By Dr. Pallan Ichaporia, PIchaporia@aol.com
Thu, 16 Jan 1997
MAJOR HISTORICAL RELIGIOUS DATES - (SPECIFIC TO THE RELIGION OF ZARATHUSHTRA AND MEANINGFUL FOR OUR ZOROASTRIAN CHILDREN) ARE CAPITALIZED.
| 1400 ? (1200) | BIRTH OF PROPHET ZARATHUSHTRA, at age 35-40 Zarathushtra received revelation - composition of the Gathas, Yasna Haptanghaiti and other Old Avestan literature |
| 13 century | Moses, the Hebrew Law Giver & Prophet |
| 1100-500 | The RigVeda compiled |
| 563-483 | Buddha, the founder of Buddhism |
| 551-479 | Confucius, the founder of Confucianism |
| 549-330 | THE FIRST ZOROASTRIAN ACHEMENID EMPIRE |
| 540-468 | Mahavira, the founder of Jainism |
| 220BCE-227CE | THE SECOND (partial) ZOROASTRIAN ARSACID EMPIRE |
| 200 | The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Text) is written |
| 6 to 4BCE to 30 CE | Jesus Christ, the founder prophet of Christianity |
| 33 | Crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ |
| 64 | Peter, the first Bishop of Rome & disciple of Jesus, dies |
| 70-100 | First four books of the New Testaments are written |
| 220-651 | THE THIRD ZOROASTRIAN SASANIAN EMPIRE. THE HOLY ANCIENT ZOROASTRIAN TEXTS FINALLY COMPILED & WRITTEN DOWN. |
| 400 | Two Buddhist Sects -- Zen and Amidism established |
| 570-632 | Muhammad -- the Prophet of Islam His teachings are recorded in the Quran |
| 622 | Prophet Muhammad flees to Yatrib (Medina) the date is known as Hejira, the start of the Muslim era |
| 650 | THE DEFEAT OF THE SASANIAN EMPIRE BY THE ARAB MUSLIMS AND COLLAPSE OF ZOROASTRIANISM, AS THE STATE RELIGION -- BEGINNING OF THE SLOW PERSECUTION OF THE ZOROASTRIANS -- PROGRESSIVELY BECOMING MORE & MORE OPPRESSIVE. |
| 910-950 | THE TRADITIONAL DATE OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE IRANIAN ZOROASTRIANS -- (PARSIS=PERSIANS) IN INDIA TO ESCAPE THE CRUSHING RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. |
| 921 | THE GREAT ATASH VEHRAN (BAHRAM) -- "IRAN SHAH" -- IS ENTHRONED (now at Udvada). |
| 1054 | Pope Leo IX finalizes the split of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman catholic Church |
| 1224-1274 | Thomas Aquinas, Roman Catholic saint and Theologian |
| 1309-1377 | The Roman Catholic Papacy moves to Avigon, France |
| 1483-1556 | Martin Luther, leader of Protestant reformation -- Germany |
| 1491-1546 | Ignatius Loyola establishes the Jesuit Order of Roman Catholic Priests |
| 1765 | ATASH BAHRAM AT NAVSARI INSTALLED |
| 1783 | DADISETH ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY) |
| 1823 | MODI ATASH BAHRAM AT SURAT INSTALLED |
| 1823 | VAKIL ATASH BAHRAM AT SURAT INSTALLED |
| 1830 | WADIAJI ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY) |
| 1845 | BANAJI ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY) |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species -- theory of organic evolution -- (animosity with the Christian Church doctrine of "creation") |
| 1897 | ANJUMAN ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY). |
| 1869-1948 | Mohandas K.Gandhi, Indian spiritual and political leader gets independence for India (1947) from British without any armed conflict, (- like American War of Independence). |
| 1970 | SLOW MIGRATION (unlike the first one of 950 CE from Iran) OF THE PARSIS TO THE WESTERN COUNTRIES. |
| 1978-79 | Fall of the Shah of Iran and migration of several Iranian Muslims to the west to escape the Islamic Fundamental Regime |
| 1970-96 | ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HALLS OF WORSHIP AND
ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATIONS IN SEVERAL US,
CANADIAN, AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND CITIES.
FORMATION OF THE FEDERATION OF
ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF N. AMERICA --
'FEZANA'.
REAL THREAT OF THE WORLDWIDE EXTINCTION OF MICROSCOPIC ZOROASTRIAN COMMUNITY. |
(Many other dates though important like the attack on Zoroastrianism by the Christian Priest, Wilson resulting in its renaissance through the efforts of Khurshedji R. Cama and his scholarly team of Priestly disciples, establishment of K.R. Cama Oriental Institute with its world-renown library for Zoroastrian Scholarship. Introduction of the Study of Old Iranian/Avesta/Pahlavi Languages at the University level -- Bombay etc. will be dealt later.)