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Timeline of 17th and 18th Century Iran (Persia), from 1550-1800 A.D.

The Reign of Shah Abbas to the Beginning of the Qajar Dynasty

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of 17th and 18th Century Iran (Persia), from 1550-1800 A.D.

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1587-1629 Lifetime of Shah Abbas, greatest Safavid ruler

1602 Shah Abbas drives Portuguese out of Bahrain

1609-1610 Safavid/Kurdish War; Kurds massacred

1622 Abbas defeats U.K. Navy at Hormuz, expels British from the Persian Gulf

1698 Baloch tribe invades Kerman

1717-1722 Afghans invade, capture Khorasan and Isfahan

1730-1738 Nadir Shah retakes eastern Persia, conquers as far as Delhi

1736 Former slave Nadir Afshar crowned Shah of Iran

1736-1794 Afsharid Dynasty

1794-1925 Qajar Dynasty

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