Convert 4 Safar 1450 AH to Gregorian

The fall of Baghdad to the Mongols · 656 AH

Hulagu's Mongol army entered Baghdad, seat of the Abbasid caliphate, after a strangling siege. They pillaged it for forty days and killed hundreds of thousands, and the caliph al-Mustaʿsim was slain — closing the page on a caliphate that had lasted five centuries.

• Day 4 of 29 in Safar 1450 AH — the first third of the month.

The second month; its name reflects the old custom of Arabs leaving their homes empty to travel or wage war