Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 631 A.D. through 640 A.D.
- 631 to 640
- Mohammed d. 632 (b. 570)
- Medina becomes the seat of the first Caliph, Abu Bekr,
who succeeds his son-in-law Mohammed (632)
- The Arabs attack Persia (633)
- Oswald, king of Northumbria and Bernicia (633 - 641)
- Spain becomes an elective kingdom of the Visigoths (633)
- Abu Bekr d. 634 (b. 573); succeeded as caliph by
Mohammed's advisor Omar I (- 644), who conquers
Syria, Persia, and Egypt and defeats Heraclius
("Holy War")
- Damascus becomes the capital of the caliphs (635 - 750)
- The Mohammedans capture Gaza (635)
- Emperor T'ai-Tsung receives Christian missionaries (635)
- Harsha's invasion of the land of the Chalukyas repulsed
(635)
- Rise of the feudal nobility in Japan (636)
- Anglo-Saxon civilization advances with the introduction
of Christianity (636)
- In the Frankish empire the differentiation between the
Fr. and Ger. languages appears (636)
- Rothari, king of the Lombards (636 - 652)
- Jerusalem conquered by the Arabs (637)
- Persia appeals to China for help against Moslems (638)
- Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy (638 - 657),
succeeds Dagobert I
- The Arabs attack Armenia (639)
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