📅 23 Mart 1954
Nationalist activists formed the Comité révolutionnaire d’unité et d’action (CRUA) to overcome divisions and prepare an organised struggle for sovereignty. The committee drew on veterans of the MTLD...
📅 10 Òktober 1954
A meeting of nationalist organisers resolved to transform the CRUA into the Front de libération nationale (FLN) and to begin an armed uprising on 1 November. The decision followed years of political...
📅 22 Òktober 1956
French authorities intercepted and forced the landing of a civilian Moroccan aircraft carrying Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohamed Boudiaf, Hocine Aït Ahmed, Mohamed Khider, and Mostefa Lacheraf. The five...
📅 1 Novèmber 1954
The National Liberation Front issued a proclamation and coordinated attacks across Algeria, calling for national independence and an end to French colonial rule. The uprising followed decades of...