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627 Battle of the Trench: An Early Arab
vs Muslim battle.
638 The Muslims capture Antioch
, Caesarea Palaestina
and Akko.
640 The French
city of Lille is founded by Lyderic.
Battle of Heliopolis between Arab
Muslim armies and Byzantine
.
722 Battle of Covadonga: First victory of a Christian
army over a Muslim army in Spain
(probable date)
732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers
, France
, leader of the Franks
Charles Martel
and his men, defeat a large army of Moors
, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba
, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
878 After a siege, the Aghlabids of Ifriqiya
conquer Syracuse
, starting 2 centuries of Muslim rule.
1115 Arnulf of Chocques is accused of sexual relations with a Muslim woman and is briefly removed from his position as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
.
1212 Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain
1253 The Mongol Empire
launches attacks on the Muslim cities of Baghdad
and Cairo
.
1255 Hulagu Khan
is dispatched by his brother Möngke Khan
to destroy the remaining Muslim states in southwestern Asia
.
1274 The Second Council of Lyons, held by the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
convenes to consider the conquest of the Holy Land
via Crusades and address the East-West Schism with the Byzantine church. The Council eventually approves a tithe to support efforts to conquer the Holy Land from Muslims, and reaches apparent resolution of the schism which ultimately proves unsuccessful.
1287 Mongol
Ilhan
Arghun Khan
dispatches Rabban Bar Sauma to the leaders of Europe
to negotiate an alliance against Muslim states, specifically the Mamluk
sultanate of Egypt
.
1315 A Muslim prince of Nubia
n royal blood ascends the throne of Dunqulah as king. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
1947 Hindu
s and Muslims clash in Punjab
1960 December 9 — French President Charles de Gaulle
's visit to Algeria
is marked by bloody riots by European and Muslim mobs in Algeria's largest cities, killing 127 people.
1966 The Chad
ian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan
, starting the Chadian Civil War.
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India
.
1977 Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
1979 In Kabul
, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan
, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and poli
1979 A group of around 200 militant Sunni Muslims occupy Mecca
's Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
1989 Iran
ian leader Ruhollah Khomeini
encourages Muslims to kill ''The Satanic Verses'' author Salman Rushdie
.
2002 A series of riots leaves hundreds dead, after 59 Hindu
pilgrims die aboard a train burned by a Muslim mob in Godhra, India
.
2003 A female suicide bomber blows up explosives strapped to her waist in a crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya
.
2004 A 16 year old Palestinian Muslim blows himself up in an outdoor market in Tel Aviv
, killing three Israelis.
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