French authorities proclaim a state of siege during the uprising

The Senatus-Consulte of 22 April 1863 initiated a major programme to delimit and register land in Algeria. It nominally recognised some collective property while requiring territorial boundaries to be...

Bachagha Mohammed el-Mokrani initiated an armed uprising against the colonial administration in the Medjana region. The revolt developed amid military defeat in France, colonial reorganisation,...

In a letter to French military officials, El-Mokrani declared that he would fight and called on people to take up arms. The letter provides a dated record of the uprising's political decision and...

Cheikh Aheddad, leader of the Rahmaniyya religious order, publicly called for participation in the revolt against French rule. The appeal helped turn the uprising into a wider movement involving rural...

French troops confronted and halted insurgent forces advancing from Palestro toward Algiers at Alma. The battle took place within the wider 1871 uprising, whose reach alarmed colonial authorities....

Mohammed el-Mokrani died during combat near Oued Soufflat as French forces pursued suppression of the revolt. His death did not immediately end the uprising; his brother Boumezrag and other insurgents...

A French decree formalised confiscation of land from Algerian communities and insurgents after the 1871 uprising. Confiscations, fines, displacement, and settlement policy converted military defeat...

French forces captured Boumezrag el-Mokrani, a leading organiser of the 1871 resistance, after months of pursuit. The revolt had been defeated militarily, but the capture marked the continuation of...

The Warnier Law reorganised land tenure by imposing French legal categories and facilitating individual transactions. It weakened collective forms of landholding and increased the vulnerability of...

The transport ship La Loire left Brest carrying Algerian political deportees detained after the Mokrani uprising. Deportation removed people from their families and homeland and extended colonial...