Islamic History Timeline By cartekam 680 BCE Hussein is killed 661 BCE Ali assinated, umayyed controls 656 BCE Ali Bin becomes fourth Caliph 644 BCE Uthman becomes third Caliph 622 BCE Hijra, beginning Islamic calander 610 BCE Muhammad receives first revelations 570 BCE Muhummad born in Mecca 630 Mecca becomes Islamic World 632 Muhummad Dies 634 Islamic empire expands 692 Dome of Rock completed 711 Muslums control Iberian peninsula 732 French defeat Islamic Army 750 Golden Age of Islam 780 Al-Khwarizmi is born 972 University in Egypt founded 1025 First medical textbook created 1048 Omar Khayyam is born 1099 Christian Armies capture jersulem 1187 Saladin takes Jerusalem 1258 Mongol army kills caliph