19/02/2018 · 2007 April - Mauritania is readmitted to the African Union, having been suspended after the 2005 coup. 2007 August - Parliament outlaws slavery, a …

c. 1300 BCE. Egyptians record the presence of semi-nomadic tribes in the Maghreb. 85 BCE - 46 BCE. Life of Juba I, a Numidian chieftain who united the Numidians and Mauretanians against Caesar . c. 25 BCE - 23 CE. Caesarea Mauretania is lavishly rebuilt and expanded during the reigns of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II .

Historical Timeline of Mauritania: 1976 Mauritania IPUMS-International funded by the University of Minnesota and the National Science Foundation Grant SES-0433654 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: 2006. Title: Mauritania, 1976: Miscellaneous Document in French Author: Minnesota Population Center

At first the Moroccan king refuses to acknowledge the existence of Mauritania, claiming that it is historically linked to Morocco (it is the region from which the Almoravids moved north in the 11th century to establish themselves at Marrakech). In 1969 Morocco drops this claim and accepts the existence of Mauritania.

In historical times Mauritania was settled by sub-Saharan peoples and by the Ṣanhājah Imazighen . The region was the cradle of the Amazigh (singular of Imazighen) Almoravids , a puritanical 11th-century Islamic reform movement that spread an austere form of Islam from the Sahara through to North Africa .

Mauritania, originally, has been populated by the indigenous, Berber tribes since 3 AD. At around 8 AD, the Arabs came and introduced Islam to the Berbers. It was also during this time that contacts from kingdoms from Sudan, Ghana, Songhai and Mali started to pick up either for trade or because of armed conflicts.