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The Sasanian Empire

Zoroastrian state, Middle Persian court culture, Gondishapur learning; Manichaeism and Mazdakism arise.

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The Sasanian Empire

Zoroastrian state, Middle Persian court culture, Gondishapur learning; Manichaeism and Mazdakism arise.

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Zoroastrian state, Middle Persian court culture, Gondishapur learning; Manichaeism and Mazdakism arise.

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3200 BCE (c.) Proto-Elamite writing at Susa700 BCE (c.) The Medes539 BCE Cyrus II takes Babylon520 BCE (c.) Darius I and the Bisotun inscription330 BCE Alexander burns Persepolis247 BCE (c.) The Parthian (Arsacid) Empire224 The Sasanian Empire651 Fall of the Sasanians819 (c.) The Samanids and New Persian1010 Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh1025 (c.) Avicenna's Canon of Medicine1259 Maragheh observatory1273 Death of Rumi in Konya1390 (c.) Death of Hafez in Shiraz1501 The Safavid state1604 Armenians moved to New Julfa, Isfahan1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay1844 The Bab's declaration1876 Akhtar, Persian newspaper in Istanbul1906 Constitutional Revolution1925 Reza Shah founds the Pahlavi dynasty1935 Request to use the name Iran1942 Polish refugees in Iran1946 End of the Azerbaijan and Mahabad governments1948 Large Jewish emigration to Israel begins1953 Coup against Mosaddegh1955 Anti-Baha'i campaign of 19551963 White Revolution and women's suffrage1979 The 1979 revolution1979 Afghan refugees arrive in Iran1980 Iran-Iraq War begins1983 Ten Baha'i women executed in Shiraz1988 1988 mass executions of political prisoners1991 Iraqi Kurdish refugees flee to Iran2009 Green Movement2019 November 2019 protests2020 Flight PS752 shot down2022 Woman, Life, Freedom2025 June 2025 war2026 2026 protests and war3200 BCE (c.)2026
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