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Muhammad died in 632, a few months after completing a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Abu, the first caliph after Muhammad's death, led Islamic armies on several military conquests, after successfully reuniting the Arabs.
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Ali became the fourth caliph, and was assassinated in 661.
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Abu leads Muslim armies to cross the Strait Gibraltar into Spain, then push into France.
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The Muslim advance into Western Europe halts, though they continue to rule some parts of Spain. Elsewhere, Muslims attacked Constantinople, but couldn't take it.
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Discontented Muslims found another leader in Abu al-Abbas.
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Umayyad family set up a dynasty that ruled the Islamic world and ended in 750.
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The Acropolis of Zimbabwe is built in Rhodesia.
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Perfectus, a Christian priest, is beheaded after refsing to take back several insults to Muhammad.
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The Fatimids (muslim armies under the rule of Fatimid) conquer northern Africa and consider it an extension of Egypt.
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The Seljuk Turks were a Persian/Turkish muslim group. They controlled a vast amount of land in the middle east.
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Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Ambassadors from Byzanitine came to the council asking for help against muslims.
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The Battle of Ascalon involved Muslims (in Egypt) and Crusaders. The Fatimids were unprepared and the battle was short, with as many as 12,000 Egyptian casualties.
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In 1187, Islam recaptured the city of Jerusalem from the Crusades, as well as a good amount of the Crusade territory in the Middle East.
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The Fatimids recapture Egypt in the Sixth Crusade.
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Mongol chief ransacks Baghdad, killing the last Abbasid caliph.
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The Ottoman Empire (ruler: Usman) is created and takes Bursa, Iznik, and the Balkans.
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When Castile and Aragon take control, all Muslims and Jews are forced out of Spain.
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Suleyman the Magnificent's (of the Ottoman Empire) reign begins. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire is at it's peak.
