Chronology of Persian History - History of Persia
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| Prophet Zoroaster | 688-551 B.C. (Some sources put the date back to 2200 B.C.)
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| The ACHAEMENIAN DYNASTY | 559-330 B.C.
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Death of Cyrus the Great,
the founder of the Achaemenians
| 530 B.C.
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| Rule of Darius, the
second great Achaemenian ruler | 522-486 B.C.
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| Xerxes, the king | 486-465 B.C.
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| Alexander, the Macedonian,
conquers Persia | 330 B.C.
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| THE SELEUCID DYNASTY | 312-247 B.C.
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| THE PARTHIAN DYNASTY | 247 B.C.-A.D. 226
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| THE SASSANID DYNASTY | 226-651
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| Rule of Ardeshir, the founder of the Sassanids | 226-240
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| Death of the Sassanid king Shapur 1 | 272
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| Death of the prophet Mani, the founder of Manichaesim | 274
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| Mazdakism | End of 5th and 6th c.
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| Rule of Chosroes I (Anosharvan) | 531-579
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| Sassanid invasion of Byzantiun | 603
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| Sassanid conquest of Alexandria | 619
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| Death of Chosroes I | 628
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| Arab conquest of Persia | 637-651
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| Battle of Nahavan | 642
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| Death of the last Sassanid king, Yazdegird | 651
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| Period of the rule of the Umayyad caliphate over Persia | 642- 750
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| Death of the first Shi-ite Imam and fourth Sunni caliph, Ali ebn Abu Taleb | 661
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| Death of the Third Shi-ite Imam Hosayn at Karbela | 680
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| Revolt of the Persian general Abu Moslem in Khorasan agains the Umayyads | 747
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| The Abbasid caliphate | 750- 1258
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| Death of the Sixth Shi-ite Imam Jafar al-Sadeq | 765
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| Death of the Eighth Shi-ite Imam Reza | 818
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| THE TAHIRID DYNASTY | 821-873
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| THE SAFFARID DYNASTY | 867-1163
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| Beginning of the "lesser concealmet" of the Twelfth Shi-ite Imam | 874
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| THE SAMANID DYNASTY | 829-999
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| THE BUYID DYNASTY | 945-1055
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| Death of the philosopher Farabi | 950
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| THE GHAZNAVID DYNASTY | 977-1186
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| Composition of the greatest epic poem of the Persian language, the Shahnameh of Ferdausi | 994
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| Death of the philosopher-scientist Avicenna (Ebn Sina) | 1037
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| THE SELJUQ DYNASTY | 1040-1220
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| The journey of the philosopher and poet Naser-e-Khosrau through the East | 1045-1052
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| Death of the scientist and historian Biruni | 1050
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| Death of the theologian and Sufi Ghazzali | 1111
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| The Mongol conquest of Persia | 1219-1258
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| The IL-KHANID DYNASTY | 1256-1336
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| Death of the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1273
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| Death of the poet and moralist Sa'di | 1291
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| Rule of the local dynasties in Persia | 1336- 1380
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| Rule of the world conqueror Tamerlane | 1380-1404
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| Death of the suprme lyrical poet of the Persian language Hafez | 1389
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| THE TIMURIDS AND LOCAL DYNASTIES | 1405-1500
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| Death of the Sufi poet Jami | 1492
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| THE SAFAVID DYNASTY | 1500-1722
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| Death of the philosopher-gnostic Molla Sadra | 1640
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| Afghan invation and rule of Persia | 1722-1732
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| Rule of the king Nader Shah | 1736-1747
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| THE ZAND DYNASTY | 1747-1787
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| THE QAJAR DYNASTY | 1787-1925
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| Death of the prime miniter and reformer Amir Kabir | 1852
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| The Persian Constitutional Revolution | 1905
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| Foundation of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Reza Shah | 1925
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| Allied invation of Persia | 1941
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| Beginning of rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Aryamehr | 1941
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| The Islamic Revolution and the end of the Pahlavi Dynasty | 1979
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| Death of Ayyatullah Khomeyni founder of Islamic Republic of Iran | 1989
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