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660s

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*Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is assassinated. He is succeeded by Hasan ibn Ali as the Shia Imam and Muawiyah I as the Sunni Caliph. This was the foundation of the Umayyad caliphate. [Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.]
* The Synod of Whitby

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