Timeline of Mecca

By austin1ane
  • 570

    Birth of Muhammad in Mecca

  • 610

    Muhammad receives first revelation of the Quran in Mecca

  • 613

    Muhammad begins to preach his revelations in Mecca

  • 622

    Muhammad flees Mecca for Medina following persecution

  • 624

    Muhammad and his followers battled the Quraysh (the current inhabitants of Mecca who persecuted him)

  • 630

    Muhammad gathers an army of 10,000 followers to attack Mecca who destroy pagan idols in Kaaba

  • 632

    First great pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)

  • 632

    Unexpected death of Muhammad

  • 632

    Ali ibn Abi Talib becomes first caliph

  • 661

    First Muslim Civil War

  • 680

    Shi'a and Sunni Muslims split

  • 683

    Umayyad (led by Abd Allah Ibn Al-Zubayr) lay siege to Mecca destroying the Kaaba (holy cube)

  • 692

    Umayyad lay siege to Mecca again

  • 750

    Umayyads (Sunnis) are defeated by Alis (shi'as)

  • 810

    Aquaduct is built in Mecca

  • 930

    Mecca is attacked and sacked by Ismali Muslims

  • 930

    Qarmatians remove the Black Stone from the Kaaba and take it out of Mecca

  • 951

    Mecca retrieves the Black Stone after paying a "great ransom"

  • 1265

    Egyptian Mamluks take over Mecca

  • 1517

    Ottomans take over Mecca

  • 1517

    Selim I is named the "custodian of the two holy mosques"

    Al Haram (in Mecca)
    Al-Masjid An-Nabawi (in Medina

  • Mecca is flooded

  • The Kaaba is rebuilt

  • Mecca is captured by the Sa'udi-Wahhabi army

  • Period: to

    Wahhabi's ousted by Egyptian forces

  • Ottomans retake power over Mecca

  • The Sharif is assassinated

  • Printing press arrives in Mecca

  • Railway between Damascus and Mecca begins operating

  • Hussein Ben Ali becomes Sharif

  • Government begins printing newspapers (Al-Hijaz)

  • Ali of Hejaz becomes Sharif

  • Period: to

    Battle of Mecca

    Banu Hashin clan began the Arab Revolt of WW1

  • Battle of Mecca

    Part of Saudi conquest of the Kingdom of Hejaz by King Abdulaziz ibn Sultanate of Nejd

  • Saudi government newspaper begins printing

  • Ali of Hejaz is deposed by King Saud

  • Mecca becomes part of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Public library is founded in Mecca

  • Period: to

    Five schools are established in Mecca

  • Mecca is flooded

  • First college is established in Mecca

  • College of Education is established

  • First police academy is established in Mecca

  • Slavery is abolished in Mecca

  • Malcolm X makes Hajj

  • Mecca is flooded

  • Hajj is televised for the first time

  • Grand Mosque was seized

  • Haram began to be extended to hold 1 million people during Hajj

  • Mecca fire kills 343 people and burns down 70,000 tents during first day of Hajj while 2 million Muslims were in Mecca for Hajj (many were trampled in panic)

  • Islamic Solidarity games held in. Mecca

  • 2006 Hajj Stampede

    363 pilgrims trampled on bridge on final day of Hajj

  • Metro begins operation in Mecca

  • Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference held in Mecca

  • Mecca Crane Collapse

    111 people crushed to death by crane

  • Hajj cut down to 60,000 participants from 2.5 million due to Covid