though I cannot describe it. Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; power and authority sat on that ample brow… No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before one who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain..." 1892 / 49 BE May 29, Baháʼu'lláh dies, his mortal remains are placed in a Shrine dedicated to him next to the Mansion of Bahjí where he spent his final years. In his will he appointed ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith. 1893 / 50 BE September 23, the Baháʼí Faith is mentioned publicly for the first time in America in an address by Dr. Henry H. Jessup at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. 1894 / 51 BE Thornton Chase is the first of five Baháʼís in the United States this year 1897 / 54 BE March 1, Shoghi Effendi, the great-grandson of Baháʼu'lláh, is born. 1898 / 55 BE The first Western pilgrims arrive in ʻAkká, including Phoebe Hearst and the first African-American believer, Robert Turner. 1900 / 58 BE Sarah Farmer, founder of Green Acre Baháʼí School, meets ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and converts. 1901 / 59 BE The cornerstone of first Baháʼí House of Worship, in ʻIshqábád (Ashgabat), Turkmenistan, is laid. Thomas Breakwell becomes the first Englishman Baháʼí. The first talks on the religion are held at Green Acre. 1903 / 60 BE More than 100 Baháʼís are killed in the first significant persecution of Baháʼís of the century in Yazd, Iran. 1908 / 65 BE September, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá is released from a lifetime of exile and imprisonment at 64 years of age. 1909 / 66 BE March 21, the mortal remains of the Báb are laid to rest in the Shrine of the Báb after 59 years in hiding. 1910 / 67 BE August ʻAbdu'l-Bahá arrives in Egypt. See ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West Mary Maxwell, later to be known as Rúhíyyih Khanum, is born in New York City 1911 / 68 BE August–December, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá travels across Europe visiting cities such as London, Bristol, and Paris. See ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West September 10, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá gives his first address to a Western audience in City Temple, London. English translation spoken by Wellesley Tudor Pole. 1912 / 69 BE April 11, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá arrives in New York City for