The author of the Tārīkh and the great Tafsīr — the chronicle this database leans on — dies in Baghdad at 85.
A confederacy of ten thousand besieges Madinah and breaks against a ditch, a windstorm, and three weeks of failure.
ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ plants a permanent camp on the Ifrīqiyan steppe — the base that anchors Islam in the Maghreb.