Conquest of Mecca
The city yields almost unopposed; the Kaaba's idols are smashed
In January 630 Muhammad entered Mecca with an army of about 10,000, and the city surrendered with almost no resistance. The idols in the Kaaba were destroyed, the Quraysh accepted Islam, and soon nearly all of Arabia acknowledged Muslim rule.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 626 Siege of Constantinople (626) — 4 years earlier
Africa
- 652 The Baqt treaty with Nubia — 22 years later
Asia
- 605–610 Grand Canal of China — 25 years earlier
- 618 Founding of the Tang dynasty — 12 years earlier
- 628 Brahmagupta and the rules of zero — 2 years earlier
- 629–645 Xuanzang's journey to the West — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Muhammad (aged 60)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (aged 30)
- Pakal the Great (aged 27)
- Wu Zetian (aged 6)
- Emperor Taizong of Tang (aged 32)
- Xuanzang (aged 28)