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Historical Timeline for Mauritania - A chronology of key events
Mauritania Timeline[edit | edit source]
Date | Event |
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About 600,000 BC. | First trace of human presence dating from the Lower Paleolithic. Little reliable information on this period. |
8,000 BC AD | Neolithic. Appearance of a civilization of hunters attracted by game. |
4000 BC AD | Discovery of ceramics. |
2000 BC J.- C. | Semi-sedentarization of men who become breeders. |
2nd century | Appearance of the dromedary. |
4th century | Creation of the animist Empire of Ghana, by Berbers, which will prosper for several centuries thanks to the trade in slaves, gold and salt. |
1054 | The Muslim Almoravids take Aoudaghost, the economic capital of the Empire of Ghana. |
1076 | It is the turn of the capital, Koumbi Saleh, to fall into the hands of the Almoravids. The holy war is won. |
1147 | End of the domination of the Muslim Almoravids. |
Beginning of the 15th century | Second wave of Arabization led by Hassan tribes from Upper Egypt. They will have to fight first against the attempts to invade the neighboring black kingdoms, then later against the pressure of France from Senegal. |
1885 | The French army takes over the Moorish resistance led by the emblematic El Hadj Omar Tall. |
1907 | General Gouraud gradually occupies the entire territory. |
1920 | Mauritania becomes a French colony attached to French West Africa (A-OF). |
1946 | Mauritania becomes Overseas Territory. |
1956 | The Defferre law gives the territory internal autonomy. |
1957 | First clashes between the National Liberation Army and the French army. |
November 28, 1960 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania becomes independent. Its first president is Mokhtar Ould Daddah. |
1975 | Mauritania occupies the south of Western Sahara, left by the Spaniards. |
July 10, 1978 | Ould Daddah is overthrown by Mustapha Ould Saleck. |
1979 | Mauritania withdraws from Western Sahara. |
December 12, 1984 | Colonel Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya takes over as head of state. |
1989 | Serious racial clashes between Moors and Negro-Africans. |
January 24, 1992 | First presidential election. Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is elected. |
December 12, 1997 | Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is re-elected in the second presidential election. |
June 8, 2003 | First serious coup attempt against Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, she will have an abortion. |
From June 2003 to August 2005 | Numerous social movements shake the country and several coup attempts fail. |
August 3, 2005 | A coup topples Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. Mauritania's new strongman is Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall. |
March 25, 2007 | Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is elected President of Mauritania. |
August 6, 2008 | Military coup orchestrated by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. |
July 2009 | Abdel Aziz wins the presidential elections after a contested vote. |
May 21, 2014 | Interior ministers from the Group of Five of the Sahel (G5 Sahel) create a cooperation platform in Nouakchott to fight terrorism. |
June 21, 2014 | Re-election of outgoing Head of State Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz with 82% of the vote. |
August 13, 2015 | Parliament adopts a new law toughening the crackdown on slavery, now considered a crime against humanity. |
October 20, 2016 | End of the national dialogue between the majority and some opposition parties. The presidential term limit is maintained. |
January 31, 2017 | Blogger Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, sentenced to death for an article deemed blasphemous, is referred to another court of appeal. |
July 1 and 2, 2018 | Mauritania hosts the 31st African Union summit. |