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| c. 1450 |
| | | Herat, under Timurid princes, succeeds Tabriz as the main centre of Persian art | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The lively realism of Kamal-ud-din Bihzad lays the basis of both the Persian and the Mughal schools of painting | |
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| 1501 |
| | | The 14-year-old Ismail I is enthroned as shah of a new Persian dynasty, the Safavids | |
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| 1587 |
| | | 16-year-old Abbas I, subsequently one of the greatest of shahs, inherits the throne of Persia | |
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| 1598 |
| | | Shah Abbas builds up Isfahan as a spectacular new capital of the Persian empire | |
|  | Friday Mosque, Isfahan
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| 1736 |
| | | The leader of a gang of tribal brigands seizes the Persian throne and takes the name Nadir Shah | |
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| 1818 |
| | | A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan | |
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| c. 1901 |
| | | A stele is found at Susa, in Iran, giving the text of the Code of Hammurabi | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Burman Oil Company, developing a concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy, discovers oil in Iran | |
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| 1921 |
| | | An army officer, Reza Khan, becomes war minister after seizing control of Tehran with his Cossack brigade | |
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