Marxists Internet Archive: History Archive: Algeria

Principal Dates and Time Line of
Algeria 1945-1957

From Timelines of History

1945 April 24	Messali Hadj is interned at El Golea.
April 30	Maurice Torres lays the cornerstone of La Masion du Peuple on the Place Desaix in the Communist stronghold of Bab el Oued.
May 1	Nationalists marchers in the May Day parade unfurl their banners in front of 10th Military Region headquarters on the Rue d’Isly, Algiers. The garrison opens fire killing 11 marchers and wounding many more.
May 1	Supporters of Messali Hadj commemorate the Liberation with riotous demonstrations that bring out the Army. Several nationalists are killed or injured in Bône and Oran.
	May 2 – 7 Nationalist leaders throughout Algeria are arrested. Ferhat Abbas is left at liberty.
	May 8 – 17 Thousands of rioting Moslems attack military posts and police stations, burn farms and destroy bridges in Petite Kabylia. Europeans and Jews are massacred (200 dead and 300 injured). The bloodiest rioting takes place in the triangle bounded by Bougie, Djidjelli and Constantine. Sétif, the stronghold of Ferhat Abbas, is the scene of the worst violence.
	May 8 – 17 The Army exacts bloody reprisals. The Air Force and Navy bombard insurgent Arab villages. Official figures, based on ration cards, show 1,150 Moslems killed. Nationalists claim that 25,000 have been killed.
May 9	“The Algerian Communist Party appeals to the Algerian population to unite to exterminate the vestiges of fascism everywhere they remain. It is time to punish the traitors, to confiscate their property. It is time, finally, to call on the populations of Algeria to found a true democracy.” The Europeans of the PCA organize militias and actively participate in the repression of the Moslems.
May 10	General de Gaulle wires Governor General Yves Chataigneau, “Please transmit to the families of the victims of the aggression at Sétif, the sympathy of General de Gaulle and the entire government. Please affirm, publicly, the will of victorious France to not allow any attack on French sovereignty in Algeria. Please take all necessary measures to repress any anti-French intrigues by a minority of agitators. Please affirm that France retains its confidence in the mass of French Moslems of Algeria.”
May 22	Amnesty is granted all who submit to French authority and disposed of their arms.
May 22	General Duval, Army commander in Algeria, tells a gathering of local politicians, “I have given you peace for 10 years. But one should not be deluded. Everything must change in Algeria.”
May 26	Order is restored. The rebellion is crushed. 3,696 insurgents have been arrested. 99 will be sentenced to death, the others are handed hard labor and prison sentences.
June 15	The French Government orders the closure of United States military bases in Algeria in response to American policy favors decolonization.
July 3	Interior Minister Adrien Tixier declares order restored in the Department of Constantine and announces plans for, "the integration of Moslems into the French Community," by granting the vote about 800,000 of them.
November 30	Marcel Cerdan wins the Middleweight Boxing Championship of France with a 3rd round knock out of Assane Diouf at the Palais des Sports in Paris.
1946 February	Three hundred people are killed when earthquakes rattle Sétif and Batna.
March 15	An amnesty is granted to most of the Nationalists imprisoned for the 1945 riots. Ahmed Francis, Ferhat Abbas, Ahmed Boumendjel, Mohamed Khider and Larbi Ben M'Hidi are released.
March 16	Ferhat Abbas calls on Algerians, “French and Moslem” to reconcile within a democratic Algerian homeland, an Algerian Algeria within the French Union.
April 14	Ferhat Abbas reconstitutes the Union Démocratique du Manifeste Algérien (UDMA).
June 2	Ferhat Abbas' UDMA wins 11 of the 13 National Assembly seats allotted to the 2nd electoral college. Socialists deputies represent the other Moslem constituencies in the new chamber.
August 2	UDMA deputies introduce a bill in the National Assembly calling for the creation of a, “Constitution of the Algerian Republic” within the French Union.
August 14	Admiral Jean Charles Abrial, Governor General of Algeria under Vichy, is convicted of collaboration and sentenced to 10 years at hard labor.
October 13	The Constitution of the Fourth Republic is approved in a referendum despite the opposition of General de Gaulle. The charter is approved by 53% of voters in Metropolitan France but less than 39% of Algerian voters are in accord.
November 10	The Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD) elects 5 members to the National Assembly.
December 19	Ten prisoners are executed for acts committed during the May, 1945 riots.
1947 February 2	Marcel Cerdan wins the European Middleweight Boxing Championship with a 1st round knock out of Belgian Leon Fouquet in Paris.
March 23	Belkacem Krim, who fled to the bush, is sentenced to death in absentia.
August 27	The National Assembly approves an Organic Act for Algeria by a vote of 328 to 33 with 208 deputies abstaining including all 15 Moslems. The Act:
	Replaces government by decree with a 120 member Algerian Assembly but maintains the two college electoral system. Half the members are to be elected by French citizens and half by French subjects i.e. most Moslems.
	Provides for separation of Mosque and State.
	Replaces communes mixtes with democratically elected local councils.
	Recognizes Arabic along with French as an official language and language of school instruction.
	Replaces the military government of the Saharan territories with civil departments.
	Enfranchises Moslem women.
	The 21st Congress of the PPA-MTLD decides to maintain the PPA as a clandestine organization, constitute the MTLD as a legal front and organize an army, the Organization Spéciale (OS).
September 20	The Saharan territories are organized as French departments.
October 9	Hocine Aït Ahmed is sentenced to a year in prison for advocating insurrection.
October 12	Charles de Gaulle declares that, “any policy which would have the effect of reducing the rights and duties of France, here (in Algeria), or cause the French Moslems to think it would be permissible for them to one day separate their fate from that of France, would that not open the door to decline?... to those Frenchmen, Moslem or not, who are misled in the dream of secession, I say today, before you all, you are mistaken and mislead the others! Your future as proud and free men and that of your children can only be found with France and in France.”
November 28	General Philippe Leclerc is killed in an airplane crash near Colomb Bechar.
During the Year	Albert Camus' novel La Peste (The Plague) is published. The fictional story of rat infestation and an ensuing epidemic set in Oran is interpreted by some as a metaphor for the German occupation of Paris.
1948 April 11	Second round balloting in the first elections for the Algerian Assembly is marked by widespread fraud and intimidation of Nationalist voters. Thirty percent of the 2nd college electorate abstains from voting.
	Resulting Distribution of Seats
	First Electoral College
	Gaullists 38
	Independents 14
	Socialists 4
	Communists 1
	Radicals 1
	Second Electoral College
	Independents 43
	MTLD (Messali Hadj) 9
	UDMA (Ferhat Abbas) 8
May 6	Collaboration charges against General Maxime Weygand, who served as Governor General of Algeria and commander of the French Army in North Africa from July to November, 1941, are dismissed for acts of resistance.
