Siege of Herat
1837–1838 · Event
A Persian army, encouraged by Russia, besieges Herat; Britain's alarm sets the First Afghan War in motion.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, British Empire, Master
More from Persia and Iran
- 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)
Around 1837
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)