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Succession

Iran · House / House of Pahlavi. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1925–1941Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1925

Pahlavi30 October 1925

Tehran · House / House of Pahlavi

Succeeds as Shah of Iran, overthrows the Kajar Dynasty & is proclaimed Shah

PahlaviDecember 1925

House / House of Pahlavi

Succeeds as Shah of Iran

1941

Pahlavi16 September 1941

Tehran · House / House of Pahlavi

Succeeds as Shah of Iran. Reza Shah is deposed and his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, is installed by an invasion of allied British and Soviet troops

Names involved

Pahlavi

Provenance

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