umayyads

By carrie (jiazi) ma
  • Jan 1, 656

    Ali's time

    uthman is dead,andsicceeded by Ali,Under Ali, the soldiers of the Islamic Empire fought through Egypt and North Africa
  • Period: Jan 1, 656 to Jan 1, 661

    the first muslim war

    Sunni/Shia division creat in the first Muslim civil war
  • Jan 1, 661

    Ali's dead

    Ali was assassinated in 661,after Ali's dead sunni's follower and Ali's follower attack the other,sunni won and start the umayyad dynasty.after thay won Muʿāwiyah set up himself as the first Umayyad caliph in 661 AD
  • Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750

    umayyad

    Umayyads ruled Muslim Empire .the Muslim Empire start expanded.Armies advanced west into Africa.
  • Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750

    Umayyad Dynasty (661-750)

  • Dec 4, 661

    capital to Damascus

  • Period: Jan 1, 674 to Jan 1, 678

    west

    In the West, the Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople
  • Dec 4, 680

    680—assassination of Hussein at Karbala

  • Jan 1, 685

    languages

    Parts of empire had different languages – barrier to unity
    Abd al-Malik (caliph in 685) solved language problem by declaring Arabic official language across Empire
    Coins engraved with quotes form the Qur'an, helped spread Islam and Arabic
    He also used state money to build mosques, and also constructed one of the most important buildings in Islam — the Dome of the Rock
  • Dec 4, 691

    completion of the Dome of the Rock

  • Dec 4, 696

    coins standardized by weight and appearance, used across empire

  • Jan 1, 711

    empire expand

    Ali's armies attack spian in 711.Conquest of Spain took 7 years.
    and conquered the Iberian Peninsula also.The Umayyad empire stopped in several places
  • Jan 1, 717

    west

    In the West, the Romans stopped Islamic attacks against Constantinople again in 717 AD.
  • Jan 1, 732

    france

    Charles Martel (leader of the Franks), grandfather of Charlemagne, turned back a series of Islamic raids into France in 732 AD at the Battle of Tours. In the East, the Islamic Empire came up against the Tang Dynasty Chinese, who were also expanding their empire at this time.
  • Dec 4, 732

    defeat at the Battle of Tours in France by Charles Martel

  • Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1258

    Abbasid-Seljuq Empire (750-1258)

  • Dec 4, 750

    overthrown by Abbasid faction

  • Dec 4, 750

    Abbasid faction from eastern Iran overthrows Umayyad dynasty

  • Period: Dec 4, 750 to Dec 4, 1492

    Muslim Spain (750-1492)

  • Jan 1, 751

    china

    Arabs won a great battle against Chinese in 751 but border stayed about the same from then on.
  • Dec 9, 751

    Arab defeat of Chinese army introduces paper to the west

  • Dec 9, 755

    Cordoba established as Abd al Rahman’s capital

  • Dec 9, 762

    Baghdad becomes the Abbasid capital

  • Dec 9, 785

    construction began on the Great Mosque of Cordoba

  • Period: Dec 9, 813 to Dec 9, 833

    reign of Al-Ma’mun, founder of the House of Wisdom

  • Period: Dec 9, 822 to Dec 9, 852

    reign of Abd al-Rahman II

  • Dec 9, 850

    death of Al Khwarizmi

  • Dec 9, 929

    Abd al-Rahman III takes the title of caliph

  • Dec 9, 1000

    Shahnameh (“Book Of Kings”) published

  • Dec 9, 1025

    Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine written

  • Dec 9, 1031

    end of the Umayyad dynasty

  • Dec 9, 1055

    Seljuq Turks gain control of Baghdad

  • Period: Dec 9, 1096 to Dec 9, 1204

    Crusades (represents the four major Crusades, not the less important earlier and later religious wars

  • Period: Dec 9, 1126 to Dec 9, 1198

    life of Ibn Rushd, Averroes

  • Dec 9, 1187

    Saladin recaptures Jerusalem

  • Dec 9, 1200

    —A Thousand and One Nights first compiled

  • Dec 9, 1204

    death of Maimonides

  • Dec 9, 1258

    Mongols invade and destroy Baghdad, ending the Abbasid-Seljuq dynasty

  • Dec 9, 1400

    completion of the Alhambra Palace in Granada

  • Dec 9, 1492

    end of Muslim rule in Spain