Persia and Iran
Explore Persia and Iran on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- 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)
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1902)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)
- Darius the Great (550 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (636)
- Parthian Empire (247 BCE)
- Iran-Iraq War (1980)
- Shahnameh completed (1010)
- Iranian coup d'état of 1953 (1953)
- Qajar dynasty (1789)
- Persian Constitutional Revolution (1906)
- Mossadegh nationalises Iranian oil (1951)
- Safavid Empire begins (1501)
- Reza Shah founds the Pahlavi dynasty (1925)
- Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE)
- Xerxes I (519 BCE)
- Cyrus conquers Babylon (539 BCE)
- Timurid Empire (1370)
- Median Empire (678 BCE)
- Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (1219)
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919)