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624 Battle of Badr, Muhammad’s Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan forces 1519 Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico 1591

161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement