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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• Spring A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
On her return from pilgrimage, May
Bolles establishes the first Bahá'í group on the European continent in
Paris. [AB159; BBRSM106; BFA2:151; GPB259; SBBH1:93]
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information on those who became Bahá'ís in Paris, including Thomas
Breakwell, the `first English believer', and Hippolyte Dreyfus, the
`first Frenchman to embrace the Faith', see BFA2:151–2, 154–5; and
GBP259.
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 April A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Upheaval at Najafábád. [BBRXXX, 426; BW18:384–5]
- Mírzá Báqir-i-Há'í is arrested, several Bahá'ís are beaten and Bahá'í homes are looted in Najafábád. [BBR426; BW18:384–5]
- Some 300 Bahá'ís occupy the British telegraph office hoping that the S̲h̲áh will intervene on behalf of the Bahá'ís. [BBR427–8]
- For Western accounts of the episode see BBR426–30.
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• May A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
A council board of seven officers, a forerunner of the Local Spiritual Assembly, is established in Kenosha. [BFA1:112; GPB260] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. 1 May and period following A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Kheiralla returns to the United States from `Akká. [BFA1:xxix, 158]
- His ambitions to lead the Bahá'í Faith cause a crisis in the
American Bahá'í community. [BFA1:158–84; CB247–9, GPB259–260; SBBH194,
239]
- In the coming months `Abdu'l-Bahá dispatches successive teachers to heal the rift:
- Ḥájí `Abdu'l-Karím-i-Ṭihrání, who had taught Kheiralla the Faith, from c. 26 Apr to 5 Aug 1900. [BFA1:173–6; BFA2:17–29]
- Ḥájí Ḥasan-i-K̲h̲urásání, from 29 Nov 1900 to Aug 1901. [BFA2:35, 389]
- Mírzá Asadu'lláh-i-Isfahání, from 29 Nov 1900 to 12 May 1902. [BFA2:VI, 35–43ff]
- Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, from Aug 1901 to Dec 1904. [BFA2:XV-XVI, 80–7; BW9:855–60]
- See BFA1:177–8 for lists of believers who sided with Kheiralla, left the Faith or remained loyal to `Abdu'l-Bahá.
- See SBBH1:98–101 for Kheiralla's teachings.
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• Summer A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Ethel Jenner Rosenberg accepts the
Bahá'í Faith, the first English woman to become a Bahá'í in her native
land. [AB73–4; ER39; GPB260; SBR20, 33; SEBW55-64, SCU17]
- For her biography see Rob Weinberg's, Ethel Jenner Rosenberg.
- She visited 'Abdu'l-Bahá several times in the first decade of the century. [SCU17]
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• October / November A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Stoyan Vatralsky, a Harvard
educated, Bulgarian Christian, attacks the Bahá'ís, `Truth-knowers', in a
series of talks in a church in Kenosha, Wisconsin. [BFA1:XXIX, 114–15;
SBBH2:111]
- By this time two per cent of the population of Kenosha are Bahá'ís. [BFA1:114]
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• 19 November A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Birth of Yan Kee Leong, the first believer in Malaya, in Selangor, Malaysia. |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1899
• A.M. |
Charles Mason Remey becomes a Bahá'í in Paris through May Bolles. [BFA2:151–2] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
For the state of affairs in Haifa just after the turn of the century see CB2234. |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is translated by Anton Haddad. It is not published but circulates in typescript form. [BFA2:27; SA251] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
A Bahá'í group is established in Italy. [BBRSM:106] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
Tablets, Communes and Holy Utterances, a collection of writings by Bahá'u'lláh, is published in the United States. [BFA2:26]
- It is the first prayer book and first compilation of Bahá'í writings published in the West. [BFA2:26]
- It was probably translated by Anton Haddad and published by the Behais Supply and Publishing Board. [BFA2:26]
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• Early part A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
`Abdu'l-Bahá begins to build the foundations of the Shrine of the Báb. [CB223] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
Sarah Farmer puts Green Acre at the disposal of the Bahá'ís after her pilgrimage to `Akká in 1900. [BFA2:144–5; GPB261]
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1900 Green Acre effectively became the site of the first Bahá'í summer
school in the world, although it was not officially so until 1929.
[BBRSM:104; BW5:29–30; SBBH1:125]
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• January A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
The Behais Publishing and Supply Board is created in Chicago. [BFA1:XXIX] |
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• 8 march A.D. 1900
• A.M. |
At a meeting in Kenosha, Kheiralla
publicly announces his doubts about `Abdu'l-Bahá's leadership of the
Bahá'í community [BFA1:XXIX; SBBH1:96; SBBH2:117]
- He allies himself with Muḥammad-`Alí. [SSBH1:96]
- The Bahá'ís effectively divide into two camps. [SSBH1:96]
- For the changes to the Bahá'í community as a result of this see SSBH1:96–9 and SSBH2:117–20.
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• 56 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. 16 March A.D. 1900
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The Chicago community re-organizes
by selecting a ten-member Board of Council. Neither Kheiralla nor any of
his supporters are on the Board. [BFA1:XXIX, 170] |
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