In raid against Lisbon, Portugal in 1189, for example, the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur took 3, 000 female and child captives, while his governor of Córdoba, in a subsequent attack upon Silves, Portugal in 1191, took 3, 000 Christian slaves.

* The efforts of the Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, to repopulate the western Andalusian city of Beja begin.

* The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, reconquers the city of Gabes Ifriqiya from the Almoravid pretender, Ali b. Ghaniya.

That same year, the Almohad caliph, Yusuf II al-Mustansir dies.

* The Almohad army besieges Ceuta where Abu Musa, the rebellious brother of the caliph, has received shelter and the support of the population.

* The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, fails to reconquer Silves in Portugal.

The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broke an alliance with the king of León Ferdinand II against Afonso.

* Abd al-Mu ' min becomes Almohad caliph in North Africa.

The Almohad army continues its campaign by the siege of Santarém, where the caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf is killed.

In 1184, after a series of failed attempts, the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf invaded Portugal with an army recruited in Northern Africa and, in May, besieged Afonso I in Santarém ; the Portuguese were helped by the arrival of the armies sent by the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July.

The caliph Muhammad an-Nasir was routed and Almohad power broken.

Muhammad al-Nasir ( الناصر لدين الله محمد بن المنصور, an-Nāṣir li-dīn Allah Muḥammad ibn al-Manṣūr, died 1213 ) was the Almohad caliph from 1198 until his death.

* 1215: The Banu Marin ( Marinids ) attacks the Almohads when the 16 year old Almohad caliph Yusuf II Al-Mustansir comes to power in 1213.

These disparate works were later collected and compiled in 1183-84, on the order of the Almohad caliph Yusuf ibn Abd al-Ma ' mun ( later translated in French in 1903, under the title Livre d ' Ibn Toumert.

In 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur returned from Marrakech, to fight the Portuguese who, with the help of a Christian alliance, had taken over Silves.

Most significantly, however, these raids did not lead to any territorial gains for the caliph, although Almohad diplomacy did obtain an alliance with King Alfonso IX of León ( who had been enraged when the Castilian king had not waited for him before the battle of Alarcos ) and the neutrality of Navarre.

When the Almohad caliph Muhammad an-Nasir attempted to build on it 16 years later with a new Iberian offensive, he was crushingly defeated in the more decisive Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.

For example, in a raid on Lisbon in 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur took 3, 000 female and child captives, and his governor of Córdoba took 3, 000 Christian slaves in a subsequent attack upon Silves in 1191.

* 1160-The Almohad Sultan Abd al-Mu ' min ordered that a permanent settlement, including a castle, be built.

** Abd al-Mumin, founder of the Almohad empire ( b. 1094 )

* The Almohad emir, Abd al-Mu ' min, prepares a gigantic fleet of some four hundred ships to invade Spain.

Abd al-Mu ' min ( 1094 – 1163 ) also known as Abdelmoumen El Goumi (, Tifinagh: ⵄⴰⴱⴷ ⵍⵎⵓⵎⵏ ⵍⴳⵓⵎⵉ ) was a Zenata Berber prominent member of the Almohad movement.

The Almohad biographers traced his descent as Abd al-Mu ' min ben Ali ben Makhlouf ben Yali ben Merwan ben Nasr ben Ali ben Amer ben Al-Amir ben Musa ben Abdellah ben Yahya ben Ourigh ben Setfour ( ben means son of ).

Between 1130 and his death in 1163, Abd al-Mu ' min not only defeated the Almoravids, but extended his power over all northern Africa as far as Egypt, becoming Caliph of the Almohad Empire in 1149.

* 1147: In the Maghrib Al Moravids overthrown by the Almohad under Abd al-Mu ' min.

* 1163: Death of the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu ' min, accession of Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph.

* 1224: Death of the Almohad ruler Abd al-Wahid I, accession of Abdallah, Almohad Caliph.

Death of the Almohad ruler Abd al-Wahid II, accession of Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid.

The Hammadid Empire fell in 1152, when the Almohad ruler, Abd al-Mu ' min, invaded central Maghreb from Morocco.

Al-Bashir ( others report Abd al-Mu ' min ) led the Almohad armies first against Aghmat.

Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur himself held command of the rearguard, which comprised the best Almohad forces commanded by Yabir ibn Yusuf, Abd al-Qawi, Tayliyun, Muhammad ibn Munqafad and Abu Jazir Yajluf al-Awrabi and a strong guard of black slaves.

Considered at first as foreigners, the Jews were not permitted to settle in the interior of the last-named city, but had to live in a building called later, however, a wealthy and humane Muslim, Sidi Mahrez, who in 1159 had rendered great services to the Almohad king, Abd al-Mu ' min, obtained for them the right to settle in a special quarter of the city proper.

* 1163-The Almohad Caliph Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi dies and is suceded by Abu Ya ' qub Yusuf I.

* 1149-A new Berber dynasty, the Almohad, led by Emir Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi conquers North Africa to the Almoravids and soon invades the Iberian Peninsula.

* 1163-The Almohad Caliph Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi dies and is succeeded by Abu Ya ' qub Yusuf I.

* The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold in Spain, Grenada, after six years of siege.

* The Almohad general Mohammad al-Masufi conquers Seville.

* The Almohad Dynasty conquers the Maghrib al-Awsat, nowadays Algeria.

* The Almohad dynasty of Caliphs ( not universally accepted ) that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

** The Almohad dynasty of caliphs ( not universally accepted ), that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ), is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

He is most remembered for his part in the Reconquista and the downfall of the Almohad Caliphate.

In 1269, a new association of African tribes, the Marinid, had taken control of the Maghreb, and most of the former Almohad empire was under their rule.

The region was somewhat unified as an independent political entity during the rule of the Berber kingdom of Numidia, which gave way to centuries of rule by the Roman Empire, followed by the brief domination of the Vandal Kingdom, the equally brief re-establishment of " Roman " rule by the Byzantine Empire, and later the more-enduring rule of the Islamic Caliphates and Emirates under Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Almoravid, Almohad, Hammadid, Zirid, and Marinid dynasties ( to name some of those among the most prominent ) during the 8th to 13th centuries, and that of the Ottomans, at least nominally, thereafter.