Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) , also
Nassereddin Shah Qajar, was the
King of
Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of
Mohammad Shah Qajar and
Malek Jahan Khanom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after
Shapur II of the
Sassanid dynasty and
Tahmasp I of the
Safavid Dynasty. Nasser al-Din Shah had sovereign power for close to 50 years and was also the first Iranian monarch to formally visit Europe.