September 21	Marcel Cerdan wins the World Middleweight Boxing Championship with a 12th round knock out of American Tony Zale in a match at Jersey City, New Jersey.
October	The Departmental General Council of Algiers approves a resolution calling for a ban on the Communist Party of Algeria by a vote of 24 to 2.
November 25	Collaboration charges against Air Minister and General Jean Bergeret are dismissed for acts of resistance.
During the Year	Alain Mimoun wins the silver medal in the men's 10,000 meter race at the London Olympic Games.
	Geologists discover oil and gas reserves in the Sahara.
	Aït Ahmed Hocine takes charge of the OS.
1949 May 8	President Vincent Auriol makes the first visit to Algeria by a French head of state since 1930 to present the Croix de Guerre to the cities of Algiers and Bône.
May 10	Saiah Abdelkader is elected speaker of the Algerian Assembly by a vote of 96 to 24.
May 26 - 28	The 5th Congress of the Algerian Communist Party meets in Oran. The Congress condemns the Arab League as a, "tool of the Anglo-American imperialists and the Arab landowners."
August 4	An OS gang led by Ahmed Ben Bella and Hocine Aït Ahmed steals 3 million francs from the Oran post office. A guard is killed during the robbery.
October 15	Governor General Marcel Naegelen dedicates a monument to Abd el Kader on the Cacherou plateau. The memorial is inscribed with the Emir’s words, “If the Moslems and the Christians will listen to me, I will end their quarrels and they will become brothers inside and out.”
October 27	Marcel Cerdan is killed when his Air France flight to New York crashes in the Azores. The boxer was en route a World Middleweight Championship rematch with Jake LaMotta. His career ends with 106 wins including 61 knock outs and 4 losses.
1950	Amhed Ben Bella is arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison for robbing the Oran post office.
	Belhadj Djilali Abd el Kader is arrest and sentenced to 3 years in prison for nationalist conspiracy.
March 18	Khiarri Abd el Kader, who resigned from the MTLD, is murdered by the OS. The killers are arrested at the scene. Information obtained during their interrogation leads to the arrest of over 200 other OS members.
April 30	Conrad Kilian, who failed in his quest to attract support for development of Saharan petroleum resources during the 1920s, is found hanging from the window shutters of his room. The death is ruled a suicide.
September	Over 1,000 Algerian Nationalists are arrested in Paris and Marseilles following protests against a decree banning the Nationalist newspaper Algérie Libre.
December 15	Bachir Rouighi, a Frenchman from Laghouat, wins the Algiers – Capetown Rally in a Berliet truck.
During the Year	The Pasteur Institute of Algiers announces the development of a serum which is 92% effective in the treatment of scorpion bites.
1951 April 19	Roger Léonard, the newly appointed Governor General, arrives in Algiers.
June	Electoral fraud deprives the Nationalists of victory in elections for the National Assembly.
July	Messali Hadj, Ferhat Abbas and the Oulemas agree to join the Communists in an Algerian Front for the Defense and Respect of Liberty. The Front is a protest against the fraud and coercion exercised by the administration in the June elections, restrictions on civil liberties and state interference in Moslem religious institutions. The Nationalists and Communists agree to ignore their differences on foreign policy but fail to reach agreement on a common slate of candidates.
July 23	Ramdane Abane, a member of the PPA, is sentenced to 6 years in prison.
October	Nationalists boycott municipal elections. Only 20% of 2nd college electors cast their ballot.
1952 March 16	Ahmed Ben Bella escapes from Blida Prison with Ali Mahsas, another nationalist, and flees to Cairo.
May 7	General Alphose Juin, a native of Bône, is made a Marshal of France.
May 14	The arrival of Messali Hadj at Orléanville incites a riot. Police kill 2 demonstrators. A police commissioner is seriously injured. The leader of the MNA is exiled to France.
During the Year	Alain Mimoun wins silver medals in the men's 5,000 and 10,000 meter races at the Helsinki Olympic Games.
1954 January 16	René Coty is inaugurated as President of the French Republic.
March 10	Natural gas reserves are discovered at In Salah in the Sahara.
March 30	The “nine historic leaders” of the Algerian Revolution form the Comité Révolutionnaire d’Unité et d’Action (CRUA). The move follows the breakup of Messali Hadj’s Mouvement Nationaliste Algérienne (MNA),
June 3	Mohamed Boudiaf, leader of the Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques (MTLD), becomes the first President of the CRUA.
June 18	Pierre Mendés France becomes Premier of France.
August 1	General Paul Cherrière assumes command of the Army in Algeria.
August	Ferhat Abbas meets with Pierre Mendes France in Paris. Abbas warns the Premier that unless the 1947 Organic Act is fully implemented, “without fraud, and with the minimum delay,” moderate leaders such as Abbas will be swept aside by the course of events.
September 9	A strong earthquake rocks the Orléansville region killing 1,450 people.
October 10	Six of the “nine historic leaders” of the Algerian Revolution; Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaid, Mourad Didouche, Mohamed Boudiaf, Belkacem Krim and Larbi Ben M'Hidi approve the transformation of the CRUA into the National Liberation Front (FLN), establish the Army of National Liberation (ALN) and decide to launch an insurrection on November 1st during a meeting at the Climat de France, a house overlooking Bab el Oued.  The missing “historics”, Mohamed Khider, Ahmed Ben Bella and Hocine Ait Ahmed are in Cairo.
October 30	The French Army in Algeria numbers 56,000. Algeria’s police force numbers 2,300 for a population of 10 million, a little more than one fifth the per capita size of the force in metropolitan France.
October 31	Jean Vaujour, Prefect of the Algiers police, alerts the 10th Military District to the possibility of an insurrection during the next 48 hours.
October 31	The first bombs explode shortly before midnight. The military is put on alert. Arms are removed from Boufarik and other barracks.
October 31	Around midnight, the first civilian casualty of the revolution, 19 year old François Laurent, is killed outside the Cassaigne police station near Oran.
November 1	An FLN announcement broadcast over Cairo’s Voice of the Arabs declares, “Algeria is returning to the fight for the freedom of Islam.”November 1An FLN announcement broadcast over Cairo’s Voice of the Arabs declares, “Algeria is returning to the fight for the freedom of Islam.”November 1Rebels halt a bus in the Aurés. The Caid of M'Chouneche Ben Hadj Sadok, a well known, "Friend of France", and Guy Monnerot, a school teacher recently arrived from metropolitan France, are killed. Monnerot’s wife Jeannine is seriously injured in the attack.
