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History of Persia

By AminSadeghi
  • Period: 650 BCE to 330 BCE

    Median and Achaemenid Empire

  • 334 BCE

    Alexander the Great conquers Persia

    Alexander the Great conquered the entire Persian Empire
  • Period: 312 BCE to 63 BCE

    Hellenic conquest and Seleucid Empire

  • Period: 248 BCE to 224

    Parthian Empire

  • 27 BCE

    Rome goes from Republic to Empire)

    Augustus Caesar changes Rome's form of government from republic to empire.
  • 50

    London is founded by Romans

  • Period: 224 to 651

    Sassanid Empire

  • 323

    Roman Empire is now Christian

    A ten-year conversion is finally realised, and the official religion of the Roman Empire is now Christianity.
  • 330

    Georgians convert to Christianity

    In opposition to the Sassanid Empire, Georgians convert to Christianity.
  • Period: 633 to 651

    Islamic conquest of Persia

  • 644

    Piruz Nahavandi assassinates Umar ibn Al-Khattāb

    Piruz Nahavandi was a Sassanid Persian who was assigned to assassinate Umar ibn Al-Khattāb. His presence as a slave was unsuspected since he was captured as a Persian slave.
  • Period: 661 to 750

    Umayyad Caliphate

  • 843

    Dublin is founded by the Vikings

  • Period: 962 to 1219

    Persianate states and dynasties

  • 1010

    Shahnameh is published

    Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, also known as "The Book of Kings," is an epic poem that took 30-33 years to write. The longest ever poem to have been written by a single person, was the second attempt at immortalising Persian history. Previously, Abu-Mansur Daqiqi's attempt was left unfinished due to his early demise.
  • 1177

    The Conference of the Birds is published

    The Conference of the Birds is an ancient Persian poem written by Attar of Nishapur. He was one of the pioneers of Panentheism and Sufism in Persia.
  • 1219

    Mongols invade Khwarezmia

  • Period: 1219 to 1221

    Mongol invasion

  • Period: 1256 to 1335

    Ilkhanate

  • Period: 1370 to 1507

    Timurid dynasty

  • 1453

    The Fall of Constantinople

  • 1455

    Johannes Gutenberg’s mass-market printing revolution

  • Period: 1501 to

    Safavid dynasty

    After 850 years of division, the Safavid dynasty is the first of a series of sequential dynasties that ruled over all of Iran. Previous dynasties were only able to unite and rule smaller territories.
  • Period: 1501 to 1524

    Ismail I

  • 1514

    Yavuz Sultan Selim attacks Iran (Battle of Chaldiran)

    Yavuz Sultan Selim successfully conquers great areas of [current] Iraq, Kurdistan, and Diyarbakir. Kurdish chiefs switch allegiance from the Safavids to the Ottomans.
  • Period: 1524 to 1576

    Shah Tahmasp I

  • Period: 1576 to 1577

    Shah Ismail II

  • Period: 1578 to

    Sultan Mohammed Shah

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    Shah Abbās I

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    Shah Safi

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    Shah Abbas II

  • The Treaty of Westphalia

  • Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is published

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    Shah Suleiman I

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    Shah Sultan Husayn

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    Hotaki Empire

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    Shah Tahmasp II

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    Shah Abbas III

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    Afsharid dynasty

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    Nader Shah

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    Adil Shah

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    Shahrukh Afshar

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    Ebrahim Afshar

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    Karim Khan Zand

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    Zand dynasty

  • The French Revolution

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    Lotf Ali Khan Zand

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    Mohammad Khan Qajar

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    Qajar dynasty

  • Period: to

    Fathali Shah Qajar

  • Treaty of Gulistan

    In a treaty signed in the village of Gulistan in Karabagh, Iran gave away the rights of
    Georgia and Azerbaijan > Russia
    navigation in the Caspian sea > Russia
    free trade pact > Russia

  • Turkmenchai Agreement

    Similar to Gulistan
    More territory is handed over to Russia, including:
    Armenia, Nakhjevan and Talesh khanates.
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    Mohammad Shah Qajar

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    Naseraddin Shah Qajar

  • The Invention of Motion Pictures

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    Mozaffaraddin Shah Qajar

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    Mohammadali Shah Qajar

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    Ahmad Shah Qajar

  • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

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    Pahlavi dynasty

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    Reza Khan

  • Legislative radicalism

    3 years (1927-1929)
    * census registration and conscription
    * the reorganization of the judicial system along secular lines
    * the launch of the policy of nomadic settlement
    * the beginning of the trans-Iranian railway
    * the abolition of capitulations
    * the passing of the Uniform Dress law and effective legislation for the registration of title deeds to landed property and real estate
    * the introduction of étatiste economic measures: opium and tobacco monopolies
    Cronin, 2010

  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded

  • Persia becomes Iran

  • Period: to

    Mohammadreza Shah

  • WWII Facts

    USSR lost over 25 million citizens

  • Jordan, Lebanon and Syria gain independence

  • Libya gains independence

  • Sudan gains independence