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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 Persian 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 Persian philosopher Mazdak declares private property to be the source of all evil.
572 The Byzantine Empire begins a war with Persia.
592 Persian usurper Bistam is defeated by Khosrau II.
593 Persian 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 Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.
636 The Arabs invade Persia
637 Battle of al-Qadisiyyah: Arabs defeat Persian 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 Persian 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 and thereby end the Canadian caper operation.
1980 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1980 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1980 The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on Sunday, November 4, 1979.
1980 The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War.
1980 Mohammad Reza Shah, eldest son of the late shah of Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne.
1981 United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1981 Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter as the 40th President of the United States. Minutes after Reagan becomes president, Iran releases 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days and the Iran hostage crisis ends. Tim Harkins was born in Flowood, MS.
1982 Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.
1982 Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
1983 Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
1984 Iran accuses Iraq of the use of chemical weapons; the U.N. condemns their use on March 30.
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1987 President Reagan addresses the American people on the Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had 'deteriorated' into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1987 Four hundred Iranian pilgrims are killed in clashes with Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca.
1988 U.S. Navy forces retaliate for the ''Roberts'' mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill ''The Satanic Verses'' author Salman Rushdie.
1989 Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's ''The Satanic Verses''.
1991 Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
1992 Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
1995 Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and AMD trade secrets worth USD$10-20 million.
1997 An earthquake near Ardekul, in northeastern Iran, kills at least 2,400.
2000 Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17, 2001
2002 The US State Department releases a report naming 7 state sponsors of terrorism: Iran,Iraq,Cuba,Libya,North Korea,Sudan,and Syria.
2002 Iran bans the advertising of U.S. products.
2003 A massive earthquake devastates southeastern Iran. Over 40,000 people are reported killed in the city of Bam.
2004 A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulfur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.
2005 Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
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2005 More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in the Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
2005 Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan provin
2005 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns the peace process.
2005 An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building (a total of 128).
2005 An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building (a total of 128).
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