Timeline

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  • 1520 BCE

    1520

    1520
    Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent; Ottoman Empire reaches its zenith. Hungary and coastlands of Algeria and Tunisia come under Ottoman rule.
  • 1492 BCE

    1492

    1492
    Castile and Aragon capture Granada. After most of the Muslims and Jews banned from Spain. This affected all of Islam.
  • 1300 BCE

    1300

    Ottomans win over Bursa and Iznik and move into Europe and Ottomans take control of the Balkans.
  • 1258 BCE

    1258

    The Mongol chief Hulegu, grandson of Genghis Khan, sacks Baghdad, massacring the population and killing the last Abbasid caliph.
  • 1216 BCE

    1216

    The Marinids under their leader Adbul Haq occupy north eastern part of Morocco.
  • 1187 BCE

    1187

    1187
    The year of Islamic win .Ê Saladin crushes the Crusaders armies at Hittin, near Lake Tiberias. He reconquers Jerusalem and the greater part of the Crusaders territories. The Crusaders now hold Tyre, Tripoli and Antioch
  • 1099 BCE

    1099

    1099
    European Crusaders take Jerusalem from the Muslims. Eventually Muslims defeat the Crusaders and regain control of the holy land. Raymond of Toulouse, after disagreeing with Bohemund about the future crusader course of action, leads the majority of crusaders away from Antioch and toward Jerusalem.
  • 1095 BCE

    1095

    Pope Urban 2 opens the Council of Clermont where ambassadors from the Byzantine emperor Alexius 1 Commneus, asking help against the Muslims, were received.
  • 1055 BCE

    1055

    .Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad. This was a good thing.
  • 900 BCE

    900

    900
    The fatimids of Egypt conquered north Africa and included the territory as an extra part of Egypt until 972
  • 850 BCE

    850

    The Acropolis of Zimbabwe was built in Rhodesia
  • 750 BCE

    750

    The Abbasids take over rule from the Umayyads, shifting the seat of power to Baghdad.
  • 732 BCE

    732

    732
    Muslims are defeated at Potiers in France by Charles Martel. This is was a good thing for Islam.
  • 711 BCE

    711

    Muslims enter Spain in the west and India in the east. Eventually almost the entire Iberian Peninsula is under Islamic control.
  • 661 BCE

    661

    661
    In 661 Muawiyah proclaimed himself caliph, made Damascus his
    capital, and founded the Umayyad Dynasty.
  • 632 BCE

    632

    632
    Muhammed died. This was not good for Islam, because he was an important person.