A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 116 B.E. (A.D. 1959-1960)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Interregnum - 116 B.E. (A.D. 1959-1960)

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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1959 • A.M.	Representatives of the Bahá'í International Community present to the President of the Human Rights Commission, Ambassador Gunewardene of Ceylon, a statement endorsing the Genocide Convention. [BW13:791–4]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	Separate national spiritual assemblies are formed for Germany and Austria. [BBRSM186] For the letter of the Custodians to the national convention of Austria see MC158–60.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	Separate national spiritual assemblies are formed for India and Burma. For the letter of the Custodians to the national convention of Burma see MC155–7.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Turkey is formed. For the letter of the Custodians to the national convention see MC148–51.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Regional Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific Islands is formed with its seat in Suva, Fiji. Its area of jurisdiction comprises ten island groups: Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, and Tonga. [BW13:308] For the letter of the Custodians to the national convention see MC151–5.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in Grenada is formed in St George's Parish.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in Cambodia is formed in Phnom Penh.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Custodians announce that the number of national and regional spiritual assemblies has risen to 31, the Faith is established in 255 countries, Bahá'ís live in over 5,200 localities and have formed nearly 1,275 local spiritual assemblies, and Bahá'í literature has been translated into 261 languages. [MC137–8]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Custodians announce that the resting place of the remains of the father of Bahá'u'lláh has been identified. [MC144]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 2 June A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The first Greek woman to become a Bahá'í, Ketty Antoniou, enrols in Greece.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 14 June A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Hands of the Cause announce that the remains of the cousin of the Báb have been identified and have been transferred to a cemetery. [MC161]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 18 August A.D. 1959 • A.M.	Cheong Siu Choi (John Z. T. Chang), the Chinese headmaster of the Leng Nam Middle School and a highly respected leader in Macau, arrives with his family on Hainan Island and is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] PH75 says this was August 1958.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 19 October A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Hands of the Cause announce that the remains of the father of Bahá'u'lláh, Mírzá Buzurg, have been reinterred in the Bahá'í burial ground in the vicinity of the Most Great House in Baghdád. [MC165]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 23 October / 1 November A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The third Conclave of the Hands of the Cause of God is convened at Bahjí. [BW13:351; MC161–2] For the agenda of the meeting see MC163–4. Charles Mason Remey unsuccessfully attempts to convince his fellow Hands that the Guardianship should continue. [BBRSM130; MC217]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • 4 November A.D. 1959 • A.M.	The Hands of the Cause issue a message from their third Conclave. [MC166–70] The date for the election of the Universal House of Justice is fixed at Ridván 1963. [MC166] They call for the election at Ridván 1961 of 21 national spiritual assemblies in Latin America. [MC167–8] They call for the election at Ridván 1962 of 11 national spiritual assemblies in Europe. [MC168] They call for the election at Ridván 1961 of the International Bahá'í Council by postal ballot of the members of the national and regional spiritual assemblies constituted at Ridván 1960. [MC168] The name of Hand of the Cause Charles Mason Remey is missing from the list of signatories to this letter. [MC170]
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • (In the decade) A.D. 1960 • A.M.	A number of Bahá'í primary schools are opened in Bolivia.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • early A.D. 1960s • A.M.	The first woman Somali to become a Bahá'í, Fatumeh Jama, enrols.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • early A.D. 1960s • A.M.	Two Bahá'í primary schools open in Uganda.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1960 • A.M.	The first Côte d'Ivorian to become a Bahá'í, Mr Un Bodo, a Bété from the region of Gagnoa working as a policeman in Abidjan, enrols.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1960 • A.M.	The first Maya-Quiche to become a Bahá'í in Guatemala, Filomena Cajas de Velasquez, a tourist guide, enrols. She is later the first Guatemalan woman to serve on the national spiritual assembly.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1960 • A.M.	Bahá'ís in Angola are detained and questioned by officials. Joaquim Sampaio is carried off in the middle of the night and is never seen again. It is presumed that he was executed or died in a prison camp. One family is forced to leave the country.
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• 116 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1960 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in the Cocos Islands is formed on West Island. For picture see BW13:1052.
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