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  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Islam

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Europe

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Russia

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Byzantine Empire

  • Jan 1, 610

    Muhammad receives first vision in a cave near Mecca.

  • Jan 1, 610

    Muhammad preaches in Mecca.

  • Nov 15, 622

    Muhammad and followers flee to Medina.

  • Nov 15, 624

    Muslis successfully attack Meccan caravans at Badr

  • Nov 15, 625

    Muslims defeated by Meccans at Uhud.

  • Nov 15, 630

    Muslims capture Mecca.

  • Nov 15, 630

    Muslims have pilgrimage rights in Mecca.

  • Nov 15, 632

    Muhammad dies. Abu Bakr chosen as caliph.

  • Nov 18, 642

    Arabs conquer Egypt.

  • Nov 18, 700

    Traded with Arabs and Phoenicians in ivory, rhino horn, gold, shells, and slaves.

  • Nov 15, 710

    Arab armies enter Spain from North Africa.

  • Nov 18, 710

    Arabs invade and destroy the ancient kingdom of Axum.

  • Nov 17, 730

    The adoption of Iconoclasm results in the loss of most of the Empires remaining in Italian territories.

  • Nov 15, 747

    Umayyad's defeated.

  • Feb 16, 750

    Abu I' Abbas becoes caliph in Iraq.

  • Nov 15, 750

    Abu I'Abbas becomes caliph in Iraq.

  • Nov 18, 754

    Pippin the Short donates a grant of land in central Italy to Stephen the second.

  • Nov 18, 1000

    City of Timbuktu founded in Mali.

  • Nov 17, 1018

    Emperor Basil II campaigns annually against the Bulgars, with the object of annihilating the Bulgar state.

  • 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.

  • Nov 17, 1025

    The Macedonian dynasty is established and the leads the Empire to a military, cultural and territorial revival.

  • Nov 17, 1025

    Byzantine scholars record and preserve many of the remaining ancient Greek and Roman texts.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Nov 17, 1054

    The Great Schism (split between Church in Rome and the Church in Constantinople).

  • Nov 18, 1054

    The Schism of 1054 between the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic church seperate.

  • Nov 18, 1066

    During the Battle of Hastings, William the Conquerer defeats British King Harold the Second.

  • 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.

  • Nov 18, 1076

    Moroccan Almoravid Berbers attack the Ghana kingdom and seize Mauritania and Mali.

  • Nov 18, 1086

    William the Conqueror publishes the Domesday book.

  • Nov 18, 1087

    Muslims invade Ghana.

  • Nov 18, 1087

    Kanem-Bonru converts to Islam.

  • Nov 18, 1095

    During the Council of Clermont Pope urban the second launches a 200 year series of wars.

  • Nov 18, 1096

    1st crusade to Palestine.

  • Nov 17, 1099

    Christian Crusaders take Jerusalem.

  • 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.

  • Nov 18, 1100

    Kingdom of life in Nigeria.

  • 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.

  • Nov 18, 1122

    Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor agree to the Concordat of Worms.

  • Nov 18, 1150

    Slaves exported to North Africa from New Guinea.

  • Nov 1, 1193

    Most of Crusader states returned to Islam.

  • Nov 18, 1215

    At Runnymede, King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta.

  • Nov 18, 1231

    Pope Gregory IX establishes the Inquisition.

  • 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

  • Nov 18, 1250

    The hanseatic League is established.

  • Nov 18, 1300

    Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria.

  • Nov 18, 1300

    The coming of the Italian Renaissance is foreshadowed two contemporary Italian virtuosos.

  • Nov 18, 1323

    One of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages is canonized as a saint.

  • Aug 16, 1324

    Muslim merchants and missionaries settle in Southeast Asia.

    Happened between 1281-1324.
  • Nov 18, 1324

    Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali, makes a pilgrimage to Mecca and shows off his great wealth.

  • Nov 18, 1325

    Ibn Battua visits Mali.

  • Nov 18, 1337

    The Hundred Years War between England and France war fought.

  • Nov 18, 1347

    A catastrophic pandemic, the black death, spreads.

  • Nov 18, 1356

    Holy Roman emperor Charles IV issues the Golden Bull.

  • Nov 18, 1378

    Pope Gregory XI's death results in the Great Schism.

  • 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.

  • Nov 17, 1400

    Islam reaches the Philippines.

    Took place during the 1400's.
  • Nov 18, 1415

    Portuguese conquerer Ceuta in North Africa; 1st European foothold in Africa.

  • Nov 18, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg introduces the printing press.

  • 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.

  • Mongols capture Baghdad. City sacked. Caliph killed. End of Abbasid calliphate.

  • First Fatimid caliph in Tunisia.

  • Sicily comes under Muslim rule.

    Happeed in the 800's.
  • West Africa begins to convert to Islam.

    Late 900's.
  • Byzantine city of Carthage in North Africa falls to the Arab invasion.

  • • The Rus- Byzantine War of 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus Khaganate recorded in Byzantine and Western Europe.

  • Arabs conquer Carthage

  • Kingdom of Ghana.

  • Robbing and plundering churches and killing villages, Vikings begin raiding the British Isles.

  • During a December 25 mass, Pope Leo the third kings Charlemagnes.

  • German King otto the Great's victory at the battle of Lechfield ends more than 90 years of pillaging.