Dates of the prophet Zoroaster _________________________________________________ ?

THE ACAEMENIAN DYNASTY _______________________________________________ 559-330 B.C.

Death of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenians _____________________________ 530 B.C.

Rule of Darius, the second great Achaemenian ruler ___________________________________522-486 B.C.

Xerxes, the king _____________________________________________________________ 486-465 B.C.

Alexander, the Macedonian, conquers Persia _______________________________________330 B.C.

THE SELEUCID DYNASTY __________________________________________________ 312-247 B.C.

THE PARTHIAN DYNASTY _________________________________________________ 247 B.C.-A.D. 226

THE SASSANID DYNASTY __________________________________________________ 226-651

Rule of Ardeshir, the founder of the Sassanids _______________________________________ 226-240

Death of the Sassanid king Shapur 1 ______________________________________________ 272

Death of the prophet Mani, the founder of Manichaesim _______________________________ 274

Mazdakism ________________________________________________________________ end of 5th and 6th c.

Rule of Chosroes I (Anosharvan) ________________________________________________ 531-579

Sassanid invasion of Byzantiun __________________________________________________ 603

Sassanid conquest of Alexandria _________________________________________________ 619

Death of Chosroes II __________________________________________________________ 628

Arab conquest of Persia ________________________________________________________ 637-651

Battle of Nahavand ____________________________________________________________ 642

Death of the last Sassanid king, Yazdegird ___________________________________________ 651

Period of the rule of the Umayyad caliphate over Persia _________________________________ 642- 750

Death of the first Shi-ite Imam and fourth Sunni caliph, Ali ebn Abu Taleb ___________________ 661

Death of the Third Shi-ite Imam Hosayn at Karbela ____________________________________ 680

Revolt of the Persian general Abu Moslem in Khorasan agains the Umayyads _________________ 747

The Abbasid caliphate __________________________________________________________ 750- 1258

Death of the Sixth Shi-ite Imam Jafar al-Sadeq ________________________________________ 765

Death of the Eighth Shi-ite Imam Reza ______________________________________________ 818

THE TAHIRID DYNASTY ______________________________________________________ 821-873

THE SAFFARID DYNASTY ____________________________________________________ 867-1163

Beginning of the "lesser concealmet" of the Twelfth Shi-ite Imam ___________________________ 874

THE SAMANID DYNASTY _____________________________________________________ 829-999

THE BUYID DYNASTY ________________________________________________________ 945-1055

Death of the philosopher Farabi ____________________________________________________ 950

THE GHAZNAVID DYNASTY __________________________________________________ 977-1186

Composition of the greatest epic poem of the Persian language, the Shahnameh of Ferdausi ________ 994

Death of the philosopher-scientist Avicenna (Ebn Sina) ___________________________________ 1037

THE SELJUQ DYNASTY _______________________________________________________ 1040-1220

The journey of the philosopher and poet Naser-e-Khosrau through the East ___________________ 1045- 1052

Death of the scientist and historian Biruni ______________________________________________ 1050

Death of the theologian and Sufi Ghazzali ______________________________________________ 1111

The Mongol conquest of Persia _____________________________________________________ 1219-1258

The IL-KHANID DYNASTY _____________________________________________________ 1256-1336

Death of the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi _______________________________________________ 1273

Death of the poet and moralist Sa'di __________________________________________________ 1291

Rule of the local dynasties in Persia ___________________________________________________ 1336- 1380

Rule of the world conqueror Tamerlane _______________________________________________ 1380-1404

Death of the suprme lyrical poet of the Persian language Hafez ______________________________ 1389

THE TIMURIDS AND LOCAL DYNASTIES ________________________________________ 1405-1500

Death of the Sufi poet Jami _________________________________________________________1492

THE SAFAVID DYNASTY _______________________________________________________ 1500-1722

Death of the philosopher-gnostic Molla Sadra ___________________________________________ 1640

Afghan invation and rule of Persia ____________________________________________________ 1722-1732

Rule of the king Nader Shah ________________________________________________________ 1736-1747

THE ZAND DYNASTY __________________________________________________________ 1747-1787

THE QAJAR DYNASTY _________________________________________________________ 1787-1925

Death of the prime miniter and reformer Amir Kabir ______________________________________1852

The Persian Constitutional Revolution _________________________________________________ 1905

Foundation of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Reza Shah _________________________________________ 1925

Allied invation of Persia ____________________________________________________________ 1941

Beginning of rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Aryamehr _______________________________ 1941

The Islamic Revolution and the end of the Pahlavi Dynasty __________________________________ 1979

The Death of Ayyatullah Khomeyni ____________________________________________________ 1989

A new Prime minister, Khatami_______________________________________________________1997