Battle of the Yarmuk
The caliphate wrests Syria and Palestine from Byzantium
The army of the Arab Caliphate under Khalid ibn al-Walid routed the Byzantines. The victory opened Syria and Palestine to the Arabs; Persia was beaten at al-Qadisiyyah in the same years, and Egypt fell soon after.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 652 The Baqt treaty with Nubia — 16 years later
Asia
- 618 Founding of the Tang dynasty — 18 years earlier
- 628 Brahmagupta and the rules of zero — 8 years earlier
- 629–645 Xuanzang's journey to the West — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (aged 36)
- Pakal the Great (aged 33)
- Wu Zetian (aged 12)
- Emperor Taizong of Tang (aged 38)
- Xuanzang (aged 34)