Timeline of Iranian history

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Centuries: 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · See also · References · Bibliography · External links


33rd century BC

Year Date Event
3200 BC
 Elam civilization in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran and modern-day southeast Iraq.

13th century BC

Year Date Event
1250 BC
Khuzestan Province
.
1210 BC Elamite Empire reaches the height of its power.

8th century BC

Year Date Event
770 BC The Persians start driving the Elamites of Anshan towards Susa.[1]
727 BC Deioces founds the Median government.
705 BC Birth of Achaemenes (died c. 675 BC), the eponymous ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty.[1]

7th century BC

Year Date Event
647 BC
Assyrian Empire defeats Elam Empire in the Battle of Susa, resulting in looting and total destruction of Susa
.
633 BC The Scythians invade Media.[1]
624 BC The Medians repel the Scythians.[1]
624 BC
Cyaxares the Great becomes the king of the Medes.[1]
612 BC Together with the
Assyrian capital Nineveh, which leads to the eventual collapse of the Neo-Assyrian empire.[1]

6th century BC

Year Date Event
550 BC Cyaxares dies and is succeeded by his son Astyages.[1]
550 BC The
Median empire
.
539 BC Cyrus captured Babylon, freed thousands of slaves and issued a declaration of human rights. This would later be inscribed into the Cyrus Cylinder.
525 BC Cambyses II conquers Egypt after the Battle of Pelusium.[1][2]

5th century BC

Year Date Event
490 BC August/September Battle of Marathon, Persian Empire is defeated by Greek states.
480 BC The Achaemenid Empire under Xerxes I invades mainland Greece.
480–479 BC Persians capture and destroy Athens. The Acropolis, the Old Temple of Athena and the Older Parthenon are destroyed.

4th century BC

Year Date Event
343 BC Egypt is annexed by Persians after defeat of the Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt by Artaxerxes III
334 BC
Hellespont
into Asia.
334 BC May Alexander III of Macedon defeats the armies of the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of the Granicus river
333 BC 5 November Alexander III of Macedon defeats the armies of the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Issus
330 BC 20 January Alexander III of Macedon defeats the armies of the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of the Persian Gate
330 BC July Darius III, the last Achaemenid emperor is killed, bringing an end to the Achaemenid empire.
330 BC Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire is destroyed by Alexander III of Macedon.
323 BC 10/11 June Alexander III dies in Babylon, triggering a division of his empire among his generals in a treaty known as the Partition of Triparadisus.
312 BC Seleucus I Nicator, establishes the Seleucid Empire in the Persian territories of the erstwhile Macedonian Empire.

3rd century BC

Year Date Event
247 BC Arsaces I establishes the Parthian Empire (also known as the Arsacid Empire) in present-day north-eastern Iran.[1][3]

2nd century BC

1st century BC

Year Date Event
94 BC The Parthian Empire reaches its peak, stretching from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
54 BC Beginning of the Roman–Parthian Wars, lasting till 217 CE.
Centuries: 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th · 13th · 14th · 15th · 16th · 17th · 18th · 19th · 20th

1st century

2nd century

3rd century

Year Date Event
208 Vologases V dies and is succeeded by his son Vologases VI.[1][4]
211
Fars Province
.
224 Ardashir I defeats the last Parthian Shahanshah Artabanus IV, ending the Parthian Empire.
260 Persians defeated the Romans at the Battle of Edessa and take emperor Valerian prisoner for the remainder of his life.

