WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 7. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 7. century

Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire. (19. September 634)

Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived Medina (20. September 622)

Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. (4. October 610)

Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius. (5. October 610)

Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. (12. October 633)

King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom. (18. October 614)

King Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks. (18. October 629)

A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khanate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu. (2. November 619)

Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina. (3. November 644)

The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sassanian Empire at the Battle of Qadisiya in Iraq. (19. November 636)

Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople. (27. November 602)

Fourth Council of Toledo takes place. (5. December 633)

Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca. (11. December 630)

Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. (12. December 627)

Muslim Arabs capture Babylon Fortress in the Nile Delta (near Cairo) after a seven-month siege. (21. December 640)

Pope John IV is elected. (24. December 640)