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Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, later Bahá'u'lláh, the Glory of God, is born in Tehran on 12 November 1817 to a court family of Núr. A leading disciple of the Báb from 1844, he becomes the figure the Báb's writings foretold, and the Bahá'í Faith counts its revelation from his declaration in 1863.
Siyyid 'Alí-Muhammad, later the Báb, the Gate, is born in Shiraz on 20 October 1819 to a merchant family. Raised in the Shaykhi expectation of the promised Qá'im, in 1844 he declares himself the bearer of a new revelation, and the Bábí movement begins.
On 23 May 1844 in Shiraz, the Báb declares his mission to Mullá Husayn, the first of his eighteen Letters of the Living. The Bábí Faith spreads across Persia on the claim that the promised one has come and that a greater revelation stands behind his own.
On 9 July 1850 the Báb is executed by firing squad in the barrack square of Tabriz, after years of imprisonment at Mákú and Chihríq. The Bábí community is scattered by persecution, and its remnant gathers around Bahá'u'lláh.
After an attempt on the Shah's life by two Bábís in 1852, Bahá'u'lláh is held for four months in the Síyáh-Chál, the Black Pit of Tehran. Bahá'ís understand this imprisonment as the moment of his intimation of revelation, the vision of the Maid of Heaven recorded in his own writings.
