Iran hostage crisis
1979–1981 · Event
444-day standoff after Iranian students seize US embassy in Tehran; cripples Carter, helps elect Reagan.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Master, USA, Cold War
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 1979
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Dancing Queen (ABBA) (1976)
- Imagine (John Lennon) (1971)
- Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) (1983)