The Qajar Dynasty (1789–1925)

The Qajars ruled Iran from Tehran from 1789 to 1925. Their era saw wars with Russia, loss of the Caucasus, foreign concessions, the Tobacco Protest and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911, which gave Iran its first parliament.

Pages in this era

1. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
2. The Battle of Krtsanisi and Sack of Tiflis (1795)
3. Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
4. The Qajar Court and Harem
5. The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813
6. The Battle of Aslanduz (1812)
7. The Treaty of Golestan (1813)
8. Abbas Mirza and the First Reforms
9. The Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828
10. The Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828)
11. The Death of Griboyedov (1829)
12. Mohammad Shah and the Siege of Herat
13. The Bab and the Babi Movement
14. Tahirih (Qurrat al-Ayn)
15. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
16. Amir Kabir
17. Dar al-Funun: Iran’s First Modern School
18. The Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857)
19. How Iran Lost Herat
20. The Great Persian Famine of 1870–1872
21. The Reuter Concession (1872)
22. Naser al-Din Shah’s Journeys to Europe
23. The Tobacco Protest (1891–1892)
24. Mirza Malkam Khan and Early Reformers
25. The Assassination of Naser al-Din Shah (1896)
26. Photography in Qajar Iran
27. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
28. Taj al-Saltaneh
29. The D’Arcy Concession and the Discovery of Oil (1908)
30. The Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)
31. The First Majlis and the Constitution of 1906
32. The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907
33. Mohammad Ali Shah and the Bombardment of the Majlis
34. The Siege of Tabriz and Sattar Khan
35. The Constitutionalists Take Tehran (1909)
36. The Bakhtiari and the Revolution
37. Morgan Shuster and the Russian Ultimatum (1911)
38. Women in the Constitutional Revolution
39. Iran in the First World War
40. The Persian Famine of 1917–1919
41. Mirza Kuchik Khan and the Jangali Movement
42. The Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
43. The 1921 Coup: Reza Khan and Seyyed Zia
44. The End of the Qajar Dynasty (1925)
45. Qajar Art, Photography and Society