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.

570
Mohammed is born in Mecca

573
Abu Bekr, Mohammed's father in law and first Caliph of the Mohammedans is born

606
Fatima, Mohammed's daughter is born

610
Mohammed has a vision on Mount Hira

615
Mohammed starts teaching his religion.

622
Mohammed is forced to flee Mecca for Medina. This event is called the Hegira and is year one on the calendar for Islam.

624
Mohammed marries Aisha who is the ten-year-old daughter of Abu Bekr.

625
Mohammed begins to dictate the Koran.

627
Mohammed's enemies from Mecca besiege Medina and slaughter 700 Jews.

628
Mohammed captures Mecca and writes letters to all the rulers of the world explaining the principles of the Moslem faith.

632
Mohammed dies he is replaced by Abu Bekr who makes his capital Medina. Fatima also dies.

633
The religion of Mohammedanism as it is known spreads to Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria taking those cities from the Christians.

634
Abu Bekr dies and is replaced by Mohammed's advisor, Omar I. Omar will spread the religion to Syria, Persia, and Egypt.

635
Damascus becomes the capital of the caliphs. Gaza is captured.

637
Jerusalem is conquered by the Arabs. Arabs are exposed to Islam.

638
Persia is besieged by the Moslems and asks for help from China.

639
The Arabs attack Armenia.

641
The Library of Alexandria is destroyed by the Arabs. Omar destroys the Persian Empire. The caliphs will rule the country till 1258 and Islam will replace the religion of Zoroaster.

642
The Eastern Roman Empire is weakened by the Arab conquest of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria. The Amr Mosque is built in Cairo.

643
The Muslims conquer Tripoli. The building of the Dome of the Rock begins.

646
The Byzantine Navy recaptures Alexandria.

649
The Arabs conquer Cyprus.

650
Caliph Othman puts the Koran into chapters. He also introduces the first organized news service.

652
The Arabs reach their southern limit at Aswan.

655
A Muslim fleet destroys the Byzantine fleet at Lycia.

656
Caliph Othman murdered.

658
The Omayyad's rise to power in Damascus. They will become a family of Caliph's in 660 and start a style of building.

661
Caliph Ali, nephew of Mohammed, murdered.

670
The Arabs attack Northern Africa.

671
"Greek Fire" is used against the Arabs during their siege of Constantinople.

674
The Arabs reach the Indus River.

679
Yezid I becomes Caliph.

683
Moawiyah II becomes Caliph.

684
Abdelmelik becomes Caliph.

693
Justinian II is defeated by the Arabs at Sebastopolis, Cilicia. Justinian was a Byzantine emperor who had invaded Arab territory for Christianity.

694
Arabs overrun Armenia

695
First Arab coinage.

697
The Arabs destroy Carthage.

700
The Arabs conquer Algiers and Christianity in North Africa is wiped out.

705
Walid I becomes Caliph. The Great Mosque is built in Damascus.

711
Spain with the exception of Asturias becomes an Arab state.

712
The Muslims conquer Samarkand, Seville, and an Indian state is established in Sind.

716
The Arabs conquer Lisbon.

717
Caliph Omar II grants tax exemption to all believers.

720
The Arabs cross into France. Yezid becomes Caliph. Abu Masa Dshaffar, who invents sulfuric acid, metric acid, aqua regia, and nitrate of silver, begins work.

724
Hisham becomes Caliph.

732
Charles Martel defeats the Arabs at Tours and stops the westward expansion of the religion.

744
Mervan II becomes Caliph he is the last of the Omayyads.

748
The Arab Navy is destroyed at Cyprus.

750
The Abbasids take over the Caliph office with their first Caliph Abu-al-Abbis. This year begins the study of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, optics, and chemistry in Arab Spain.

751
Western Asia embraces Islam. Islam fractions into four sects: Sunnites, Hafenities, Shafites, and Malikites.

754
Al Mansur becomes Caliph.

755
The Cordoba family takes the Caliph office until 1031.

763
Caliph al-Mansur moves the capital to Baghdad.

775
Caliph Mahdi starts an inquisition.

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.

1004
Arabs sack Pisa.

1009
Muslims sack the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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.

1202
The Fourth Crusade begins.

1203
The Arabs conquer Upper India.

1204
Crusaders take Constantinople and the Fourth Crusade is declared over.

1212
The Children's Crusade begins.

1217
The Children's Crusade fails to take Egypt and ends.

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.

1396
The Ottoman Turks defeat a Hungarian Army at Nicopolis.

1398
The Ottoman Turks conquer Delhi.

1401
The Ottoman Turks capture Baghdad and Damascus.

1443
The Hungarians at Nish defeat The Ottoman Turks

1444
The Ottoman Turks defeat the Polish and Hungarians at Varna.

1447
The Arabs lose India, Persia, and Afghanistan.

1453
The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople and destroy the Byzantine Empire.

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.

1507
The Portuguese establish bases in the Persian Gulf.

1517
The Ottoman's take Egypt

1526
The Arabs finally take India.

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.

1830
French forces occupy Algeria ending Turk rule.

1839
Turkey loses Egypt.

1840
Egypt is forced to give up Syria.

1857
Great Britain takes India and ends Muslim rule there.

1859
The Islamic State of Daghestan becomes a Russian State.

1876
Britain builds the Suez Canal and takes over Egypt.

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.

1901
France occupies Morocco.

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.

1928
Turkey is declared a secular state.

1932
Iraq gains its independence.

1935
Persia changes its name to Iran.

1936
With increased Jewish immigration the first war occurs between Jewish and Arab people in the Holy Land.

1941
Britain and Russia invade Iran.

1943
Palestine starts a terror war in the Holy Land.

1946
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence.

1947
Pakistan is made a Muslim country as it separates from India.

1948
Israel becomes a country. The Arabs reject their own state and go to war with Israel. The Arabs lose their first war.

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.