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570
Birth of Muhammad ibn Abd Allah in Mecca.
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Mar 5, 610
Muhammad receives first revelation at Mt. Hira, near Mecca, and begins career as a prophet.
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Mar 3, 622
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Mar 5, 622
he year of the Hijra: Muhammad and the Muslims migrate from Mecca to Medina.
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Mar 3, 630
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Mar 5, 630
uhammad wins control of Mecca.
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Mar 3, 632
Death of Muhammad; death of Fatima, his daughter; election of Abu Bakr as first caliph.
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Mar 5, 632
Death of Muhammad; death of Fatima, his daughter; election of Abu Bakr as first caliph
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Mar 5, 634
Death of Abu Bakr.
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Mar 5, 637
Conquest of Syria and the fall of Jerusalem.
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Mar 5, 640
Conquest of Persia.
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Mar 5, 655
Assassination of Uthman, the third caliph.
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Mar 5, 661
Death of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and first Shii imam.
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Mar 5, 700
Conquest and conversion of Berber tribes in North Africa.
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Mar 5, 711
Tariq ibn Ziyad leads conquest of Andalusia (southern Spain).
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Mar 5, 732
Battle of Tours, France.
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Mar 5, 750
Abbasids capture Damascus, ending Umayyad rule in Syria; Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah founds Abbasid Caliphate.
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Mar 3, 754
Death of al-Saffah; Abu Jaafar al-Mansur becomes second Abbasid caliph.
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Mar 5, 1021
The Fatimid caliph al-Hakim disappears/dies; Druze religion begins.
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Mar 5, 1096
Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade to conquer Jerusalem.
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Mar 3, 1099
Crusaders capture Jerusalem, ending the First Crusade.
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Mar 5, 1099
Crusaders capture Jerusalem, ending the First Crusade.
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Mar 5, 1111
Death of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, philosopher and theologian.
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Mar 5, 1111
Death of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, philosopher and theologian.
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Mar 5, 1206
Ghurids establish the Delhi Sultanate in India.
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Mar 4, 1240
Death of Ibn al-Arabi, Sufi philosopher, in Damascus
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Mar 5, 1273
Death of Jalal al-Din Rumi, Sufi poet and teacher, in Konya.
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Mar 5, 1320
Death of Yunus Emre, Turkish mystic and poet.
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Mar 5, 1398
Ottoman Empire rules much of the Middle East and eastern Europe.
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Mar 5, 1453
Constantinople (Istanbul) falls to Ottomans and becomes the new Ottoman capital; Byzantine Empire ends.
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Mar 5, 1453
Constantinople (Istanbul) falls to Ottomans and becomes the new Ottoman capital; Byzantine Empire ends.
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Mar 5, 1501
Ismail I establishes the Safavid dynasty in Persia.
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Mar 5, 1520
Reign of the Ottoman sultan Sulayman the Magnificent.
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Mar 5, 1526
Reign of the Ottoman sultan Sulayman the Magnificent.
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Mar 5, 1529
Ottomans lift first siege of Vienna and retreat.
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Mar 5, 1556
Reign of Akbar, Mughal emperor.
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Mar 5, 1571
Christian fleet defeats Ottoman navy at Lepanto, marking the end of Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean region.
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Death of Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi, leading Shii scholar.
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Safavid rule in Iran effectively ended by Afghan invasion.
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British withdraw from Indonesia, restoring it to Dutch rule.
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Sepoy Rebellion against English East India Company rule sweeps northern India.
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Golden age of Umayyad rule in Andalusia.
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Crucifixion of the Sufi al-Hallaj in Baghdad.
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The building of the Great Mosque at Cordoba.
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Death of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, hadith scholar and eponym of the Hanbali Legal School.
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Death of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, hadith scholar and eponym of the Hanbali Legal School.