• The Tablet is recited by Mírzá Áqá Ján. [RB1:228]
• See GPB147 and RB1:228 for the effect on those present.
• See RB1:228–44 and SA163–5 for descriptions of the Tablet and analyses of its content.
• Immediately after it is chanted Bahá'u'lláh orders the tents to be folded and everyone to return to the city. [GBP147; RB1:228–9; SA163]
• The party has not yet left when a messenger arrives from Námiq Páshá summoning Bahá'u'lláh to the governorate the next day to receive the invitation to go to Constantinople. [RB1:229; SA163]

• See BKG155–6 and GPB148 for the effect of this news on the believers.

• Bahá'u'lláh and His family had been given Ottoman citizenship by this time. [BBRSM66]

• See BKG156–8 for a list of those chosen by Bahá'u'lláh to migrate with Him.

• See TN50–3 for the story of the sedition behind Bahá'u'lláh's removal from Baghdád.
  
  
• Fearful of Bahá'u'lláh's growing influence in Bag̲h̲dád, the Persian Consul had made representation to the Sulṭán to have Him delivered to the Persian authorities. The Sulṭán, although the Caliph of Sunni Islam, considered himself a mystical seeker and was no doubt intrigued with Bahá'u'lláh from the reports of the Governor of 'Akká, Námiq Páshá, and his own Prime Minister, 'Alí Páshá. This combination of sympathy and interest led the Ottoman government to invite Him to the capital rather than send Him to a remote location or return Him to Persia. [BBD196; BBIC13, 57note 68]

• See BKG168, GPB149, RB1:260–1 and SA234–5 for details of His walk.
• For the first time, He wears a tall táj as a symbol of His station. [BBD221; BKG176; GPB152] Bahá'u'lláh enters the Garden just as the call to afternoon prayer is being made. [GPB149; RB1:261]

• ‘Of the exact circumstances … we, alas, are but scantily informed.' [BKG173; GPB153]
• For such details as are known, see BKG173–5 and GPB153.
• For the import of the event, see BKG169–73; GWB27–35; GBP153–5.
• This initiates the holy day of the First Day of Ridván, to be celebrated on 21 April. [BBD196]
• This marks the end of the dispensation of the Báb and of the first epoch of the Heroic or Apostolic Age of the Bahá'í dispensation. [BBD72, 79]

1. He forbids the use of the sword.
2. He states that no other Manifestations will appear before one thousand years. This is later reiterated in the Kitáb-i-Badí‘ and in The Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
3. He states that, as from this moment, all the names and attributes of God are manifested within all created things, implying the advent of a new Day. [RB1:278–80]

• See CH82–3 for the effect of this announcement on ‘Abdu'l-Bahá.

• CH59 says that he left Bag̲h̲dád about two weeks before the larger party.
• Bahá'u'lláh advised him to go to Persia to disseminate the Writings of the Báb. [RB1:252–3]
• Mírzá Yaḥyá abandoned the Writings of the Báb and travelled surreptitiously to Constantinople. [ESW167–8; RB1:255]
• See ESW167 and RB1:253–4 for Yaḥyá's movements.

• This initiates the holy day of the Ninth Day of Ridván, to be celebrated on 29 April. [BBD 196]

• This initiates the holy day the Twelfth Day of Ridván, to be celebrated on 2 May. [BBD196]
• As He is about to leave He reveals a Tablet addressed to Áqá Mírzá Áqá in S̲h̲íráz. It brings relief and happiness to those who receive it. [EB222]
• His leaving is accompanied by symbolic signs of His station: He rides a horse rather than a donkey and wears a tall táj. [BBD221; BKG176]
• See BKG175–6, GPB155 and RB1:281–2 for descriptions of the scenes that accompanied His departure.

• They remain here for seven days. [BKG176]
• See BKG for a description of activities during this period.

