TURNER HEJJ TIMELINE

Byzantine Empire

500

Justinians rule over the Byzantine Empire was at this time. Justinian made the Byzantine Empire undergo a architecutrual renovations with new buliding methods.

Byzantine Empire

Period: 500 to Jan 1, 600

The Byzantine Empire reaches its peak. Recaptures land that it lost to the western Roman Empire before its fall.

Byzantine Empire

Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1400

The Byzantine Empire gradully loses territory in North Africa and Middle East. This is due to the rapid expansion of Islam.

capital of the empire of ghana was established

Apr 15, 600

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 610

This is the night known as "Night of Power and Excellece." This is where Muhammad receives the first revelation of the Qur’an.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 622

Muhammad and his followers travel to Medina for the Hijira. The first year of the Muslim Calendar.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 632

The prophet Muhammed dies. Abu Bakr is chosen as Caliph soon after Muhammed dies.

Islam and the Spread

Period: Jan 1, 632 to Jan 1, 633

Rebbillion of small arabian tribes cause unrest in religious life. This causes the War of Ridda, which restores allegiance to Islam.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 661

Three Kharijites killed Imam Ali, causing Muawiyah to become the new Caliph. This caused the beginning of the Umayyad Caliphate.

Islam and the Spread

Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750

The Umayyad Caliphate was the secound of the four major Arab Caliphates. Controlled by Muawiyah, this dynasty covered 5 million square miles at its peak, but then being overthrown by Abbasid Caliphate

Islam and the Spread

Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1258

Development of Islamic law, patronage of art and culture, rising trade, agriculture and industry. Islam wanting to have no western influece, wanting to stay with their traditional Islamic culture.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 765

Division within Shi'ites - majority are the modern Sunnis, who follow the Abbasid Caliphate. The Shia who are the minority are more strict on the teachings of Muhammed and his family.

Byzantine Empire

Jan 1, 1018

The Byzantine Empire under the control of Basil ll, defeated the Bulgarians and annexed their territory. At this time, they had increase influene on Kiev Russia, the Balkans, and Capadocia.

Mansa Musa became the ruler of Mali

Period: Apr 15, 1035 to Apr 15, 1230

Muslim invaders captured the capital. Ghana began to crumble

Apr 15, 1076

Byzantine Empire

Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1453

The Byzantine Empire is steady decling, losing territories and wars. Also under growing attacks by the Ottoman Empire.

Jurchen establish Jin Dynasty in Manchuria, northern China

Period: Apr 15, 1115 to Apr 15, 1235

Feudal Japan

Period: Jan 1, 1185 to Dec 31, 1333

The Kamakura period, 1185 to 1333, is a period that marks the governance of the Kamakura shogunate and the transition to the Japanese "medieval" era, a nearly 700-year period in which the emperor, the court, and the traditional central government were left intact but largely relegated to ceremonial functions. Civil, military, and judicial matters were controlled by the bushi (samurai) class, the most powerful of whom was the de facto national ruler, the shōgun. This period in Japan differed from

Feudal Japan

Jan 1, 1192

In 1185, Minamoto no Yoritomi defeated the rival Taira clan, and in 1192, Yoritomi was appointed Seii Tai-Shōgun by the emperor. Establishing a base of power called the Bafuku in Kamakura, Yoritomo ruled as the first in a line of Kamakura shōgun.

Temujin unites Mongols, assumes title of Chinggis Khan

Period: Apr 15, 1196 to Apr 15, 1206

Mongols conquer south to Beijing, west to Lake Balkash

Period: Apr 15, 1209 to Apr 15, 1215

Chinggis dies

Apr 15, 1227

Korea invaded by mongols

Apr 15, 1231

mongols Capital rebuilt at Karakorum

Apr 15, 1235

Mali defeated the last king of Ghana

Apr 15, 1235

mongols-Suzerainty over Russia established by Golden Horde Conquest of Song China

Period: Apr 15, 1240 to Apr 15, 1480

Feudal Japan

Period: Jan 1, 1247 to Dec 31, 1281

Between 1274 and 1281, in which massive Mongol forces with superior naval technology and weaponry attempted a full-scale invasion of the Japanese islands. Although the Japanese were successful in stopping the Mongols, the invasion attempt had devastating domestic repercussions, leading to the extinction of the Kamakura shogunate.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 1258

The Mongols, led by Hulagu, destroy Bagdad in their riegn of expansion. Causeing the end of the Sunni Arab Caliphate.

Mongols defeated by Egyptian Mamluks

Apr 15, 1260

Khubilai becomes great khan

Apr 15, 1261

Delhi Sultanate in India

Jan 1, 1290

Slave Dynasty ended in civil war in 1290, the Khalji Dynasty took over. This was the time of the greatest power of the Delhi Sultanate, when the Sultans in Delhi could control even the most southern part of India, at least some of the time.

Delhi Sultanate of India

Jan 1, 1298

Ala-ud-din's Forces extended the sultanates southeren flank, seizing the rich trading state of Gujarate.

Mansa Musa became the ruler of Mali

Apr 15, 1307

Delhi Sultanate in India

Jan 1, 1351

Beginning about 1325, the Delhi Sultans began to weaken. There were a lot of rebellions and civil wars, and by 1351 southern India regained its independence as a Hindu state.

Delhi Sultanate in India

Jan 1, 1398

Delhi was sacked by the Mongol invader Tamerlane or Timur in 1398, which pretty much ended the power of the Delhi Sultanate.

Islam and the Spread

Jan 1, 1400

After much dominance in the world, influence of the lives of people and being a leading religon with followers, Islam reaches the Phillipiens. Islam has changed the world with its laws and policies.

Feudal Japan.

Jan 1, 1598

After having united Japan, Hideyoshi invaded Korea in an attempt to conquer Korea, China, and even India. However, after two unsuccessful campaigns towards the allied forces of Korea and China and his death, his forces retreated from the Korean Peninsula in 1598. Following his death, Japan experienced a short period of succession conflict. Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the regents for Hideyoshi's young heir, emerged victorious at the Battle of Sekigahara and seized political power.

Invaders from Morocco and Spain destroyed the last of the Great African empire

Period: Apr 15, 1600 to Apr 15, 1700

Feudal Japan

Jan 1, 1603

The Azuchi-Momoyama period runs from approximately 1568 to 1603. The period, regarded as the late Warring Kingdoms period, marks the military reunification and stabilization of the country under a single political ruler, first by the campaigns of Oda Nobunaga who almost united Japan and achieved later by one of his generals, Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Byzantine Empire

Mar 2, 2022

Rome split into two, the Byzantine Empire being the eastern half. The western half fell in 476 leaving the Byzantine Empire as the dominate state.

Byzantine Empire

Mar 2, 2022

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by Empress Irene, who was overthrown by Nikephoros, who specilized on finacial and military reorganization. The Byzantine Empire was constantly being defeated by the Bu;garian Empire and having many different succesors.