Shahnameh completed
1010 · Work
Ferdowsi's Persian national epic; over 50,000 couplets on Iran's mythic and historical past.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Master, Arts and Thoughts
More from Persia and Iran
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Sassanid Empire (224)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Safavid Empire (1501)
- Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire (334 BCE)
- Safavid Iran converts to Twelver Shi'ism (1501)
Around 1010
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- The Tale of Genji (1008)