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On the 26 of April in 570 Muhammad. He was born in Makkah. All his family were merchants.
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Muhammad's life from 570-632
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When Muhammad was five his mother took him to Yathrib, to stay with relatives and visit his father's grave . On the journey back his mother became ill. His nurse took the orphaned boy and placed him in the protection of his grandfather.
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Saint Cerbonius was a bishop of Populonia during the Barbarian invasions. Saint Gregory the Great praises him in Book XI of his Dialogues.
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The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
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He began making long retreats to a mountain cave outside town. On one occasion, after a number of indistinct visionary experiences, Muhammad was visited by an overpowering presence and instructed to recite words of such beauty and force that he and others gradually attributed them to God.
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Muhammad finally began to reveal the messages he was receiving to his tribe. Muhammad's message was resolutely monotheistic.
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The Battle of Uḥud was the second military encounter between the Meccans and the Muslims, preceded by the Battle of Badr in 624, where a small Muslim army had defeated the much larger Meccan army.
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Early skirmishes led to three major battles in the next three years. Of these the Muslims won the first lost the second, and outlasted the third, In March, 628, a treaty was signed between the two sides, which recognized the Muslims as a new force in Arabia and gave them freedom to move.
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In January, 630, they marched on Mecca and were joined by a tribe after tribe along the way. They entered Mecca without bloodshed and the Meccans joined them.
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Khadija eventually proposed marriage to Muhammad. They became married in about 595. He was twenty-five and she was nearly forty.
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Arabs, Khazars, and Turks invade Persia, but they are driven out
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Pope Gregory orders Saint Augustine the Lesser to go to England and convert the inhabitants to Christianity.
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Iron-chain suspension bridge invented in China.
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Foundation of Mercian kingdom in England among the Anglo-Saxon tribes
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Saint Augustine the Lesser lands in England and converts the kingdom of Kent to Christianity. He founds the first English church in Canterbury.
