1319 Great defeat of the Castilians in Granada.
1325 Assassination of Ismail by one of his officers. His son Muhammed IV succeeds.
1328 Reduction of Baena by Muhammed.
1333 Muhammed obtains an army of Merinids from Africa, who retake Gibraltar. Alfonso XI attempts to retake. Muhammed comes to relieve the Merinids, but they assassinate him. His brother Yusuf Abul-Hagiag succeeds.
1340 Yusuf besieges Tarifa, with the assistance of Merinid auxiliaries. Alfonso IV of Portugal, and Alfonso XI of Castile, relieve the town and administer a crushing defeat to the Moors, on the river Guadacelito (Salado).
1343 Surrender of Algeciras to Alfonso of Castile, who makes ten years’ treaty of peace with Yusuf.
1354 Assassination of Yusuf by a madman, while at prayer. His son Muhammed V succeeds.
1359 Muhammed deposed by his brother Ismail, and retires to Africa.
1360 Abu Said, Ismail’s prime minister, murders him, and usurps the throne.
1361 Muhammed returns to Spain, and applies to Peter the Cruel of Castile for support.