- Second caliphate after Muhammad's death
- Capital: Damascus (modern-day Syria) until 744 AD
- Mu'awiya I ruled as caliph (661 - 680 AD)
- Conquered Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, Maghreb, Hispania
- Second Fitna (civil war): 680 - 692 AD
- Third Fitna (civil war): 744 - 750 AD
- Abbasid revolution (747 - 750 AD)
- Succeeded by Abbasid Caliphate and Emirate of Córdoba