History Timeline

  • Period: 500 to Mar 22, 1200

    Ghana's Trading Empire

  • 570

    Muhammad was born

    Muhammad was born and was sent back to the city
  • Mar 22, 600

    Muhammad made his living as a merchant

  • Period: Mar 22, 600 to

    Spread of Islam in Africa

  • Mar 22, 610

    Eastern Roman Empire now known as Byzantine Empire

  • Mar 22, 610

    Muhammad recieved call to be prophet, messanger of God

  • Mar 22, 613

    Gabriel continued to reveal messages from God and started preaching to other Makkans

  • Mar 22, 622

    Muhammad left on a journey, called the hijran, to Madinah

  • Mar 22, 622

    Left on a journey, called the hijran, to madinah

  • Mar 22, 624

    Fighting between Muslims and Makkans

  • Mar 22, 632

    Muhammad passed away

  • Mar 22, 642

    Egypt

  • Mar 22, 644

    New Africa

  • Mar 22, 670

    Persia Iraq (Middle East)

  • Mar 22, 674

    Lose attack on Constantinople

  • Period: Mar 22, 700 to

    trans-saharan trade

  • Mar 22, 711

    Conquer Spain

  • Mar 22, 732

    Lose battle of Poiters France

  • Mar 22, 750

    Abbassids conquer Umayyads (Baghdad)

    Umayyad Dynasty at Cordoba, Spain
  • Mar 22, 1000

    Byzantine Empire at its Peak

  • Mar 22, 1050

    Ghana dominates trade routes

  • Mar 22, 1076

    Almolavid's conquer Kumbi

  • Period: Mar 22, 1100 to Mar 22, 1200

    Weakened Ghana under Muslim Control

  • Mar 22, 1240

    Mande conquers Kumbi

  • Period: Mar 22, 1240 to Mar 22, 1400

    Mali

  • Mar 22, 1312

    Mansa Musa

  • Mar 22, 1350

    Timbuktu

  • Mar 22, 1352

    Ibn Battate Trader and Historian

  • Period: Mar 22, 1400 to Mar 22, 1550

    Songhai

  • Mar 22, 1453

    Ottoman Tarks take Constantinople Iend of Byzantine Empire)

  • Mar 22, 1460

    Sunny Ali

    Military Leader
  • Mar 22, 1470

    Islam in West Africa due to trans-sahara trade

  • Mar 22, 1490

    Askia Mohammad Toure

  • Conquer Syria

  • Conquer Jerusalem

  • Dome of the Rock built in Jerusalem

  • Muhammad traveled to Syria first exposed to places "outside"

  • Muhammad married to widow Khadijan

  • Aby Talib and Kadjan passed up Night Journey

  • Truce was broken and Ka'ba shrine was rededicated to Allah

  • Muslims settle in Kumbi

  • Period: to Mar 22, 1150

    Ghana's Golden Age

  • Period: to

    Muslims conquered North Africa