Timeline / 800 to 1400 / TUNISIA Date Country | Description 827 A.D. Tunisia The Aghlabids begin the conquest of Sicily. 836 A.D. Tunisia Construction of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. 863 A.D. Tunisia Construction of the Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis. 876 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of the town of Raqqada a few kilometres outside Kairouan. 921 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of the town of Mahdia, capital of the Fatimids. 947 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of princely town of Sabra-al Mansuriya. 971 - 973 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of Cairo (Egypt). The Fatimids leave for Cairo. 1007 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of the Qal’at Bani Hammad (Algeria). 1015 A.D. Tunisia The Zirid princes share out the kingdom of Ifriqiya and the fortress of the Bani Hammad. 1016 - 1062 A.D. Tunisia Foundation of the kingdom of al-Mu‘izz ibn Badis, which splits from the Fatimid Caliphate of Cairo. 1050 - 1052 A.D. Tunisia Ifriqiya is invaded by Hilalian tribes from Egypt. Split into several different kingdoms, Ifriqiya falls to the invaders. 1118 - 1156 A.D. Tunisia Date Country | Description Norman incursions on the coast of Ifriqiya. The Djerba and Kerkennah islands, along with the towns of Gabès, Sfax, Mahdia and Sousse, are occupied by the Normans. 1160 A.D. Tunisia Reconquest of the coast by the Almohads and reunification of Ifriqiya. 1184 - 1209 A.D. Tunisia The powers of the Almohads declines. 1228 - 1236 A.D. Tunisia The Hafsid Kingdom of Tunis exerts a remarkable influence in politics, economics and culture. 1253 A.D. Tunisia The socio-cultural movement in Ifriqiya flourishes with individuals such as Sidi Bou Saïd and Sidi Mehrez venerated as patron saints. 1270 A.D. Tunisia Death of Louis IX at the gates of Carthage during the Eighth Crusade against the Kingdom of Tunis. 1277 - 1370 A.D. Tunisia The century is marked by trials and crises that shake the Hafsid kingdom: civil wars, foreign incursions and cholera epidemics. 1316 A.D. Tunisia Birth of the illustrious scholar Ibn Arfa. 1332 A.D. Tunisia Birth of the illustrious scholar Ibn Khaldun in Tunis. 1370 - 1394 A.D. Tunisia Political stability under the reign of the Hafsid princes. 1394 - 1434 A.D. Tunisia Development of commercial relations with Italian towns..