4th century

Year Date Event
360 Sasanian Empire captures the town of Singara, in the Siege of Singara (360)
363 Battle of Samarra (363) between the Roman Empire and the Sasanian Empire, in which Roman emperor Julian is wounded, and subsequently dies of his wounds.
371 Roman Empire and Kingdom of Armenia defeat the Sasanian Empire and Caucasian Albania in the Battle of Bagavan

5th century

Year Date Event
421 Roman–Sasanian War of 421–422 after which Persian Empire agreed to tolerate Christianity and Roman Empire agreed to tolerate Zoroastrianism

6th century

Year Date Event
570–578 Aksumite–Persian wars, Yemen is annexed by the Sasanian Empire.
590 Khosrow II becomes ruler of the Sasanian Empire. During his rule till 628, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon are annexed into the Sasanian Empire

7th century

Year Date Event
620 Sasanian Empire reaches its greatest height, encompassing all of present-day Iran and Iraq and stretching from the eastern Mediterranean (including Anatolia and Egypt) to Pakistan, and from parts of southern Arabia to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
626 June – July Sasanian Empire lays siege of Constantinople, however is unable to capture it.
628 25 February Khosrow II is deposed and killed by his son Kavad II.
628 6 September Ardashir III becomes ruler of the Sasanian Empire.
632 16 June Yazdegerd III becomes ruler of the Sasanian Empire.
633 May Battle of Ullais in which the Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire resulting in the massacre of 70,000 Persians by Arabs.
634 October Sasanian Empire led by Bahman Jaduya defeats the Rashidun Caliphate in the Battle of the Bridge.
636 Arab invasion brings end of
Sassanid dynasty and start of Islamic rule.[5]
636 16–19 November Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire in the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, takes control of present day Iraq.
637 Destruction of the Ctesiphon library by Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate.[6]
642 Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire in the Battle of Nahavand, resulting in the near collapse of the Sasanian Empire.
644 3 November The second Rashidun caliph
Umar ibn al-Khattab (r. 634–644) is assassinated by the Persian slave Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz
.
644 6 November Uthman ibn Affan becomes the third Rashidun Caliph. During his reign, almost the whole of the former Sassanid empire's territories rebel from time to time, with major rebellions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Fars, Sistan (in 649), Khorasan (651), and Makran (650).
651 Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire and the
Göktürk Empire in the Battle of Oxus River
.
651 Yazdegerd III, the last Sassanid emperor, is killed near Merv putting an end to both his dynasty and to organized Persian resistance to Arab conquest.

8th century

Year Date Event
716–717
Mazandaran Province defeats the Muslim invasion under Yazid ibn al-Muhallab
.
761 Tabaristan falls to Muslim invasion and becomes a province of the Abbasid Caliphate.
767 Ustadh Sis, Persian Zoroastrian revolutionary leader launches a rebellion, occupies Herat and Sistan before marching towards Merv. He initially defeats an Abbasid army under the command of al-Ajtham of Merv, but is himself defeated in a bloody battle against an army led by Muhammad ibn Abdallah.

9th century

Year Date Event
816–835 Babak Khorramdin a Persian Zoroastrian revolutionary leader of the Khorram-Dīnân movement defeats successive Arab generals of the Abbasid Caliphate.
821 Tahir ibn Husayn, an Iranian general under the Abbasid Caliphate, declared the establishment of the independent Tahirid dynasty.
867
Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari founded the Saffarid dynasty
.
867 One of the earliest works in
Early New Persian is composed by Muhammad ibn Wasif (died 909), a poet and secretary of the Saffarids.[7][8]

10th century

Year Date Event
934 Sistan is conquered by the Samanid Empire.[1]
930
Zoroastrian commander Mardavij establishes the Ziyarid dynasty
and briefly conquers much of northern Persia before being betrayed and killed in 935 CE. The Ziyarid dynasty continued to rule over much of Tabaristan until its demise in 1090 CE.
934 The Buyid dynasty was founded.

11th century

Year Date Event
1010 The poet Ferdowsi finished writing the epic poem Shahnameh, a touchstone of the modern Persian language.

