Nadir Shah
1688–1747 · Person
The 'Napoleon of Persia': rose from shepherd to shah, expelled invaders, sacked Delhi, and was assassinated by his own officers.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, People, Master
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- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- 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)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
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- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)