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544 BC People of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace
to escape the yoke of Persia
.
525 BC Cambyses II, ruler of Persia
, conquers Egypt
, defeating Psammetichus III. This is considered the end of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, and the start of the Twenty-seventh Dynasty.
522 BC Smerdis succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia
.
521 BC Darius I succeeds Smerdis as ruler of Persia
.
502 BC Naxos rebels against Persia
n domination sparking the Ionian Revolt.
500 BC Darius I of Persia
proclaims that Aramaic be the official language
of the western half of his empire.
292 Narseh becomes co-ruler of Persia
.
383 Shapur III becomes king of Persia
.
388 Bahram IV becomes king of Persia
.
421 Theodosius declares war on Persia
.
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440 The Hepthalites, who will later be known as the Avars
move south from the region of Altay Mountains into Transoxiana, Bactria
, Khurasan and eastern Persia
.
484 The Hephthalites invade Persia
, and Peroz I is killed in battle; Balash becomes king of Persia.
502 War breaks out between the Byzantine Empire
and Persia
.
502 The Persia
n philosopher Mazdak declares private property to be the source of all evil.
572 The Byzantine Empire
begins a war with Persia
.
592 Persia
n usurper Bistam is defeated by Khosrau II.
593 Persia
n usurper Hormizd V is defeated by Khosrau II.
599 Final conquest of Yemen
by the Sassanian Iran (approximate date).
600 Possibly the first reference to chess
, in the Persia
n work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.
636 The Arabs invade Persia
637 Battle of al-Qadisiyyah: Arabs defeat Persia
n army, eventually take Persian capital of Ctesiphon
650 Islam
established as state religion in Iran
758 The Chinese
city
Guangzhou
was sacked by Arab
and Persia
n raiders.
856 Another deadly earthquake
strikes Damghan, Iran, killing 200,000 people.
977 The original Imam Ali Mosque is built at Najaf, Iraq
by Iranian ruler the Daylamite Fannakhosraw Azod ad Dowleh.
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1256 Hulagu Khan establishes the Ilkhanate
dynasty of Persia
, which will become one of four main divisions of the Mongol Empire
.
1256 Hulagu Khan
captures and destroys the Hashshashin
stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran.
1270 The city of Tabriz
, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol
Ilkhanate
empire (approximate date).
1278 The earliest known written copy of the Avesta, a collection of ancient sacred Persian
Zoroastrian texts previously passed down orally, is produced.
1501 The Safavid kingdom was established in northern Iran.
1602 Persia
and Spain
conclude a defensive alliance and declare war on the Ottoman Empire
1667 Suleiman I becomes Shah
of Persia
.
1722 Fall of Persia's
Safavid dynasty during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people.
1724 Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia
between the Ottoman Empire
and Russia
1727 Earthquake
in Tazriz, Persia
- about 77,000 dead.
1828 Treaty of Turkamanchai: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia
.
1891 The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran
1908 Discovery of oil
deposits near the Persian
city of Abadan.
1908 At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia
, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East
is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom
.
1909 A revolution
forces Mohammad Ali Shah, Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar
. He proceeds in leaving Persia
for Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia
in regaining the throne.
1930 The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran; 7.3 on the Richter Scale and killed 4,000 people.
1930 Turkish
troops move into Persia
to fight Kurdish insurgents
1934 Persia
becomes Iran
1934 Persia
becomes Iran
1935 Persia
is renamed Iran
1935 Persia
is renamed Iran
1941 World War II
: Operation Countenance - United Kingdom
and Soviet
forces invade Iran.
1945 Iranian government demands that Soviet and British troops leave the country
1946 Iran:Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister
.
1946 British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty - Soviets do not.
1947 The people's Republic of Mahabad the 2nd kurdish
state in kurdish history in Iran is conquered by Iranian forces. The leaders where hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad.
1951 The United Kingdom
begins an economic boycott of Iran.
1953 Cold War
: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh
in Iran and retain Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
on the throne
(see: Operation Ajax).
1953 United Kingdom
and Iran reform diplomatic relations
1960 September 14 — Iran, Iraq
, Kuwait
, Saudi Arabia
and Venezuela
form OPEC
.
1963 Female suffrage is enacted in Iran.
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1967 Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh
, the deposed democratically elected prime minister of Iran, dies while under house arrest.
1967 Protests in West Berlin
against the arrival of the Shah
of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist
group ''Movement 2 June''
1972 A 7.0 Richter scale earthquake
kills 1/5 of the population of Iranian province of Fars.
1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq
announce a settlement over their border dispute.
1978 In Abadan, Iran, nearly 400 are killed when Muslim extremist arsonists set fire to a crowded theater.
1978 Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran.
1979 The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt
after a year of turmoil.
1979 Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
returns to Tehran
, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1979 Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah
officially.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States
and Israeli interests.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
begins: 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States
send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
begins: 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States
send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran
, U.S. President Jimmy Carter
orders a halt to all oil
imports into the United States
from Iran.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
: U.S. President Jimmy Carter
issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States
and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
1979 Iran hostage crisis
: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini
orders the release of 13 female and black American
hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
.
1980 Six American
diplomats
, posing as Canadians
, manage to escape from Tehran
, Iran as they board a flight to Zurich, Switzerland | 
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