12th century

Year Date Event
1131 Death of the Persian poet Sanai.[1]
1136 The Eldiguzid dynasty (also known as the Atabegs of Azerbaijan) is founded by Eldiguz.[1][9]
1157 Death of the Seljuk sultan Ahmad Sanjar.[1]
1182/3 Death of Rashid al-Din Vatvat, a secretary, poet, philologist in the Khwarazmian Empire.[10]
1189
pilgrims is guaranteed throughout the Levant
.
1195 Death of the Persian poet Khaqani.[1]

13th century

Year Date Event
1219 The
Khwarezm sent by Genghis Khan are massacred. In 1220 and 1221, Bukhara, Samarkand, Herat, Tus and Nishapur
were razed, and the whole populations were slaughtered.
1220 Pursued by Mongol forces, Shah
Muhammad II of Khwarezm dies on an island off the Caspian
coast.

14th century

15th century

16th century

Year Date Event
1501 Ismail I established himself in Tabriz and declared himself the king (shah) of Iran.
1514 23 August Battle of Chaldiran: The Ottoman Empire inflicted a severe defeat on a numerically inferior Persian force, opening the northwestern Iranian Plateau to their occupation.
7 September The Ottoman sultan entered Tabriz.
A mutiny in the Ottoman army forced the sultan to withdraw.
1524 23 May Ismail died. He was succeeded by his son Tahmasp I.
1590 21 May The
Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire ending the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590), under which Safavid Empire ceded the Caucasus
and western Iranian territories, for several years.

17th century

Year Date Event
1609 November
Kurdish fortress on the banks of Lake Urmia
.
1610 Battle of DimDim: The fortress was taken, and its occupants were massacred.
1629 19 January
Abbas I of Persia died. His grandson Safi of Persia
succeeded him.
1639 The Treaty of Zuhab was signed between Persia and the Ottoman Empire, decisively partitioning the Caucasus between the two (with the greater part remaining Iranian,) and establishing what remains the border between Iran, Turkey, and Iraq.
1642 Safi died. He was succeeded by Abbas II of Persia.
1666 Abbas died. He was succeeded by Suleiman I of Persia.

18th century

Year Date Event
1709 21 April
Ghilzai clan and mayor of Kandahar, killed the Persian-appointed governor George XI of Kartli
and declared himself King of Persia.
1722 July
Russo-Persian War (1722-1723): A Russian military expedition sailed to prevent the territories in disintegrating neighboring Safavid Iran fall into Ottoman
hands.
1723 12 September
Astrabad to the Russian Empire
.
1746 4 September The Treaty of Kerden was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, reaffirming the border drawn in the Treaty of Zuhab and allowing Iranian pilgrims to visit Mecca.
1795 11 September
Kartl-Kakheti, captured Tbilisi, and reconquered eastern Georgia
, which comprised the territories of the Kartli-Kakheti.
1796 April
Kartl-Kakheti
.

19th century

Year Date Event
1804
attacked the Persian settlement Ganja
.
1813 24 October Russo-Persian War (1804–1813): According to the
Republic of Azerbaijan
.
1826 16 July
Russo-Persian War (1826-1828): The Persian army invaded the recently Russian
-annexed territories in order to reclaim the lost regions.
1828 21 February Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) Facing the possibility of a
Igdir
(modern-day Turkey).
1881 21 September Persia officially recognized Russia's annexation of Turkmenistan in the Treaty of Akhal.

