Algerian War of Independence
1954–1962 · Event
FLN-led war against French rule; brutal on both sides; ends with Algerian independence; defeats the Fourth Republic.
On these timelines: North Africa, Master, France, The Decolonisation of Africa
More from North Africa
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Third Punic War / Destruction of Carthage (149 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- French conquest of Algeria (1830)
- Fatimid Caliphate (909)
- Almoravid Empire founded (1050)
Around 1954
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)