Persian ruler Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar dismisses his liberal prime minister, Mirza Taqi Amir Kabir, and sends him into exile. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
Abbas Amanat, Pivot of the Universe: Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 141-42.