Persia renamed Iran
1935 · Event
Reza Shah asks the world to call his country Iran, its endonym, rather than the Greek-derived Persia.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Master
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- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Sassanid Empire (224)
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1902)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Safavid Empire (1501)
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919)
- Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (636)
- Iran Air Flight 655 shot down (1988)
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- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Hitler appointed Chancellor (1933)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Dunkirk evacuation (1940)