Side by side
Spain and Morocco compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
1492 — The Granada War ends and the Catholic Monarchs' realms span the peninsula
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- 43
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- 9
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- 6
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- 2026-08-10
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Entangled histories
6 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1086
Almoravids enter al-Andalus
Yusuf ibn Tashfin leads the Almoravids into Spain, checking the Christian Reconquista and bringing Muslim al-Andalus under Moroccan rule.
War & Rupture · from the Morocco chronicle · The Berber Empires: Almoravids and Almohads · North Africa: The Maghrib under the Almoravids and the Almohads, The Art of the Almoravid and Almohad Periods (ca. 1062–1269)
- 1212
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
A Christian coalition decisively defeats the Almohads in Spain, beginning the dynasty's decline and reopening al-Andalus to the Reconquista.
War & Rupture · from the Morocco chronicle · The Berber Empires: Almoravids and Almohads · The Art of the Almoravid and Almohad Periods (ca. 1062–1269), North Africa: The Maghrib under the Almoravids and the Almohads
- 30 March 1912
Treaty of Fez establishes the protectorates
Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate; a Spanish zone in the north and south and an international zone at Tangier are settled the same year.
Colonisation · from the Morocco chronicle · The Alaouite Dynasty and the Protectorates · Treaty of Fès (1912), A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition: Morocco
- 22 July 1921
Battle of Annual and the Rif War
Abd el-Krim's Riffian fighters destroy a Spanish army at Annual and proclaim a Republic of the Rif; a Franco-Spanish coalition suppresses the rebellion by 1926.
War & Rupture · from the Morocco chronicle · The Alaouite Dynasty and the Protectorates · Rif War
- 2 March 1956
Restoration of independence
France ends its protectorate by agreement with Morocco; Spain relinquishes most of its northern zone in April, restoring Moroccan independence under Sultan Mohammed V.
Independence · from the Morocco chronicle · Independence and the Modern Kingdom · French Colony to Sovereign State: Moroccan Independence, A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition: Morocco
- 6 November 1975
The Green March
King Hassan II leads the Green March, in which about 350,000 unarmed Moroccans enter the Western Sahara to assert Morocco's claim as Spain withdraws; the territory's status remains disputed.
Politics & Power · from the Morocco chronicle · Independence and the Modern Kingdom · Moroccans march into Western Sahara in the Green March, 1975, Dispute over the Western Sahara Erupts in the Green March