The Battle of Badr, 13 March 624 CE, 17 Ramadan 2 Hijri
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Ottoman Siege and Conquest of Constantinople, 6 April – 29 May 1453
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0711 (1315 years ago)
(30 April) Umayyad commander Tariq bin Ziyad landed at Gibraltar to begin the Arab Muslim Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
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1030 (996 years ago)
(30 April) The ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi died in Ghazni (present-day Afghanistan).

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The Battle of Badr, 13 March 624 CE, 17 Ramadan 2 Hijri
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