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Time

Eras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world.

What is in this wing so far, in time order; the Hijri timeline above gathers it on one axis. Roadmap: the full Time hall arrives in a later phase.

† Hijri date computed from the Gregorian — may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two

Hijri timeline

Fourteen centuries on a Hijri axis; drag the marker, click a dot to see that year's events, click an era to zoom in. The Gregorian is a second reading.

Pre-Islamic Arabia Pre-Islamic Arabia The Prophetic Era The Rashidun Caliphate The Umayyad Period The Early Abbasid Caliphate The Early Abbasid Caliphate Abbasid Fragmentation The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era The Gunpowder Empires The Gunpowder Empires The Colonial Era The Colonial Era The Modern Era The Contemporary Era 1 AH100 AH200 AH300 AH400 AH500 AH600 AH700 AH800 AH900 AH1000 AH1100 AH1200 AH1300 AH1400 AH1448 AH The Day of al-Burdan — c. 490 CE 13 events in 75 BH 13 3 events in 44 BH 3 12 events in 13 BH 12 23 events in 2 AH 23 19 events in 13 AH 19 5 events in 24 AH 5 23 events in 35 AH 23 4 events in 50 AH 4 4 events in 65 AH 4 Battle of Tabarka — 700 CE · 81 AH† Conquest of al-Andalus — 91? AH 3 events in 103 AH 3 2 events in 117 AH 2 5 events in 130 AH 5 Beginning of the codification of knowledge — c. 760 CE · 143 AH The Paderborn Plot and Charlemagne's Campaign against al-Andalus — 777 CE · 160 AH The Building of Tarsus — c. April 788 CE · Rabi' II 172 AH The fall of Barcelona to the Franks (185 AH) — c. 801 CE · c. 185 AH 3 events in 200 AH 3 Battle of Hashtadsar (829) — 829 CE · 214 AH† 2 events in 229 AH 2 Al-Mutawakkil's resolve to reside in Damascus — c. 857 CE · 243 AH 5 events in 255 AH 5 Al-Muwaffaq's campaign against the Zanj and rescue of captives — c. 881 CE · 267 AH 6 events in 280 AH 6 2 events in 291 AH 2 The Byzantine embassy and al-Muqtadir's great procession — c. 917 CE · 305 AH 4 events in 317 AH 4 4 events in 330 AH 4 2 events in 341 AH 2 2 events in 352 AH 2 Death of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah and accession of al-Aziz — c. 18 December 975 CE · 17 Rabi' II 365 AH 2 events in 377 AH 2 Battle of Cervera — 1000 CE · 390 AH† The Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage — c. November 1011 CE · Rabi' II 402 AH 4 events in 416 AH 4 6 events in 429 AH 6 The gate-building war between Karkh and al-Qala'in — c. February 1050 CE · Sha'ban 441 AH 4 events in 454 AH 4 2 events in 467 AH 2 2 events in 482 AH 2 7 events in 494 AH 7 Death of al-Ghazali at Tus — 18 December 1111 CE · 14 Jumada II 505 AH† 2 events in 516 AH 2 2 events in 529 AH 2 4 events in 540 AH 4 Battle of Al-Qarn (1160) — 1160 CE · 555 AH† 4 events in 567 AH 4 7 events in 578 AH 7 6 events in 589 AH 6 13 events in 600 AH 13 3 events in 611 AH 3 15 events in 622 AH 15 2 events in 633 AH 2 Battle of Oujda — 1248 CE · 646 AH† 8 events in 658 AH 8 The Euphrates crossing to relieve al-Bira, 671 — c. 1272 CE · 671 AH Siege of Margat (1285) — April 1285 CE · Safar 684 AH† 3 events in 695 AH 3 Siege of Ceuta (1309) — July 1309 CE · Safar 709 AH† 2 events in 730 AH 2 The fall of al-Jazira al-Khadra and the breaking of the fleet — c. March 1344 CE · c. 744 AH Siege of Guardamar (1358) — 1358 CE · 759 AH† 2 events in 773 AH 2 4 events in 787 AH 4 4 events in 801 AH 4 4 events in 813 AH 4 5 events in 826 AH 5 2 events in 840 AH 2 6 events in 851 AH 6 6 events in 865 AH 6 5 events in 877 AH 5 4 events in 889 AH 4 Fath al-Bari reaches Yemen, 901 — between 1495 and 1496 CE · 901 AH 4 events in 913 AH 4 Acehnese–Portuguese Conflicts — 1519 CE · 925 AH† Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529) — 1529 CE · 936 AH 8 events in 947 AH 8 Battle of Szeged (1552) — February 1552 CE · Safar 959 AH† The Great Flood of al-Iklil, Hadhramaut, 970 — c. 28 May 1563 CE · 2 Shawwal 970 AH 4 events in 982 AH 4 2 events in 995 AH 2 7 events in 1006 AH 7 2 events in 1020 AH 2 2 events in 1032 AH 2 4 events in 1044 AH 4 Geledi–Zanzibar conflicts — 1650 CE · 1060 AH† 4 events in 1073 AH 4 2 events in 1087 AH 2 4 events in 1100 AH 4 Battle of Chelif — 28 April 1701 CE · 20 Dhu al-Qa'da 1112 AH† Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War — 1714 CE · 1126 AH† 3 events in 1142 AH 3 Java War of 1741–1743 — 1741 CE · 1154 AH† Battle of Kakhk (1754) — 1754 CE · 1167 AH† 2 events in 1178 AH 2 2 events in 1192 AH 2 Battle of Krtsanisi — 1795 CE · 1209 AH† Battle of Arpachai — 18 June 1807 CE · 11 Rabi' II 1222 AH† 10 events in 1237 AH 10 5 events in 1248 AH 5 Battle of Isly — 1844 CE · 1260 AH† 7 events in 1273 AH 7 Siege of Kitab (1870) — 1870 CE · 1287 AH† 3 events in 1299 AH 3 2 events in 1311 AH 2 3 events in 1324 AH 3 21 events in 1335 AH 21 League of Nations commission on the Western Wall (1930) — December 1930 CE · Rajab 1349 AH† al-Wathbah Uprising — 1948 CE · 1367 AH† NDF Rebellion — 1978 CE · 1398 AH† 2 events in 1413 AH 2 3 events in 1433 AH 3 4 events in 1446 AH 4

Each dot is one Hijri year and its number is the count of events. Undated events are not shown here; they stay in the list below.

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.