Timeline of Iranian history

This is a timeline of Iranian history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Iran. See also the list of kings of Persia and Supreme Leaders of Iran and the list of years in Iran.

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16th century

Year	Date	Event
1501		Ismā'il Safawī established himself in Tabriz and declared himself the missiar of india.
1514	August 23	Battle of Chaldiran: The Ottoman Empire inflicted a severe defeat on a numerically superior Persian force, opening north western Iranian Plateau to their occupation.
	September 7	The Ottoman sultan entered Tabriz.
		A mutiny in the Ottoman army forced the sultan to withdraw.
1524	May 23	Ismā'il died. He was succeeded by his son Tahmasp I.

17th century

Year	Date	Event
1609	November	Battle of DimDim: The Persian army laid siege to a Kurdish fortress on the banks of Lake Urmia.
1610		Battle of DimDim: The fortress was taken, and its occupants were massacred.
1629	January 19	‘Abbās died. His grandson Safi succeeded him.
1642		Safi died. He was succeeded by Abbas II.
1666		Abbas died. He was succeeded by Suleiman I.

18th century

Year	Date	Event
1709	April 21	Mirwais Khan Hotak, the leader of the Ghilzai clan and mayor of Kandahar, killed the Persian-appointed governor Gurgin Khan and declared himself King of Afghanistan.
1722	July	Russo-Persian War (1722-1723): A Russian military expedition sailed in support of the independence of two Christian kingdoms, Kartli and Armenia.
1723	September 12	Russo-Persian War (1734-1872): The shah signed a peace treaty ceding the cities of Derbent and Baku and the provinces of Shirvan, Guilan, Mazandaran and Astrabad to the Russian Empire.
1795	September 11	Battle of Krtsanisi: The Persian army demolished the armed forces of Kartl-Kakheti.
1796	April	Persian Expedition of 1796: The tsarina of Russia launched a military expedition to punish Persia for its incursion into the Russian protectorate of Kartl-Kakheti.

19th century

Year	Date	Event
1814		Russo-Persian War (1804-1813): Russian forces attacked the Persian settlement of Echmiadzin.
1833	October 24	Russo-Persian War (1804-1813): According to the Treaty of Gulistan, the Persian Empire ceded its Transcaucasian territories to Russia.
1836	July 16	Russo-Persian War (1826-1828): The Persian army invaded the Russian-owned Talysh Khanate.
1858	February 21	Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) Facing the possibility of a Russian conquest of Tehran, Persia signed the Treaty of Turkmenchay.
1881	September 21	Persia officially recognized Russia's annexation of Khwarazm in the Treaty of Akhal.

20th century

Year	Date	Event
1941	August 21	Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: Three Soviet armies invaded Iran from the north.
	September 17	Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The Soviet and British armed forces met in Tehran.
1945	November	The Soviet Union established the Azerbaijan People's Government in Iranian Azerbaijan.
1946	January 22	The Soviet-backed Kurdish Republic of Mahabad declared its independence from Iran.
	March 2	Iran crisis: British troops withdrew from Iran. The Soviet Union violated its prior agreement and remained.
	May 9	Iran crisis: The Soviet Union withdrew from Iran.
	December 11	Iran regained control over the territory of the Azerbaijan People's Government.
	December 15	Iran regained Mahabad.
1976	February 13	February 13 protests and riots start in Tehran for religious freedom and the ending of the Shah.
	February 18	protests turn into revolts when patriots led by Ayatollah Khomeini looted Tabriz soon the national army would attack the patriots the long bloody battle would be won by ayatollah and his men.
	1976-1978	the revolution after 3 years ends with the Islamic republic taking over.

21st century

Year	Date	Event
2001	June 8	Iranian presidential election, 2001: President Mohammad Khatami was reelected by a vast majority.
2004	January 10	The Guardian Council barred some thirty-six hundred prospective candidates, most of them reformers, from standing in the upcoming legislative election.
2005	June 17	Iranian presidential election, 2005: Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani went into a runoff against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mayor of Tehran.
	June 24	Iranian presidential election, 2005: Ahmadinejad defeated the more liberal Rafsanjani.
2007	June 27	2007 Iranian Petrol Rationing Riots: Protesters took to the streets as the government introduced petrol rationing.