Geographical Location - Iran

  1. Appearance of Zoroastrian Ditheism
  2. Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
  3. Ardashīr I Establishes the Sāsānian Empire
  4. Armenian Empire Reaches Its Peak Under Tigranes the Great
  5. Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
  6. Babylonian Empire
  7. Battle of Cunaxa
  8. Byzantine-Muslim Wars
  9. Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
  10. Cyrus the Great Founds the Persian Empire
  11. Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
  12. Elamite Empire Rises in Near East
  13. Founding and Flourishing of the Achaemenian Dynasty
  14. Founding of the Ptolemaic Dynasty and Seleucid Kingdom
  15. The French Expedition at Susa Discovers the Hammurabi Code
  16. Ghaznavid Empire
  17. Hurrian Empire
  18. Iran Announces Nationalization of Foreign Oil Interests
  19. Iran Bars Non-Muslims from Cabinet Positions
  20. Iran Calls for Murder of Writer Salman Rushdie
  21. Iran Uses Executions to Establish New Order
  22. Iran-Iraq Conflict Escalates into War
  23. Iran-Iraq War Escalates
  24. Iranian Military in the Twentieth Century
  25. Iranian Revolution
  26. Iranian Revolutionaries Hold Americans Hostage
  27. Iraq Uses Toxic Gas in the Gulf War
  28. Khomeini Calls for Rushdie’s Death
  29. Mongol Empire
  30. Parthian Empire
  31. Persian Empire
  32. Persian Revolution
  33. Persian Wars of Expansion
  34. Persian-Afghan Wars
  35. Proclamation of Teheran Sets Human Rights Goals
  36. Rise of Parthia
  37. Roman Empire
  38. Sāsānid Empire
  39. Scythians Drive the Cimmerians from Central Asia
  40. Shāpūr II Reigns over Sāsānian Empire
  41. Silk Road Opens
  42. Sumerian Civilization Begins in Mesopotamia
  43. Travels of Marco Polo
  44. U.S. Cruiser Vincennes Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
  45. Ubaid Culture Thrives in Mesopotamia
  46. ʿAbbāsid Revolution

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