# Timeline of Ali's life

* 17 March 599 coincided with Thirteenth of Rajab, 24 BH: Birth of Ali ibn Abi Talib in the Ka'ba, in the city of Mecca.
* 610: Ali converted to Islam soon before the first revelation of the Quran.
* 613: Yawm al-Inzar: Muhammad invited the Banu Hashim to Islam; Ali alone accepted his call.
* 617- 619: Meccan boycott of the Hashemites
* 619:Year of Sorrow:Death of Abu Talib, Ali's father.
* September 622: Laylat al-mabit: Ali risked his life by sleeping in Muhammad's bed to impersonate him and thwart an assassination plot, so that Muhammad could escape from Mecca in safety and migrate to Medina.
* 622: Ali migrated with his wife, Fatima Zahra and Umm Kulthum bint Ali, and another women.
* 622 or 623:The prophet chose him as his brother.
* 623: Ali married with Fatima Zahra, Muhammad's daughter.
* 624
** March 17: Battle of Badr: Ali first distinguished himself as a warrior and killed about 20 to 22 pagans.
** Expulsion of the Bani Qainuqa Jews from Medina.
* 625:
** Birth of Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam.
** Battle of Uhud: Ali destroyed the standard bearers and when the army of Islam was defeated and most of the Muslims had fled Ali was one of the few Muslims who defended Muhammad.
** Expulsion of Banu Nadir Jews from Medina.
* 626:
** Birth of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam.
** Expedition of Banu Mustaliq.
* 627
** Battle of the Trench: Ali ibn Abi Talib triumphed in combat over Arabs' hero, Amr ibn Wodd, and killed him.
** Killing and enslavement of Banu Quraiza.
* 628
** Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
** Battle of Khaybar: Ali was the standard-bearer and conqueror of the Khaybar's castle.
** Birth of Zaynab bint Ali
* 629
** Participating in The first pilgrimage with the Prophet.
** Death of Ali's brother Ja'far ibn Abi Talib in the Battle of Mu'tah
* 630
** Conquest of Mecca:Ali was the standard-bearer.
** Battle of Hunayn
** Battle of Autas
** Siege of Ta'if
** Operation against Banu Tayy
* 631
** Mubahela with the Christian of Najran
** Expedition against Banu Rumla
** Operation against Banu Zubuda
** Mission to Yemen
* 632
** Participation in Farewell pilgrimage at Mecca.
** Event of Ghadir Khumm
** Death of Muhammad
** Abu Bakr assumes power as the first Rashidun caliph
** Death of Fatimah, Ali's wife.
* 644: Umar, the second Rashidun caliph, was assassinated. Ali was one of the electoral council to choose the third caliph
* 648: Birth of Al-Abbas ibn Ali
* 656:
** Siege and assassination of Uthman, the third Rashidun caliph.
** Election of Ali as the fourth Rashidun caliph.
** Beginning of the First Fitna(first Islamic civil war).
** Battle of Bassorah
* 657:Ali shifted the capital of Rashidun empire from Medina to Kufa in Iraq.
* May–July 657: Battle of Siffin
* 658:
** The Arbitration
** Revolt of Kharijits.
** July 658: Battle of Nahrawan
* 659:
** Ali's governor of Egypt was defeated and Egypt was conquered by 'Amr ibn al-'As
** Revolt of Khurrit ibn Rashid
** Muawiyah I plundered Iraq
* 660:
** Muawiyah plundered Hijaz and Yemen, but later withdrew
* 28 January 661 coincided with Twenty-first of Ramadan: Ali dead in Kufa and buried in Najaf two days after he was struck by Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam in the Great Mosque of Kufa.
** Al-Hasan, election as Caliph after Ali's death in 661.
** Muawiyah I declared himself as caliph in Damascus