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1834 in Iran

list of events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ20183230 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following lists events that have happened in 1834 in the Qajar dynasty, Iran.

Incumbents

Monarch: Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar (until October 24), Mohammad Shah Qajar (starting October 24)

Events

October 24 – Mohammad Shah Qajar ascends to the throne after the death of Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar.

Death

October 24 – Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, the second king of Qajar dynasty, dies in Isfahan at the age of 62.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1834 in Iran” as list of events. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1834—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iran, list and events can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of events. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20183230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1834.

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This entry incorporates text from “1834 in Iran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.