November 1	The first military casualties of the Algerian Revolution are Pierre Audat, a Chasseur from the 9th Régiment Coloniale d'Artillerie and Brigade Chief Eugène Cochet from the 2/4 RA killed at Batna; André Marquet of the 4th RA and Lieutenant Gérard Darneau of the Spahis killed at Kenchela and Hamed Harouk, a police detective, killed at Dra El Mizan.
November 2	The Communist Party journal Alger Républicain labels the perpetrators of the, “All Saints Day tragedy”, “provocateurs”, “sowers of panic” and, “a handful of unconscionable or corrupt agitators” and calls on the authorities to, “appeal to the masses for the annihilation of the rebellion.”
November 2	Moulay Merbah, General Secretary of the MTLD, is arrested.
November 3	A court rules that soldiers involved in clashes with civilians in peacetime must be arraigned before and an examining magistrate. Repression of the 1945 riots is held to be legal because it occurred while the laws of war were still in force.
November 4	Troops are sent into the Aurès to relieve Arris and Foum Toub which are surrounded by the rebels.
November 5	Messali Hadj founds the Mouvement Nationaliste Algérienne.
November 6	Several civilians are killed when rebels machinegun a bus enroute from Camp du Maréchal to Dellys.
November 9	Arms purchased in Toulon and Marseilles are seized from the steamer Governor General Chanzy.
November 10	The walls of Algiers are covered with nationalist slogans, some in Arabic script, reading; “VIVE LE FLN, MNA, MESSALI HADJ, ALGÉRIE ALGÉRIENNE or LA VALISE OU LE CERCUEIL (THE SUITCASE OR THE COFFIN, a reference to the choice the FLN proposes to give Algeria’s Europeans).
November 12	Premier Pierre Mendés France declares that, “The Algerian departments constitute a part of the French Republic. They are of an irrevocable character. Never will France, any Government, any French Parliament, yield on this fundamental principal.”
	November 12Interior Minister François Mitterrand declares, “I will not permit negotiation with the enemies of the country. The only negotiation is war.”November 16Several people are killed in FLN attacks on the villages of Pasteur and Makouba.
November 29	The 18th Régiment Parachustiste Coloniale kills 23 rebels including the leader, Belkacem Grine, and takes 18 prisoners during a ten hour skirmish near Arris in the Aurès. The French lose 4 dead and 7 wounded.
November 30	The courts order an autopsy on the bodies of those killed in the Arris skirmish.
November 31	The rebels captured at Arris are arraigned before a magistrate who asks, “Did you give the customary warnings before opening fire? Was in necessary to use a machinegun?”December 1General Cherrière’s forces number 76,000.
December 7	Messali Hadj, under house arrest at Sables d'Olonne in France, intimates to his followers that he gave the go ahead for the November 1st uprising.
December 14	The rebels kill 15 Moslem Francophiles in the Aurès.
December 22	Police in Algeria and metropolitan France place MTLD militants under surveillance.
December 24	The church of Dahroussa near Randon is destroyed by order of terrorist leader Zedam Mohamed.
1955 January 18	Mourad Didouche, one of the nine historics and leader of the FLN in the Northern Constantine, is killed during an attack on a military post at Condé Smendou.
January 19	Operation Véronique is launched in the Amar Khadou Mountains north of the Aurès.
January 22	Abane Ramdane is released from prison and joins the FLN.
January 23	Operation Violette begins in the Tizé and Fouchi Mountains south of the Aurès.
January 23	The President of the Djemaa of the M’Chot douar is killed in plain sight by an outlaw who takes flight.
January 28	Two people are killed and 3 wounded in a rebel attack on an ambulance near Biskra.
February 6	The Government of Premier Pierre Mendés France falls.
February 9	Mostefa Ben Boulaid is arrested at Ben Gardane on the Tunisian - Libyan border.
February 10	The freighter Athos docks at Nador, Spanish Morocco, where it takes on an arms shipment destined for delivery to the rebels.
February 15	The new Governor General, Jacques Soustelle, arrives in Algiers where he receives a cool reception from the Europeans who believe he is ready to write them off.
February 16	Algeria’s forces of public order include 73,000 troops and 5,700 police.
February 23	The Government of Premier Edgar Faure takes office.
February 27	Rabah Zerrari, the future Commandant Si Azedine, is surprised while robbing the safe at the Caterpillar factory where he works as a welder. He manages to escape and joins the FLN near Palestro.
March 3	Governor General Jacques Soustelle reestablishes the Bureaux Arabes which were abolished in 1871 under the name Section Administrative Spécialisée (SAS). Nearly 700 offices are immediately opened.
March 9	The Unités Territoriales are formed by reservists living in Algeria. They serve every 10th day or 10 days every 4 months manning check points and providing protection for youth groups.
March 23	Rabah Bitat, one of the nine historic founders of the FLN, is arrested.
March 28	The Army introduces heavy helicopters to carry out mobile operations against the rebels.
April 1	A state of emergency is declared in the Grande Kabylie and in the Aurès.
April 6	Messali Hadj, founder of the MNA who is living under house arrest in France, is transferred from Belle Ile en Mer to Angoulême.
April 14	Municipal Councilor Saibi Mohamed is kidnapped from the Douar of Tarfana, Constantine.
April 22	Ali la Pointe, future aide de camp to Yacef Saadi, escapes from the Damiette labor camp near Médéa where he is serving a sentence for attempted murder.
May 6	Messali Hadj is released from house arrest.
May 6	Two forest rangers, Moertens and Dauty, are killed in Kabylia and near Ain Kechera.
May 12	Fourteen people are killed and more than 20 wounded in rebel attacks in the Aurès and the Constantine region.
May 12	Ludovic Ferracu, stonemason, has his throat cut, near Batna, by a Moslem who flees the scene.
May 15	The French Army is forced to withdraw from Nemencha in the Aurès.
May 16	Algiers mayor Jacques Chevalier secures the parole of 11 FLN detainees arrested after the November 1954 attacks including Yusef Ben Khedda, the future President of the Provisional Government.
May 16	A band of outlaws invades the village of Ain Naga near Biskra. Ten of them are killed by the veterans home guard.
May 18	The French Cabinet authorizes aerial bombardment in Algeria.
May 18	2,000 feet of vines are uprooted at a farm in Bimandreis near Algiers.
May 21	A decree authorizes the mobilization of reservists living in Algeria.
May 22	Two Algiers shopkeepers, Mr. Bonnier and René Fernandez, are gravely wounded by a terrorist who is cut down.
May 22	Rebels uproot 25,000 feet of vines covering 6 hectares on the farm of M. J. Torres, Mayor of Fondouk.
May 22	The small village of Youks Les Bains is attacked for a second time by the rebels.
May 22	Caid M’Touza, President of the Djemaa and the home guard is kidnapped by the outlaws.
