(Feature Photo: Depiction of the Pharos lighthouse in Egypt painted in 1721; Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
630
The prophet Mohammed returns to Mecca (after fleeing it because of persecution from pagans) and conquers it, then makes it into a spiritual center of his new religion of Islam
631
635
Cynegils, king of the West Saxons, is baptized
637
First stone structure is completed on the site of York Minster by Oswald and is dedicated to St. Peter
642
‘Amr ibn al-As captures Alexandria, the last Byzantine stronghold in Egypt (A History of the World, Map by Map pg. 95)
645
Somewhere around this time, the son of Cynegils builds the first Christian church in Winchester, the heart of Anglo-Saxon Wessex (Winchester Cathedral website)