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| 1 | 1921 | - 1921: Little known military officer, Reza Khan, seizes power
- 1921: Irans's Fourth Majlis (1921-23)
Elections for the fourth Majlis was held in 1918 but the assembly was practically inaugurated after Reza Shah's coup d'etat of July 1921.
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| 2 | 1923 | - 1923: Irans's Fifth Majlis 1923 - 1925+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 3 | 1925 | - 1925: Beginning of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- 1925: Qajar Dynasty Ended
- 1925: Qajar Dynasty: End of Sultan Ahmed Shah (corpulent 12 year son of Muhammad) 1909 - 1925
- 1925: Beginning of Reza Shah rule 1925 - 1941
- 1925: In negotiations, clergy rejects republic; agrees to Reza as Shah and Declared "Reza Shah" by Majlis
- 1925: Irans's Sixth Majlis 1925 - 1927+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 4 | 1927 | - 1927: Irans's Seventh Majlis 1927 - 1929+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 5 | 1929 | - 1929: Irans's Eighth Majlis 1929 - 1931+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 6 | 1931 | - 1931: Irans's Ninth Majlis 1931 - 1933+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 7 | 1933 | - 1933: Irans's Tenth Majlis 1933 - 1935+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 8 | 1935 | - 1935: Reza Shah changed Country's name from "Persia" to "Iran"
- 1935: Reza Shah moves against religious authority; wearing of veil banned in 1935
- 1935: Troops massacre hundreds of protestors in Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad
- 1935: Irans's Eleventh Majlis 1935 - 1937+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 9 | 1937 | - 1937: Irans's Twelfth Majlis 1937 - 1939+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 10 | 1939 | - 1939: Irans's Thirteenth Majlis 1939 - 1941+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 11 | 1941 | - 1941: End of Reza Shah rule 1925 - 1941
- 1941: Pahlavi Dynasty: Beginning of Muhammad Reza Shah rule 1941 - 1979
- 1941: Irans's Fourteenth Majlis 1941 - 1944+/-
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| 12 | 1944 | - 1944: Fifteenth Majlis 1944 - 1947+/-
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| 13 | 1947 | - 1947: Irans's Sixteenth Majlis 1947 - 1950+/-
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| 14 | 1950 | - 1950: Irans's Seventeenth Majlis 1950 - 1953+/-
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| 15 | 1951 | - 1951: Muhammad Mossadeq and second constitutional revolution
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| 16 | 1953 | - 1953: Shah flees to Rome, but is reinstalled with American CIA help
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| 17 | 1961 | - 1961: During the 21st Majlis elections (1961), women for the first time obtained suffrage right and six women were elected to the parliament.
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| 18 | 1963 | - 1963: "White Revolution" incenses clergy; Ayatollah Khomeini is jailed for first time
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| 19 | 1964 | - 1964: Khomeini released from jail; promptly resumes criticism of Shah and SOFA
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| 20 | 1971 | - 1971: celebration of 2,500 years of empire at Persepolis
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| 21 | 1979 | - 1979: Pahlavi Dynasty Ended
- 1979: Pahlavi Dynasty: End of Muhammad Reza Shah rule 1941 - 1979
- 1979: Shah flees Jan 16; Khomeini arrives Feb. 1; Islamic Revolution begins
- 1979: Islamic Revolution and Establishment of Islamic Republic
- 14 Feb 1979: First seizure of US Embassy: Feb. 14, 1979 -- militants retreat
- 14 Nov 1979: Seizure of US Embassy: Nov 4, 1979 after Shah admitted to US for treatment
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| 22 | 1980 | - 22 Sep 1980: Saddam Hussein and Iraq invade Iran
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| 23 | 1981 | - 20 Jan 1981: American hostages released
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| 24 | 1988 | - 3 Jul 1988: Iran Air flight 655, flight of an Iranian airliner that was shot down by the USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on board.
- 18 Jul 1988: Iran agrees to UN resolution to end war with Iraq; 750,000 Iranians died
- 20 Aug 1988: The Iran–Iraq War ends
The Iran–Iraq War ends in a stalemate
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| 25 | 1989 | - 4 Jun 1989: Ayatollah Khomeini dies; Khamenei becomes new Supreme Leader
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| 26 | 1997 | - 23 May 1997: Seyyed Mohammad Khatami was elected president on May 23, 1997
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| 27 | 2001 | - 8 Jun 2001: Seyyed Mohammad Khatami was elected president again on June 8, 2001
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| 28 | 2005 | - Jun 2005: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Elected.
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