May 23	Mohamed Boudiaf, Yacef Saadi and Ali Mahsas meet in a Zurich hotel. They decide to back the anti-MNA terrorists and physically liquidate the leaders of the MNA including Messali Hadj.
May 24	Six paratroopers held prisoner by the FLN overwhelm their guards and escape.
May 25	The bodies of an administrator and five soldiers killed in an ambush near Guentis in the Aurès are found mutilated.
May 28	The bus from Tizi Ouzou to Boghari is machine-gunned by the FLN. Several Moslem passengers are left dead or wounded.
June 2	The 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division arrives in Algeria and is stationed in the Grande Kabylie.
June 3	General Henri Lorillot replaces General Cherrière as Commander in Chief of the Army in Algeria.
June 7	Yacef Saadi is arrested at Orly Airport, Paris. Saadi is sent to Algiers where he is released by the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) which believes he will act as an informant. The only names given by Saadi are those of the Messalistes (MNA) leaders in the city.
June 11	The Algiers - Grande Kabylie bus is machine-gunned by European counter terrorists at Hussein Dey. Several Moslem passengers are wounded.
June 18	The FLN “commemorates” the anniversary of General de Gaulle’s 1940 appeal for continued French resistance in World War II with a wave of attacks at Philippeville. Seven bombs go off killing several civilians.
June 20	The Central Committee of the Algerian Communist Party decides to ally itself with the FLN during a secret meeting in Bab el Oued.
June 20	Paul Caballero, General Secretary of the Algerian Communist Party, is arrested for collusion with the FLN.
July 2	General Jacques Massu arrives in Algiers from Tunisia.
July 3	Four Frenchmen are wounded by terrorists in Philippeville.
July 5	The 8th Spahis leave Saigon for Algiers.
July 30	An Aïd el Kébir demonstration organized by the FLN incites a riot in the La Chapelle quarter of Paris.
August 1	The French Army in Algeria numbers 145,000 men.
August 5	The French Army reoccupies Nemencha in the Aurès.
August 6	Soldiers participating in operations related to the maintenance of order and security in North Africa are granted the same rights as those participating in external conflicts.
August 7	Bône and surrounding districts are separated from Constantine to form a fourth Algerian department.
August 20	Over a thousand FLN supporters attack Philippeville at midday. French troops kill 134 and wound 300 of the insurgents who are forced to retreat.
August 20	The FLN forces Moslem workers to participate in the massacre of 35 Europeans at the El Halia mining camp near Philippeville. French troops sent to aid the survivors kill 83 of the assailants and take 58 prisoners.
August 20	Thirty nine localities including Kenifra and Oued Zen are attacked by the men of FLN Chief Zighout Youssef. The rebels cut the throats of 171 Frenchmen. 500 rebels are killed, 70 wounded, 1000 taken prisoner.
August 20	Allouah Abbas, Constantine municipal councilor and nephew of UDMA leader Ferhat Abbas, is killed by FLN terrorists acting under orders from Ben Tobbal.
August 22	Terrorists attack 25 towns in the Constantine. Thirty one Europeans are killed and 66 wounded.
August 22	Three French journalists, André Leveuf, Ladeveze and Roland Jourdan are killed at Khenisra.
August 23	The Mayor of Fort National is shot in the head and killed by the FLN.
August 23	Baiche Areski and his cousin are killed by the fellagha in the Algiers Casbah.
August 24	The military classes of 1952 and 1953 are mobilized.
August 29	The military class of 1954 is mobilized. The term of service remains 18 months but draftees are conscripted for the duration and receive the same pay as volunteers. Some
	will serve 32 months, others 27 months. Underground miners serve 18 months.
September 3	The Communist Party of Algeria is outlawed.
September 11	Riot police clash with protestors at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. The demonstrators are attempting to block the departure of reservists called up for service in Algeria.
September 17	Five civilians are murdered in the Constantine Department.
September 24	Premier Edgar Faure declares, “All the honor of France, as her humanitarian mission, we impose, without equivocation and without reticence, to keep and Algeria French and in France.... Our goal has become the complete integration of Algeria.”September 25Bachir Chihani’s 150 man Aurés FLN unit is put out of action.
October 1	Albert Camus, writing in Communauté Algérienne, declares, “I have the Algerian problem like others have lung problems.”October 2Liberté, the clandestine journal of the Algerian Communist Party, publishes the FLN’s response to a question posed by Francis Jeanson, “Islam cannot flourish under colonialism...We would accept a Jew, a Protestant, a Catholic, provided that they decide to fight for national liberation and that they accept the program of the Front and only this program."
October 3	Ten members of the FLN's El Biar cell are arrested. Their leader, municipal councilor Allal Mezzi, manages to escape.
October 4	Twenty people are murdered in the Constantine Department.
October 6	Six Europeans and four Moslems are kidnapped at Lannoy near Jammapes in the Constantine Department.
October 9	North African demonstrators, led by the agents of the FLN, clash with the forces of public order in Paris, Saint Etienne and Douai, where a police detective has his throat slit and three others are wounded. Two demonstrators are cut down.
October 20	Amar Ali aka Ali la Pointe, recently escaped from prison, contacts Yacef Saadi who will make Ali his assistant.
October 24	Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard assumes command of the 3rd Régiment Parachustiste Coloniale.
October 25	Bachir Chihani, FLN commander in the Aurés, is executed by his compatriots for incompetence.
October 30	The FLN instructs Moslems to, “Drink no more, smoke no more, play no more.”November 2Larbi Ben M'Hidi takes command of the Algiers Autonomous Zone (ZAA) with Yacef Saadi as his aide.
November 8	Deputy Marcel Paternot of Algiers denounces the Alfalfa Scandal in the National Assembly. The royalty paid by La Société Général des Alfas on alfalfa harvested from its 690,000 hectare concession in Algeria has been fixed at 15 centimes per ton since 1873. The company pays only 15,000 francs to the French treasury on 3 billion francs worth of grain harvested during the year.
November 10	Hassiba Ben Boulaid, commander of the rebels in the Aurès, escapes from the Constantine prison.
November 15	The FLN undertakes an offensive against criminal gangs operating in the Algiers Casbah. Most of the gangsters are killed or join the ranks of the FLN.
November 18	A civil administrator’s escort is attacked in the Constantine: 3 guards are killed, 3 others wounded and an NCO is kidnapped and murdered.November 18
	The Chief of the Sûreté Urbaine of Constantine is wounded in an attack.
November 24	René Fredy, Police Commissioner of the Reboute quarter, is killed by a terrorist in Algiers.
November 27	Nineteen people are killed in an ambush at Tizi Ouzli.
November 29	The Government of Edgar Faure falls.
December 1	The French Army in Algeria number 160,000 men.
