Persian Empire Timeline
- 2000-1800 BC, Aryan migration from Southern Russia to Near East
- The Medes
- Deioces, 728BC - 675BC
Phraortes (Kashtariti), 675BC - 653BC
Scythian interregnum
Cyaxares, 625BC - 585BC
Astyages, 585BC - 550BC
- 628 BC, Birth of Zartosht, religious prophet
- Achaemenid Dynasty
Kourosh Kabir “Cyrus II” (Cyrus the Great)
- Achaemenes
Teispes
Kourosh I ‘Cyrus I’
Kambujieh ‘Cambyses I’
Kourosh Kabir ‘Cyrus the Great’ Start of Achaemenid Empire, 559BC -530BC
Kambujieh II Cambyses II’, 530BC - 522BC
Bardia ‘Smerdis’ (the Magian), 522BC
Dariush I the Great ‘Darius the Great’, 522BC - 486BC
Khashyar Shah, Xerxes I”, 485BC - 465BC
Ardeshir I ‘Artaxerxes I’ , 465BC - 425BC
Khashayar II ‘Xerxes II’, 425BC - 424BC (45 days)
Darius II, 423BC - 404BC
Ardeshir II ‘ArtaxerxesII’, 404BC - 359BC
Ardeshir III ‘Artaxerxes III’, 359BC - 339BC
Arses, 338BC - 336BC
Darius III, 336BC - 330BC
Relief of Khashayar Shah ‘Xerxes’ the Great on the wall Persepolis Palace
- Hellenic Period
- Alexander (III), 330BC - 323BC
- Philip III (Arrhidaeus), 323BC - 317BC
Alexander IV, 317BC - 312BC
- Seleucids
- Seleucus I, 312BC - 281BC
Antiochus I Soter, 281BC - 261BC (coregent)
Seleucus, 280BC - 267BC (coregent)
Antiochus II Theos, 261BC - 246BC
Sleucus II Callinicus, 246BC - 238BC
- The Parthian Dynasty
- Sassanian Dynasty
- Ardeshir, (224 A.D.)
Shapur I (241-272 A.D)
Khosroe I (531-651, A.D)
- Abasid Dynasty (651-1055)
- Turkish Dynasty “Timurid” (1380-1501)
- Mongol Dynasty (1220-1335)
- Safavids (1501-1722)
- Afghans (1722-1736)
- Afshar (1736-1747)
- Zand (1750-1794)
- Qajar Dynasty (1794 - 1925)
- Pahlavi Dynasty (1925 - 1979)
