This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non- Muslims to be when Islam started, though not by

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

s.Esposito (2002b), pp. 4–5.

Broad periods (Gregorian and Islamic dates)

; Muhammad and the Rashidun Caliphs * 6th century CE (13 BH – 23 AH) ;The Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate and its fragmentation, the Mamluk Sultanate, the

Delhi Sultanate The Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic empire based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for 320 years (1206–1526).

7th century The 7th century is the period from 601 ( DCI) through 700 ( DCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era. The spread of Islam and the Muslim conquests began with the unification of Arabia by Muhammad starting in 622. After Muh ...

CE (23 AH – 81 AH) * 8th century CE (81 AH – 184 AH) * 9th century CE (184 AH – 288 AH) *

10th century The 10th century was the period from 901 ( CMI) through 1000 ( M) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the last century of the 1st millennium. In China the Song dynasty was established. The Muslim World experienced a cultural zenith, ...

CE (288 AH – 391 AH) *

11th century The 11th century is the period from 1001 ( MI) through 1100 ( MC) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium. In the history of Europe, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages. Th ...

CE (391 AH – 494 AH) * 12th century CE (494 AH – 597 AH) *

13th century The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 ( MCCI) through December 31, 1300 ( MCCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Eu ...

CE (597 AH – 700 AH) *

14th century As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was a century lasting from 1 January 1301 ( MCCCI), to 31 December 1400 ( MCD). It is estimated that the century witnessed the death of more than 45 million lives from political and n ...

CE (700 AH – 803 AH) ;Regional empires and dynasties ( Ottoman Empire,

Safavid Empire Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

, Mughal Empire) *

15th century The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian dates from 1 January 1401 ( MCDI) to 31 December 1500 ( MD). In Europe, the 15th century includes parts of the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the early modern period. M ...

CE (803 AH – 906 AH) *

16th century The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 ( MDI) and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 ( MDC) (depending on the reckoning used; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The 16th cent ...

CE (906 AH – 1009 AH) *

17th century The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural moveme ...

CE (1009 AH – 1112 AH) *

18th century The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trad ...

CE (1112 AH – 1215 AH) *

19th century The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolis ...

CE (1215 AH – 1318 AH) ;Final period of colonialism and time of postcolonial

nation-state A nation state is a political unit where the state and nation are congruent. It is a more precise concept than "country", since a country does not need to have a predominant ethnic group. A nation, in the sense of a common ethnicity, may inc ...

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20th century The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear ...

CE (1318 AH – 1421 AH) *

21st century The 21st (twenty-first) century is the current century in the ''Anno Domini'' era or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 ( MMI) and will end on 31 December 2100 ( MMC). Marking the beginning of the 21st centur ...

CE (1421 AH – present)

Islamic centuries to Gregorian

; Islamic centuries to corresponding Gregorian years * 1st century AH (622 – 719 CE) * 2nd century AH (719 – 816) * 3rd century AH (816 – 913) * 4th century AH (913 – 1009) * 5th century AH (1009 – 1106) * 6th century AH (1106 – 1203) * 7th century AH (1203 – 1299) * 8th century AH (1299 – 1397) * 9th century AH (1397 – 1495) * 10th century AH (1495 – 1591) * 11th century AH (1591 – 1688) * 12th century AH (1688 – 1785) * 13th century AH (1785 – 1883) * 14th century AH (1883 – 1980) * 15th century AH (1980 – present)

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Graphical Timeline of Islamic Rulers/Caliphate
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Broad periods (Gregorian and Islamic dates)

Islamic centuries to Gregorian

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