Anglo-Persian War
1856–1857 · Event
Britain lands at Bushehr to force Persia out of Herat; the lenient Treaty of Paris ends a war soon eclipsed by the Indian Rebellion.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, British Empire, 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)
Around 1856
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- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
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- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)