Expansion of Islamic Empire

  • Jan 1, 650

    Death of Al Khwarizmi


  • Jan 1, 656

    Assassination of Uthman

  • Period: Jan 1, 656 to Jan 1, 661

    First Muslim civil war

  • Jan 1, 661

    Capital to Damascus


  • Jan 1, 661

    Ali was assassinated

  • Jan 1, 661

    Muʿāwiyah established himself as first Umayyad caliph

  • Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750

    Umayyads ruled Muslim Empire

  • Period: Jan 1, 674 to Jan 1, 678

    Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople

  • Jan 1, 680

    Assassination of Hussein at Karbala

  • Jan 1, 691

    Completion of the Dome of the Rock


  • Jan 1, 696

    Coins standardized by weight and appearance, used across empire


  • Jan 1, 711

    Conquered the Iberian Peninsula

  • Dec 1, 711

    Inavasion of Iberia

  • Jan 1, 717

    Again, Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople

  • Jan 1, 732

    Charles Martel and the Pyrenee Mountains stops the Islamic Empire

  • Jan 1, 750

    Overthrown by Abbasid faction

  • Jan 1, 750

    Abbasid faction from eastern Iran overthrows Umayyad dynasty

  • Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1492

    Muslim Spain

  • Jan 1, 751

    Arabs won against Chinese

  • Jan 1, 755

    Cordoba established as Abd al Rahman’s capital


  • Jan 1, 762

    Baghdad becomes the Abbasid capital


  • Jan 1, 785

    Construction began on the Great Mosque of Cordoba


  • Period: Jan 1, 813 to Jan 1, 833

    Reign of Al-Ma’mun, founder of the House of Wisdom

  • Period: Jan 1, 822 to Jan 1, 852

    Reign of Abd al-Rahman II


  • Jan 1, 929

    Abd al-Rahman III takes the title of caliph


  • Jan 1, 1000

    Shahnameh (“Book Of Kings”) published


  • Jan 1, 1025

    Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine written


  • Jan 1, 1031

    End of the Umayyad dynasty


  • Jan 1, 1055

    Seljuq Turks gain control of Baghdad


  • Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1204

    Crusades

  • Jan 1, 1100

    A Thousand and One Nights first compiled


  • Period: Jan 1, 1126 to Jan 1, 1198

    Life of Ibn Rushd, Averroes


  • Jan 1, 1187

    Saladin recaptures Jerusalem


  • Jan 1, 1204

    Death of Maimonides


  • Jan 1, 1258

    Mongols invade and destroy Baghdad, ending the Abbasid-Seljuq dynasty

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Completion of the Alhambra Palace in Granada


  • Jan 1, 1492

    End of Muslim rule in Spain