Omayyad Caliphate (Damascus)

• 680: Death of Mu'awiya, who is succeeded by his son, Yazid.
  • Husayn and Alids are massacred at Karbala.
• 685-687: Shi'ite revolt in Iraq.
• 691 Abd al-Malik builds the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
• 698: Capture of Carthage
• 711: Conquest of Spain.
• 717-718: Attempt to conquer Constantinople.
  • Reforms under Umar II.
• 732: Battle of Tours.
• 750: Abbas defeats Marwan II ending the Ommayad dynasty and beginning the Abbasid dynasty.

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