Less than fifty years after the death of the Prophet of Islam, the rise of Yazid led to the merciless killings of the Prophet’s household in Karbala on the 10th of Muharram, known as Day of Ashura. In order to understand how the Ummah of the Prophet either participated actively or were complicit in this tyranny, it is important to examine the events that led up to this time. This report outlines what the revolution of Husayn ibn Ali (a) the grandson of the Prophet was about as well as the historical events that took place through an interactive timeline which draws modern day connections from both Sunni and Shi’i sources.