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Bahá'í Chronology - The Ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - 58 B.E. (A.D. 1901-1902)

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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The Iranian ambassador to the Ottoman government at Istanbul, `Ala'u'l-Mulk, filed a report with the Office of Foreign Ministry in Ṭihrán which was subsequently presented to the Shah.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • May A.D. 1901 • A.M.	G̲h̲ulám-Ridá is killed in Najafábád. [BW18:385]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 15 May A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The Chicago Bahá'ís elect a nine-man Board of Council for a term of five years. [BFA2:XXV, 44–7]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 20 May A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The number of members on the Board of Council is raised to 12. [BFA2:47]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 24 May A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The name of the Chicago Board of Council is changed to the House of Justice. [BFA2:48] `Abdu'l-Bahá requests that this name be changed a year later. [BFA2:49]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 29 May A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The Bahá'í women of Chicago elect their own Board and hold the first business meeting of the `Women's Auxiliary Board'. [BFA2:XV, 49–50]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • Summer A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Thomas Breakwell, an Englishman living in the United States, learns of the Bahá'í Faith in Paris from May Bolles. Within three days he becomes a believer and immediately writes to `Abdu'l-Bahá. [AB74–5; BW7:707] For May Bolles' own account see SW7:707–11. He is the first male British Bahá'í. [BFA2:154] He is designated by Shoghi Effendi the `first English believer'. [GPB259] He is the first Western Bahá'í to pay Huqúqu'lláh. [BW7:70] See also AB74–80; BFA2:154; SEBW6572.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Hippolyte Dreyfus hears of the Bahá'í Faith from May Bolles in Paris and soon after accepts it. [AB81–2] He is designated by Shoghi Effendi the `first Frenchman to embrace the Faith'. [GPB259] He is the first European Bahá'í to visit Iran. [AB81] After his marriage to Laura Clifford Barney he adopts the surname Dreyfus-Barney. [AB81]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • Mid July A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Ḥájí Ḥasan-i-K̲h̲urásání leaves the United States. [BFA2:38]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl arrives in North America. [BFA2:XV] See BFA2:80–7 and BW9:855–60 for accounts of his visit. Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. is sent to assist Mírzá Abú'l-Fadl Gulpaygání. He remains and works at the Iranian Consulate until 1912 and during this time he translates much of the correspondence between 'Abdu'l-Bahâ and the Western believers. After the American tour he returns to the Holy Land. After the passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá he rejects the authority of Shoghi Effendi and is expelled. [APD155]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1901 • A.M.	`Abdu'l-Bahá writes His Will and Testament over this seven-year period. [AB124–5, 484; BBD236] It is written in three parts. [AB124–5, 484; BBD236] It `may be regarded as the offspring resulting from that mystic intercourse between Him Who had generated the forces of a God-given Faith and the One Who had been made its sole Interpreter and was recognized as its perfect Exemplar'. [GPB325] For an analysis of its content and its import see AB484–93 and GPB325–8.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 20 August A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Sultán `Abdu'l-Ḥamíd re-imposes the restrictions confining `Abdu'l-Bahá and His brothers within the walls of `Akká. [AB94; CB226–7; DH67–8; GBP264] This is the result of mischief stirred up by Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alí. [AB92–5; CB227; GBP264] `Abdu'l-Bahá is subjected to long interviews and detailed questioning. [AB95; GPB2645] For the continued mischief and false allegations of the Covenant-breakers see CB227–30 and GBP265–7. `Abdu'l-Bahá suspends the visits of the pilgrims for a time. [GBP267] He directs that all the Bahá'í writings in the possession of His family and secretaries be transferred to Egypt and has His mail redirected through an agent in Egypt. [GBP267] For the work of `Abdu'l-Bahá whilst in confinement 1901–8 see CB231–44 and GBP267–9.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Thomas Breakwell goes on pilgrimage to `Akká, the first Englishman to do so. [BFA2:154; BW7:709] For an account of this pilgrimage see AB77 and BW7:710.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 2 November A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Birth of John Robarts, Hand of the Cause of God, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 26 November A.D. 1901 • A.M.	The first celebration of the Day of the Covenant, the `Master's Day', in North America. [BFA2:XV, 56; SA245]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 26 December A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Agnes Alexander arrives back in Hawaii, the first Bahá'í to set foot in the islands. [BFA2:159–60]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	The house in Bandar Anzalí in which Ḥájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí is staying is attacked and only the intervention of the governor saves the Bahá'ís. [BW18:385]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	In S̲h̲íráz, Ḥájí Abu'l-Ḥasan is beaten so severely on the order of the mujtahid that he dies a few months later from the effects. [BW18:385]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	Pilgrims from the East and the West are once again permitted to visit `Abdu'l-Bahá. [CB232]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	Joseph Hannen, future Disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá, and Pauline Hannen become Bahá'ís in Washington DC.
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	Bahá'í groups are established in Canada and in the Hawaiian Islands. [BBRSM:106-7; BFA2:160; SBBH1:135]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 • A.M.	Shanghai is re-opened to the Bahá'í Faith by the arrival of two Bahá'ís from`Ishqábád, Áqá Mírzá Mihdí Rashtí and Áqá Mírz `Abdu'l-Baqí Yazdí, who open a branch of the Ummi'd company, an import-export firm. [PH25]
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• 58 B.E. • A.H. • 18 March A.D. 1901 • A.M.	Áqá Muḥammad-Zamá-i-Sabbág̲h̲ and Siyyid Ja`far are executed in Isfandábád and Abarqú, Fárs. Several Bahá'ís are expelled from the town and another Bahá'í killed. [BW18:385]
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• 58 / 60 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1902 / 1903 • A.M.	`Abdu'l-Bahá commissions the restoration of the House of the Báb in S̲h̲íráz under the supervision of Áqá Mírzá Áqá, an Afnán and nephew of `Abdu'l-Bahá. [AB108; EB236; GPB300] Also see Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán, (Ahang Rabbani trans.) pages 219-222.
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