Shi'a religious parade standard (alam)
c. 1700 · Resource
A pierced steel processional standard ('alam') in the form of a sword of Ali, carried in Shi'a mourning processions for the martyrs of Karbala. It marks the Safavid establishment of Twelver Shi'ism in Iran.
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Around 1700
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
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- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)