The Bahai Faith was proclaimed in 1863 when Baha'u'llah declared in a garden in Baghdad, which his followers call the Garden of Ridvan, that he was the messenger of God promised by earlier religions. He was a Persian nobleman who had become a follower of the Bab, a young prophet whose movement was suppressed in Persia and who was executed in Tabriz in 1850. Baha'u'llah was imprisoned and exiled, first to Baghdad, then to Constantinople and Adrianople, and finally to the prison city of Acre in the Ottoman Empire, where he died in 1892. His son Abdu'l-Baha led the community after him. The faith teaches the unity of God, of religion and of humankind, and its world centre is in Haifa in Israel. Its followers have suffered persecution, especially in Iran.
Before and after
- 17 September 1862Battle of Antietam
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- from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863Battle of Stones River
- 1863Discovery of indium
- 1863Origins of Baháʼí Faith
- from 1863 to 1865Colorado War
- 1 January 1863Emancipation Proclamation
- 1 January 1863Birth of Pierre de Coubertin
- 12 January 1863Birth of Swami Vivekananda
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