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:
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629
630
631
- Mubahela with the Christian of Najran
- Expedition against Banu Rumla
- Operation against Banu Zubuda
- Mission to Yemen
632
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:
657:Ali shifted the capital of Rashidun empire from Medina to Kufa in Iraq.
May–July 657: Battle of Siffin
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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.