EVENT INFORMATION

1
November
1954

FLN launches the Algerian war of independence

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📅 1 November 1954 📍 Algeria, France

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 settler domination and the 1945 Sétif, Guelma, and Kherrata massacres. France answered with a long counterinsurgency; the conflict became a central anticolonial struggle of the postwar era.

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Mohamed Boudiaf

Didouche Mourad

Algerian civilians and fighters

Organizations in this Event

National Liberation Front

National Liberation Army

French colonial administration