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30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage

30th September 2025
Tagged as: Afghanistan, Caliph, Caliphate, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, Turgesh, Umayyad

The Battle of the Baggage saw the defeat of an army from the powerful Umayyad Caliphate by Turgesh forces.

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30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

30th July 2024
Tagged as: Abbasid, Al-Mansur, Architecture, Baghdad, Caliph, Islam, Madinat al-Salaam, Muslim

The city of Baghdad was founded by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur.

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9th June 747: Abbasid Revolution begins, which overthrows the Umayyad Caliphate

9th June 2024
Tagged as: Abbasid, Caliph, Caliphate, Islam, Umayyad

The Abbasid Revolution gained momentum thanks to the leadership of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, a Persian revolutionary who rallied support for the Abbasid cause in the eastern provinces of the Caliphate.

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30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

9th June 747: Abbasid Revolution begins, which overthrows the Umayyad Caliphate

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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