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| 1 | 1921 | - 1921: Little known military officer, Reza Khan, seizes power
- 1921: Irans's Fourth Majlis (1921-23)
Elections for the fourth Majlis was held in 1918 but the assembly was practically inaugurated after Reza Shah's coup d'etat of July 1921.
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| 2 | 1923 | - 1923: Irans's Fifth Majlis 1923 - 1925+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 3 | 1925 | - 1925: Beginning of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- 1925: Qajar Dynasty Ended
- 1925: Qajar Dynasty: End of Sultan Ahmed Shah (corpulent 12 year son of Muhammad) 1909 - 1925
- 1925: Beginning of Reza Shah rule 1925 - 1941
- 1925: In negotiations, clergy rejects republic; agrees to Reza as Shah and Declared "Reza Shah" by Majlis
- 1925: Irans's Sixth Majlis 1925 - 1927+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 4 | 1927 | - 1927: Irans's Seventh Majlis 1927 - 1929+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 5 | 1929 | - 1929: Irans's Eighth Majlis 1929 - 1931+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 6 | 1931 | - 1931: Irans's Ninth Majlis 1931 - 1933+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 7 | 1933 | - 1933: Irans's Tenth Majlis 1933 - 1935+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 8 | 1935 | - 1935: Reza Shah changed Country's name from "Persia" to "Iran"
- 1935: Reza Shah moves against religious authority; wearing of veil banned in 1935
- 1935: Troops massacre hundreds of protestors in Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad
- 1935: Irans's Eleventh Majlis 1935 - 1937+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 9 | 1937 | - 1937: Irans's Twelfth Majlis 1937 - 1939+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 10 | 1939 | - 1939: Irans's Thirteenth Majlis 1939 - 1941+/- during Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule
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| 11 | 1941 | - 1941: End of Reza Shah rule 1925 - 1941
- 1941: Pahlavi Dynasty: Beginning of Muhammad Reza Shah rule 1941 - 1979
- 1941: Irans's Fourteenth Majlis 1941 - 1944+/-
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| 12 | 1944 | - 1944: Fifteenth Majlis 1944 - 1947+/-
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| 13 | 1947 | - 1947: Irans's Sixteenth Majlis 1947 - 1950+/-
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| 14 | 1950 | - 1950: Irans's Seventeenth Majlis 1950 - 1953+/-
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| 15 | 1951 | - 1951: Muhammad Mossadeq and second constitutional revolution
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| 16 | 1953 | - 1953: Shah flees to Rome, but is reinstalled with American CIA help
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| 17 | 1961 | - 1961: During the 21st Majlis elections (1961), women for the first time obtained suffrage right and six women were elected to the parliament.
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| 18 | 1963 | - 1963: "White Revolution" incenses clergy; Ayatollah Khomeini is jailed for first time
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| 19 | 1964 | - 1964: Khomeini released from jail; promptly resumes criticism of Shah and SOFA
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| 20 | 1971 | - 1971: celebration of 2,500 years of empire at Persepolis
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