This is intended to be a timeline of Islam from a Christian perspective. I will not agree with some of the things that Islam states such as that Ishmael was the one honored by God.
1959
 570: Mohammed is born in Mecca
573: Abu Bekr, Mohammed’s father in law and first Caliph of the Mohammedans is born
782: The Arab scientist Jabir starts to separate the study of Chemistry from alchemy.
809: Caliph al-Amin takes office.
810: Arab mathematician Muhammed ibn Musa al Chwarazmi starts to study equations which he calls Algebra.
826: The Arabs take Crete and plunder the Greek isles. The following year they will invade Sicily and Sardinia.
832: The Arabs invade Egypt
833: Samarra becomes the new capital of Islam.
838: Arabs sack Marseilles and settle in southern Italy. They also manage to defeat the Byzantine Army.
846: The Arabs sack Rome and damage the Vatican.
847: Mottawakkil becomes Caliph. He is the last Caliph of the whole Islam religion. After this the religion since it has split no longer listens to a caliph from another section.
850: The Arabs invent coffee.
858: Vikings are expelled by the Arabs from their lands.
869: Malta is captured by the Arabs.
880: The Arabs lose Italy.
888: The Arabs occupy Garde-Freinet on the coast of Provence.
900: Christians begin the reconquest of Spain from the Arabs. The Arab physician Rhases declares plague, consumption, smallpox, and rabies to be infectious diseases.
904: Salonika is sacked by Muslim pirates.
916: Arabs are expelled from central Italy.
935: Algiers is built by Arabs.
939: The Arabs lose Madrid.
961: The Arabs lose Crete
968: The Arabs found Cairo and lose Antioch.
975: Arabs lose Garde-Freinet
994: Arabs destroy the monastery of Monte Cassino. This is where the first rules for monks were established.
1015: the Arabs conquer Sardinia.
1033: The Arabs lose Castile
1052: The Arabs lose Sardinia.
1075: The Turks, who are Muslim, take Syria and Palestine
1085: Toledo is taken from Arabs.
1086: The Muslims revive the Almoravid dynasty in a move to take back Spain.
1094: Valencia is taken from the Arabs.
1095: Pope Urban II starts The First Crusade.
1097: The Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum, and take Nicaea.
1098: The Crusaders take Antioch
1099: The Crusaders take Jerusalem
1104: The Crusaders take Acre. This marks the end of the First Crusade
1125: The Almohades conquer Morocco.
1144: The Turks take Edessa.
1145: Pope Eugene III proclaims The Second Crusade.
1147: The Second Crusade ends in Asia Minor.
1176: General Saladin conquers Syria for the Arabs.
1183: General Saladin takes Aleppo.
1187: Saladin takes Jerusalem.
1189: Third Crusade is proclaimed.
1191: Richard I and his Crusade Army takes Cyprus
1193: Saladin dies and the Third Crusade ends
1200: Islam starts to replace Indian religions.
1228: The Sixth Crusade begins. It would end the next year with no gains.
1230: The Crusaders manage to bring Leprosy into Europe.
1236: The Arabs lose Cordoba to Castile.
1244: The Egyptians take Jerusalem.
1248: The Seventh Crusade begins. It ends in 1250 with the capture of Louis IX.
1258: The Mongols take Baghdad from the Arabs.
1270: The Eighth Crusade begins and ends the same year.
1291: The Muslim Mamelukes take Acre and end Christian rule in the East. The Crusade period is declared to be over by the Pope.
1333: Arabic Zenith in Granada
1352: Arabs explore the Sahara
1375: The Mamelukes take Sis and end Armenian independence.
1382: The Ottoman Turks capture Sofia.
1390: The Ottoman Turks capture Asia Minor from the Byzantines.
1401: The Ottoman Turks capture Baghdad and Damascus.
1456: The Ottoman Turks capture Athens.
1463: The Ottoman Turks capture Bosnia.
1467: The Ottoman Turks capture Herzegovina
1492: The Country of Spain becomes a reality with the end of Arab rule. The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary
1493: The Ottoman Turks invade Dalmatia and Croatia.
1501: Persia officially adopts Islam.
1528: The Ottoman Turks take Buda in Hungary. The next year they will fail to take Vienna.
1550: Islam spreads to Java, Molucca, and Borneo
1568: All remaining Muslims in Spain are forcibly converted to Catholicism.
1571: The Spread of the Ottoman Empire ends at the Mediterranean.
1711: Russia and Turkey go to war.
1718: Turkey and Austria go to war. Turkey loses and will lose Hungary.
1722: Afghanistan becomes independent from Persia.
1804: Sudan becomes an Islamic State.
1811: British occupy Indonesia. They will give it to the Dutch in 1816.
1824: Greece becomes independent.
1827: Malaya becomes a British protectorate.
1828: Russia declares war on Turkey.
1878: Turkey sells Cyprus to Britain and Russia takes Adrianople.
1879: With the treaty of Berlin, Turkey loses 4/5 of its land in Europe.
1881: France invades Tunisia.
1905: Islam reaches France once again as it is recognized as a religion.
1916: Arabs rebel against Ottoman Rule. They are led by Lawrence of Arabia.
1918: With the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire ceases to exist. Syria and Damascus become French protectorates. Palestine is born.
1921: The country of Transjorden is declared along with that of Iraq.
1924: Arabia is established as it gains control of Mecca and Medina.
1951: Libya becomes independent.
1956: Morocco and Tunisia become independent. The Israelis take the Sinai.
1962: Algeria becomes independent.
1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in America ending for a time the Black Muslim movement in America. It would start up again in the 1970′s
1967: The six-day war
1973: The Yom Kipper War.
1979: The Shah is overthrown in Iran and the country becomes a fanatical Muslim state.
1980: Israel destroys Iraq’s nuclear plant and Iraq invades Iran
1989: Iraq-Iran war comes to an end,
1991: Persian Gulf War I
2001: The World Trade Center is destroyed. Later that year Afghanistan is pacified by America
2003: Iraq is freed.
March 11, 2004- A Jihadi group claims responsibility for bombings in Madrid, targeting it’s commuter railway and several trains. The Jihad attack killed 191, and wounded 1,460 others.
July 7, 2005- A radical Muslim group claims responsibility for bombings in London, in an attack which killed 52, and wounds over 700 others.
Sept 2008- The Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, says that it wants the formation of a Palestinian national unity government to settle the political crisis which has divided Palestinians. The proposal for a technocrat government was made during a series of meetings between Egypt and representatives of the Palestinian factions that oppose the feud between Hamas and Fatah.
Nov 13 2009 - Officials in Turkey say that they “would not say no”, if asked to store Iran’s enriched uranium. There has been a noticeable thaw between the two countries lately, and according to a “Time” article, “The only country who’s not happy with the situation is Israel. The fact that Turkey is talking to Tehran implies that there is an exchange between the U.S. and Iran that [Turkey] is a go-between for.” Indeed, if Turkey is rebranding itself diplomatically as a bridge between the West and the Muslim world, it needs good ties with both.”
Minnesota 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken Republican, announced Monday that she is running for president, a candidacy that could further shake up a fight for the GOP nomination.
