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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 April A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
Two building plots for the future House of Worship are purchased in Wilmette for the sum of $2000. [BFA2:XVI; BW10:179, GPB262] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 25 April A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
Charles Mason Remey and Sidney Sprague sail from New York for Iran and Russia. [BFA2:289]
- For details of their journey see BFA2:289–95.
- In Ṭihrán Tá`irih K̲h̲ánum, a Bahá'í woman with advanced ideas, hosts them at a meeting at which the women remove their veils. [BFA2:292–4]
- They give Tá`irih K̲h̲ánum the address of Isabella Brittingham and the two women begin a correspondence. [BFA2:294]
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• June A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
Muḥammad-`Alí S̲h̲áh undertakes a successful coup d'état in Iran and abolishes the Constitution. [BBR369] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 23 July A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
The Young Turks issue a declaration demanding the restoration of the old constitution of Midhat Pás̲h̲á and threatening the overthrow of the government. [AB123] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 24 July A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
In Constantinople, a bomb intended
for Sultán 'Abdu'l-Ḥamíd as he returned from the mosque on Friday,
killed and injured a number of people. This event prompted the
authorities to recall all the members of the Commission. Some months
later the "Young Turk" revolutionaries demanded the release of all
political and religious prisoners. 'Abdu'l-Bahá was free by the summer.
[AB123; BBD4; BBRXXX; CB237; DH71; GPB272]
- A cable is sent to
Constantinople to enquire whether `Abdu'l-Bahá is included in the
amnesty. `Abdu'l-Bahá is set free. [AB123; GPB272]
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 31 August A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
BW2:22 says that `Abdu'l-Bahá walked free on 31 Aug. |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• September A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
Bahá'í Bulletin Published September, 1908 to May 1909
| Link |
Dates |
URL (For cut 'n' paste) |
| Volume 1, Issue 1 |
September 1908 |
https://bahai.works/Bahai_Bulletin/Issue_1 |
| Volume 1, Issues 2 and 3 |
October 1908 |
https://bahai.works/Bahai_Bulletin/Issue_2-3 |
| Volume 1, Issue 4 |
December 1908 |
https://bahai.works/Bahai_Bulletin/Issue_4 |
| Volume 1, Issue 5 |
January-February-March 1909 |
https://bahai.works/Bahai_Bulletin/Issue_5 |
| Volume 1, Issue 6 |
April-May 1909 |
https://bahai.works/Bahai_Bulletin/Issue_6 |
The Bahá'í Bulletin was succeeded a year later by the Bahá'í News which became Star of the West a year after that. See 1910 21 March |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• 7 September A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
The birth of Ḥasan Muvaqqar Balyuzi, Hand of the Cause of God. [SBBR5:XI] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• September A.D. 1908
• A.M. |
The Bahá'í Publishing Society is founded in Chicago. [BW10:179] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1909
• A.M. |
Sutherland Maxwell, Hand of the Cause of God, becomes a Bahá'í. [BFA2:156] |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1909
• A.M. |
Karl Kruttner, a professor in Bohemia, becomes a Bahá'í, the first person to do so in the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. January A.D. 1909
• A.M. |
Karl Kruttner, a professor in Bohemia, becomes a Bahá'í, the first person to do so in the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
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• 65 B.E.
• A.H.
• March A.D. 1909
• A.M. |
Eighteen or nineteen Bahá'ís are
brutally assassinated in Nayríz when the Constitutionalists take control
of the city. [BBR369; BW18:386; DH71, 138; GPB298; RB1:268] |
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