982 Battle between Fatimites and Otto II in Calabria. Emperor defeated.
996 Death of Aziz, succeeded by his son Al-Hakim.
1006 Hisham, an Omayyad prince of Spain, invades Egypt; at first successful, afterwards captured and put to death by caliph.
1010 Hakim destroys Christian churches in Syria. Founds sect of Druses. Is murdered by his sister, who becomes regent, in
1021 for his son Dhahir. Dhahir makes treaty with Byzantine Romanus Argyrus, permitting him to rebuild church in Jerusalem. From Dhahir’s reign dates decline of Fatimite power in Syria.
1023 Aleppo taken by Salih ben Mardas, and Ramla by Hassan of the tribe of Tai.
1036 Mustansir Abu Temim succeeds to caliphate. Aleppo retaken and Syria conquered.
1058 Fatimite caliph publicly recognised caliph in Baghdad by Buyids. About this time occurs persecution of Christians in Alexandria.
1060 Beginning of Norman conquest in Sicily.
1061 Commencement of struggle between blacks and Turks in Egypt.