Event Category Key Historical Details Most Significant Event Austria-Hungary issues the July Ultimatum to Serbia (1914), setting off World War I Top 10 Key Events Pope John V elected (685) • Typographer patented by William Austin Burt (1829) • July Ultimatum issued to Serbia (1914) • Chinese Communist Party founded (1921) • Fox acquires Movietone…
Event Category Key Historical Details Most Significant Event The world’s first competitive motor race takes place between Paris and Rouen (1894) Top 10 Key Events Battle of Falkirk (1298) • First Motor Race in France (1894) • Battle of Salamanca (1812) • Battle of Atlanta (1864) • King David Hotel Bombing (1946) • Soviet Space…
Event Category Key Historical Details Most Significant Event Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon (1969) Top 10 Key Events Temple of Artemis burned (356 BC) • Battle of the Pyramids (1798) • Wild Bill Hickok shootout (1865) • First Jesse James train robbery (1873) • Scopes Trial verdict (1925) • First female…
Jerusalem, July 20, 1951. King Abdullah I of Jordan walks into the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers with his young grandson beside him. A gunman steps out of the crowd and shoots him dead before prayers even begin. It’s one of dozens of moments packed onto a single square on the calendar — assassinations, sieges,…
The Battle of Walaja was fought in 633 CE in southern Iraq between the forces of the Rashidun Caliphate, led by Khalid bin Walid, and a Sassanid Persian army reinforced by Arab Christian allies. Facing a larger enemy force on open ground, Khalid concealed two cavalry units behind terrain on his flanks, let his center…
Khalid bin Walid was given the title “Sword of Allah” (Saifullah) by the Prophet Muhammad after the Battle of Mu’tah in 629 CE, when Khalid took command of a heavily outnumbered Muslim army following the deaths of its three appointed commanders, and managed to fight his way out without the force being destroyed. When news…
Nero stood on his palace balcony on the evening of July 19, 64 AD, watching a tiny spark in the merchant district near the Circus Maximus erupt into a wall of flame. Within hours, dry summer winds turned the capital of the Roman Empire into an inferno. This single night reshaped Rome forever, sparking centuries…
The Battle of Yarmouk was fought over six days in August 636 CE near the Yarmouk River, on the border between modern-day Syria and Jordan, between the forces of the Rashidun Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire. Muslim forces, with Khalid bin Walid directing the overall battle strategy, defeated a much larger Byzantine army sent by…
Khalid bin Walid died of natural causes in 642 CE in Homs, Syria, several years after being removed from overall military command by Caliph Umar. He did not die in battle — a fact tradition holds he found deeply frustrating, having survived more than 100 engagements without a scratch fatal enough to end him, only…
Khalid bin Walid was a 7th-century Arab military commander with an undefeated record across more than 100 battles, which earned him the title “Sword of Allah” (Sayf Allah). He actually started out on the other side — commanding Meccan cavalry against the Muslims at the Battle of Uhud in 625 CE — before converting to…
