Battle of Karbala

680 CE · Umayyad Caliphate (Yazid I) vs Husayn ibn Ali and companions

On 10 October 680 an Umayyad army killed the Prophet's grandson Husayn ibn Ali and most of his small retinue at Karbala; the massacre triggered the Second Fitna and became the defining event of Shia Islam.

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