{"slug": "bahai-faith", "label": "Baháʼí Faith", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22679", "qid": "Q22679", "description": "monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1844, 1983], "span_label": ["1844 CE", "1983 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "haifa", "label": "Haifa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zoroastrianism", "label": "Zoroastrianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-the-baptist", "label": "John the Baptist", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persian-people", "label": "Persian people", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Persian prophet The Báb privately announces his revelation to Mullá Husayn, just after sunset, founding the Bábí faith (later evolving into the Baháʼí Faith as the Báb intended) in Shiraz, Persia (modern-day Iran). Contemporaneously, on this day in nearby Tehran, is the birth of `Abdu'l-Bahá; the eldest Son of Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet-Founder of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb's mission is to proclaim He whom God shall make manifest. `Abdu'l-Bahá Himself is later proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh to be His own successor, thus being the third \"central figure\" of the Baháʼí Faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372570203#April–June", "title": "1844", "revid": 1372570203, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The Báb is publicly proclaimed to be the promised one of Islam (the Qá'im, or Mahdi). He is also considered to be simultaneously the return of Elijah, John the Baptist and the \"Ushídar-Máh\" referred to in the Zoroastrian scriptures. He announces to the world the coming of \"He whom God shall make manifest\". He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh – the founder of the Baháʼí Faith – whose claims include being the return of Jesus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372570203#October–December", "title": "1844", "revid": 1372570203, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – Ayyam-i butun: Bahá'u'lláh begins a 12-day stay in the Najibiyyih gardens, Baghdad (later known as the Garden of Ridván) during which he declares his station as He whom God shall make manifest. This date is celebrated in the Baháʼí Faith as the festival of Ridván.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#April", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 23", "text": "September 23 – The Baháʼí Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States, at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#September", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Baháʼí Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, at this time within the Ottoman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#March–April", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, head of the Baháʼí Faith (b. 1844)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#November–December", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Deaths › November–December"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21–23 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Baháʼí Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Baháʼí World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#April", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1983, "year_label": "1983 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because they are members of the Baháʼí Faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366392977#June", "title": "1983", "revid": 1366392977, "section": "Events › June"}}]}