Mauritania

Al Jumhuriya al-Islamiya al-Mauritaniya



YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1903 12 may French Protectorate Xavier Coppolani
1904 18 october Part of French West Africa colony
1920 12 january French colony Nicolas Jules Henri Gaden
1920 12 january French colony Nicolas Jules Henri Gaden
1926 9 november Albéric Auguste Fournier
1928 13 january Alphonse Paul Albert Choteau
1929 21 november René Héctor Émile Chazal
1931 19 june Gabriel Omer Descemet (I)
1933 22 june Louis François Antonin
1934 7 april Gabriel Omer Descemet (II)
1934 5 july Adolphe Deitte
1934 august Jean-Baptiste Victor Chazelas (I)
1934 1 november Richard Édmond Maurice Édouard Brunot
1935 15 april Jean-Baptiste Victor Chazelas (II)
1935 10 november Jules Marcel de Coppet
1936 1 september Jean Louis Beyries (I)
1936 24 october Oswald Durand
1938 7 august Charles André Dumas
1938 november Jean Louis Beyries (II)
1944 4 may Christian-Robert-Roger Laigret
1945 31 july René Babin
1946 30 april Georges Poirier
1946 27 october French overseas territory
1947 19 july Lucien Eugène Geay
1947 31 december Henry Jean Marie de Mauduit
1949 7 august Édouard Louis Terrac
1950 21 september Jacques Camille Marie Rogué
1952 25 april Pierre Messmer
1954 6 april Albert Jean Mouragues
1955 23 june Jean Paul Parisot
1956 14 may Albert Jean Mouragues (II)
1958 5 october Henri Joseph Marie Bernard
1958 28 november Independent into French Comunity Moktar Ould Daddah
1959 february Amédée Joseph Émile Jean Pierre Anthonioz
1960 28 november Republic Moktar Ould Daddah
1978 10 july col. Mustafa Ould Salek
1979 6 april Ahmed Ould Bouceif
1979 28 may Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi
1979 31 may col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla (I)
1979 3 june col. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
1980 4 january col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla
1980 12 december Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara
1981 25 april col. Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya (I)
1984 8 march col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla (II)
1984 12 december col. Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya col. Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya (II)
1992 18 april Islamic Arab Republic col. Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (I)
1996 2 january Cheikh El Afia Ould Mohamed Khouna (I)
1997 18 december Mohamed Lemine Ould Bah Ould Guig
1998 16 november Cheikh El Afia Ould Mohamed Khouna (II)
2003 6 july Sghair Ould M'Bareck
2005 3 august Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
2005 7 august Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (II)
2007 19 april Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi Zeine Ould Zeidane
2008 6 may Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef
2008 6 august Gen. Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi -
2009 5 august Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
2009 11 august Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf


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