| DATE | EVENT |
|---|---|
| Over 2 million years ago | Ancient stone tools found belonging to Homo Habilis |
| 1.9 million years ago | Tools made by Homo Erectus (upright man) found |
| 150,000 years ago | Traces of Atlas Man found in North Africa |
| 100 to 200,000 years ago | Homo Erectus disappeared, Neanderthal man evolved |
| 35,000 years ago | Aterian civilization emerged (middle Paleolithic period) |
| 18,000 years ago | Ibero-Maurusian civilization |
| 9,000-3,000 B.C. | The Neolithic Revolution |
| 7,000-4,500 B.C. | Capsian civilization |
| 1,200 B.C. | The first Phoenician colony around the modern city of Tunis |
| 814 B.C. | Elissa went into exile in Tunisia. There she founded the new capital |
| 8th century B.C. | Carthage became the first naval power in the Mediterranean |
| 264 B.C. | First Punic war between Carthage and Rome |
| 247 B.C. | Hamilcar Barca was sent to Sicily |
| 218 to 201 B.C. | The second Punic war |
| 149 to 146 B.C. | The third Punic war |
| 146 B.C. | Scipio's arrival and the fall of Carthage |
| 47 B.C. | Caesar crushed the Numidian army |
| 30 to 14 B.C. | Octavianus Augustus rebuilt Carthage |
| 1st century A.D. | The advent of Christianity |
| 2nd century A.D. | Large Tunisian towns were founded and developed |
| 258 A.D. | Saint Cyprian, bishop of Carthage was executed by Romans |
| 429 | Genseric, the king of the Vandals arrived in North Africa |
| 439 | Genseric established a maritime empire in Carthage |
| 468 | Byzantine navy was anihilated off Cap Bon in Tunisia |
| 534 | Byzantine empire defeated the Vandal king Gelimer |
| 565-578 | Justinian reorganized the North African region |
| 670 | Muslim Arabs sweep into Tunisia and begin conquering North Africa |
| 712 | Arabs invade Spain |
| 744 | Arab er Rahman ibn Habib occupied Tunis |
| 9th century | Kairouan, Sousse, Sfax and Monastir became major centers |
| 910 | Obeid Allah, who created Fatimid dynasty reached Ifriqyya |
| 1052 | Beni Hillal Bedouin tribes destroyed Ifriqyya and Kairouan |
| 1159 | Hafsid dynasty was created |
| 1270 | The soldiers of the 8th crusade landed in Tunisia |
| 1453 | Ottomans captured Constantinople and Byzantine empire collapsed |
| 1574 | Tunisia conquered by Barbarossa and made a vassal to Ottomans |
| 1705 | Husseinite dynasty was created by Husein ibn Ali |
| 1740-1781 | Fight against Algerians to stop invasion |
| 1824 | France signed a treaty with bey Hussein II |
| 1881 | Tunisia became a French protectorate |
| 1885 | Land Registration Act passed; colonists flock to Tunisia |
| 1920 | The Liberal Destour Party was formed |
| 1934 | Neo-Destour Party was formed, led by Habib Bourguiba |
| 1938 | Bourguiba was imprisoned |
| 1943 | Allied forces pushed Germans and Italians out of Tunisia |
| 1955 | Bourguiba returned from exile |
| 1956 | Suppression of the Protectorate and Independence to Tunisia |
| 1957 | Tunisia became a republic and Bourguiba was elected president |
| 1963 | French forces were forced out of Tunisia |
| 26 January 1978 | A general strike bloodily repressed, 'black Thursday' |
| 1982 | Temporary headquarters of PLO set up in Tunisia |
| 1987 | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali relieved Bourguiba from presidency |
| 1994 | Ben Ali was elected as the President of Tunisia |
