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Muhammad is born during this year.
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Muhammad's first revelation is the event in which Muhammad is said to have been visited by the angel Gabriel (Jibril) who revealed a few verses from the Quran.
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Mohammed and his few believers escape to Madinah, after persecution. This is also the start of the lunar Muslim calendar.
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Muhammad gained enough followers to conquer Makkah.
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Muslims from North Africa begin landing on the southern tip of the Liberian peninsula
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Ibn al-Bawwab produces earliest still-existing Qur'an copy on paper, Baghdad
Ibn a-Bawwab was an Arabic calligrapher (someone skilled in penmanship). -
unifies Mesopotamia, Syria, and Egypt into single state, defeats crusaders, and takes back Jerusalem from Latins
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Muslims considered serious military threat, spread their religion far on crusades, hard to conquer , but last Muslim state in Spain finally conquered in 1492. Religion still widespread.
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