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485 BC Darius I, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. During this time the Persian empire extends as far west as Macedonia and Libya
and as far east as the Hyphasis (Beas) River; it stretches to the Caucasus Mountains and the Aral Sea in the north and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert in the south.
137 Tax laws are passed for trade in Palmyra
. The caravan city grows rich by importing rare products from the Persian Gulf, and by exporting items manufactured by the Mediterranean world to the East.
165 The Romans establish a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates
, a control point for the commercial route to the Persian Gulf.
1552 In the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire
Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese
stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.
1971 July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf.
1971 Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC
in Tehran
to stabilize oil
prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with six Persian Gulf countries.
1971 Six sheikdoms in Persian Gulf found the United Arab Emirates
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1988 The ''USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58)'' strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War
.
1991 Gulf War
: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
1998 American
troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations
against anthrax.
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