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This page relates to the year 630 Calendrier Julien.

Events

January 11th: Mahomet ( Mohammed ) returns to Mecque with ten thousand Moslems. It purifies the city and the Kaaba by removing the idols (there were 360 of them).
Consolidation of the Moslem capacity, unification of the Arabia under the authority of Mahomet (630 - 631).

the tribes close to Mecque are subjected except Hawazin which are finally overcome in Hunayn, between Mecque and Tâ' yew. The Prophet pushes to the Byzantine border, in Tabuq in north then convinces the Arab tribes of the Nedjd and the Yemen. The peninsula is Islamized, the tribal order replaced by the religious legislation (Coran and Sunna).

the Jewish and the Christians of the peninsula find themselves under the protection of Islam and pay in compensation jizyah (tribute). The pagan ones have the choice only between conversion with Islam and death.
Embassy of the bishop of the community Monophysite of Nadjrân, in the south of Arabia near Mahomet.
With died of the king of Ethiopia Ella-Tsaham, Mahomet pays homage to publicly Mecque with the Ethiopian sovereign who accommodated his faithful in the difficult moments.
Piracy in Red Sea since the Ethiopian ports against the bases of the Arabic peninsula (630 - 640). The king of Aksoum does not do anything to repress it.
March 21st: Héraclius makes set up in triumph with Jerusalem the Vraie Cross which it took again with the Perse S.

the emperor of China Taizong (Tai-tsung) lance a broad offensive against El-qaghan. It disperses its hordes in interior Mongolia and continues it until the Orkhon and the Kerülen where El-qaghan is delivered by the tribe in which it had taken refuge. The Eastern Turks are subjected until in 682.
Assassination of the khan of the Western Turks, You ong Yabgou whose empire is parcelled out. Taizong benefits from the dissensions between tribes to subject them. The kings of the oases of Tourfan and Koutcha, in the Tarim, pay homage to him.
Arrives in China, by the road of Tarim, the techniques of manufacture of sugar with the cane with sugar come from India and manufacture of grape wine. The Buddhism, the Islam and the Christianisme nestorien borrow the same way.
Embassy of the Japan at the court of the Dynasty Tang.
Beginning of the stay of the Chinese traveller Xuanzang (Hsuan Tsang) in India (fine in 644).
In India, beginning of the reign of Narasimha-varman, king of the Pallava of Kanchi (630-655).

Narasimha-varman, called Mahâmalla, “the large fighter”, bases on the east coast the town of Mamallapuram (Mahäbalipuram). The rupestral temples and sculptures engraved in the granite under its reign count among the most impressive examples of Indian art. The greatest relief carved on rock of India is 32 meters long there on 14 top.

In Spain, Dagobert Ier supports the applicant Visigoth Sisenand against the king Swinthila.
Dagobert seizes monastic grounds to allot them to its soldiers (premises of the contract of precarious). It generalizes the principle of the drudgery.
Didier, treasurer of Dagobert, becomes bishop of Cahors (630-655) with died of his/her brother assassinated by a rival faction.

Didier builds many church with Cahors and the surroundings, as well as monastery.

the monks of the south of the Ireland adopt the Roman calculation of the date of Easter.

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