/ 14 BE The Hidden Words and the Four Valleys are written by Baháʼu'lláh 1860 / 17 BE Seven Valleys are written by Baháʼu'lláh 1861 / 18 BE The Book of Certitude is written in late 1861 or early 1862 in two days and nights 1862 / 19 BE May 10, the Persian ambassador requests that the Ottomans move the Bábís farther from Persia. 1863 / 20 BE April 21, Baháʼu'lláh declares himself to be He whom God shall make manifest in the Garden of Ridván in Baghdad on the eve of his exile to Constantinople (Istanbul). (13 Jalal 20 BE) December 12, Baháʼu'lláh is exiled into formal confinement in Adrianople (Edirne) after four months in Constantinople. (1 Masa'il 20 BE) 1865 / 22 BE The Tablet of Ahmad is written by Baháʼu'lláh Arthur de Gobineau publishes book describing the Babí religion in French. 1867 / 24 BE 53 Baháʼís in Baghdad on March 16, 1867 petitioned the United States Congress for assistance for Baháʼu'lláh's release and for assistance for the Baháʼís in general. Baháʼu'lláh begins writing and sending his Tablets to the Kings. 1868 / 25 BE August 5, Baháʼu'lláh and a large group of followers are sent from Edirne to the penal colony of Akká, Palestine (now Acre, Israel). August 31, Baháʼu'lláh arrives in ʻAkká. 1869 / 26 BE Baháʼu'lláh sends a letter to the Shah of Persia, Nasser al-Din Shah, and the messenger, Badíʻ, is put to death. 1870 / 27 BE June 23, Mirzá Mihdí dies after falling through a skylight. 1873 / 30 BE Baháʼu'lláh writes the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. 1886 / 43 BE Navváb dies. Abdu'l-Bahá writes the original Arabic text of Traveller's Narrative later translated and published in 1891. 1889 / 46 BE February 25, E.G. Browne mentions the Baháʼí Faith as part of a series academic talks and papers through 1889 in England. 1890 / 47 BE E. G. Browne, a famed Cambridge orientalist interviewed Baháʼu'lláh and was His guest at Bahjí from 15 April to 20 April 1890. Browne was the only Westerner to meet Baháʼu'lláh and leave an account of his experience. In Browne's 1893 publication entitled A Year Among the Persians, he wrote a sympathetic portrayal of Persian society. After his death in 1926 it was reprinted and became a classic in English travel literature. Browne described Baha'u'llah as, "The face of Him on Whom I gazed, I can never forget,