Islam Timeline

  • Muhammad flees Mecca to Medina
    Jan 1, 622

    Muhammad flees Mecca to Medina

    Muhammad left Mecca, because he was afraid for his life. Everyone had stopped believing in him and they didn't want to change and want new stuff. So he went to Medina, where everyone welcomed him.
  • Muhammad dies
    Jun 8, 632

    Muhammad dies

    Muhammad died because he was poisoned by Jewish people. They poisoned him because he attacked them, and beheaded their leaders. Almost all of the women and children we sold into slavery, and he took the most beautiful women and married her. After they attacked a Jewish women cooked his food and poisoned it, and he died three years later because of it.
  • Ali the fourth caliph in Islam is assassinated
    Jan 1, 661

    Ali the fourth caliph in Islam is assassinated

    Ali was killed in the mosque of Kufa, by a man that striked him with a poison sword. He died two days later.
  • Umayyad dynasty ends and Abbassid dynasty begins
    Jan 1, 750

    Umayyad dynasty ends and Abbassid dynasty begins

    In the last years of the Umayyad Dynasty the families oppontents had gathered against them, and wanted them out. They put in the public that a man was a descendant of Muhammads uncle, and they got together many hostile people and they claimed the descendant as the new caliph.
  • Christian crusaders capture Jerusalem from the Muslims
    Jan 1, 1099

    Christian crusaders capture Jerusalem from the Muslims

    The First Crusade was the most successful. They accomplished what they wanted to do, to capture Jerusalmen.
  • Saladin caputures Jerusalem for the Muslims
    Jan 1, 1187

    Saladin caputures Jerusalem for the Muslims

    Saladin had captured many of the Crusader Cities, and when he captured Jerusalem he refused to give the people who lived their quarter. He changed his mind when a man threatened to kill all Muslim hostages.
  • Abbassid dynasty ends
    Jan 1, 1258

    Abbassid dynasty ends

    When the Abbasid Dynasty ended their ruler was taken away as prisoner. This Dynasty did really good for the first two hundred years, but the rest of the reign but declined until it ended, because they had to give power to lower dynasties.
  • Suleiman the Magnificent becomes the ruler of the Ottoman empire
    Sep 30, 1520

    Suleiman the Magnificent becomes the ruler of the Ottoman empire

    Suleiman the Magnificent was the tenth Sultan of Ottoman Empire, and ruled for the longest time. He ruled for 46 years.
  • Abbas the Great gains control of the Safavid Empire

    Abbas the Great gains control of the Safavid Empire

    Abbas the Great was the fifth ruler of the Safadid Empire of Persia. While he was the ruler the Empire was at its best, and made peace with the Ottomans, and was a good military leader.
  • The Taj Mahal is built

    The Taj Mahal is built

    The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan, in memory of his third wife that had died. It took twenty two years to build, and it was twenty thousand men who had worked on it.