- Constitutional Movement (1800s-1922)– Qajar Dynasty
- Reza Shah (1922- 1942) – Pahlavi Dynasty
- Mohammad Reza Shah (1942- 1979) – Pahlavi Dynasty
- Post Revolution (1979-1997)
- President Khatami – Reform Movement (1997-2005)
- Present
- 1837 The first school for girls is established by American missionaries in the city of Urumia. Only Christian girls had right to join this school.
- 1870s Girls from Muslim families join the school established by American missionaries in Tehran.
- 1900-1922 Constitutional Movement (Qajar Dynasty) – Women's underground political participation in the movement
- 1906 The first constitution in the country is granted by Muzaffar Al-din Shah. The first Majlis (parliament) was convened on October 7, 1906.
- 1907 First women's NGOs are established in Tehran. Two of them were Women's Association for Freedom (Anjoman Azadi Zanan) and Women's Secret Union (Ettehadie Gheibi-e Zanan).
- 1907 First primary schools for girls established in Tehran. These schools were often financed by women's NGOs.
- 1910–1920 First women's magazines Danesh, Shokufe and Women's Language are published.
- 1918 First Teacher Education College for girls is established in Tehran.
- 1922 Reza Shah's crowning (Pahlavi Dynasty, 1925-1979)
- 1920-1930 Women's NGOs and movement are very active in Tehran and other major cities in these years. These NGOs finance schools, health clinics for women and cultural activities. 1934 – Reza Shah banns the veil.
- 1935 Fatemeh Sayyah became the first woman to join the faculty of Tehran University.
- 1920s-1960s First women's press, schools for women, struggles for equal rights for marriage and divorce, right to work, education on health, underground political activities
- 1942 Mohammad Reza Shah's crowning
- 1951 Petition for the right to vote and political freedom
- 1961 White Revolution – women's right to vote
The Shah's suspension of the constitution and his dissolution of the legislature free him to proceed with his plan for modernization, which has been opposed by religious conservatives in the Parliament. The Shah abolishes the practice of sharecropping, nationalizes dwindling forests, gives women voting rights, and starts a massive rural literacy program.
- 1965 Reform in Family Law (right to divorce for women, legal marriage age raised to 18)
- 1969 Reform in Labor Law (ex. maternity leave)
- 1979 Islamic Revolution – Khomeini chosen as the supreme leader – Ratification of Islamic Republic of Iran's Constitution based on Sharia (Islamic laws and guidelines)
- 1980 Compulsory hijab, women's protests
- 1981-1988 State-run massacres of the ‘80s – suppression of the opposition groups
- 1985 Ratification of Islamic Republic of Iran's Penal Code based on Sharia – Change in the Family Law based on Sharia
- 1990s Revival of women's press, Zanan magazine, Farzaneh Academic journal (only venues to discuss the inequalities under the law, suggestions for reforming Islamic laws in favor of women)
- 1992 Ratification of Islamic Republic of Iran's Penal Code based on Sharia
- 1995 Beijing Conference – Clash between women of the state and the grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) participating in the conference – emergence of the discourses of Islamist feminists and secular feminists
- 1997 Election of the reformist President Mohammad Khatami
- 1996-2000 Relative freedom of the press including women's press, first woman serving in the cabinet as the director of Iran's Environmental Organization
- 2000 Ban of more than 100 papers including the Zan (Iran's first women's daily)
- 2001 Start of women's blogs and websites (womeniniran.net)
*Online Campaigns 2001-2006: amendments to the marriage contract (right to divorce, work, choose the place of residence, travel out of the country, and equal division of the properties), state's claim to the international community about the existence of women's shelters, later apologizing for distorting the truth following womeniniran.net letter to the UN, activists succeeded to bring the issues of Iran joining UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to the floor on the parliament (not ratified), saving several women from the death penalty, online fundraising for blood money of Maryam Abedi, (first indirect discussions about abolishing death penalty), women's rights to enter soccer stadiums, no to death by stoning, etc.
- 2003 March 8 International Women's Day – Gathering in Tehran's Laleh Park (first public gathering by women demanding their rights after 1980 protests against compulsory hijab, Open Mike in Tehran's Shafagh Cultural Center – First online conference of Iranian feminists around the globe on gendered stereotypes of "good" mother, "good" daughter, and "good" wife
- 2003 Shirin Ebadi, Iranian women's rights and human's rights activist and lawyer wining the Noble Peace Prize (welcomed by 10,000 people in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport)
- 2004 60% of college students women, formation of Women's Intellectual Coalition
- 2005 June 12 Demonstrations in front of Tehran University demanding equality under the law (2000 participants), Iran's women's movement anthem first chanted
- 2005 July Election of the conservative hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the president
- 2005 Presidential Center for Women's Participations closed, hundreds of books and pamphlets destroyed, opening of the Presidential Center for the Family
- March 8 2006 International Women's day – Gathering in Daneshjoo Park, Tehran (women beaten by policemen)
- June 12 2006 Gathering in Hafte Tir Square, Tehran - Anniversary of June 12, 2005 (women beaten by policewomen)
- 2006 August 27 "1 Million Signatures" campaign
- 2006 October 31 "Abolish Stoning Forever" Campaign
