Significant Events

  • Birth of Bahá'u'láh: 12 November 1817
  • Birth of the Báb: about 20 October 1819
  • Marriage of Bahá'u'láh and Asiyih Khanum: October 1835
  • Declaration of the mission of the Báb in Shiraz: 23 May 1844
  • Birth of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: 23 May 1844
  • Conference of Badasht: June 1848
  • Death of Muhammad Shah; Accession of Nasri'd-Din Shah: 4 September 1848
  • Beginning of the Mazandaran upheaval at Shaykh Tabarsi: 10 October 1848
  • Imprisonment in Amul: December 1848
  • End of the upheaval at Shaykh Tabarsi: 10 May 1849
  • Martyrdom of the Bab: 9 July 1850
  • Attempt on the life of Nasiri'd-Din Shah: 15 August 1852
  • Imprisonment in the Siyah-Chal of Tihran: August 1852
  • Banishment of Bahá’u’lláh to Baghdad: 12 January 1853
  • Withdrawal of Bahá’u’lláh to Kurdistan: 10 April 1854
  • Return of Bahá’u’lláh from Kurdistan: 19 March 1856
  • Public declaration of the mission of Bahá’u’lláh in the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad: 22 April 1863
  • Departure from Garden of Ridvan for Constantinople: 3 May 1863
  • Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in Constantinople: 16 August 1863
  • Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in Adrianople: 12 December 1863
  • Departure of Bahá’u’lláh from Adrianople: 12 August 1868
  • Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in 'Akka: 31 August 1868
  • Death of Mirza Mihdi, the Purest Branch: 23 June 1870
  • Release from prison barracks to house within 'Akka: 4 November 1870
  • Murder of Siyyid Muhammad and two of his companion Covenant-breakers in 'Akka: 23 January 1872
  • Marriage of 'Abdu'l-Baha and Munirih Khanum: August-September 1872
  • Revelation of the Kitab-i-Aqdas: 1873
  • Bahá’u’lláh’s departure from 'Akka for the Mansion of Mazra’ih and His first visits to the Ridvan Garden: early June 1877
  • Bahá’u’lláh 's occupation of the Mansion of Bahji: September 1879
  • Visit by Bahá’u’lláh to Haifa: 1883
  • Death of Navvab in 'Akka: 1886
  • Two visits by Bahá’u’lláh to Haifa; revelation of the Tablet of Carmel; and Bahá’u’lláh’s identification of the site of the future Shrine of the Báb: Spring 1890 and Summer 1891
  • Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation of Epistle to the Son of the Wolf: 1891
  • Revelation of the Kitab-i-'Ahd, Bahá’u’lláh’s Book of the Covenant, the last Tablet revealed before His death: 1892
  • Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh: 29 May 1892
  • Unsealing and reading of Baha'u'llah's Kitab-i-'Ahd, the Book of the Covenant, at Bahji: 7 June 1892 
(Adapted from ‘Call to Remembrance’, by Geoffry Marks)