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• 1817
  Birth Bahá’u’lláh.

• 1819
  Birth of the Báb

• 1844
  Declaration of the Báb

• 1850
  Execution of The Báb

• 1863
  Bahá’u’lláh declares His mission

• 1863-1892
  Bahá’u’lláh spends the rest of His life in prison or exile.

• 1892
  Death of the Bahá’u’lláh

• 1892
  Abdu’l-Bahá (servant of Bahá), Bahá’u’lláh’s son, is appointed by his father to be the leader of the Bahá’í Faith.

• 1898
  The first person in Britain becomes a Bahá’í, an American called Mary Thornburgh-Cropper

• 1911
  Abdu’l-Bahá visits the UK.

• 1921
  Death of Abdu’l-Bahá

• 1921
  Shoghi Effendi, Abdu'l-Bahá’s grandson, is appointed his successor, the Guardian of the Faith.

• 1957
  Death of Shoghi Effendi

• 1963
  The Universal House of Justice was elected with nine members as the supreme governing council of the Bahá'í Faith.