás-Kas. [DB363]

DB 368 says this occurred on 21 December 1848.

• Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá flees barefoot. [DB366]
• Mullá Ḥusayn's sword is broken in the attack and he uses Quddús'. His companions bring him the abandoned sword of Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá. [DB367; MH257]

  At daybreak the soldiers mount a counter-attack. [DB367; MH258-9]

• In this encounter Quddús is wounded in the mouth and is rescued by Mullá Ḥusayn who disperses the enemy using the sword of Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá in one hand and that of Quddús in the other. [B174; DB367; MH258-9]

• This is the third army to be mustered.
• The water supply is again cut off and Mullá Ḥusayn orders that a well be dug and a bath constructed. [DB379; MH263]

• Mullá Ḥusayn is 36 years old at the time of his death. [DB383; MH272]
• See DB382-3 for an account of his life.
• See DB415-16 for an account of the heroics of Mullá Ḥusayn.
• See DB381-2 and MH265-70 for an account of the death and burial of Mullá Ḥusayn.
• See SDH13-14 for an account of his death by Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá.
• Seventy-two of the original 313 inhabitants of the fort had been martyred by this time. [DB382]
• It takes the army 45 days to reassemble its forces. [DB384; MH277]

• DB386 says this was 10 days before Naw-Rúz.
• Nineteen Bábís led by Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir overcome the attackers. [DB386-8]