Portal:Islam/Selected anniversaries

January 1978 - Iranian Revolution begins, with the first major demonstrations against the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
22 January 1992 - Islam Karimov assumes office as President of Uzbekistan
27 January 2008 - Death of Suharto (pictured), the second President of Indonesia
30 January 2006 - Jyllands-Posten publishes letter on its website in response to Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

7 February 1999 - Death of Hussein of Jordan (pictured), King of Jordan from 1952 until his death
7 February 2008 - Turkish Parliament passes amendment to constitution, allowing women to wear the hijab in Turkish universities
9 February 1912 - Muhammadiyah organization's central board and provincial chiefs endorse presidential campaign of its former chairman, sparking controversy in Islam in Indonesia
15 February 2007 - Supreme Court in India describes the banned Students Islamic Movement of India as a "secessionist movement"

23 March 1940 - Pakistan resolution had passed in the meeting of All India Muslim league at Manto Park, Lahore.

March 1947 - First Pan-Malayan Islamic conference at Madrasah Ma'ahad al-Ehya as-Sharif at Gunung Semanggul, Perak
8 March 2006 - Islamic Human Rights Commission releases press statement addressing Islamophobia in British prisons
18 March 2005 - Website Muslim WakeUp! along with Progressive Muslim Union of North America, helps sponsor a Friday Jumu'ah prayer service in New York City led by a female imam, Dr. Amina Wadud
27 March 1898 - Death of Syed Ahmed Khan (gravesite pictured), an Indian educator and politician, and an Islamic reformer and modernist

21 April 1938 - Death of Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan.

1 April 1979 - Iran officially becomes an Islamic Republic after a national referendum
9 April 2008 - Al Jazeera reports that Libya released at least 90 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
15 April 1979 - Mazhar Krasniqi (pictured at right) becomes first president for new organization Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand
19 April 2007 - Organization Islamic State of Iraq announces it had set up a provisional government termed "the first Islamic administration" of post-invasion Iraq

11 May 1953 - Inaugural meeting of Islamic Association of China in Beijing, a nationwide organization assisting religious Muslims in China
15 May 2008 - 15 Ex-Muslim Christians incarcerated by government in Iran on charges of apostasy from Islam
16 May 2007 - Prince Khalid al Faisal (pictured) appointed as new governor of Makkah Province in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
23 May 2007 - Arab League issues statement "strongly condemn[ing] the criminal and terrorist acts carried out by the terrorist group" Fatah al-Islam, adding that the group has "no relation to the Palestinian question or Islam"

8 June 632 - Death of Muhammad (tomb pictured), central human figure of the religion of Islam
10 June 2007 - President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran
20 June 2005 - British-based convert to Islam Yakoub Islam publishes Muslim Anarchist Charter on the Internet, discussing anarchism from a Muslim perspective
28 June 2007 - Egypt bans female genital cutting after the death of 12-year-old Badour Shaker during a genital circumcision

1 July 1983 - Bank Islam Malaysia headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, begins operations as first Islamic bank in Malaysia
2 July 2006 - Documentary film Malcolm X: Prince of Islam shown on the Islam Channel
4 July 1930 - Organization Fruit of Islam in the west (United States of America) (pictured) founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad
7 July 2007 - FOX News Channel airs documentary Banned by PBS: Muslims Against Jihad

6 September 1965 - Pakistan Defense Day, Remembers those peoples how sacrifice their lives for the defense of own mother land.

9 September 2008 - Death of Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader and the son of Clara and Elijah Muhammad
11 September 2001 - September 11 attacks (World Trade Center pictured), series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States
12 September 2006 - Lecture given by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany containing statements on Islam sparks controversy
30 September 2005 - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishes cartoons of Muhammad, leading to Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

13 October 2007 - Open letter A Common Word Between Us and You from leaders of the Muslim faith to leaders of the Christian faith
16 October 1995 - Louis Farrakhan convenes a broad coalition of nearly 2 million men in Washington, D.C. for the Million Man March
17 October 1992 - Inauguration of Baitul Islam Mosque in Vaughan north of Toronto run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) in Canada
18 October 1965 - Birth of Zakir Naik (pictured), Indian public speaker, and writer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion

2 November 2004 - Dutch Filmmaker Theo van Gogh (pictured) assassinated by Dutch born Mohammed Bouyeri for producing the film Submission
3 November 1947 - Private university Universitas Islam Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia developed out of STI (Islamic Higher School)
14 November 1914 - In Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam declares Jihad on behalf of the Ottoman government, urging Muslims all over the world - including in the Allied countries - to take up arms against Britain, Russia, France and Serbia and Montenegro in World War I
25-26 November 2006 - Global Peace & Unity event hosted by Islam Channel in the United Kingdom

16 December 1925 - Kazi Nazrul Islam started publishing weekly Langal, with himself as editor
23 December 1977 - Cat Stevens formally converts to Islam, taking the name Yusuf Islam in 1978
24 December 1610 - Treaty signed establishing free commerce between the Netherlands and Morocco
27 December 1807 - Omar Ibn Said (pictured), originally from Futa Tooro (modern Senegal) arrives in the United States