APPENDIX B

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF SOME OF THE
IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE STORY OF ISLAM

A.D.

670 Birth of Mohammed.
595 Marriage with KhadÃ®jah.
610 Mohammed's first 'Revelation.'
620 Deaths of KhadÃ®jah and Abu Talib.
622 The Hegira or Flight to Medina.
624 The Battle of Badr.
630 Capture of Mecca.
632 Death of Mohammed--Abu Bakr, Caliph.
634-637 Conquest of Syria.
635-642 Conquest of Persia.
640 Conquest of Egypt.
651-750 The Caliphs of Damascus.
700-800 Islam spreads in Central Asia and China.
711 Moslem rule in Spain.
732 Battle of Tours--Europe saved from Islam.
749-1258 The Caliphs of Baghdad.
1019 Mahmoud of Gazni enters India.
1096 The First Crusade.
1147 The Second Crusade.
1100-1200 Islam spreads to Western Soudan.
1200-1300 Mongols overrun Central Asia--Jenghis Khan.
1235-1315 Raymund Lull.
1299-present time. Turkish or Ottoman dynasty.
1369-1405 Timerlane, Mogul conqueror in India.
1453 Constantinople captured by the Turks.
1492 Battle of Grenada ends Moslem rule in Spain.
1507 Islam spreads in East Indies.
1500-1552 Francis Xavier.
1527-1707 Mogul Empire in India.
1683 Turks defeated before Vienna.
1750 Islam begins to spread in Negro Africa.
1757 Battle of Plassey--British rule in India.
1806-1812 Henry Martyn in India, Persia and Armenia.
1868 Imad-ud-Din ordained at Amritsar.
1873 Death of Livingstone at Ilala.
1880 Founding of North Africa Mission.
1881 Rise of the Mahdi (Khartoum).
1882 British occupy Egypt.
1885 Death of General Gordon--Fall of Khartoum.
1887 Death of Ion Keith-Falconer at Aden.
1889 Arabian (American) Mission organized,
1898 Fall of Mahdi--British occupy Eastern Soudan.
1899 Hausaland Mission founded.
1900 British Protectorate over N. Nigeria and Hausaland.
1907 Turkey's 'Bloodless Revolution.'
1908 Growth of Reform Party in Persia.