(3rd millennium - 640 BC)

Untash-gal (c. 1265-45) ,  builds  of Chogha Zanbil near Susa.

Shutruk Nahhunte (c. 1200).  

(Mid - 7th  century BC)  Phraortes subdues the Persians.

612 Cyaraxes joins in the conquest of Assyria. 

549  BC  Cyrus  ( 559 - 30 )  defeats the Medes and founds Achaemenids.

Darius   I   ( 521 - 485 )

Xerxes  I    ( 485 - 465 )

Artaxerxes  I  ( 465 - 424 )

Artaxerxes  III  ( 361 - 338 )

331 BC Alexander the Great   ( d. 323 ) invades Achaemenids Empire and 

Macedonian rulers hold power until 307 BC.

( 305-171 BC, but with only partial control of Iran after c.250 )

( late 3rd century BC  - 224 AD ) 

Mithridates  I  ( 171 - 137 BC )

Mithridates  II  ( 123 - 88 BC )

Gotarzes  ( 38 - 51 AD )

Artabanus  V  ( 208 - 224 AD )

(224 - 651 AD) 

Ardashir  I  ( 224 - 241 AD ) 

Shapur  I  ( 241 - 272  AD ) 

Bahram Gur  ( 420 - 438 AD ) 

Khosroes  II   ( 590 - 628 AD ) 

637 AD the Arabs invade the Sassanian Empire , introducing Islam to Iran 

( 661 - 750 AD )  Capital :  Damascus

( 750 - 908 AD )  Capital :  Baghdad 

( 908 - 1037 ), An Iranian dynasty from the Alburz Mountains

( 1037 - 1220 ) 

Tughril Beg (1037 - 1063 ) invades Persia 

Malik Shah  ( 1072 - 1092 ) 

Sultan Sanjar  ( 1117 - 1157 )

( 1220 - 1335 ) 

Chingiz Khan ( 1206-1227 ) invades Central Asia & Persia 

Hulagu  ( 1256 - 1265 )

Ghazan Khan ( 1295 - 1304 ) 

Uljaitu  (1304 - 1316 ) 

Period of local dynasties such as the Muzaffarids and Jalayirids. 

( 1381 - 1501 ) 

Timur  ( 1381 - 1405 )

Shahrokh ( 1405 - 1447 )

( 1461 - 1491 ) Ottoman Turks entered northwest of Iran and pushed Timurids towards east 

( 1501 - 1722 ) , an Iranian dynasty from Azerbaijan

Shah Isma'il proclaimed in 1501 in Tabriz

Shah Tahmasp ( 1524 - 1576 )

Shah Abbas  I  ( 1587 - 1628 )

Shah Safi    ( 1628 - 1642 )

Shah Abbas  II  ( 1642 - 1666 )

Shah Hossein ( 1694  - 1722 )

( 1722 - 1736 ) The Afghans invade Persia 

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( 1736 - 1747 ) Nader Shah Afshar defeats Afghans and invades Afghanistan and India

Karimkhan-e-Zand  ( 1747 - 1779 )

( 1796 - 1925 )

Agha Muhammad Khan  ( 1796 - 1797 ) founds Qajars dynasty in 1796 and  choose Tehran as the Capital city  of Iran

Fath Ali Shah  ( 1797 - 1834 )

Mohammad Shah ( 1834 - 1848 )

Naseruddin Shah ( 1848 - 1896 )

Mozafaruddin Shah ( 1896 - 1906 ) Constitutional Law was written for the first time in Iran and the first Parliament set up in October 1906

Mohammad Ali Shah (1907 - 1909 )

Ahmad Shah - fall of Qajars( 1909 - 1925 )

( 1925 - 1978 )

Reza Shah Pahlavi  (1925 - 1941 )

Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ( 1941 - 1979 )

Foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in February 1979