The Báb's declaration and the birth of Bábism
A Shiraz merchant calls himself the “Gate” — Baháʼí roots
On 23 May 1844 the young merchant Sayyid ʻAlí Muhammad declared himself the Báb, the “Gate” to the hidden imam. His movement spread fast across Iran and was harshly suppressed; the Báb himself was executed by firing squad in Tabriz in 1850. His follower Baháʼu'lláh, in Baghdad in 1863, founded a new religion — the Baháʼí Faith.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — 5 years earlier
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 1 year later
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — 4 years later
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — 4 years later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 17 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 9 years later
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 17 years later
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 23 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 25 years later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 9 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 3 years later
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 25 years later
Asia
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 25 years earlier
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 13 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 5 years earlier
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 9 years later
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 24 years later
Americas
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 9 years earlier
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — 6 years earlier
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — 2 years later
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — 2 years later
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — 17 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 35)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 35)
- Karl Marx (aged 26)
- Queen Victoria (aged 25)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 23)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 16)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 10)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 4)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 84)
- Andrew Jackson (aged 77)