Map showing route of Bahá’u’lláh’ s forced exile from His home
Birth of Bahá’u’láh: 12 November 1817
Birth of the Báb: about 20 October 1819
Marriage of Bahá’u’láh’s and Asiyih Khanum: October 1835
Declaration of the mission of the Báb in Shiraz: 23 May 1844
Birth of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: 23 May 1844
Conference of Badasht: June 1848
Death of Muhammad Shah; Accession of Nasri’d-Din Shah: 4 September 1848
Beginning of the Mazandaran upheaval at Shaykh Tabarsi: 10 October 1848
Imprisonment in Amul: December 1848
End of the upheaval at Shaykh Tabarsi: 10 May 1849
Martyrdom of the Bab: 9 July 1850
Attempt on the life of Nasiri’d-Din Shah: 15 August 1852
Imprisonment in the Siyah-Chal of Tihran: August 1852
Banishment of Bahá’u’lláh to Baghdad: 12 January 1853
Withdrawal of Bahá’u’lláh to Kurdistan: 10 April 1854
Return of Bahá’u’lláh from Kurdistan: 19 March 1856
Public declaration of the mission of Bahá’u’lláh in the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad: 22 April 1863
Departure from Garden of Ridvan for Constantinople: 3 May 1863
Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in Constantinople: 16 August 1863
Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in Adrianople: 12 December 1863
Departure of Bahá’u’lláh from Adrianople: 12 August 1868
Arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in ‘Akka: 31 August 1868
Death of Mirza Mihdi, the Purest Branch: 23 June 1870
Release from prison barracks to house within ‘Akka: 4 November 1870
Murder of Siyyid Muhammad and two of his companion Covenant-breakers in ‘Akka: 23 January 1872
Marriage of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Munirih Khanum: August-September 1872
Revelation of the Kitab-i-Aqdas: 1873
Bahá’u’lláh’s departure from ‘Akka for the Mansion of Mazra’ih and His first visits to the Ridvan Garden: early June 1877
Bahá’u’lláh ‘s occupation of the Mansion of Bahji: September 1879
Visit by Bahá’u’lláh to Haifa: 1883
Death of Navvab in ‘Akka: 1886
Two visits by Bahá’u’lláh to Haifa; revelation of the Tablet of Carmel; and Bahá’u’lláh’s identification of the site of the future Shrine of the Báb: Spring 1890 and Summer 1891
Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation of Epistle to the Son of the Wolf: 1891
Revelation of the Kitab-i-‘Ahd, Bahá’u’lláh’s Book of the Covenant, the last Tablet revealed before His death: 1892
"Tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch." Bahá’u’lláh