632

By place

Arabia

• March 18 - Muhammad makes his final sermon to the Muslims. Shias believe this to be the appointment of Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor.
• June 8 - Muhammad dies at Medina at the age of 63, after an illness and fever. According to Shias, he was succeeded by Ali ibn Abi Talib; according to Sunnis, he was succeeded by Abu Bakr.
• The Imamah of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, for the religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah, starts.
• Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr launches a series of military campaigns against rebel Arabian tribes, to re-establish the power of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and to secure Muhammad's legacy.
• September - Battle of Buzakha: An Islamic column under Khalid ibn al-Walid defeats the Apostate rebels under Tulayha, near Ha'il.
• December - Battle of Aqraba: The Muslim forces of Abu Bakr defeat the Apostate rebels under Musaylimah, on the plain of Aqraba.

  Europe

• April 8 - King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye,, along with his infant son. Dagobert I claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
• Part of Samo's rebellion, Alciocus leads 9000 Bulgars from Pannonia to refuge with Dagobert who massacres them then with 700 survivors settles with the Wends under the protection of Walluc.
• Kubrat, ruler of the Dulo clan, takes power from the Pannonian Avars and establishes Old Great Bulgaria in the area of Black Cumania. Kubrat's rule stretches from Dacia to Poltava.

  Persia

• June 16 - Yazdegerd III, age 8, ascends to the throne as king of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty.

  Asia

• January 27 - An annular eclipse of the sun occurs.
• Seondeok is crowned queen of Silla.

  By topic

Religion

• March 6 - The Farewell Sermon is delivered by Muhammad, Islamic prophet, in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, to the Muslims who have accompanied him for the Hajj.
• June 8 - Muhammad dies in Medina, at the age of 63, and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph. He establishes the Rashidun Caliphate until 661.
• Xuanzang, Chinese traveler, writes about two huge statues of Buddha carved out of a mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley.

  Births

• Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, Arab general
• Vindicianus, bishop of Cambrai

  Deaths

• January 31 - Máedóc, bishop of Ferns
• April 8 - Charibert II, king of Aquitaine
• June 8 - Muhammad, Islamic Prophet
• August 28 - Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad
• October 12 or 633 - Edwin of Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia
• October 29 - Saint Colman mac Duagh, Irish abbot and bishop
• Abu Dujana, companion of Muhammad
• Chilperic, son of Charibert II
• Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, son of Muhammad
• Khosrau IV, king of the Persian Empire
• Abdullah ibn Suhayl
• Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba
• Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa
• Zayd ibn al-Khattab
• Musaylimah, Arabian false prophet