Plague of Amwas
The pandemic's echo strikes the Arab army in Syria
Soon after the Arab conquest of Syria, plague broke out in the Muslim army's camps, an echo of the Justinianic pandemic. Tradition holds that some 25,000 soldiers died, including the commander Abu Ubayda.
Wikipedia (English) · 7th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 652 The Baqt treaty with Nubia — 14 years later
Asia
- 618 Founding of the Tang dynasty — 20 years earlier
- 628 Brahmagupta and the rules of zero — 10 years earlier
- 629–645 Xuanzang's journey to the West — 9 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (aged 38)
- Pakal the Great (aged 35)
- Wu Zetian (aged 14)
- Emperor Taizong of Tang (aged 40)
- Xuanzang (aged 36)