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Western Sahara history starts long before this below mentioned timeline.
Timeline of Western Sahara history

1884 - November 28  Three representatives of the Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe and Emilio Bonelli - representing the Sociedad de Africanistas y Colonistas (Society of Africanists and Colonists) - sign a treaty which formed the basis of Spain's legal conquest of the Sahara.
1885 - December Spanish government places Río de Oro, Angra de Cintra, and Bay of the West under its protection.
1887 - April 6 Spanish jurisdiction extended 150 miles into the interior.
1900 - June 27 Spain and France sign a convention which defines the borders between Spanish Sahara and the area which will become French-controlled Mauritania.
1904 - October 3 Franco-Spanish convention extends Spanish control into southern Morocco (see Ifni and Tarfaya Strip).
1912 - November 12 Final convention defining Spanish and French zones in West Africa.
1934 - May 15 Final pacification of Sahrawi in Spanish Sahara. Spanish garrison installed at Smara.
1944 - January Moroccan Nationalist Istiqlal party formed.
1946 - July 20 A decree separates Spanish Sahara from the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.
1947 - Discovery of phosphate reserves in the Sahara.
1953 - Nationalist Moroccan King Mohammed V deposed by the French.
1954 - November 16 King Mohammed V returns to Morocco from exile in Madagascar.
1956 - March 3 Beginning of Moroccan Army of Liberation insurrection.
                  - March 27 Allal al-Fassi delivers a speech calling for unification of Greater Morocco.
                  - April 7 Spain recognizes Morocco's full sovereignty.
                  - May Forces Armées Royales established.
                  - July 7 Map of Greater Morocco first appears in Istiqlal's daily newspaper Al-Alam.
                  - August Istiqlal endorses al-Fassi's claims at its first post-independence congress.
1957 - July 1 Mokhtar Ould Daddah first stakes the Mauritanian claim to the Western Sahara area.
                  - November 12 Morocco officially lays claim to Spanish Sahara, Ifni, and Mauritania at the United Nations. (see Spanish West Africa).
1958 - January 10 Spanish Sahara and Ifni become Spanish provinces, rather than colonies; El Ayoun becomes an administrative center.
                  - February 10 Beginning of fortnight-long Opération Ouragan, a joint Franco-Spanish offensive against Moroccan irregulars of the Army of Liberation operating in Spanish Sahara and in neighbouring French colonies.
                  - February 25 At M'hamid, Mohammed V first publicly endorses the Moroccan claim to the Sahara.
                  - April 1 Spain agrees to return Spanish Southern Morocco to Rabat.
1960 - August 28 The Arab League announces support for Morocco's claim of sovereignty over Mauritania.
                  - November 28 Mauritania becomes independent from France.
                  - December 14 UN General Assembly UN Resolution 1514 (XV) signed. (Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples).
1961 - King Hassan II becomes Moroccan sovereign.
                  - October 27 United Nations General Assembly votes to admit Mauritania, thus frustrating Morocco's claim.
1962 - July Algeria achieves its independence from France.
                  - July–October Morocco attempts to occupy disputed border areas of Algeria by force.
                  - October 9 Algeria drives Moroccan forces from Tindouf.
1963 - May First provincial elections held in Spanish Sahara.
                  - July 15 Three representatives of the Sahara take their seats at the Cortes Generales.
                  - October 1 Morocco again attempts to occupy Algerian border posts.
                  - November 4 The Organization of African Unity brokers a cease-fire that comes into effect between Morocco and Algeria.
1964 - October The UN urges Spain to decolonize the Sa ...