December 5	An attack on the center of Lamy, in the Constantine, near the Tunisian frontier, leaves 40 dead among the Moslem population and the outlaws.
December 7	A letter circulating between, Ferhat Abbas, Ahmed Francis (Future GPRA finance minister) and Amara Mohamed, the President of the Algiers Moslem Students Association, is discovered by the authorities. Francis and Mohamed are arrested and quickly released.
December 10	The leader of the MNA in Algiers is killed by the FLN.
December 12	The FLN acts to enforce its edict banning Moslems from engaging in amusements. Bombs are setoff in the Olympia and Donyazad cinémas which are showing Arabic language films. Twenty one Moslems are injured.
December 12	Election of deputies to National Assembly is postponed in Algeria.
December 18	Five people are killed in an ambush near Bône.
December 18	An attack on the civilian hospital in Constantine fails.
December 24	A forest ranger, Antoine Gheradi, his wife, and three of their children are savagely murdered near Sétif.
December 27	An attack on the Governor General’s palace in Algiers fails.
December 30	Several Communists are arrested in the Constantine Department while preparing terrorist attacks for January 2nd.
1956 January 1	The French Army in Algeria numbers 186,000 men.
January 4	Sixty one members of the National Assembly, Algerian Assembly and French Union Assembly demand recognition as Algerian rather than French citizens and begin a boycott of their respective institutions.
January 4	Five French Moslems are murdered in the Constantine.
January 4	A Berber grocer, the father of six children, is killed by a terrorist in the Clos Salembier, Algiers.
January 7	Governor General Jacques Soustelle writes Premier Edgar Faure, “Generally, it is the ‘petits’ [small colons] who are most desperate, having no other country, only this one, nor the means to settle elsewhere. These ‘petits’ constitute the majority of Europeans in Algeria.” He paraphrases the attitude of loyal Moslems, “Since you can neither guarantee our safety nor lay down a firm policy, what would you have us do? We are obliged to give pledges to the FLN, either by resigning or succumbing to violence...We fear that in the event France liquidates its position, we will become the victims of our loyalty to France.”  January 7
	Three French schoolteachers are kidnapped in Kabylia. Pierre Morer and François Defour of Sete eventually escape. Paul Dupuy of Montpellier disappears.
January 8	The FLN kills 8 Europeans and 112 Moslems, wounds 28 Europeans and 99 Moslems and kidnaps 30 Moslems in the Constantine region.
January 8	Gilbert Meloni and André Krief, Algerian conscripts, are murdered by the workers at the farm they are guarding.
January 8	Sheik Hammarbe Seghir, and his nephew, Natbi Said, are murdered by the rebels near Tazmalt.
January 8	Three employees are murdered at the Chettaba Plasterworks near Constantine.
January 10	FLN rebels, acting on orders from Ait Hamouda Amirouche, massacre 1,000 Moslems at Oued Amizour in the Soummam Valley.
January 10	Five people are wounded in grenade attacks at Bône. A taxicab driver, Seghir Miloud is murdered in the same city.
January 15	Bellounis establishes an MNA maquis between Palestro and Bouira to prevent the FLN from gaining a monopoly on freedom of movement among the native population. FLN attacks quickly force him to move to the high plateau near Aumale south of Algiers.
January 19	The funeral of Doctor Benzerdjeb, who was killed by the Army while working with the FLN, incites fighting between Moslem demonstrators and Europeans in Tlemcen.
January 20	The 3rd Regiment Étranger d'infanterie annihilates Ben Boulaid’s rebels in a battle 50 kilometers southwest of Arris.January 21
	Tunisian troops kill 29 FLN rebels and take 9 prisoners in a battle 40 kilometers south of Gafsa, Tunisia.
January 22	Albert Camus and Emmanuel Roblès travel to Algiers where they call for a civil truce. Camus, “begs the combatants to put an end to the murder of the innocent, victims of nationalist terrorism and French repression".January 23
	The FLN introduces a new slogan to rally the Moslem masses, “Hunt the infidels to take their land and their houses.”January 26Algerian rebels based in Morocco attack a bus carrying newly arrived French conscripts from Marnia to Port Say. The rebels kill all on board then slip back into Morocco.
January 27	Six soldiers, kidnapped in Orania, are massacred by the rebels.
January 27	A Sergeant is killed and two Tirailleurs are wounded near Bordj Menaiel.
February 1	The Government of Guy Mollet takes office in France.
February 2	An FLN demonstration in Oran turns into a riot. Eight people are killed, a dozen vehicles burned and 20 shops pillaged, ransacked or burned.
February 2	Jacques Soustelle receives the acclaim of 50,000 Algérois who try to block his departure for metropolitan France.
February 5	Police and demonstrators clash in Oran. One demonstrator is killed and two are injured. Six policemen are wounded. 15 cars and 2 buses are damaged, 9 fires set, and 20 stores including 2 cafés and 7 jewelers are looted. Thirteen people are arrested.
February 5	The Régiment de Tirailleurs Algériens post at Sebabna near Relizane on the Moroccan border is attacked by a band of 150 uniformed rebels. The garrison is annihilated with the help of some Moslem tirailleurs.
February 5	Louis Pitot, a cashier at the Ain Farroun post office is killed by a terrorist.
February 6	Premier Guy Mollet’s arrival in Algiers is marked by violent demonstrations.  February 6
	A bar at Sainte Amélie in the Sahel is attacked by a bomb thrower.
February 9	Resident Minister General Georges Catroux, who favors decolonization, resigns. Robert Lacoste is appointed to succeed him.
February 7	The FLN outlines its conditions for a settlement at press conference in Cairo, recognition of the principal of Algerian independence, formation of an Algerian government by negotiation and no statute of privilege for the Europeans of Algeria.
February 12	The FLN decrees that Moslems forego the customary sacrifice of sheep for the festival of Aïd for the duration of the revolution and donate the price of the sheep to its treasury.
February 13	General Marie André Zeller resigns to protest the slow pace in dispatching reinforcements to Algeria.
February 14	Generals Zeller and Guillaume are replace by Generals Ely and Piatte on the Army General Staff in Paris.
February 16	Mr. and Mrs. Cruet and their niece are murdered at their farm in the Boudouaou Valley. The farm buildings are burnt.
February 21	Operation 744, the first helicopter airlift of the Algerian War, begins in the Kabylia west of Bougie.
February 21	Twenty one soldiers of the 51st Infantry Regiment are killed in an ambush near El Milia.
February 23	The Robles Farm in the Boudouaou Valley is burnt.
February 23	A day of attacks and skirmishes leaves 106 people dead throughout the country.
February 24	Seven Europeans including a 7½ year old girl and 2 Moslems are killed in an attack on the Bou Saada - Algiers bus.
