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Historical Events
0570-06-08 - Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
0610-08-10 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
0622-07-16 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
0622-07-16 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
0637-10-30 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
0638-01-23 - Start of Islamic calendar
0641-06-09 - Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
0644-11-03 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
0644-12-14 - Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
0656-06-17 - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
0711-04-30 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
0711-07-19 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
0878-05-21 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
0920-07-26 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1071-08-05 - Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
1071-08-12 - Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
1099-07-08 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1141-09-08 - -9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams
1191-08-20 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1256-12-15 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1332-02-18 - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1480-08-12 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1666-09-16 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1825-07-21 - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1827-10-01 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1828-04-20 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1875-12-30 - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1887-07-04 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1889-03-23 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1906-12-30 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1908-05-27 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1916-06-17 - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1930-11-22 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1933-01-28 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1940-03-23 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1947-08-15 - India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1951-03-20 - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
1953-09-22 - Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia
1953-11-02 - Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1955-04-06 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956-02-29 - Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
1956-03-23 - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day)
1960-07-31 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960-08-01 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961-03-27 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962-11-16 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1964-01-13 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964-03-08 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1964-03-12 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1965-02-07 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965-12-06 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
1974-01-12 - Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
1974-04-01 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1979-02-14 - In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979-04-01 - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1979-09-09 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1979-11-21 - Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1981-06-29 - Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1983-05-23 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1985-06-14 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1989-01-14 - 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989-05-12 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990-08-10 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1990-12-10 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1991-01-20 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1991-03-31 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1991-12-02 - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
1991-12-03 - Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991-12-04 - Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1992-01-12 - Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
1992-03-17 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1993-04-11 - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.
1993-09-24 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1994-06-20 - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1995-10-26 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1995-11-19 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1997-04-15 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
1997-11-17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
1999-01-04 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2000-01-14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2001-03-05 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2002-02-27 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2003-08-11 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003-08-29 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2004-03-22 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2004-04-02 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
2004-04-03 - Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2004-05-02 - Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
2005-10-27 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2006-01-12 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2007-01-31 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009-12-28 - 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
0570-06-08 - Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
0610-08-10 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
0622-07-16 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
0622-07-16 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
0637-10-30 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
0638-01-23 - Start of Islamic calendar
0641-06-09 - Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
0644-11-03 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
0644-12-14 - Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
0656-06-17 - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
0711-04-30 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
0711-07-19 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
0878-05-21 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
0920-07-26 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1071-08-05 - Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
1071-08-12 - Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
1099-07-08 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1141-09-08 - -9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams
1191-08-20 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1256-12-15 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1332-02-18 - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1480-08-12 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1666-09-16 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1825-07-21 - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1827-10-01 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1828-04-20 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1875-12-30 - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1887-07-04 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1889-03-23 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1906-12-30 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1908-05-27 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1916-06-17 - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1930-11-22 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1933-01-28 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1940-03-23 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1947-08-15 - India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1951-03-20 - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
1953-09-22 - Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia
1953-11-02 - Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1955-04-06 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956-02-29 - Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
1956-03-23 - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day)
1960-07-31 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960-08-01 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961-03-27 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962-11-16 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1964-01-13 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1964-03-08 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1964-03-12 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1965-02-07 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965-12-06 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
1974-01-12 - Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
1974-04-01 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1979-02-14 - In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979-04-01 - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1979-09-09 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1979-11-21 - Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1981-06-29 - Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1983-05-23 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1985-06-14 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1989-01-14 - 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989-05-12 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990-08-10 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1990-12-10 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1991-01-20 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1991-03-31 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1991-12-02 - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
1991-12-03 - Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991-12-04 - Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1992-01-12 - Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
1992-03-17 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1993-04-11 - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.
1993-09-24 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1994-06-20 - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1995-10-26 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1995-11-19 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1997-04-15 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
1997-11-17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
1999-01-04 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2000-01-14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2001-03-05 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2002-02-27 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2003-08-11 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003-08-29 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2004-03-22 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2004-04-02 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
2004-04-03 - Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2004-05-02 - Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
2005-10-27 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2006-01-12 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2007-01-31 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009-12-28 - 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
