The Iranian Revolution
Explore The Iranian Revolution on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Khomeini returns to Iran (1979)
- Shah flees Iran (1979)
- The Iranian monarchy falls (1979)
- Iran hostage crisis (1979)
- Students storm the US embassy in Tehran (1979)
- Islamic Republic referendum (1979)
- Black Friday massacre in Tehran (1978)
- Two million march against the Shah (1978)
- Iranian coup d'état of 1953 (1953)
- Operation Eagle Claw fails in the desert (1980)
- The Rex Cinema fire (1978)
- Khomeini's arrest sparks the 1963 uprising (1963)
- White Revolution (1963)
- Khomeini exiled from Iran (1964)
- Mossadegh nationalises Iranian oil (1951)
- Khomeini's supreme leadership of Iran (1979)
- Reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941)
- Premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh (1951)