December

• 1978: Two hundred houses in Shiraz are burned and families driven from their homes
• 1951: First contingent of the Hands of the Cause appointed
• 1948: Human Rights Day declared
• 1939: Lady Blomfield passes away
• 1938: Shoghi Effendi writes a general letter to the Baha’is of North America which appears in 1939 under the title of ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’
• 1934: Tarbiyat and other Baha'i schools are closed down by the order of the Persian government
• 1925: The keys to the House of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad, the Most Holy House, are given to the Shí'ahs
• 1924: The first National Spiritual Assembly is formed in Africa
• 1924: First issue of Baha’i News appears
• 1923: First Local Spiritual Assembly is formed in Australia
• 1921: Shoghi Effendi arrives in Haifa from England a month after the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
• 1920: American believer, Lillian Kappes, a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, passes away in Tihran
• 1912: E. G. Browne visits ‘Abdu’l-Baha in London
• 1912: ‘Abdu’l-Baha left America for a six-month visit to Europe
• 1912: ‘Abdu’l-Baha announces His departure from the United States
• 1904: The first American Baha’i traveling teacher arrives in Asia
• 1899: Mason Remey accepts the Faith in Paris
• 1898: Birth of Hand of the Cause Dorothy Beecher Baker
• 1898: First North American Baha’is to visit ‘Abdu’l-Baha in the Holy Land
• 1896: Chicago has 30 Baha’is
• 1892: The second Baha’i arrives in the United States
• 1888: Nabil submits the finished portions of the Dawn-Breakers to Baha’u’llah
• 1871-January 1872: Munirih Khanum (future wife of ‘Abdu’l-Baha) leaves Isfahan, Persia, for the Holy Land
• 1866: Birth of Marion Jack -- “a shining example to pioneers of present and future generations of East and West”
• 1863: Baha’u’llah and His family were banished from Constantinople for Adrianople (Edirne in European Turkey)
• 1852: Baha’u’llah is released from the Siyah-Chal
• 1848: Baha’u’llah sets out to visit the Bábis at Shaykh Tabarsi
• 1844: The Báb arrives in Mecca as a pilgrim, accompanied by Quddus and His Ethiopian servant
• 1843: Siyyid Kazim-i-Rashti passes away