Timeline of the Sasanian Empire

The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the Persian dynasty which lasted from 224 to 651 AD.

  • 224 – Ardashir I introduces the title Šāhanšāh (king of kings); the Sasanid reign is founded.
  • c. 224–240 – Zoroastrianism belief experiences an era of recovery under the reign of Ardashir I.
  • 230 – The Sassanian army assaults the Roman-controlled fraction of Upper Mesopotamia and lays hands on Nisibis, but fails to capture it.
  • 237–238 – Ardashir I begins another rushes on the Eastern Roman Provinces and occupies Harran and Nisibis.
  • 241 – Coronation of Shapur I.
  • c. 242–273 – Mani makes a journey in Persia.
  • 252–256 – Shapur I moves forward to the Eastern Roman Provinces.
  • c. 259 – Defeat and capture of Valerian by Shapur I.
  • c. 260 – 2nd foray of the Eastern Roman Provinces by Shapur I.
  • c. 261 – Odaenathus, the ruler of Palmyra, stops the triumphant Persian troops coming back home following the looting of Antioch, scores a notable victory while Shapur is absent and drives the Persians back across the Euphrates. He fails to take Ctesiphon and the Persians are victorious.
  • 271 – Coronation of Hormizd I.
  • 273 – Coronation of Bahram I.
  • 274 or 277 – The execution of Mani by influential Zoroastrian high priest Kartir.
  • 276 – Coronation of Bahram II.
  • c. 294 – Narseh’s Paikuli inscription in Iraq next to the Persian frontier.
  • 296 – Narseh raids Armenia, expels Tiridates, and quells the Romans.
  • 297- Roman Emperor Galerius undoes Narseh. The Treaty of Nisibis compels Narseh to abandon Armenia and Mesopotamia.
  • c. 301 – The realm of Armenia is the first nation to accept Christianity as the state religion.
  • 302 – Resignation of Narseh; Coronation of Hormizd II.
  • 309 – Coronation of Shapur II.
  • 325 – Shapur II falls upon Arab people and makes impregnable the empire’s frontiers.
  • 338 – Shapur II retrieves the five regions gave in by Narseh to Rome.
  • 348 – Shapur II seizes Mesopotamia.
  • c. 360 – Fondation of the Kidarite kingdom.
  • 363 – War between Julian and Persian troops follows his back off and demise; the surrendered territories and Nisibis are brought back to Persia.
  • 376 – The armistice signed by Rome and Persia.
  • 379 – Death of Shapur II and the accession of Ardashir II.
  • 383 – Coronation of Shapur III.
  • 399 – Coronation of Yazdegerd I, titled “the Sinner” owing to his efforts to control the influence of Zoroastrian clergy and his leniency towards other believes.
  • 409 – Christian are allowed to publicly worship and to construct churches.[1]
  • 531 – Coronation of Khosrow I.
  • c. 531 – Slaughter and crackdown of the Mazdak's followers.
  • c. 531 – Farming, governmental, military, communal reforms.
  • c. 531 – Conversion of Panchatantra, a Sanskrit-written book-story to Middle Persian.
  • 533 – End of conflict between Persia and Byzantine Empire (the one that started in 524).
  • 541 – Lazic War commences between the Byzantines and the Sassanids for control over Lazica.
  • c. 554 – Procopius, Byzantine expert and observer to the battles between Khosrow I and Justinian I, which he writes in his De bello Persico (Latin tr., 1833), dies.

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