February 24	Three farms at St.Pierre – St. Paul are attacked by the FLN.February 25
	Five hundred rebels attempt to take a police arms depot by storm. One attacker is killed and 3 are wounded.
February 28	Resident Minister Robert Lacoste calls for an additional 200,000 troops and declares, “France will not abandon Algeria.”March 4A terrorist shoots and kills Seridi, Abdel Majid, Hazzab of the Guelma Mosque.
March 8	French paratroopers trap a company of Tirailleurs Algériens who deserted their post near Guelma after slitting the throats of the European officers. 126 deserters are killed and 6 are taken prisoners. The paras lose one man.
March 8	Terrorists posing as French soldiers annihilate nine members of the Benejean and Servat families at their farms outside Palestro.
March 8	Rebellious Tirailleurs Algériens murder 8 French soldiers and 3 French women at Souk Arras.
March 8	Five Moslem notables are murdered in the Constantine.
March 8	Farmer Cyprien Avanza is murdered near La Calle.
March 9	10,000 Moslems demonstrators riot in Paris. Police arrest 2,300 and seize arms.
March 10	A large quantity, 10 to 12 tons, of arms and munitions are hidden for the rebels at the Camp des Trois Fontaines near Nancy, France.
March 11	Six soldiers are killed in a terrorist attack on the Degoul Farm at Vialar.
March 12	The National Assembly grants special powers to the Mollet Government which in turn gives the Army carte blanche to deal with the rebellion and terrorism.
March 12	Twelve people are wounded in a grenade attack on a café in Khroubs.
March 13	Moslem children are withdrawn from Algiers schools on the pretext that they are being given poisoned milk.
March 15	France orders 300 light reconnaissance aircraft from the United States.
March 16	A curfew is imposed on Algiers.
March 17	The Government decrees that henceforth persons accused of acts of pillage, plundering, desertion and terrorism will be tried by military tribunals.
March 17	Rebels attack farms in the Boudouaou Valley. The manager of the Raisinette Estate is murdered, the citrus groves are cut down and hay sheds burnt.
March 19	19,000 North African workers go on strike in northern France.
March 20	University of Algiers professor André Mandouze is expelled from Algeria for supporting the FLN.
March 21	The bodies of 15 Moslems whose throats were slit by the fellagha are discovered near Seddouk.
March 21	Philippe Buret, proprietor of the Café de l'Avenir, at Fort National, is murdered by the rebels.
March 21	Six members of the Beni Abyles family are killed by the rebels at a market near Chevreul in the Constantine.
March 22	Mustafa Ben Boulai, leader of the FLN guerillas in the Aurès, is killed when a radio controlled bomb planted by the French Special Services is detonated.
March 22	The bodies of 20 rebels are discovered near Akbou with their throats slit.
March 23	5,000 Berbers in the Palestro region affirm their loyalty to France.
March 23	Striking North African workers clash with police in Roubaix, France. Police arrest 300 strikers in Lille.
	March 24 – 27The 2nd Congress of UGEM (Moslem Students Union), meeting in Paris, approves a resolution denouncing, “colonialism” as “the source of misery and illiteracy.”March 25Four Communists are arrested in Algiers and charged with threatening the security of the state.
March 26	Noël Sabatier, age 27, is killed by rebels on his property near Maillot.
March 26	Rebels attack the Grosrenaud Farm in the Boudouaou Valley which is occupied by a military detachment. One soldier is killed.
March 27	Ben Boulaid, FLN commandeer in the Aurès, is killed in his headquarters when the French intelligence services succeed in setting a trap with a radio message.
March 27	Hammami Boussad, his wife and his 18 month old son, are murdered in the village of Out Saada, in Kabylia. Four other children are wounded in the attack.
March 29	The Council of the Arab League approves are resolution of support for the Algerian people in their fight for independence at a meeting in Cairo.
March 29	A medical officer, Lieutenant Guillemont, is kidnapped at Djidjelli.
March 29	Medical auxiliary Maurice Feignon and Moslem NCOs captured by rebels at Sebdou are tortured with hot irons and boiling liquid then have their throats cut.
March 30	7,000 North African workers strike in Lyon, France.
March 30	Three French soldiers are kidnapped by the FLN at Texena.
March 30	Constantine police commissioner Jean Sanmarcelli is murdered on the street in broad daylight.
March 31	The proprietors of the Serra Farm are murdered. The following day the murderers return and carry off the chickens.
March 31	Léon Martel, Commandant of the Unité Territoriale de Protection, President of the Rhine and Danube Society and Officer of the Legion of Honor, is killed by five knife stabs at L'Alma.
March 31	Police clash with striking North Africans in Longwy, France. Three officers are injured and 150 strikers arrested.
April 1	The French Army in Algeria numbers 193,000 men.
April 2	A four year old child is injured in a grenade attack on an Algiers cinéma.
April 4	Conscript Henri Maillot, a bookkeeper for the Communist newspaper Alger Républicain, deserts in a truck loaded with 97 rifles, 85 machine guns, 90 pistols and 12 cases of grenades and munitions which he turns over to 3 other Communists in the forest of Bainem, 8 kilometers from Algiers. He is then sheltered by a priest in Bab el Oued.
April 4	Fifteen Moslems are killed, 3 policemen and 3 soldiers are wounded in terrorist attacks in the Constantine.
April 6	A battle of unprecedented magnitude (400 combatants on each side) at Djebel Djorf in the Aurès ends in a stalemate.
April 7	A Red maquis is formed by European and Moslem members of the Algerian Communist Party in the Ouarsenis region.
April 10	An FLN ambush and French counter attack leaves 120 rebels and 20 French soldiers dead.
April 10	The rebels burn a bus and steal 4 million francs in an attack near Tizi Ouzou Lieutenant Touati of the 5th Regiment de Tirailleurs Algériens is arrested for supplying the rebels with information to carryout the robbery.
April 10	Simone Minguet, Raymond Bouvet and Jaime Weill are arrested in Paris for distributing copies of La Résistance Algérienne.
April 11	A decree calls 170,000 members of the military classes of 1951 to 1954 in Algeria to the colors.
April 11	La Croix de la Valeur Militaire is instituted to reward acts of valor. Official policy denies that there is a war under way in Algeria therefore it is not possible to award la Croix de Guerre for such acts.
April 11	Pierre Covello and his son are murdered on their farm near Jemmapes.
April 12	French diplomat Georges Gorce establishes secret contacts with representatives of the FLN in Cairo.
April 12	Reserve Second Lieutenant Lucien Guerrab, a Berber stationed at the Ducros Hospital, and a nurse, both Communists, desert to the ranks of the outlaws.
April 13	The Tirailleurs Algériens, the last French Battalion in Saigon, parade through the city before embarking for Algeria.
