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This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non- Muslims to be when Islam started,^[1] though not by Muslims.^[2][3][4]

Broad periods (Gregorian and Islamic dates)

Muhammad and the Rashidun Caliphs

• 6th century CE (13 BH – 23 AH)

The Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate and its fragmentation, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Delhi Sultanate

• 7th century CE (23 AH – 81 AH)
• 8th century CE (81 AH – 184 AH)
• 9th century CE (184 AH – 288 AH)
• 10th century CE (288 AH – 391 AH)
• 11th century CE (391 AH – 494 AH)
• 12th century CE (494 AH – 597 AH)
• 13th century CE (597 AH – 700 AH)
• 14th century CE (700 AH – 803 AH)

Regional empires and dynasties (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire)

• 15th century CE (803 AH – 906 AH)
• 16th century CE (906 AH – 1009 AH)
• 17th century CE (1009 AH – 1112 AH)
• 18th century CE (1112 AH – 1215 AH)
• 19th century CE (1215 AH – 1318 AH)

Final period of colonialism and time of postcolonial nation-states

• 20th century CE (1318 AH – 1421 AH)
• 21st century CE (1421 AH – present)

Islamic centuries to Gregorian

Islamic centuries to corresponding Gregorian years^[5]

• 1st century AH (622 – 719 CE)
• 2nd century AH (719 – 816)
• 3rd century AH (816 – 913)
• 4th century AH (913 – 1009)
• 5th century AH (1009 – 1106)
• 6th century AH (1106 – 1203)
• 7th century AH (1203 – 1299)
• 8th century AH (1299 – 1397)
• 9th century AH (1397 – 1495)
• 10th century AH (1495 – 1591)
• 11th century AH (1591 – 1688)
• 12th century AH (1688 – 1785)
• 13th century AH (1785 – 1883)
• 14th century AH (1883 – 1980)
• 15th century AH (1980 – present)