{"slug": "safavid-dynasty", "label": "Safavid dynasty", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_dynasty", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161205", "qid": "Q161205", "description": "dynasty from Safi-ad-din Ardabili generation and ruler of Safavid Iran (1501–1736)", "entries": 18, "years": 17, "span": [1487, 1749], "span_label": ["1487 CE", "1749 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "isfahan", "label": "Isfahan", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "suleiman-the-magnificent", "label": "Suleiman the Magnificent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenians", "label": "Armenians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tbilisi", "label": "Tbilisi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tabriz", "label": "Tabriz", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "georgia-country", "label": "Georgia (country)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abbas-the-great", "label": "Abbas the Great", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1487, "year_label": "1487 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366465965#Births", "title": "1487", "revid": 1366465965, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – (1 Jumada al-Thani 907 AH) Ismail I is enthroned as the first Shah of Iran, choosing Tabriz as his capital, founding the Safavid dynasty in northern Iran. He declares Shi'ism the official and compulsory religion, under penalty of death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#October–December", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1502, "year_label": "1502 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Ismail I founds the Safavid dynasty and proclaims himself the Shah of Iran after defeating tribes of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367622674#October–December", "title": "1502", "revid": 1367622674, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1524, "year_label": "1524 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Ismail I, Safavid dynasty Shah of Persia (b. 1487)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819061#Deaths", "title": "1524", "revid": 1368819061, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The Ottoman army under Suleiman the Magnificent captures the city of Baghdad from the Safavids without a struggle, beginning almost 400 years of Ottoman rule of what is now Iraq.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#October–December", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"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": 1571, "year_label": "1571 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (d. 1629)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369367955#Births", "title": "1571", "revid": 1369367955, "section": "Births"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18): Shāh Abbas I of Persia's Safavid army captures the city of Yerevan from the Ottoman Empire after a siege. At this time the Shāh begins the expulsion of Armenians from Jolfa to New Julfa in his capital of Isfahan; more than 25,000 die during the exodus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#April–June", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Easter – Persian Safavid hordes, led by Shah Abbas the Great, kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#Date_unknown", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Abbas I's Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns occur as progressive combats. Abbas I of Persia captures Tbilisi following a conflict with the Georgian soldiers and the general populace. After the capture of Tbilisi, Abbas I confronts an Ottoman army. The battle takes place near Lake Gökçe, and results in a Safavid victory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his sons capture the city of Kandahar from the Safavids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#January–March", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1679, "year_label": "1679 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Armenia strikes near Yerevan, at the time part of the Persian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366669253#April–June", "title": "1679", "revid": 1366669253, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1694, "year_label": "1694 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – The coronation of Sultan Husayn of the Safavid dynasty as the Shah of Persia takes place in Isfahan, eight days after the death of his father Suleiman I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353084901#July–September", "title": "1694", "revid": 1353084901, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – Mirwais Hotak takes control of Kandahar (in Afghanistan) by murdering the Persian governor, Gurgin Khan, known also as George XI.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#April–June", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – Battle of Gulnabad in Persia: The Pashtun people of Afghanistan, led by Mahmud Hotak, decisively defeat forces of the Persian Safavid dynasty, precipitating its fall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#January–March", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The six-month-long Siege of Isfahan ends, when the Safavid capital Isfahan capitulates to the Afghan rebels. Safavid Sultan Husayn abdicates, and acknowledges Mahmud Hotak as the new Shah of Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#October–December", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Mir Sayyid Muhammad, a grandson of the Shah Suleiman I of Persia, overthrows Shahrokh Shah to become the Shah of Persia, and briefly restores the Safavid dynasty as Suleiman II; his reign ends less than three months later, on March 20, when Kurdish tribesmen restore Shahrokh to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#October–December", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}