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Bahá'í Chronology - The Ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - 54 B.E. (A.D. 1897-1898)

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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • 21 May A.D. 1897 • A.M.	Lua Getsinger becomes a Bahá'í in Chicago. [BFA1:XXVII]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1898 • A.M.	`Abdu'l-Bahá instructs that the remains of the Báb be brought from their hiding place in Ṭihrán to the Holy Land. [BBD209]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1898 • A.M.	The first anti-Bahá'í polemical tracts are published by Christian missionaries in Iran. [SBB111:69]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1898 • A.M.	The Tarbíyat School for boys is established in Ṭihrán by the Bahá'ís. [BBD221]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1898 • A.M.	Several Bahá'ís are arrested and imprisoned in Qazvín. [BW18:384] Ḥájí Muḥammad is set upon and killed in Hisár, K̲h̲urásán. BW18:384]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • 1 January A.D. 1898 • A.M.	Eighteen people become Bahá'ís in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the visit of Kheiralla in the autumn of 1897. [BFA1:XXVIII] This marks the establishment of the third Bahá'í community in North America. [BFA1:110]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • February A.D. 1898 • A.M.	Kheiralla arrives in New York and begins classes on the Bahá'í Faith. [BFA1:XXVIII, 116]
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• 54 B.E. • A.H. • 9 February A.D. 1898 • A.M.	Ḥájí Muḥammad-i-Turk is shot, beaten and then burned to death in a main street in Mas̲h̲had by four religious students. [BBRXXX, 406; BW18:384] For Western accounts of the episode see BBR406–17.
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Most of the Gregorian Calendar dates, A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753) to 153 B.E (A.D. 1996), are from the original book, A Basic Bahá'í Chronology. From 153 B.E (A.D. 1996) to present the Gregorian Calendar dates are from A Basic Bahá'í Chronology online. The Hebrew, Islamic and Bahá'í dates were calculated by the ABG staff and may be subject to error, despite the great care that was taken. When the Gregorian date is "In the year", "c. Mar 1797", etc., we list the nearest approximate Hebrew, Islamic and Bahá'í dates.

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Continuous time periods, e.g., Monday thru Friday or June thru August, are annotated as Monday / Friday and June / August rather than Monday-Friday and June-August in all four calendars. This is to avoid confusion with Islamic days and months which contain a hyphen (or dash), e.g. Yawm ath-Thulatha', Jumadá al-akhirah.
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B.E. = Bahá'í Era - Badí / Bahá'í Calendar - Conversion from spreadsheet created by the webmaster - Download Spreadsheet
A.H. = Anno Hejirea - Latin: "In the year of the Hijra" - Muslim / Islamic Calendar.
A.D. = Anno Domini - Latin: "In the year of our Lord" - Christian / Julian Calendar.
A.M. = Anno Mundi - Latin: "In the year of the world"; Hebrew: "To the creation of the world" - Hebrew Calendar.

c. = circa - meaning: "Around, round about, about. The prep. is often used in Eng. with dates, as circa 1400 (c 1400)." (Oxford English Dictionary)
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