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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Initially seeking to modernise Iran, his style of governance became more dictatorial over the course of his reign. His reign saw the Second Herat War (1856), the subsequent Anglo-Persian War (1857) and internal unrest, Tobacco Protest (1890-1891).
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politics · Shah of Iran from 1848 to 1896 · monarch · politician · photographer · poet · painter · also Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Soltān-e Sāhebgherān, Qebleh-ye 'ālam, Zell'ollah, Islampanah, Shah-e Shaheed
Born 16 July 1831 · Died 1 May 1896 · Q159416
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1992· 1 entry
Movie Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema (Once Upon a Time, Cinema) written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and 1984 Kamal ol-Molk directed by Ali Hatami
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1976· 1 entry
TV series Soltan-e Sahebgharan and also in 1984 TV series Amir Kabir
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1898· 1 entry
25 years after the meeting with Naser al-Din Shah
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1896· 1 entry
Died 1896-05-01.
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1890· 2 entries
Won: Sweden-Norway with Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class, 1873 (March 1890).
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Granted a 50-year concession on the purchase, sale, and processing of all tobacco in the country, which led to a national boycott of tobacco and the withdrawal of the concession
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1889· 2 entries
Won: Kingdom of Bavaria with Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1889 (1889).
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Won: Kingdom of Württemberg with Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class, 1873 (1889).
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1878· 1 entry
In English (Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1879), Internet Archive (Digitized by Google)
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1873· 4 entries
Won: United Kingdom with Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class, 1873 (June 1873).
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Naser al-Din Shah met a member of the Rothschild family, “a Jew who is exceedingly rich,” as he recalls in his travelogue
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And then again in 1878 (when he saw a Royal Navy Fleet Review), and finally in 1889 and was reportedly amazed with the technology he saw
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Naser ad-Din Shah was appointed by Queen Victoria a Knight of the Order of the Garter, the highest English order of chivalry
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1872· 1 entry
Popular pressure forced him to withdraw one concession involving permission to construct such complexes as railways and irrigation works throughout Iran
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1868· 1 entry
Won: Netherlands with Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, 1862 (1868).
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1859· 1 entry
Won: Austrian Empire (1859).
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1857· 1 entry
Won: Belgium with Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1889 (August 1857).
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1856· 1 entry
Naser ad-Din Shah launched the Second Herat War to reassert Qajar suzerainty over Herat, a strategically vital city state in western Afghanistan that Iran had long claimed as part of its historic sphere
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1855· 1 entry
Won: French Empire with Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1889 (1855).
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1852· 1 entry
Naser al-Din dismissed and executed Amir Kabir, the famous Iranian reformer
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1848· 2 entries
And he ascended to the Sun Throne with the help of Amir Kabir
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Career landmark: shah (1848–1896).
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1831· 1 entry
Born 1831-07-16.
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