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Timeline of Iranian History

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of Iranian (Persian) history from the age of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, through the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

31. 1622 Abbas defeats English Navy at Hormuz, expels British from Persian Gulf

32. 1698 Baloch tribe invades Kerman

33. 1717 Afghans take Khorasan

34. 1722 Afghan army captures Isfahan

35. 1730-1738 Nadir Shah retakes eastern Persia, conquers as far as Delhi

36. 1736 Former slave Nadir Afshar crowned Shah of Iran

37. 1736-1794 Afsharid Dynasty

38. 1794-1925 Qajar Dynasty

39. 1804-1813 First Russo-Persian War; Russia takes Georgia and the Caucasus

40. 1826-1828 Second Russo-Persian War; Russia gets naval access to Caspian Sea

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