Timeline of Ali's life


 * 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:
 * Birth of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam.
 * Expedition of Banu Mustaliq.
 * 627
 * Battle of the Trench: Ali ibn Abi Talib triumphed in combat over Arabs' hero, Amr ibn Wodd, and killed him.
 * Killing and enslavement of Banu Quraiza.
 * 628
 * Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
 * Battle of Khaybar: Ali was the standard-bearer and conqueror of the Khaybar's castle.
 * Birth of Zaynab bint Ali
 * 629
 * Participating in The first pilgrimage with the Prophet.
 * Death of Ali's brother Ja'far ibn Abi Talib in the Battle of Mu'tah
 * 630
 * Conquest of Mecca:Ali was the standard-bearer.
 * Battle of Hunayn
 * Battle of Autas
 * Siege of Ta'if
 * Operation against Banu Tayy
 * 631
 * Mubahela with the Christian of Najran
 * Expedition against Banu Rumla
 * Operation against Banu Zubuda
 * Mission to Yemen
 * 632
 * Participation in Farewell pilgrimage at Mecca.
 * Event of Ghadir Khumm
 * Death of Muhammad
 * Abu Bakr assumes power as the first Rashidun caliph
 * Death of Fatimah, Ali's wife.
 * 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:
 * Siege and assassination of Uthman, the third Rashidun caliph.
 * Election of Ali as the fourth Rashidun caliph.
 * Beginning of the First Fitna(first Islamic civil war).
 * Battle of Bassorah
 * 657:Ali shifted the capital of Rashidun empire from Medina to Kufa in Iraq.
 * May–July 657: Battle of Siffin
 * 658:
 * The Arbitration
 * Revolt of Kharijits.
 * July 658: Battle of Nahrawan
 * 659:
 * Ali's governor of Egypt was defeated and Egypt was conquered by 'Amr ibn al-'As
 * Revolt of Khurrit ibn Rashid
 * Muawiyah I plundered Iraq
 * 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.
 * Al-Hasan, election as Caliph after Ali's death in 661.
 * Muawiyah I declared himself as caliph in Damascus