Iran
202 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Iran, 1796 CE to 2025 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.
18th century
3 entries, 1796 CE to 1797 CE
19th century
121 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 1800May 13 – Morteza Ansari, Iranian Shia jurist.Iransource
- 1804Russo-Persian War (1804–13) begins.Iransource
- 1812? – Mirza Yusuf Ashtiani, Iranian politician.Iransource
- 1817November 12 – Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.Iransource
- 1824? – Emam Gholi Khan Haji Ilkhani, great ilkhan.Iransource
- 1828Russo-Persian War (1826–28) finished.Iransource
- 1831July 16 – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar born in TabrizIransource
- 1834October 24 – Mohammad Shah Qajar ascends to the throne after the death of Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar.Iransource
- 1838? – Shokouh al-Saltaneh, Iranian Qajar princess.Iransource
- 1843November 27 – Fazlullah Nouri, Iranian Shi'a theologian.Iransource
- 1846June 18 – Abdollah Mirza Dara, Iranian poet and Qajar prince.Iransource
- 1849? – Báb, founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh.Iransource
- 1852August 27 – Táhirih, influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran.Iransource
- 1855January 14 – Joseph Cochran, American missionary.Iransource
- 1858? – Fakhr Jahan Khanum, daughter of Fath ‘Ali Shah and calligrapher.Iransource
- 1862December 13 – Soltan-Ali Vazir-e Afkham, Iranian politician.Iransource
- 1866? – Anoushirvan Khan Eyn ol-Molk, Iranian courtier.Iransource
- 1870December 9 – Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, Russian orientalist, historian and philologist.Iransource
- 1874? – Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari, Iranian politician.Iransource
- 1877August 1 – Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Iranian writer and politician.Iransource
- 1881? – Hakob Hovnatanyan, Armenian artist.Iransource
- 1885? – Nader Mirza Qajar, Qajar writer.Iransource
- 1888? – Parviz Mirza (Qajar prince), Iranian Qajar-era prince.Iransource
- 1892May 29 – Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.Iransource
- 1895? – Yousuf Khan Mostashar al-Dowleh, Iranian diplomat.Iransource
20th century
64 entries, 1900 CE to 1990 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 1900Iran at the 1900 Summer Olympics.Iransource
- 1901April 3 – Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Persian ambassador.Iransource
- 19031903 Isfahan anti-Baháʼí riots.Iransource
- 1903? – Mirza Mahmud Khan Hakim ol-Molk, Iranian politician and physician.Iransource
- 1905Constitutionalization attempts in Iran.Iransource
- 1905August 18 – Joseph Cochran, American missionary.Iransource
- 1907August – an Anglo-Russian agreement divided Iran into two zones of interests: a Russian zone in the North and a British zone in the South.Iransource
- 1907January 3 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar died in Tehran at the age of 53.Iransource
- 1909July 16 – Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last king of Qajar dynasty, ascended to throne.Iransource
- 1911December 11 – Russian Invasion of Tabriz and two other northern cities of Iran begins.Iransource
- 1912April 29 – Subh-i-Azal, Persian religious leader.Iransource
- 1915December 17 – Battle of Robat Karim.Iransource
- 1916? – Touran Agha Khanoum Qajar, Iranian poet; daughter of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and Khazen al-Douleh.Iransource
- 1920December 12 – Salim Neisari, Iranian writer.Iransource
- 1923November 10 – 1923 Persian legislative election.Iransource
- 1929September 6 – 1929 Jask Imperial Airways de Havilland Hercules crash.Iransource
- 1930May 7 – The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to 3000 people were killed.Iransource
- 1951March 16 – Mohammad Sadeghi (footballer, born 1952), Iranian footballer.Iransource
- 1955Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical SciencesIransource
- 1958April 6 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari is divorced by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, after she is unable to produce any children.Iransource
- 1964Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested in November 1964, held for half a year and sent into exile where he remained for 15 years (mostly in Najaf, Iraq), until the revolution.Iransource
- 19729 February – The 1972 Iran blizzard ended after seven days, during which as much as 26 feet of snow buried villages in northwestern, central and southern Iran. An estimated 4,000 people were killed, particularly in the area around Ardakan.Iransource
- 197719 December – The Bob–Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman province, killing 584–665 people and causing local destruction.Iransource
- 197816 September – The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affected central Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.Iransource
- 1981June 11 – The 6.6 Mw Golbaf earthquake affected the Kerman province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII+ (Severe), killing 1,400–3,000, and injuring many.Iransource
21st century
14 entries, 2002 CE to 2025 CE
- 2002Creation of Iran’s primary nuclear reactor in Bushehr gets under way with the assist of Russian engineers.Iransource
- 200212 February – Iran Air Tours Flight 956 crashes in Tehran.Iransource
- 2003July 11 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer murdered by the Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. (b. 1949)Iransource
- 2004July 20 – Ehsan Haddadi wins gold with a 62.14m discus throw.Iransource
- 2005April 12 – Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian Man of letters, writer, translator, scholar and university professor.Iransource
- 2006October 16 – Iranian runner Hossein Fazeli wins world cross-country title in Sweden Sunday.Iransource
- 2006The International Atomic Energy Agency has announced it has evidence within its report for the Thursday meeting that Iran obtained documents showing how to mold highly enriched grade uranium into the core of warheads.Iransource
- 2009March 21 – Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.Iransource
- 2011January 4 – Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot.Iransource
- 2012June 28 – Vice President of Iran Mohammad-Reza Rahimi delivers an antisemitic speech at a United Nations conference on the illegal drug trade saying that a central Jewish text, the Talmud, was responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world; his speech draws condemnation from U.N. and the European Union diplomats.Iransource
- 2015February 2 – Iran's Fajr satellite is successfully placed in the orbit.Iransource
- 2016January 12 – Iranian naval forces seize and detain two small U.S. vessels which "allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters." The 10 American sailors are held at an Iranian military base on Farsi Island and released the following day with their boats.Iransource
- 2016January 16 – After the IAEA confirms that Iran met the relevant requirements under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), all nuclear-related sanctions are lifted by the UN, the EU, and the United States as part of "Implementation Day."Iransource
- 202516 June – The headquarters of the state broadcaster IRIB in Tehran is bombed by Israel during a live broadcast, killing at least one person.Iransource