20th century

Year Date Event
1906 The first Persian Constitution was adopted during the Persian Constitutional Revolution.
1925 31 March Solar Hijri calendar legally adopted in Iran.[11]
1941 25 August
Khuzestan
and Central Iran.
1945 November The Soviet Union established the Azerbaijan People's Government in Iranian Azerbaijan.
1946 22 January The
Kurdish Republic of Mahabad
declared its independence from Iran.
2 March Iran crisis: British troops withdrew from Iran. The Soviet Union violated its prior agreement and remained.
9 May Iran crisis: The Soviet Union withdrew from Iran.
11 December Iran regained control over the territory of the Azerbaijan People's Government.
15 December Iran conquered Mahabad.
1953 August Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup engineered by the British and American intelligence services. Fazlollah Zahedi is proclaimed as prime minister and the Shah returns.[12]
1979 11 February Iranian Revolution: The Iranian Monarchy collapsed in a popular revolution.
1 April A referendum passed which made Iran an Islamic republic.
4 November Iran hostage crisis
1980 22 September
Kurds
.
1981 9 October Later Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei assumes office as the President of Iran under Supreme Leader Khomenei.
1988 20 August The Iran–Iraq War ends in a stalemate. The Iran–Iraq War was the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries.[14]
inhuman and degrading treatment
.
1989 3 June 1st Supreme Leader of Iran and founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, dies.
1989 4 June Ali Khamenei replaces Ruhollah Khomeini, becoming the second Supreme Leader of Iran.
1989 28 July A constitutional reform was allegedly approved by 97.6% of voters in a
Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been amended. It made several significant changes to the system of government of the Islamic Republic such as eliminating the need for the Supreme Leader (rahbar) of the country to be a marja
or chosen by popular acclaim.
1989 16 August
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani becomes President of Iran
, the first president to assume office under the post-reform constitution.
1994 22 February
compulsory hijab
.
1997 3 August Mohammad Khatami replaces Rafsanjani as President.

21st century

Year Date Event
2001 8 June
Iranian presidential election, 2001: President Mohammad Khatami
was reelected with vast majority.
2003 December 40,000 people are killed in an earthquake in southern Iran.
2005 24 June
Rafsanjani
.
2009 12 June
Iranian presidential election, 2009: Ahmadinejad re-elected for a second time after defeated Mousavi
.
13 June
2009–10 Iranian election protests
: Protests in Iran over election results.
2013 3 August Hassan Rouhani replaces Ahmadinejad as President.
2014 My Stealthy Freedom, an online movement in which women in Iran post photos of themselves without hijabs, as a protest against the compulsory hijab laws in the country.
2015 14 July Signing of
Iran nuclear deal
between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council— China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany).
2018 8 May United States withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal
2017–19
Iranian woman protest against compulsory hijab in multiple cities including Tehran, Kangavar, Isfahan and Shiraz
. Many are physically assaulted with injuries including broken limbs and imprisoned.
2019 9 September Self immolation of women's rights activist
Sahar Khodayari over six month prison sentence for attempting to enter a public stadium to watch a football game, against the national ban against women at such events. Leads to widespread protests, and on 10 October 2019, more than 3,500 women attend the Azadi Stadium
for a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.
2020 3 January Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and commander of the Iran-backed Kata'ib Hezbollah militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, are assassinated in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
2021 3 August Ebrahim Raisi replaces Rouhani as President.
2022 16 September 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances, after her arrest by the Islamic Republic's Guidance Patrol. Eyewitnesses, including women who were detained with Amini, reported that she was severely beaten and that she died as a result of police brutality. Her death sparked widespread antigovernmental protests in Iran.
2022-present Civil unrest and protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and are ongoing as of May 2023.

See also

Cities in Iran:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Yarshater 2021.
  2. ^ Dandamayev 1990, pp. 726–729.
  3. ^ Shahbazi 1986, p. 525.
  4. ^ Chaumont & Schippmann 1988, pp. 574–580.
  5. ^ "Iran profile – timeline". BBC News. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  6. ISBN 9781594771675
    .
  7. ^ Bosworth 1993.
  8. ^ Paul 2000.
  9. ^ Luther 1987, pp. 890–894.
  10. ^ Chalisova 2000.
  11. ^ "Calendars". Encyclopædia Iranica. 1990.
  12. ^ "Iran profile – timeline". BBC News. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  13. ISBN 978-0521528917
    .
  14. ^ Fürtig, Henner (2012). "Den Spieß umgedreht: iranische Gegenoffensive im Ersten Golfkrieg" [Turning of the Tables: the Iranian counter-offensive during the first Gulf War]. Damals (in German). No. 5. pp. 10–13.

Bibliography

External links

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