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Jan 1, 650
Death of Al Khwarizmi
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Jan 1, 656
Assassination of Uthman
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Period: Jan 1, 656 to Jan 1, 661
First Muslim civil war
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Jan 1, 661
Capital to Damascus
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Jan 1, 661
Ali was assassinated
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Jan 1, 661
Muʿāwiyah established himself as first Umayyad caliph
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Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750
Umayyads ruled Muslim Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 674 to Jan 1, 678
Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople
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Jan 1, 680
Assassination of Hussein at Karbala
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Jan 1, 691
Completion of the Dome of the Rock
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Jan 1, 696
Coins standardized by weight and appearance, used across empire
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Jan 1, 711
Conquered the Iberian Peninsula
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Dec 1, 711
Inavasion of Iberia
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Jan 1, 717
Again, Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople
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Jan 1, 732
Charles Martel and the Pyrenee Mountains stops the Islamic Empire
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Jan 1, 750
Overthrown by Abbasid faction
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Jan 1, 750
Abbasid faction from eastern Iran overthrows Umayyad dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1492
Muslim Spain
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Jan 1, 751
Arabs won against Chinese
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Jan 1, 755
Cordoba established as Abd al Rahman’s capital
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Jan 1, 762
Baghdad becomes the Abbasid capital
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Jan 1, 785
Construction began on the Great Mosque of Cordoba
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Period: Jan 1, 813 to Jan 1, 833
Reign of Al-Ma’mun, founder of the House of Wisdom
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Period: Jan 1, 822 to Jan 1, 852
Reign of Abd al-Rahman II
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Jan 1, 929
Abd al-Rahman III takes the title of caliph
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Jan 1, 1000
Shahnameh (“Book Of Kings”) published
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Jan 1, 1025
Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine written
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Jan 1, 1031
End of the Umayyad dynasty
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Jan 1, 1055
Seljuq Turks gain control of Baghdad
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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1204
Crusades
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Jan 1, 1100
A Thousand and One Nights first compiled
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Period: Jan 1, 1126 to Jan 1, 1198
Life of Ibn Rushd, Averroes
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Jan 1, 1187
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem
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Jan 1, 1204
Death of Maimonides
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Jan 1, 1258
Mongols invade and destroy Baghdad, ending the Abbasid-Seljuq dynasty
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Jan 1, 1300
Completion of the Alhambra Palace in Granada
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Jan 1, 1492
End of Muslim rule in Spain