Battle of Algiers (1956-57)
1956–1957 · Event
A brutal urban campaign between the FLN and French paratroopers, marked by bombings and torture.
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- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
Around 1956
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)