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• 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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