April 13	French workers stage work slowdowns and strikes to protest against the call up of conscripts.
April 14	Rebels enter the village of Tifrit N’ait Ou Malek despite fierce resistance. Sheikh Hadj Mouhab, a venerable religious personage to all the Upper Kabylia and chief of Zaouîa, is tortured before his throat is cut in front of the inhabitants. Five members of the Sheikh’s family including, his father, Bachaga Mouheb, a Knight of the Legion of Honor, suffer similar fates. The Bachaga was requested to place himself under the protection of the rural protection guards when the war began.April 15
	Doctor Counillon, who disappeared from the psychiatric hospital at Blida at the end of 1955, organizes a medical service for the rebels in the Aures.
April 15	Rallies are held at Avignon, Saintes and Oyonax, France to protest the call up of conscripts.
April 16	The wife of the head guard at the civil prison in Cherchell is murdered by prisoners who escape and join the FLN.
April 16	Four people are wounded in a grenade attack on La Taverne Sétifienne
April 16	Taleb Ata el Aoues is murdered during prayer in the Grand Mosque of Algiers.
April 18	Felicien Goet is killed at his farm near Camp Du Maréchal.
April 20	Demonstrators lie down on the tracks to prevent the departure of an Algeria bound troop train from the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
April 20	A Frenchman named Pereta and two French Moslems are murdered by the rebels at Birrabalou.
April 21	Ferhat Abbas and Ahmed Francis arrive in Cairo to join the ranks of the FLN.
April 21	Three Moslems are raped and their throats slit by the rebels at Canrobert.
April 22	Electricity transmission lines are sabotaged at several points throughout the country.
April 24	Fathers Augros, Manet and Merlan, members of the Mission of France and Hippo an order of worker priests are expelled from the Departments of Bône and Constantine for aiding the rebels.
April 24	Rebels slit the throats of 70 Moslems in attacks on Berber villages.
April 25	Ferhat Abbas speaking in Cairo declares, “Neither peace nor negotiations on Algeria will take place before the proclamation of independence.”April 25A bomb explodes in the Café Bar Marcel in Philippeville killing customer Raymond Nicolas and wounding his wife.
April 25	Two inspectors from the Soil Conservation and Restoration Service, Georges Bompar and Jean Perez, are murdered by the rebels at their work site near Arba.
April 27	Rebels slit the throats of several peasants in the Soummam Valley.
April 27	The fellagha burn a tobacco shed near Tizi Ouzou destroying 500 million francs worth of property.
April 28	FLN attacks on the Algier’s Casbah, Belcourt, Hussein Dey, Bd St. Saens, Maison Carrée, Rue Randon leave several people dead and many wounded. April 28
	A farm worker is murdered at Fort de l'Eau and a shopkeeper at Laverda.
April 28	Two people are injured by a grenade explosion in a café at Saint-Ferdinand.
April 29	Abdelkader Doumenc, former Algiers municipal councillor and Messali Hadj, is killed in Algiers.
May 1	North Africans provoke serious incidents during May Day demonstrations in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Saint Étienne and Metz.
May 1	Doctor Nedir Mohamed is killed by the explosion of a mine planted beside the highway near Harba Des Ouacifs.
May 4	A dozen soldiers are killed when FLN guerillas attack a French military convoy near Tlemcen.
May 4	Rebels kidnap three 15 year old boys who were riding their bicycles near Aïn Beïda.
May 4	Mr. Tiberti, assistant to the Mayor of Rebeval, is seriously wounded.
May 4	Mr. Escoubert, a prison guard at Tizi Ouzou, is killed.
May 4	A bus is burned in broad daylight while parked on the Avenue Malakoff, Algiers.
May 4	Two aviators are kidnapped after making a forced landing at Guercif.
May 4	Three people are murdered at Michelet and Tizi Ouzou.
May 4	A strike organized by the FLN and MNA is observed by most Moslems in France along with the CGT and the Communists.
May 5	The Keddara barite mine is ransacked. Two farms in the nearby Boudouaou Valley are burnt.
May 7	Rebels attack in Orania. Twenty French farmers are murdered. 40 homes are looted or burnt. In all over 60 people, mostly Moslems, are killed.
May 7	A shipment of smuggled munitions is discovered on board the British freighter Merchant Prince.
May 7	Sixteen tirailleurs are massacred north of Taza after exhausting their last ammunition.
May 7	Eight SAS paratroopers and a Sergeant are killed near Mekla after falling into an ambush at Saint Pierre - Saint Paul. Their bodies are recovered with the throats cut.
May 7	A policeman is murdered in Boufarik.
May 7	Two soldiers are murdered in Maison Carrée.
May 7	MNA leader, Ouhad Larid, is murdered by FLN terrorists on the Rue Porte Neuve, Algiers.
May 8	Resident Minister Rober Lacoste tells the National Assembly that a major military, economic and social commitment will be required to check the rebellion and notes that only 8 of 846 major administrative positions are held by Moslems.
May 8	Louis Boyer Banse, age 77, President of the Union Française Nord Africaine and Georges-Henri Bousquet, Professor of North African Sociology at the University of Algiers are expelled from Algeria following student demonstrations hostile to the Resident Minister Rober Lacoste.
May 8	Mr. Georges Charniere, adjudant of the Terny SAS, is murdered.
May 9	Three reporters from the Journal d’Alger are attacked in the Boudouaou Valley while under escort from the gendarmes of Saint Pierre - Saint Paul. The brigadier of the gendarmerie is killed.May 9
	Rebels attack 46 villages in the North Constantine including Rouached and Didjelli. Street fighting leaves Rouached in flames.
May 9	Three French soldiers are ambushed in Kedara.
May 9	Four farms near Lourmel are attacked. The president of the local djemaa is cut down in a mosque.
May 10	Antoine Mari, an employee at the Antoine Sintes Farm in Fondouk, is murdered.
May 10	Claude Azoun is killed by two gunshots near Reghaïa.
May 11	Farmers begin to flee the Tlemcen and Ain Temouchent regions.
May 11	A Moslem family of five is savagely murdered by the rebels at Ain Yagout near Batna.
May 12	The Taous Farm house is burnt and the livestock stolen.
May 12	A fellagha attempt to infiltrate Philippeville draws rifle fire.
May 12	A battle in the streets of Constantine leaves 13 people dead and 37 wounded. Order is restored after an hour of fighting.
May 13	Arms, sold to the rebels by La Manufacture de Bayonne, are discovered in France.
May 14	General Raoul Salan arrives in Algiers.
May 14	Journalist Robert Lambotte, correspondent for the French Communist Party journal, L'Humanité, is expelled from Algeria.
May 14	Two rebel bands from Morocco infiltrate the mountains in the Tlemcen region.
