Key dates in Algeria's historical evolution

-10000 BC: Development of Ibero-Mauritian civilization -203 BC: Massinissa (Numidian Berber king) annexes Cirta (Constantine) and makes it his capital. -148 BC: Death of Massinissa -Around 431: Vandal invasion -533: Fall of the Vandals, Byzantine domination. Constitution of independent Berber kingdoms -535: Religious persecution, Catholicism imposed as state religion -642: Arab reconnaissance expedition to Algeria -647: Byzantine army defeated by Muslims -675: Koceila (Berber king of the late 7th century) converted and submitted to Islam -696-700: In the Aurès region, Dihya, known as El Kahina (Berber warrior queen), resists the Arab conquest (Umayyads). 711: Conquest of Spain by Tariq Ibn Zyad (Berber-born governor and military strategist). -740: Development of Kharejite doctrine (Islamic belief advocating strict application of Koranic prescriptions) in Algeria and beginning of Ibadism (Islamic trend advocating respect for values, work, equality, etc. ....) -903: Foundation of the city of Oran -960: Bologhine Ibn Ziri (Berber soldier and statesman) founded the towns of Algiers, Miliana and Medea. -1079-80: The Almoravids found the town of Taghrart on the site of the future Tlemcen. -1139-1149: Conquest of the Almoravid kingdom by the Almohads -1269: Fall of the Almohad empire -1516: Capture of Algiers by the Turkish Aroudj Barberousse (Corsair and Sultan of Algiers) -1541: Defeat of Spain (Charles of Habsburg or Charles V, Emperor under the name of Charles V) before Algiers. -1822: European invasion of Algeria begins -1830: French capture of Algiers (Battle of Sidi Fredj) -1834-1847: The Algerian state of Emir Abdelkader (Algerian religious and military leader) puts up strong resistance to the French conquest. -1857: French army conquers Kabylie -1858-1876: Insurrections in Kabylie, Aurès and southern Constantinois -1940: Development of Algerian nationalism -1945: Repression of independence aspirations (45,000 dead in Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata). -1945: Start of the War of National Liberation -1962: Algerian independence after 8 years of war and more than 1.5 million Algerian deaths.

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