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Bahá'í Chronology - The Guradianship - 79 B.E. (A.D. 1922-1923)
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< 78 B.E. | 80 B.E. >
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[ 24 Articles ]
• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi sends verbal messages through Consul Schwarz to Germany and Ethel Rosenberg to Britain to form local spiritual assemblies and to arrange for the election of a national spiritual assembly in each country. [CB293; ER209, 211-12; PP56]

To the United States and Canada he sends a message to transform the `Executive Board' into a legislative institution. [CB293; CT160; ER211-12; PP56]

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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi appoints a body of nine people to act tentatively as an assembly in the Holy Land while he is away and entrusts the affairs of the Faith to the Greatest Holy Leaf. [GBF19; PP57, 276]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi calls for the Executive Board of the Bahá'í Temple Unity to become an elected legislative body. It had been functioning since 1909 concerned mostly with the construction of the Bahá'í House of Worship. He addresses his first letter to this body as the "National Spiritual Assembly of the United States" on December 23rd however in God Passes By pg333 he states that the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States was not formed until 1925. [SETPE1p107, CT160, CoB293]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 5 April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi leaves the affairs of the Faith in the hands of the Greatest Holy Leaf and departs the Holy Land for Europe, accompanied by his eldest cousin. [PP57]
  • See BA25 for his reasons for his departure.
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 7 April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The Haifa Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly is seen to be in operation this date, perhaps earlier. [SETPE1p50,]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Work commences on the Western Pilgrim House. [PP69]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 21 April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The Shrines of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb are electrically illuminated for the first time. [PP69]
  • For the story of this see HLS.
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 25 April A.D. 1922
• A.M.
A National Spiritual Assembly was elected in the United States to replace the Executive Board of the Bahá'í Temple Unity. [SBR94]
  • The difference between this body and its forerunner is little more than a change in name. [DP122]
  • The conversion of the Bahá'í Temple Unity into the National Spiritual Assembly took four years; it was not until 1925 that Shoghi Effendi recognized the American national body as a National Spiritual Assembly. [CT161; DP121-2; GPB333]
  • The election procedure followed that used in the United States: there was electioneering and candidates were nominated, with a straw poll taken to trim the number of eligible candidates. [CT160; DP122]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• Late May A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The communities of London, Manchester and Bournemouth elect a Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly for England. [ER213; SBR28, 67]
  • This is also known as the Spiritual Assembly for London and the All-England Bahá'í Council. [ER2 13; SBR67]
  • See ER213 and SBR28 for membership.
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 6 June A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The All-England Bahá'í Council meets for the first time. [SBR28; UD9, 468]
  • ER2 13 says it first met 17 June.
  • The meeting is held in the home of Mrs Thornburgh-Cropper. [SBR28, 67]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 July A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Bahá'ís gather in the Foundation Hall of the Chicago House of Worship for the first time, to commemorate the martyrdom of the Báb. [CT158-9; SW13, 6:132]
  • Regular meetings are not held here until 1927. [CT158-9]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• Autumn A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The Greatest Holy Leaf sends Shoghi Effendi's mother and other family members to Switzerland to ask him to return to the Holy Land. [PP63]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 10 December A.D. 1922
• A.M.
The first local assembly of Montreal is formed. [BW8:639, OBCC157, TG26]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 15 December A.D. 1922
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi returns to the Holy Land to take up his duties as Guardian. [PP63-4]
  • He sends cablegrams to a number of national communities announcing his return and his eagerness to resume the work. [PP64-5]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• In the year A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Charles Mason Remey makes preliminary plans for a monumental domed superstructure for the Shrine of the Báb. [BW6:723]

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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Amelia Collins contributes the funds necessary to complete the Western Pilgrim House. [DH180; PSBW76]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1923
• A.M.
The keys for the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád are delivered to the Shi'as by the government. [PP94-5, GBF33]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• January A.D. 1923
• A.M.
The Guardian sends `Abdu'l-Ḥusayn, Ávárih, to Europe to deepen the believers. [CB335, SBR68]
  • For his life and eventual Covenant-breaking see CB334-42 and PP120.
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• February A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi sends his early translation of The Hidden Words to America. [PP205]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 8 February A.D. 1923
• A.M.
The keys to the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh are returned to Shoghi Effendi. [GBF23; PP71]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 12 February A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Bahá'í Scriptures, edited by Horace Holley, is published. [SBR231]
  • It is the first comprehensive collection of Bahá'í writings made thus far in English. [SBR231]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 16 February A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Declaration of the first native Hawaiian Bahá'í, Mae (Mary) Keali'i Kahumoku Tilton Fantom. She was from Maui. [Native Baha'i - Indigenous Baha'i]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• March A.D. 1923
• A.M.
An article entitled `Bahá'í Organization: Its Basis in the Revealed Word' appears in Star of the West. [SW13, 12:323-8]
  • The purpose of the article is to convince those who are opposed to a structured form of Bahá'í administration. [BBRSM123]
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• 79 B.E.
• A.H.
• 12 March A.D. 1923
• A.M.
Shoghi Effendi writes to Bahá'ís in America, Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan and Australasia about Bahá'í administration, outlining the process for annual elections of assemblies and calling for the establishment of local and national funds. [BA34-43; PP330]
  • See ER223-4 for the response of the British Bahá'ís.
 
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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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