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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450
Islam
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450
Europe
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450
Russia
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450
Byzantine Empire
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad receives first vision in a cave near Mecca.
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad preaches in Mecca.
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Nov 15, 622
Muhammad and followers flee to Medina.
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Nov 15, 624
Muslis successfully attack Meccan caravans at Badr
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Nov 15, 625
Muslims defeated by Meccans at Uhud.
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Nov 15, 630
Muslims capture Mecca.
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Nov 15, 630
Muslims have pilgrimage rights in Mecca.
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Nov 15, 632
Muhammad dies. Abu Bakr chosen as caliph.
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Nov 18, 642
Arabs conquer Egypt.
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Nov 18, 700
Traded with Arabs and Phoenicians in ivory, rhino horn, gold, shells, and slaves.
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Nov 15, 710
Arab armies enter Spain from North Africa.
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Nov 18, 710
Arabs invade and destroy the ancient kingdom of Axum.
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Nov 17, 730
The adoption of Iconoclasm results in the loss of most of the Empires remaining in Italian territories.
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Nov 15, 747
Umayyad's defeated.
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Feb 16, 750
Abu I' Abbas becoes caliph in Iraq.
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Nov 15, 750
Abu I'Abbas becomes caliph in Iraq.
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Nov 18, 754
Pippin the Short donates a grant of land in central Italy to Stephen the second.
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Nov 18, 1000
City of Timbuktu founded in Mali.
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Nov 17, 1018
Emperor Basil II campaigns annually against the Bulgars, with the object of annihilating the Bulgar state.
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Nov 17, 1018
Bulgaria surrenders and is annexed to the empire. The whole of the Balkans is incorporated into the Byzantine Empire, with the Danube restored as the imperial frontier to the north.
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Nov 17, 1025
The Macedonian dynasty is established and the leads the Empire to a military, cultural and territorial revival.
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Nov 17, 1025
Byzantine scholars record and preserve many of the remaining ancient Greek and Roman texts.
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Nov 17, 1025
With the death of Basil II, the zenith of the Empire's power is passed and the long decline of the Byzantine Empire begins.
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Nov 17, 1042
The Byzantine Empire deals a string of defeats upon the Arab border emirates and the Abassid and Fatimid Caliphates, reconquering parts of Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine.
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Nov 17, 1054
The Great Schism (split between Church in Rome and the Church in Constantinople).
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Nov 18, 1054
The Schism of 1054 between the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic church seperate.
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Nov 18, 1066
During the Battle of Hastings, William the Conquerer defeats British King Harold the Second.
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Nov 17, 1071
Emperor Romanos IV is defeated by the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert. The subsequent civil wars result in the loss of most of Asia Minor to the Turks. In the same year, the last Byzantine outpost in Italy, Bari, is conquered by the Normans.
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Nov 18, 1076
Moroccan Almoravid Berbers attack the Ghana kingdom and seize Mauritania and Mali.
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Nov 18, 1086
William the Conqueror publishes the Domesday book.
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Nov 18, 1087
Muslims invade Ghana.
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Nov 18, 1087
Kanem-Bonru converts to Islam.
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Nov 18, 1095
During the Council of Clermont Pope urban the second launches a 200 year series of wars.
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Nov 18, 1096
1st crusade to Palestine.
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Nov 17, 1099
Christian Crusaders take Jerusalem.
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Nov 17, 1100
• Russian Primary Chronical is officially considered to be the earliest Old-Russian chronicles of Kievan Rus of the 12th century that has reached our day.
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Nov 18, 1100
Kingdom of life in Nigeria.
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Nov 17, 1113
• Russian Primary Chronical is officially considered to be the earliest Old-Russian chronicles of Kievan Rus of the 12th century that has reached our day.
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Nov 18, 1122
Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor agree to the Concordat of Worms.
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Nov 18, 1150
Slaves exported to North Africa from New Guinea.
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Nov 1, 1193
Most of Crusader states returned to Islam.
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Nov 18, 1215
At Runnymede, King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta.
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Nov 18, 1231
Pope Gregory IX establishes the Inquisition.
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Nov 17, 1238
• Founded in the early 12th century by Vladimir ll of Kiev, it was (1157-1238) the capital of the grand duchy of Vladimir was destroyed
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Nov 18, 1250
The hanseatic League is established.
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Nov 18, 1300
Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria.
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Nov 18, 1300
The coming of the Italian Renaissance is foreshadowed two contemporary Italian virtuosos.
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Nov 18, 1323
One of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages is canonized as a saint.
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Aug 16, 1324
Muslim merchants and missionaries settle in Southeast Asia.
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Nov 18, 1324
Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali, makes a pilgrimage to Mecca and shows off his great wealth.
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Nov 18, 1325
Ibn Battua visits Mali.
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Nov 18, 1337
The Hundred Years War between England and France war fought.
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Nov 18, 1347
A catastrophic pandemic, the black death, spreads.
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Nov 18, 1356
Holy Roman emperor Charles IV issues the Golden Bull.
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Nov 18, 1378
Pope Gregory XI's death results in the Great Schism.
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Nov 17, 1382
His great victory a Kulikovo (1380) made him a popular Russian hero, but the Tatars regained their overlordship by their successful surprise attack on Moscow in 1382.
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Nov 17, 1400
Islam reaches the Philippines.
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Nov 18, 1415
Portuguese conquerer Ceuta in North Africa; 1st European foothold in Africa.
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Nov 18, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg introduces the printing press.
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Rurik’s successors founded the powerful Kievan state, which lasted until the 13th century. The house of Rurik also came to rule the grand duchy of Moscow, and later all Russia, until the death of Feodor 1 in 1598.
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Mongols capture Baghdad. City sacked. Caliph killed. End of Abbasid calliphate.
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First Fatimid caliph in Tunisia.
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Sicily comes under Muslim rule.
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West Africa begins to convert to Islam.
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Byzantine city of Carthage in North Africa falls to the Arab invasion.
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• The Rus- Byzantine War of 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus Khaganate recorded in Byzantine and Western Europe.
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Arabs conquer Carthage
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Kingdom of Ghana.
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Robbing and plundering churches and killing villages, Vikings begin raiding the British Isles.
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During a December 25 mass, Pope Leo the third kings Charlemagnes.
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German King otto the Great's victory at the battle of Lechfield ends more than 90 years of pillaging.