- Asia
First Buddhist temples founded
Tibetan tradition credits King Songtsen Gampo with building the earliest Buddhist temples in the Bhutanese valleys, including Kyichu Lhakhang at Paro, as Buddhism spread south from Tibet.
Era: Buddhism and the Valleys of the Thunder Dragon
Sources: Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies · Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Bhutan — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Islam takes root on the Gulf of Aden coast
Merchants and seafarers crossing the narrow Gulf of Aden carried Islam to the northern Somali shore very early, making it one of the oldest centres of Muslim life in Africa, with Zeila among its earliest mosque towns.
Era: An Ancient Coast: Zeila, Islam and Adal
Sources: Zeila · Wikipedia, A complete history of Zeila (Zayla), a medieval city in Somaliland · African History Extra, The Sultanates of Somalia (World Civilization) · Lumen Learning
- Asia
Muhammad ibn Qasim conquers Sindh
An Umayyad army under Muhammad ibn Qasim conquers Sindh and southern Punjab, bringing Islam to the Indus lands for the first time.
Era: Islam, the Sultans and the Mughals
Sources: Pakistan: A Country Study · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division
- Asia
Arab conquest of Bukhara and Samarkand
The Umayyad commander Qutaybah ibn Muslim takes Bukhara and Samarkand and annexes Transoxiana, beginning the Islamisation of the region beyond the Oxus.
Era: The Arab Conquest and the Samanid Golden Age
Sources: Qutaybah ibn Muslim · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bukhara — Uzbekistan, Map, History & Facts · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
The Great Mosque of Damascus
Under Caliph al-Walid the Umayyads build the Great (Umayyad) Mosque of Damascus, one of the oldest and grandest mosques in the world, on a site holy to Roman, Christian and Muslim worship.
Era: Islam and the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus
Sources: Great Mosque of Damascus · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ancient City of Damascus — UNESCO World Heritage List · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Asia
Guru Rinpoche brings Buddhism to Bhutan
The tantric master Guru Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is said to have travelled into Bhutan, blessing sites such as Bumthang and the Taktsang cliff at Paro and marking the proper advent of Buddhism in the country.
Era: Buddhism and the Valleys of the Thunder Dragon
Sources: Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies · Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Asia
The first Ibadi imamate
Around 750 CE the Ibadis established their first imamate in Oman under al-Julanda ibn Masud, an elected imam uniting temporal and religious authority and giving Oman a distinctive political identity.
Era: Islam and the Ibadi Imamate
Sources: Oman: History of Oman - The Imamates · Fanack, Ibadiyyah, Islamic sect · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Ibadism becomes Oman's defining school
The Ibadi school of Islam took root across the Omani interior, making Oman its principal home and shaping a tradition of imams chosen for learning and piety rather than heredity.
Era: Islam and the Ibadi Imamate
Sources: Ibadiyyah, Islamic sect · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Oman: History of Oman - The Imamates · Fanack
- Asia
Construction of Borobudur
Under the Sailendra dynasty in central Java the great Buddhist monument of Borobudur is built; the world's largest Buddhist temple, it is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Era: Early Peoples and the Hindu-Buddhist Kingdoms: Srivijaya and Majapahit
Sources: Borobudur · World History Encyclopedia, Borobudur Temple Compounds · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Religion in the 8th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 8th century — 9 of them, drawn from 7 nations, running from 700 to 780. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 9
- Nations
- 7
- Earliest
- 700
- Latest
- 780
- Asia
- 8
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.