Historically
The Holy Prophet Moses preceded Jesus Christ (pbuh) by some 1300 years and Muhammad (pbuh) succeeded to that high office vacated by Jesus some six centuries later.
It was the 12 Rabi I... in the year of the Elephant, or the 29th August of 570 of the Christians Era that Muhammad (pbuh) the Praiseworthy, to whom all praise is due, was born in the sacred city of Makkah in pagan Arabia. His people the Quraish remembered the year of his birth as the "Era of the Elephant" because just two months before the birth of the child abraha al-Ashram, the abyssinian viceroy of yemen had attacked the sacred sanctuary at Makkah at the head of his troops riding a huge of African elephant