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==== January&ndash;June ====
* [[January 26]] &ndash; (29 Rajab 2 AH) The [[Raid on Nakhla]], the first successful raid the Muslims of [[Medina]], against the [[Quraysh]] tribe in [[Mecca]], is carried out by [[Abd Allah ibn Jahsh]], who leads the plunder of a caravan of supplies.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; While praying in the [[Masjid al-Qiblatayn]] in [[Medina]], the Prophet Muhammad receives revelations from God on the ''[[qibla]]'', the direction of prayer, that he should be facing [[Mecca]] rather than [[Jerusalem]] during prayer, beginning an Islamic tradition.<ref name=Watt>{{cite book |last=Watt |first=W. Montgomery |author-link=W. Montgomery Watt |date=1974 |title=Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman |url=https://archive.org/details/muhammadprophets00watt/page/138 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=United Kingdom |pages=137–138 |isbn=0-19-881078-4 }}</ref>
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Tang dynasty|Chinese]] General [[Li Daliang]] leads an army to retake the Yu prefecture, near [[Xuancheng]] in what is now the [[Anhui]] province, from the rebel leader [[Fu Gongshi]].<ref>{{harvnb|''Zizhi Tongjian''|loc=[https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/資治通鑑/卷197 ch. 197.]}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; (17 Ramadah 2 AH) The [[Battle of Badr]] takes place in what is now [[Saudi Arabia]] as the Prophet [[Muhammad]] and some 300 of his followers from [[Medina]] surprise a reinforced Meccan [[Caravan (travellers)|caravan]] at [[Badr, Saudi Arabia|Badr]] (modern-day [[Saudi Arabia]]) returning from [[Syria]], and defeat about 1,000 [[Quraysh]] from [[Mecca]]. After having heard that clan leader [[Abu Sufyan ibn Harb|Abu Sufyan]] is escorting a rich [[trade]] caravan, Muhammad has the wells along its route (southwest of Medina) filled with [[sand]] in order to lure him into battle.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Heraclius]], [[Emperor of Byzantium]], departs from his capital at [[Constantinople]] (now [[Istanbul]] in Turkey) with his wife, the Empress Martina, and two of his children, and does not return for more than four years.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; (15 Shawwal 2 AH) The [[Siege of Banu Qaynuqa]] is started by the Muslims in what is now [[Yathrib]] in Saudi Arabia, four days after [[Ghalib ibn Abd Allah al-Laythi]] is dispatched by the prophet Muhammad.<ref>{{citation|author=Ibn Ishaq|title=Sirat Rasul Allah|page=363|trans-title=The Life of Muhammad|others=transl. Guillaume}}.</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; Emperor Haraclius celebrates Easter at [[Nicomedia]] (now [[İzmit]]) then travels to [[Caesarea in Cappadocia|Caesarea]] (now Kayseri), proceeding during April to [[Panion|Theodosiopolis]]. He leads troops into [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]] and sacks its capital, [[Dvin (ancient city)|Dvin]].<ref>''The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (A.D. 226-363): A Documentary History'', ed. by Michael H. Dodgeon (Routledge, 1991) p.290</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; (27th day of the 3rd month of the 6th year of the ''Wu'de'' era) [[Du Fuwei]], a Chinese prince who rebelled against [[Sui dynasty]] China and then was rewarded with the title "Prince of Wu" by [[Emperor Gaozu of Tang]], dies suddenly of poisoning, under suspicion that he has been ordered killed by the Emperor.<ref>''[[Old Book of Tang]]'', vol. 56.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011055105/http://ef.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ccw/02/tan07.htm]</ref> 
* [[April 20]] &ndash; Heraclius invades the Sassanid Empire (now Iran).<ref>Walter E. Kaegi, ''Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003) p.126</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Justus|St. Justus]] is appointed as the new [[List of archbishops of Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]] by [[Pope Boniface V]] upon the death of [[Mellitus|Archbishop Mellitus]].,<ref>{{cite book |author1=E. B. Fryde |author2=D. E. Greenway |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |page=213 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}</ref> receiving the [[pallium]] — symbol of the jurisdiction entrusted to archbishops. He oversees the dispatch of [[Missionary|missionaries]] to [[Northumbria]] in northern England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. 
* [[June 23]] &ndash; While at [[Ganzak]] at what is now northwest Iran, the Sassanid Emperor [[Khosrow II]] (Chosroes) is informed by soldiers who had escaped capture that Emperor Heraclius of Byzantium is preparing a surprise attack. Khosrow dispatches an envoy to inform General [[Shahrbaraz]] to abandon a campaign in Asia Minor and to accompany him to face Heraclius.<ref>Ilkka Syvänne, ''Military History of Late Rome 602–641'' (Pen & Sword Books, 2022) pp.163-165</ref>
* [[June]] &ndash; ([[Dhu al-Hijjah]] AH 2) The [[Invasion of Sawiq]] is carried out against the Muslims by the Quraysh leader, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb.<ref>Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman Al (2005), [https://archive.org/details/sealed-nectar-color/page/331/mode/2up The sealed nectar: biography of the Noble Prophet], Darussalam Publications, p. 331</ref>