Chronology: Date 1851

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date	event	tags	firsts
1851 (In the year) 185-	Mullá Zaynu'l-'Abidín (Zaynu'l-Muqarrabin), a prominent mujtahid, became a Bábí, in Najafábád.	Zaynul-Muqarrabin (Mulla Zaynul-Abidin); Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran
1851 2 Jan c. 185-	End of the Zanján upheaval. [BW18:382] Hujjat, wounded in the right arm by a bullet 19 days previously, succumbed to his wounds. With the death of Hujjat the Bábí resistance weakens. A general assault by the royal forces ended the siege. [B187; BBR122; BW18:382; DB573–4] See Bab187 and DB574–7 for the fate of the survivors. See Bab187 and DB577–9 for the fate of Hujjat's body. About 1,800 Bábís were killed during the upheaval. [DB580, 598]	Hujjat; Zanjan upheaval; - Upheavals; Zanjan, Iran; Iran
1851 2 Mar 185-	Four Bábís brought from Zanján were executed in Tihrán. [BW18:382]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Tehran, Iran; Zanjan, Iran; Iran
1851 30 Apr 185-	Mullá Hasan-i-Fadíl was executed in Yazd when he refused to recant. [BW18:382]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
1852 (In the year) 185-	It was sometime when 'Abdu'l-Bahá was seven years old that he contracted tuberculosis and all indications were that there was no hope of recovery. He recounted while in Paris that He was rarely sick and that if He fell sick there was a purpose.	* `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Tuberculosis; Tehran, Iran
1851 1 May 185-	Áqá Husayn was blown from a canon in Yazd. [BW18:382]	Canons; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
1851 Jun c. 185-	Mírzá Taqí Khán met with Bahá'u'lláh and told Him that it would be advisable for Bahá'u'lláh to leave Tihrán temporarily. A few days later, He left for the 'Atabát (the Sacred Thresholds) on pilgrimage. [BKG66; DB587, 591]	Mírzá Taqi Khan; * Bahaullah (chronology); Tehran, Iran; Iran; Karbala, Iraq; Iraq
1851 23 Jul 185-	Áqá Muhammad-Sádiq-i-Yúzdárání was beaten to death in Yazd after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran
1851 Aug 185-	Bahá'u'lláh spent most of August in Kirmánsháh. [BKG67; DB90, 591]	* Bahaullah (chronology); Kirmánsháh, Iran; Iran
1851 4 Aug 185-	Áqá 'Alí-Akbar-i-Hakkák was blown from a canon after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]	Canons; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution
1851 28 Aug 185-	Bahá'u'lláh arrived in Karbalá via Baghdád on His pilgrimage. He stayed for 10 months. [BKG67; DB593; GPB70] See BKG68 and DB593–4 for those who became Bábís in Karbalá in this period.	* Bahaullah (chronology); Pilgrimage; * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Karbala, Iraq; Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq
1851 5 Oct 185-	Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí, the Báb's amanuensis, had been sent from the Báb's side in Chihríq to live in Karbilá at a time just before the incident at Shaykh Tabarsí when all available believers were being dispatched to assist Quddús. Here, the Báb told him, he would meet the promised Husayn. Although he had never met Bahá'u'lláh before, on this day he recognized Him as He walked by the inner courtyard of the Shrine of the Imám Husayn. [DB31; BKG67–68] There is a Shíh tradition that, in the Latter Days, 'Alí would re-appear twice, once before Muhammad and once after Husayn. The Báb's name was 'Alí-Muhammad and Bahá'u'lláh's name was Husayn-Alí, hence the prophecy was fulfilled. Shaykh Hasan wants to proclaim the advent of the Promised One however Bahá'u'lláh advises him that it is not yet time.[OPOP163, DB31-33] See a letter from the Universal Housed of Justice dated 20 June 1991 para 7 where "the first person to recognize Bahá'u'lláh as a Manifestation of God" is discussed.	Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunuzi; * Báb, The (chronology); Amanuensis; * Bahaullah (chronology); Imam Husayn; Prophecies; Karbala, Iraq; Iraq	first to believe in Bahá'u'lláh.
1851 Nov c. 185-	Siyyid Basír-Hindí, a blind Indian, was put to death by Ildirím Mírzá. [BW18:382] For details of his life see DB588–90.	Siyyid Basir-Hindi; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Iran
1851 13 Nov 185-	Mírzá Taqí Khán, the Amír-Nizám, was dismissed from his post and told he was only in charge of the army. [BBR163; BKG71] He was succeeded by Mírzá Áqá Khán-i-Núrí. [BBRXXIX, 482; DB598]	Mírzá Taqi Khan; Mírzá Aqa Khan; - Prime Ministers of Iran; - Prime Ministers
1851 Dec 185-	When the news of the martyrdom of the Báb reached Shiraz, Fatimah Bagum, the mother of the Báb, having previously consulted with her Son about the journey to the `Atabat, (literally means the sublime thresholds.Thea are the shrines of six Shia Imams which are in four cities of Iraq, namely Najaf, Karbala, Kadhimiya and Samarra) decided to leave Shiraz. She wanted to put behind her the constant barrage of insults aimed at her family by the city's divines. Before she left, it was decided that Khadíjih Bagum would live with her half-sister in the house of the martyred-uncle of the Báb, Háji Mírzá Siyyid 'Alí, and the Blessed House be entrusted to Mírzá Muhammad-Husayn-i-Bazzaz, son of Mírzá Asadu'llah. He was not a believer in the Báb but a native of Shiraz and a close acquaintance of the family. This decision ushered in a period where the House was in the hands of non-believers. [MBBA167-168]	Fatimih Bagum; Báb, Family of; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Khadijih Bagum (wife of the Báb); Karbala, Iraq; Iraq


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