Algiers
City
Capital of Algeria; seat of the Ottoman regency until the French conquest of 1830 and of Free France in 1943-44.
Held by
- 1789 – July 4, 1830 Regency of Algiers
- July 5, 1830 – June 21, 1940 France
- April 22, 1945 – July 4, 1962 France
- since July 5, 1962 Algeria
Capital of
- 1516 – July 5, 1830 Regency of Algiers
- June 18, 1940 – June 3, 1943 Free France
- 1942 – 1944 France
- Algeria
Events here 8
- 1815 Treaty with Algiers (1815)
- August 27, 1816 Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
- June 14 – July 7, 1830 Invasion of Algiers (1830)
- November 1, 1954 – March 19, 1962 Algerian War of Independence
- January 7 – October 8, 1957 Battle of Algiers (1956–1957)
- April 21, 1961 Algiers putsch of 1961
- January 19, 1981 Algiers Accords (1981)
- December 26, 1991 – February 8, 2002 Algerian Civil War