Ruler · 1919 – 1980

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Lived 1919 – 1980; monarch, politician. Shah of Persian Empire, 1941 – 1979; also in the line of Pahlavi dynasty and Pahlavi Iran.

Wikidata's English label: Mohammad Reza I of Iran.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1919 – 1980; 61 years
In office: 38 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

Shah

Persian Empire · the 51st of 51 dated reigns · 530 BCE – 1979 · read from the line of Pahlavi dynasty

47 before

Ebrahim Afshar1748

Shahrokh Shah1748 – 1760

Reza Shah1925 – 1941

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi1941 – 1979

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1941 – 1979 · 38 years · came to it aged 22

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1979; they died in 1980

Also in the line of Pahlavi dynasty (2nd of 2) and Pahlavi Iran (2nd of 2).

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