{"slug": "tehran", "label": "Tehran", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3616", "qid": "Q3616", "description": "capital city of Iran", "entries": 21, "years": 19, "span": [1848, 2025], "span_label": ["1848 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Teheran"], "related": [{"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "hamas", "label": "Hamas", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottawa", "label": "Ottawa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zurich", "label": "Zurich", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diplomacy", "label": "Diplomacy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yerevan", "label": "Yerevan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "joseph-stalin", "label": "Joseph Stalin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "winston-churchill", "label": "Winston Churchill", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franklin-d-roosevelt", "label": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Mohammad Shah Qajar dies in Tehran, Iran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368332899#Death", "title": "1848 in Iran", "revid": 1368332899, "section": "Death"}}, {"year": 1853, "year_label": "1853 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was born in Tehran", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354313141#Births", "title": "1853 in Iran", "revid": 1354313141, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Tadj ol-Molouk, Empress consort of Iran, and her daughters appear publicly in Tehran without a veil, leading to its abolition in the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#Date_unknown", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – WWII: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, to discuss war strategy. On November 30, they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#November", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Arab states of the Persian Gulf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#January", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – An Iraqi Airways airliner was hijacked by three Kurdish gunmen, shortly after taking off from Mosul to Baghdad with 93 people on board. The hijackers (Ahmad Hasan, Taha Naimi and Faud al-Qeitan) demanded that 85 Kurdish political prisoners be released, that they receive five million dollars, and that they be flown to Iran. After the plane made a forced landing in Tehran on a blocked runway, a gunbattle ensued between Iraqi security guards onboard and the gunmen. One passenger were killed and ten others wounded, including Hasan, who later died of his wounds. Taimi and al-Qeitan were executed a month later by a firing squad in Iran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246776803#March", "title": "1975 in Iran", "revid": 1246776803, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Tehran, killing 122, wounding over 200.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#September", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 4", "text": "November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 500 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#November", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1980, "year_label": "1980 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Canadian Caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran, as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, on Swissair.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363797378#January", "title": "1980", "revid": 1363797378, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1980, "year_label": "1980 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363797378#May", "title": "1980", "revid": 1363797378, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – Iran dropped a demand that the United States deposit 24 billion dollars in gold into an Algerian bank as a condition of the release of 52 U.S. Embassy workers being held hostage in Tehran, settling instead for the release of the nearly 8 billion dollars of Iranian assets that had been frozen in American banks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350002385#January", "title": "1981 in Iran", "revid": 1350002385, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini: Eight people are killed and hundreds injured in a human crush during the viewing of the body of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini at the Musalla in Tehran, two days after his death at the age of 89 in Tehran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#June", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June", "text": "6–14 June – Tajikistan takes part in the 1993 ECO Cup in Tehran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1289241621#June", "title": "1993 in Tajikistan", "revid": 1289241621, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January", "text": "In Teheran, India, Iran and Afghanistan signed an agreement to give Indian goods heading for central Asia and Afghanistan similar preferential treatment and tariff reductions at Chabahar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351771989#January", "title": "2004 in Afghanistan", "revid": 1351771989, "section": "January"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, en route from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia crashes into the Jannatabad village in Qazvin Province; killing all 168 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#July", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434549#September", "title": "2012", "revid": 1373434549, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 7", "text": "June 7 – Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five Islamic State (ISIL) terrorists against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 more wounded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#June", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#November", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated at his residence in Tehran, Iran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#July", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 31", "text": "31 July – Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in a missile strike in Tehran, Iran, after attending the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel admits responsibility for the killing on 23 December.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363692809#July", "title": "2024 in Israel", "revid": 1363692809, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 10", "text": "10 April – A Boeing 737-500 passenger aircraft operated by Varesh Airlines veers off the runway while landing at Dushanbe International Airport from Tehran due to adverse weather conditions. No injuries are reported.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329533503#April", "title": "2025 in Tajikistan", "revid": 1329533503, "section": "Events › April"}}]}