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Events on Friday 16 July 1909 1
1909Constitutionalist forces capture TehranShah Mohammad Ali deposed, constitution restored in PersiaConstitutionalist militias from Gilan and Isfahan seized Tehran on 16 July 1909, ending Shah Mohammad Ali Qajar's suspension of Persia's constitution. The shah was deposed and exiled to Russia, and his young son Ahmad Shah was installed on the throne under a restored parliament. The episode marked a decisive phase of the Persian Constitutional Revolution.