Timeline / 500 to 1300 / MOROCCO
Date Country | Description
533 A.D. Morocco
The Vandals take refuge in Mauritania Tingitana (Northern Morocco in Antiquity).
544 A.D. Morocco
The Goths attempt to occupy the town of Sebta.
578 A.D. Morocco
Byzantium puts down the Berber revolt that flared up after local chieftains are murdered by Sergius, Byzantine Governor of Tripoli.
681 A.D. Morocco
‘Uqba (Okba) ibn Nafi reaches Sebta, Tangiers then Walili (Ancient Volubilis) before going on to the town of Nfis in the Haouz and Igli in the Souss.
711 A.D. Morocco
Tarik ibn Ziyad crosses the Straits of Gibraltar, defeats King Roderick of Spain and takes Córdoba and Toledo.
740 A.D. Morocco
Northern Morocco is shaken by the Kharijite revolt lead by Maysara al-Matghari.
757 A.D. Morocco
Issa ibn Yazid al-Assouad founds the town of Sijilmassa at Tafilalet, the great desert port on the gold route.
788 A.D. Morocco
Idris ibn ‘Abdallah (Idris I) takes up residence at Walili, then in the Andalusian Quarter (Adwat al-Andalousiyyin) in Fez, which he founded on the right bank of the Wadi Fez.
808 A.D. Morocco
Idris II (son of Idris I) founds the town of al-Aliya in the Kairouan Quarter (Adwat al- Qayrawaniyyin) on the left bank of the Wadi Fez.
836 A.D. Morocco
A moribund Idrisid Morocco vacillates between the Umayyads of al-Andalus and the Fatimids of Ifriqiya for 27 years.
857 A.D. Morocco Date Country | Description
Fatima al-Fihriya, daughter of a Kairouanese man living in Morocco, founds the Qarawiyin Mosque in Fez.
925 A.D. Morocco
Musa ibn Abi ’l-Afiya, chief of the Miknassa tribe, conquers Fez and takes control of all of Maghreb.
978 A.D. Morocco
Death of the historian Ibn al-Warraq, whose work, dedicated to the towns of Tahert, Oran, Sijilmassa, Nekkour and al-Basra, would later be used by the geographer al- Bakri in his Description of Northern Africa.
991 A.D. Morocco
Amir Ziri ibn Atiya of the Maghrawa takes Fez.
994 A.D. Morocco
Amir Ziri ibn Atiya of the Maghrawa founds the town of Oujda in Eastern Morocco.
1038 A.D. Morocco
Abu Imran al-Fassi, originally from Fez and celebrated faqih from Ifriqya (Tunisia), where he settled to teach, dies in Kairouan.
1054 A.D. Morocco
The Almoravid Sanhaja set out the conquer the Maghreb under the leadership of ‘Abdallah ibn Yassine.
1055 A.D. Morocco
The Almoravids take the town of Sijilmassa.
1062 A.D. Morocco
The Almoravids found the town of Marrakesh, heralding the start of a new era in Maghreb and al-Andalus.
1069 A.D. Morocco
The Almoravids enter Fez and take control of the Maghreb.
1086 A.D. Morocco
The Almoravid amir Yusuf ibn Tashufin wins the Battle of Zallaca near to Badajoz and mints a gold coin, known as the maravedis in the Christian West.
1094 A.D. Morocco Date Country | Description
Yusuf ibn Tashufin annexes Andalusia to the Almoravid empire.
1100 A.D. Morocco
The geographer al-Sharif al-Idrissi is born in Sebta. Half a century later he writes a geography book entitled Kitab nuzhat al-Mouchtaq at the request of the Norman King Roger II.
1123 A.D. Morocco
Al-Mahdi ibn Tumart takes action against the Almoravids to aid the Hargha, Tinmel, Hintata tribes, etc.
1147 A.D. Morocco
‘Abd al-Mu’min, who succeeds Al-Mahdi ibn Tumart, makes a ceremonious entrance in Marrakesh, announcing the triumph of the Almohad movement.
1148 - 1149 A.D. Morocco
‘Abd al- Mu’min rebuilds the mosque of Tinmel, birthplace of the Almohad dynasty and the prototype of its mosques.
1152 A.D. Morocco
The Almohads take Algiers and Constantine, overcoming the last heir of the Bani Hammad, Yahia ibn ‘Abd al-Aziz (515–47/1121–52) and unifying Morocco and the Central Maghreb.
1158 A.D. Morocco
‘Abd al-Mu’min starts the construction of the Great Mosque of the Koutoubiya in Marrakesh.
1159 A.D. Morocco
‘Abd al-Mu’min conquers Ifriqiya and unifies the three countries of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).
1193 A.D. Morocco
Amir Ya‘qub al-Mansur win the Battle of Alarcos against the Spanish.
1196 - 1197 A.D. Morocco
Ya‘qub al-Mansur founds the town of Rabat (Ribat al-Fath – the field of victory).
1212 A.D. Morocco
The Almohads lose the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Andalusia.
1269 A.D. Morocco Date Country | Description
The Marinids enter Marrakesh, ousting the Almohads.
1276 A.D. Morocco
The Marinid Sultan Abu Yusuf takes Algeciras, Tarifa and Ronda and founds the town of Fez al-Jdid, al-Madina al-Bayda, in Fez.
1277 A.D. Morocco
Sultan Abu Yusuf orders the construction of a new town at Algeciras.