Almoravid Empire founded
c. 1050 · Event
A Berber religious movement unites the Maghreb and al-Andalus into an empire stretching to the Sahel.
On these timelines: North Africa, Spain, Master
More from North Africa
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Algerian War of Independence (1954)
- Third Punic War / Destruction of Carthage (149 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- French conquest of Algeria (1830)
Around 1050
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- First Crusade (1096)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)