Chronology: Date 1915

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1915 11 Oct 191-	Arthur Pillsbury Dodge, Disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá, passed away in Freeport, New York. [SBR15] He had become a Bahá'í in 1895 just before moving to New York City. He visited Haifa in 1900 and Dr. Edward Granville Brown in Cambridge. He was a lawyer, publisher and self-made man. In 1898 he held the first Bahá'í classes in his home and the first public meetings on the Faith with talks given by Dr. Ibrahim Kheiralla. The first person to become a Bahá'í in NYC was Mr. James F. Brittingham, then of Weehawken, NJ who first heard the message from his sister, Mrs. Dixon of Chicago. Mrs. Mary H. Tousey organized the classes at Dodge's home. Later that year, Mr. Howard MacNutt received the message. [Highlights of the First 40 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in New York, City of the Covenant, 1892-1932 by Hussein Ahdieh p3] For biographies see Bahá'í Chronicles; BFA1:116-17, SBR1-16 and SW6, 13:100-1. For his obituary see SW6, 19:161-7. Dodge's books include The Truth of It (1901) [SW6, 13:101] and Whence? Why? Wither? (1907). [SW6, 13:101; Collins7.821]	Arthur Pillsbury Dodge; - Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; James F. Brittingham; Howard MacNutt; Freeport, NY; New York, USA; United States (USA)	first Bahá'í classes in New York City. First public meetings in New York City. First person to become a Bahá'í in New York City-James Brittingham;
1915 Oct 191-	Shoghi returned to Beirut to commence his junior year at the Syrian Protestant College. [PG16]	* Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Syrian Protestant College, Lebanon; Haifa, Israel; Beirut, Lebanon
1915 Sep 191-	The publication of The Persian Rival to Jesus, And His American Disciples by Robert P. Richardson. This 24-page "history" concludes by saying, "And Bahaism is simply a sectarian religion; it is a reversion to modes of thought that the ideals of civilization have long ago outgrown." See also WOB83 for other missionaries who wrote polemics against the Bahá'í Faith.	Criticism and apologetics; Opposition; Robert P. Richardson
1915 Sep 191-	Lua Getsinger arrived in Port Said tired and exhausted. Leaving Port Said, Lua sailed to Cairo expecting to depart shortly for America, but was taken ill and was forced once more to take to her bed. She was cared for most tenderly in the home of her Bahá'í host, Mirza Taki Esphaim and his family, but her weakness lingered on through the winter. Lua went about with heroic will giving the Bahá'í teachings, her work being chiefly among the young men, as they are the only ones among the Egyptians who knew English. In the early spring, she moved to Shoubra, a suburb of Cairo to the home of a believer who greatly desired that she should remain with his wife and family for the sake of her uplifting influence. It was here that she spent her last days. [SoW vol. VI, No. 12, p. 89-90; SoW vol. VII, No. 19; BW8p642-643]	Mírzá Taki Esphaim; Lua Getsinger; Port Said, Egypt; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt
1915 Aug 191-	Martha Root made a brief stopover in Dalian, Manchuria en route from Yokohama to the Hawaiian Islands. It was to be the first of four visits to China. [MR70; SYH59; PH30; Film Early History of the Baha'í Faith in China 10 min 45 sec ]]	Martha Root; Manchuria, China
1915 Aug 191-	Shoghi Effendi returned from the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut to Haifa. Because of the naval blockade many of Persian students were unable to return home so they were invited to spend their summer vacation in Haifa where they were accommodated in the anteroom to the Shrine of the Báb. [PG15]	Syrian Protestant College, Lebanon; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Beirut, Lebanon; Lebanon; Haifa, Israel
1915 Jul 1915 191-	The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was a series of ten letters exchanged from July 1915 to March 1916 between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner to Egypt. In these letters, the UK government agreed to recognize Arab independence in certain regions after World War I if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Empire. The intended area for Arab independence was defined by boundaries proposed by the Sharif of Mecca, excluding some regions of western Syria. However, this correspondence became controversial after the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the Sykes–Picot Agreement in 1916, which contradicted the promises made to the Arabs. As a result, Sharif Hussein later refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and any agreements assigning Palestine to Jewish homeland or Syria to foreign control. The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence significantly influenced Middle Eastern history and continues to be a topic of discussion and dispute. [Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu´l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East by Kamran Ekbal p21]	Colonialism and imperialism; History (general); Israel; Palestine
1915 Latter half 191-	`Abdu'l-Bahá's Memorials of the Faithful began to take shape. [AB417; MFXII] `Abdu'l-Bahá would tell stories of Bahá'í heroes and heroines to the weekly gatherings of Bahá'ís in Haifa and these were compiled and published as a book in 1924. [AB417; MFXII]	* `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Memorials of the Faithful (book); - Basic timeline, Expanded; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; Haifa, Israel
1915 16 Jun 191-	Miss Margaret Green of Washington DC arrived in Alaska, the first known resident Bahá'í. She settled in Juneau from 1915 to 1918 and worked as a public librarian. [NSA site]	Margaret Green; Washington, DC, USA; Alaska, USA; United States (USA)	Margaret Green is the first know resident Bahá'í in Alaska.
