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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• June A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
E. G. Browne gives a paper on the Bahá'í Faith (`Bábism') at the Royal Asiatic Society, London. |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• June A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
Áqá Najafí, the `Son of the Wolf', initiates a campaign against the Bahá'ís in Isfahán, Sidih and Najafábád. [BW18:383] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• 17 July A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
Upheaval in Najafábád: Áqá Najafí,
the `Son of the Wolf', drives over a hundred Bahá'ís out of Sidih and
Najafábád. They take sanctuary in the Telegraph Office and in the
stables of the governor of Isfahán. [BW18:383]
- See BBR280–4 for Western reporting of the episode.
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• 18 July A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
The Bahá'ís are persuaded to leave
the Telegraph Office in Isfahán after being assured that they will
receive protection in their villages. [BW18:383] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• August A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
Bahá'ís of Sidih and Najafábád, having received no help or protection, go to Ṭihrán to petition the S̲h̲áh. [BW18:383] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• 8 September A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
Ḥájí Muḥammad Ridáy-i-Isfahání is martyred in `Is̲h̲qábád. [BBRXXIX, 296–7; GPB202]
- Czar
Alexander III sends a military commission from St Petersburg to conduct
the trial of those accused of the murder. [AB109; GPB202]
- Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl serves as chief Bahá'í spokesman at the trial. [AB109]
- Two are found guilty and sentenced to death, six others are ordered to be transported to Siberia. [AB109; BBR297; GPB203]
- Bahá'u'lláh attaches importance to the action as being the first time S̲h̲í'ís received judicial punishment for an attack on Bahá'ís. [BBRSM91]
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Bahá'í community intercedes on behalf of the culprits and has the death
sentences commuted to transportation to Siberia. [AB109; BBR297;
GPB203]
- For Western accounts of the episode see BBR296–300.
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• 19 November A.D. 1889
• A.M. |
Birth of General S̲h̲u`á`u'lláh `Alá'í, Hand of the Cause of God, in Ṭihrán. |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• In the year A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Ḥájí Ák̲h̲únd, Ḥájí Amín and Ibn-i-Abhar are arrested. Ḥájí Ák̲h̲únd
is imprisoned in Ṭihrán for two years; Ḥájí Amín is imprisoned in
Qazvín for two years; and Ibn-i-Abhar is imprisoned in Ṭihrán for four
years. [BW18:383–4]
Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Furúg̲h̲í is arrested in Furúg̲h̲í and sent to Mas̲h̲had. From there he is sent to Kalát-i-Nadírí where he is imprisoned for two years. [BW18:384]
In Mas̲h̲had a mob sets out to kill Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Bajistání but failing to find him they loot his shop. [BW18:384] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• In the decade A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Bahá'í books are published for the first time, in Bombay and Cairo. [GPB195; SA250] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Nabíl presents his chronicle, The Dawn-Breakers, to Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá for approval. [DBXXXVII] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
Ibrahim George Kheiralla (K̲h̲ayru'lláh) becomes a Bahá'í in Cairo under the tutelage of `Abdu'l-Karím-i-Ṭihrání. [BFA1:19]
- It is probable that he is the first Bahá'í from Syrian Christian background. [BFA19]
- See BFA1:175 for pictures.
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
E. G. Browne is in `Akká. Bahá'u'lláh is staying in the Templer colony in Haifa when he arrives. [BBR253] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
By 1890 about a thousand Bahá'ís have settled in `Ishqábád. [BBRSM91, SDOH99] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1890
• A.M. |
A number of people of the Jewish, Zoroastrian and Buddhist Faiths become Bahá'ís. [BBR248–9; GPB195] |
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• 46 B.E.
• A.H.
• 25 February A.D. 1890
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Seven Bahá'ís from Sidih who had gone to Ṭihrán to petition the S̲h̲áh
for protection secure a decree from him permitting them to return home.
When they try to enter Sidih they are killed. [BBRXXIX, 285–9;
BW18:383] |
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