This Day in Alternate History
Showing events on this day in years past that shaped history... just, not our history.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
June 9, 721 – Umayyads take Toulouse
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Following the defeat of King Roderic of the Visigoths in 712, the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate had poured into Hispania and begun to threate...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
November 16, 636 – Sassanid Victory at al-QÄdisiyyah halts Muslim Advance
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Beginning in the 600s, the Middle East was a theater of war for three of history’s greatest empires. Two of them, the Byzantine and the Sas...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
November 3, 644 (65 AH) – Caliph Omar Stabbed Five Times
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The Muslim Caliphate had grown by leaps since its creation twelve years before at the Prophet’s death. Omar, a Muhajir (Emigrant), had help...
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