• The journey takes 110 days. [GPB156]
• For the details of the journey see BKG176–96; GPB1567; SW13:277.
• See BKG180 for a map of the journey.
• They pass through the following:
  

  
  Judaydih
  Dilí-'Abbás
  Qarih-Tapih
  Saláhíyyih (stay two nights)
  Dúst-Khurmátú
  Táwuq
  Karkúk (stay two days)
  Irbíl
  By the River Záb
  Bartallih
  Mosul (stay three days)
  Zák̲h̲ú
  Jazírih
  Nisíbín
  Ḥasan-Áqá
  Márdiín
  Díyár-Bakr (stay two days)
  Ma'dan-Mis
  K̲h̲árpút (stay two or three days)
  Ma'dan-Nuqrih
  Dilik-Tás̲h̲
  Sívás
  Túqát
  Amasia (stay two days)
  Iláhíyyih (the last day of the overland journey)
  Sámsún on the Black Sea. (110 days after departure) 
  [The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1953:
   Information Statistical & Comparative p43]

• For the number of people on the journey see BKG179 (72), GPB156 (26 plus members of His family plus guards), RB2:5–6 (54) and SW13:277 (72).
• As the party draws close to Sámsún on the Black Sea Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Súriy-i-Hawdaj. [BKG195; RB2:6]
• The party remains in Sámsún for seven days. [GPB157]

• They touch in Sinope, a port of call on 14 August and in Anyábulí on the 15 August. [The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1953 :Information Statistical & Comparative p43]

• The band of exiles had been augmented along the journey and new numbered about 70. At first the Governor allotted them space in an inn that was inadequate for their numbers and then 'Abdu'l-Bahá asked the governor that the family have a house apart. Mírzá Yáhyá and his family were invited to share the house. [CH59]
• See The Baha'i Faith in Turkey or Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History Chapter 4 by John Walbridge

• See BKG197–204 for an account of Bahá'u'lláh's stay.
• Among the works Bahá'u'lláh reveals in Constantinople is Mathnaví-i-Mubárak. [RB2:29–54]

• See BBIC:34, note 68, BKG201 and GPB159 for reasons for the edict. On the same day Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Lawḥ-i-‘Abdu'l-‘Azíz-Va-Vukalá, a Tablet addressed to the Sultán. When the Grand Vizier peruses it he turns pale. The text of this Tablet is lost. [BKG206; GPB160]

• See SDH41-43 for the story of Ḥájí Mirzá Haydar-'Alí and the use of this tablet during his imprisonment in Egypt.

• The journey takes twelve days and they pass through the following villages en route. [BKG204; GPB161,The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1953 :Information Statistical & Comparative p43]

Kúc̲h̲ik-C̲h̲akmac̲h̲ih
Buyúk-C̲h̲akmac̲h̲ih
Salvarí
Birkás
Bábás
Bábá-Iskí
          

• See BKG204–5, GPB161 and RB2:62 for the rigours of the journey. The winter is extremely cold and the travellers are not clad for freezing weather.

• This is the furthest point from His native land that Bahá'u'lláh reaches and the first time in known history that a Manifestation of God had lived on the European continent. [BKG217]
• See BKG218–19, 221–2; GPB161–2 and MRHK179–96 for a description of the houses Bahá'u'lláh lives in during this period.
• See BKG219–20 for the hardships of the first winter.

• This is described by Shoghi Effendi as ‘the most momentous Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh', in which He, ‘for the first time, directs His words collectively to the entire company of the monarchs of East and West'. [GPB171]
• See GPB172–5 and RB2:301–25 for a description of the content of the Tablet.
• In The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1953: Information Statistical & Comparative p41 Shoghi Effendi dates this tablet as "1863". Given the intense activity of that year an assumption was made that it was revealed near the end of the year in either Constantinople or Adrianople.

Chronological list of significant events related to 
Bahá'u'lláh's historic pronouncement in the Súriy-i-Múlúk
     Fall of the French Monarchy (1870)
     Virtual Extinction of the Pope's Temporal Sovereignty (1870)
     Assassination of Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz (1876)
     Assassination of Násiri'd-Dín S̲h̲áh (1896)
     Overthrow of Sultán 'Abdu'l-Ḥamíd II (1909)
     Fall of the Portuguese Monarchy (1910)
     Fall of the Chinese Monarchy (1916)
     Fall of the Russian Monarchy (1917)
     Fall of the German Monarchy (1918)
     Fall of the Austrian Monarchy (1918)
     Fall of the Hungarian Monarchy (1918)
     Fall of the Turkish Monarchy (1922)
     Collapse of the Caliphate (1924)
     Fall of the Qájár Dynasty (1925)
     Fall of the Spanish Monarchy (1931)
     Fall of the Albanian Monarchy (1938)
     Fall of the Serbian Monarchy (1941)
     Fall of the Italian Monarchy (1946)
     Fall of the Bulgarian Monarchy (1946)
     Fall of the Rumanian Monarchy (1947) 
         [The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1953: 
          Information Statistical & Comparative p41-42]