North Africa
Explore North Africa on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- 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)
- Founding of Fatimid Caliphate (909)
- Almoravid Empire founded (1050)
- Hannibal Barca (247 BCE)
- Battle of Zama (202 BCE)
- Barbary corsairs raid the Mediterranean (1500)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918)
- North African campaign (1940)
- Algerian independence (1962)
- Augustine of Hippo (354)
- First Punic War (264 BCE)
- Independence of Morocco and Tunisia (1956)
- Ibn Khaldun (1332)
- Suez Canal opens (1869)
- Founding of Kairouan (670)
- Vandal Kingdom of North Africa (435)
- Destruction of Carthage (146 BCE)
- Tunisian Revolution (2010)
- Egyptian Revolution of 2011 (2011)
- Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal (1956)
- Libyan Civil War (2011) (2011)
- Egyptian Revolution of 1952 (1952)