| date |
event |
locations |
tags |
see also |
| 1916 summer |
Mr Vasily Eroshenko, a young blind Russian, visited Thailand, the first Bahá'í to do so. |
Thailand |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1924 (In the year) |
Miss Nora Lee, who became a Bahá'í in New Zealand, was the first Bahá'í to travel to Fiji, working as a nanny in Labasa from 1924 to about 1930.
Gretta Lamprill became the first Bahá'í in Tasmania in the latter part of the year. [SBR162]
In 1924 Clara and Hyde Dunn spent three months in Hobart together with two Melbourne Baha’is. Their visit attracted a small number of individuals to the Bahá'í Faith, the first of whom was a nurse, Gretta Lamprill. She was gradually joined by others in Hobart, Launceston and Devonport. The first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hobart was established in 1949, providing the basis for the effective functioning of the Baha’i community since that time. [Australian Baha'i Community site] |
Fiji; Tasmania; Hobart; Launceston; Devonport, Australia |
First Bahais by country or area; First travel teachers and pioneers; Clara Dunn; Hyde Dunn |
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| 1936 (Latter half of the year) |
Mrs Randolph Bolles and her daughter Jeanne, two American Bahá'ís, (aunt and cousin of Mary Maxwell respectively), were sent to Budapest by Shoghi Effendi to open Hungary to the Faith. At the time of their departure there were seven Bahá'ís in Budapest, mostly of Jewish background. [Rebirth: Memoirs of Renée Szanto-Felbermann p103-5] |
Budapest; Hungary |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1939 8 May |
Philip and Laili June Marangella arrived in Cuba, the first Bahá’í pioneers to the country. |
Cuba |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1939 18 Sep |
John and Rosa Shaw arrived in Kingston, Jamaica, from San Francisco, the first Bahá’ís to visit the country. |
Kingston; Jamaica |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1940 (in the decade) |
The first Bahá’ís to reside in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) were Mr Rajah Ali Vahdat and Mme Marthe Molitor. |
Belgian Congo |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1940 (In the year) |
Marcia Atwater, from the United States, arrived in Santiago, Chile, as the first long-term pioneer. |
Santiago; Chile |
Marcia Atwater; First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1940 27 Dec |
Elizabeth Cheney, the ‘spiritual mother of Paraguay’, arrived in Paraguay, the first pioneer to the country. |
Paraguay |
Elizabeth Cheney; Names and titles; First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1948 (In the year) |
Pauline Campbell arrived in Bermuda, where her husband was stationed at the United States Air Force Base. She was the only Bahá’í in Bermuda until 1951. |
Bermuda |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1951 (In the year) |
Portuguese Bahá’ís Mr António and Mrs Ema Rocha, Mrs Guedes DeMelo Rocha and Mrs D. Laura Rodriquez, the first pioneers to Angola, took up residence in Luanda. |
Luanda; Angola |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1952 Feb |
Eric Manton and his son Terry arrived in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), the first Bahá’ís to settle in the country. They settled in the Copperbelt region from where he was able to raise a number of native believers who took the Faith to other parts of Zambia. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2]
The first local convert was Christopher Mwitumwa in 1954. [Wikipedia] |
Northern Rhodesia; Zambia |
First travel teachers and pioneers; Eric Manton; Terry Manton |
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| 1953 25 Mar |
Enayat Sohaili, an Iranian, arrived in Mozambique from India, the first Bahá’í pioneer to the country. [BW13:290]
He was imprisoned and deported in June 1953. [BW13:290]
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Mozambique |
Enayat Sohaili; Pioneers; Persecution, Mozambique; Persecution, Arrests; Persecution; First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1955 2 Jun |
The first pioneer to settle in Laos, Dr Heshmat Ta’eed, arrived in the country from Thailand. |
Laos |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1956 (In the year) |
Kedarnath Pradhan, from neighbouring Sikkim, arrived in Nepal, the first pioneer to the country. [Bahá'í Faith In Nepal by Prof. Anil Sarwal] |
Nepal; Sikkim; India |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1965 (In the year) |
The first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands settled there briefly. |
San Andres and Providencia Islands |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1965 1 Aug |
Mrs Ridván Sadeghzadeh and Mrs Parvine Djoneidi and their children arrived in Niamey, Niger, from Tihrán, the first Bahá’ís to settle in the country. |
Niamey; Niger |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1967 (In the year) |
Mr O. T. Shelton arrived on St Eustatius in the West Leeward Islands, the first pioneer to the island. |
West Leeward Islands |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1967 – 1968 |
Rhoda Vaughn arrived on Bonaire and remained for nine months, the first Bahá’í to visit the island. |
Bonaire |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1972 (In the year) |
Derek and Sally Dacey, the first resident pioneers on Montserrat in the East Leeward Islands, arrived at their pioneer post. |
East Leeward Islands |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1974 Aug |
The first Bahá’í to settle on Christmas Island, Stanley Foo, arrived from Malaysia. |
Christmas Island |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1977 May |
Paul and Jane Jensen arrived on Andros Island in the Bahamas, the first Bahá’ís to reside on the island. |
Andros Island |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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