Conquest of Mecca
630 · Event
Muhammad marches on Mecca with some 10,000 men; the city yields almost without bloodshed and the idols of the Kaaba are destroyed.
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- Sunni-Shia split (656)
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- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Srivijaya Empire (650)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)
- Sui dynasty (581)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)