1907
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1907 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar and a common year of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE), the 7th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. 1907 corresponds to the years 63–64 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.
Events[edit]
- Badi'u'llah's Epistle to the Baha'i World is published [1]
- Six rooms of the Shrine of the Báb are completed.
- Pritam Singh, an Assistant Master of Economics at Chiefs College in Lahore, becomes the first Sikh to become a Bahá'í.
- A census of religions in the United States counts 1280 Bahá'ís.
- Two American Bahá'ís, Hooper Harris and Harlan Ober, and two Persian Bahá'ís, Mirza Mahmud-i-Zarqani and Ibn-i-Abhar, undertake a teaching tour of India.
- February: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá begins to move his family to Haifa. They live in a house in the German Templer Colony that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá designed.
- February: Corinne True brings a petition calling for construction to start on the American House of Worship to 'Akká.
- March 31: The Bahá'í calendar is used in North America for the first time.
- July 19: The Chicago Bahá'í community is legally incorporated.
- November 26: The first National Bahá'í Conference of America is held in Chicago, with nine Bahá'ís from across America visiting to co-operate on choosing a Temple site.
Establishments[edit]
Local Spiritual Assemblies[edit]
Americas[edit]
- Oakland, California, USA.
- Seattle, Washington, USA.[1]
- Washington D.C., USA.[2]
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA (as Bahá’í Assembly of New Jersey).
Asia[edit]
- Shiraz, Iran.[3]
Publications[edit]
- Table Talks at Acca by Arthur S. Agnew.[4]
- The School of the Prophets by Mirza Assad'u'llah, translated by Aminullah Fareed.[5]
- Epistle to the Bahai World by Mirza Badi'u'llah.[6]
- Ten Days in the Light of Akka by Julia Grundy.[7]
- Whence? Why? Whither? Man, Things, Other Things, by Arthur P. Dodge, a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.[8]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Langness, D., The Story of the last One Hundred Years of the Baha’i Faith in Seattle., p 12
- ↑ Establishment of Washington Assembly Committee reported in Chicago House of Spirituality notes
- ↑ Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921, Volume 2, George Ronald: Oxford, 2022, p 283
- ↑ https://bahai-library.com/agnew_table_talks_acca
- ↑ Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., p 44
- ↑ Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., p 45
- ↑ https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/whencewhywhither00dodg