1915 May 191-	A third international peace conference was planned by the Central Organization for a Durable Peace in The Hague and to this end, they put out a request for interested specialists to participate. Two Bahá'ís in Tehran, Ahmad Yazdáni and 'Alí Muhammad 'Ibn-i-Asdaq, drew 'Abdu'l-Bahá's attention to the organization's invitation.	- International peace conferences; Central Organization for a Durable Peace; Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); Ibn-i-Asdaq (Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad); Peace; The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands
1915 May 191-	The Bahá'ís of Haifa and `Akká returned to their homes from the village of Abú-Sinán. [DH147]	Druze; * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Charity and relief work; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel; Abu-Sinan, Israel; Palestine; Israel
1915 19-25 Apr 191-	The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco and the 24th of April was declared International Bahá'í Congress Day. [BW8:797-808] See PG97-99 for a Tablet by 'Abdu'l-Bahá to James Barr, the director of the Congresses at the Pacific International Exposition, regarding his assistance to the First International Bahá'í Congress.	- Conferences, International; Conferences, Other; San Francisco, CA; United States (USA)	first International Baha'i Congress
1915 Apr 191-	The Central Organization for a Durable Peace was formed at The Hague (the Netherlands) in April 1915 by representatives from nine European nations and the United States. The deliberations of this meeting were summarized in a manifesto, and a nine point minimum-program calling for coercive sanctions, which were studied by nine international research committees and several national committees. Departing from strict pacifism, the organization expressed a willingness to accept military sanctions against countries that started hostilities without first making a good faith effort to resolve a dispute by submitting to international arbitration or making some other appeal to the existing peace machinery.	Central Organization for a Durable Peace; - International peace conferences; League of Nations; Peace; The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands
1915 14 Mar 191-	Shaykh 'Alí Akbar-i-Qúchání was shot to death in Mashhad. Considerable anti-Bahá'í agitation follows and many Bahá'ís are forced to seek sanctuary. Three hundred people are arrested. [BBRXXX; BW18:387; GPB298–9]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Mashhad, Iran; Iran
1915 30 Jan 191-	Martha Root sailed from New York on her first around the world trip. [MR58]	Martha Root; New York, USA
1915 Jan 191-	Lua Getsinger arrived in Haifa and remained there as a guest of the Holy Family for seven months. This was her last visit. When news came of the possibility of America declaring war, and a United States gunboat came to the very port of Haifa, 'Abdu'l-Bahá told her that now was the time to leave and take news to the friends in Egypt, Europe and America who had been cut off from correspondence with the Holy Land during the war. "It is a long time that they are without any word," He said, "and I desire to send you to them, after which you are to go and teach." [Star of the West, vol. VI, No. 12, p. 90]	Lua Getsinger; Haifa, Israel; Egypt
1915 (In the year) 191-	Mírzá Husayn-i-Hudá was martyred in Urúmíyyih. [BW18:387]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Urúmíyyih, Iran; Iran
1915 (In the year) 191-	A plan to fund part-time travelling Bahá'í teachers in the USA and Canada was approved. There had been a great deal of reluctance to take this measure for fear of creating a "clergy" class but the vastness of the country and the fewness of believers of independent means as well as the impetus to teaching sparked by 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit helped to take the decision. [BBRSM:105, 219]	Subsidies; Funds; Travel Teaching; United States (USA); Canada
1915 In 1915 and 1916 191-	The publication of Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson. It has been described as a "hostile and uninformed Christian missionary's overview of the Bahá'í Faith". See a reference to Wilson SBBH5p234-235. Other publications by Wilson include Bahaism: An Anti-Christian System also published in 1915 and Mahdist Movements. It was published in 1916 and is "{an} unsympathetic Christian missionary's early history of the Faith". See also WOB83 for other missionaries who wrote polemics against the Bahá'í Faith.	Bahá'ísm and Its Claims; Samuel Graham Wilson; Opposition
1915 (in the year) 191-	Jamál Páshá, Commander of the 4th Army Corps of the Turkish army, was put in military control of Syria, including the Holy Land. [AB412] For an account of his relationship with 'Abdu'l-Bahá see AB412–14. He threatened to crucify 'Abdu'l-Bahá and to destroy the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh. [AB414; GPB303-305, 317, SYH99]	Jamal Pasha; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; - Basic timeline, Expanded; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel; Bahji, Israel


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