{"slug": "qazvin", "label": "Qazvin", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qazvin", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181578", "qid": "Q181578", "description": "city in Qazvin Province, Iran", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1043, 1578], "span_label": ["1043 CE", "1578 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "safavid-dynasty", "label": "Safavid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "safavid-iran", "label": "Safavid Iran", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greater-khorasan", "label": "Greater Khorasan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seljuq-dynasty", "label": "Seljuq dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moscow", "label": "Moscow", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-moscow", "label": "Grand Duchy of Moscow", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ivan-the-terrible", "label": "Ivan the Terrible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "english-people", "label": "English people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herat", "label": "Herat", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1043, "year_label": "1043 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Seljuqs under Tughril Beg expel the Oghuz Turks from Khorasan and conquer Qazvin (modern Iran). They become the new masters of the Ziyarid dynasty (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365591040#Arabian_Empire", "title": "1043", "revid": 1365591040, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 1523, "year_label": "1523 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – Mirza Shah Hossein, Grand Vizier of Persia since 1514, is assassinated in Qazvin (now in Iran) by Shia nobles of the Qizilbash sect, and replaced by Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561167#April–June", "title": "1523", "revid": 1369561167, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1556, "year_label": "1556 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – In Qazvin, the Shah of Iran Tahmasp I, becomes enraged with the sexual orientation of his son Ismail II, and sends Ismail to Afghanistan to serve as the Iranian governor of Herat province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320371006#April–June", "title": "1556", "revid": 1320371006, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1562, "year_label": "1562 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson has an audience with Ivan the Terrible in Moscow, before departing the city on April 27 and continuing his second expedition through the Grand Duchy of Moscow to Qazvin, capital of the Safavid dynasty in Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362000458#January–March", "title": "1562", "revid": 1362000458, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Ismail Mirza, who has proclaimed himself the Shah of Safavid Iran, marches into the capital at Qazvin and ascends the throne as Shah Ismail II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#July–September", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1578, "year_label": "1578 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – Mohammad Khodabanda, older brother of the late Shah Ismail II, begins his reign as the new Shah of Persia (now Iran) after entering the Persian capital at Qazvin, after removing his sister Pari Khan Khanum, who had exercised regal authority after Ismail's death. His first act as ruler is to have Pari Khan Khanum strangled to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356931160#January–March", "title": "1578", "revid": 1356931160, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}