May 16	An operation in the Sidi Ali Bou Nab region ends with the annihilation of 89 rebels.
May 17	Les Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurite i.e riot police clash with recalcitrant conscripts at Le Mans.
May 17	Thirteen French Moslems are murdered in the Palestro area.
May 18	Twenty one conscripts of the 9th Régiment d'Infantrie Coloniale under the command of Lieutenant Hervé Artur are ambushed near the Palestro Gorge. Fifteen mutilated bodies are later recovered at the scene. Six soldiers, four of them wounded, are taken captive by the rebels. A rescue party eventually recovers four more mutilated corpses near the village of Douar Amal.
May 18	Twelve French workers are massacred by the FLN in a Biskra workshop.
May 18	Ten troopers are kidnapped by the FLN south of Lamoricière. Their bodies are recovered with the throats slit.
May 18	Ninety people are injured in clashes between police and demonstrators attempting to block the departure of conscripts from Grenoble, France.
May 19	The Army kills 53 Algerian and Tunisian rebels during an operation south of Gafsa, Tunisia.
May 19	The FLN kills 17 Moslems in the suburbs of Philippeville.
May 19	Rebels attack the town of Nemours and are repulsed with serious losses.
May 19	A French farmer, his sister, and a hunter are murdered in an ambush near Djidjelli.
May 20	The mutilated bodies of 15 colonial soldiers are discovered in the mountains near Beni Amrane.
May 21	Nineteen French Moslems, including 7 children and 6 women, are massacred in a mechta, at Vallée.
May 22	Four soldiers are taken hostage near Palestro following the massacre of their comrades.
May 23	The troops sent to search for the 2 men still missing in action from the Palestro Gorge ambush discover the entrance to the cave where they are being held. A short skirmish ensues. Sixteen rebels are killed and three taken prisoner. Both captive soldiers are wounded. One of them later succumbs to his injuries.
May 23	Sergeant Combaretti of the Rural Guards is killed at Michelet.
May 23	Henri Guenou, an agricultural engineer at Montagnac, is cut down by the rebels.
May 25	Professor André Mandouze of the University of Algiers is charged with distribution of tracts and his sympathies for the rebels.
May 25	Moslem students at the University of Algiers strike.
May 26	A midnight operation involving 6,000 men is launched in the Algiers Casbah. Arms, money and documents are seized. 4,480 suspected FLN sympathizers are arrested. 472 are released after their identities are verified. A fugitive is killed while trying to escape across the rooftops.
May 26	Thirteen French civilians including a woman are massacred by the FLN in a workshop at Oumache near Biskra.
May 26	Professor de Maisonseul, director of Urban Studies at the University of Algiers, is arrested for threatening the internal security of the state and supporting the fellagha.
May 26	Mr. Depreviel, businessman from Birmandreis near Algiers, is murdered in the Batna region.
May 28	Serious clashes between Communist demonstrators and police mark the departure of conscripts from St. Nazaire.
May 28	Roger Aurel, Assistant Prefect of Djidjelli and his wife are shot and seriously wounded by their cook of 12 years, Maadi Lakdar.
May 29	Communist deserter Henri Maillot, who delivered his regiment’s arms to the fellagha, and a teacher named Laban are sentenced to death in absentia by the Military Tribunal of Algiers.May 30
	Two Moslem girls are killed and four are wound when a bomb explodes in Bougie.
May 31	A barbed wire fence is installed along the Moroccan border and is later reinforced with an electrified fence and minefields.
June 1	Twenty Communists including a woman are expelled from Algeria for aiding the FLN.
June 2	The synagogue at Orléansville is burnt.
June 2	Fourteen members of a rural police squad are killed and 2 are wounded in an ambush 6 kilometers south of the Nemours.
June 2	Four passengers are held captive by the rebels following an attack on their bus at Tounane in Orania.
June 2	Michel Vicens and a young stonemason, André Massuli, are killed near Mirabeau.
June 2	Claude Geraud, directrice of the African Information Agency in Paris, is held on bail for threatening the security of the state.
June 4	A 20 year old soldier, Pierre Vignes, is stabbed in the back at Algiers.
June 4	The municipal secretaries of Taguemount, Azouz and Beni Hilil are hung by the rebels.
June 5	Lieutenant Henri Maillot, a deserter, and Maurice Laban are killed in the Ouarsenis during an operation against the Red Maquis. The authorities are believed to have acted on information supplied by the FLN. The later apparently acted in concert with the French to eliminate the Communists as a potential political rival.
June 7	2,000 demonstrators attempt to block the departure of conscripts from the railway station at Le Havre. Graffiti covers the walls of the town, "Pas de contingent pour l'Algérie", "Paix en Algérie" and "Vive le FLN".
June 7	Demands for the protection of French soldiers are received from 200 villages in the Petit Kabylia.
June 7	Three gendarmes are ambushed 6 kilometers from Médéa.
June 8	Detective Lopez is seriously wounded by a terrorist in the Algiers Casbah.
June 8	Two people are killed and 16 injured in grenade attacks on cafés in Bône.
June 10	Constable André Rubio is killed when a terrorist fires 2 shots from a revolver into his head.
June 10	Thirty seven men, women and children are wounded by a bomb thrown in the Rue Caraman, Constantine.
June 10	Ben Yaya Mohamed Said, Mufti of the Grand Mosque, is cut down by a terrorist in Bougie.
June 11	Lieutenant Petit, administrative officer at the military hospital of Sétif, is killed by revolver shots.
June 11	Henri Francois, Sub-brigadier of police, is killed at Nemours.
June 12	A band of rebels attacks the Mosque at Bouandas where they cut the throats of 22 men from the villages of Tiguentine and Melizou.
June 12	Eighteen people are wounded by two grenades thrown during the funeral of a murdered policeman at Tlemcen.
June 12	A medical officer, Captain Fauvy, is killed during an attack at Djidjelli.
June 12	Three soldiers are murdered and two are missing near Collo.
June 12	One person is killed at Marnia and two more at Eugene - Etienne.
June 13	Twenty two French Moslems are massacred in a mechta at Djebel Bou Andas.
June 13	Michelet is the scene of a double murder.
June 15	Fourteen people are injured in grenades attacks in Bône and Duvivier. A Moslem baker named Blalali is murdered by the terrorists.
June 15	Rebels slit the throat of farm manager François Cala near St. Charles.
June 16	Lieutenant Colonel Bigeard sustains a chest wound while leading his troops in an operation against rebels in the Némenchas.
June 17	Eighteen people are injured in a terrorist attack on downtown Constantine.
June 17	A Moslem family is massacred at Maginot.
June 18	The Sometal and Krauth Farms are burnt.
June 18	The Goyard Farm is harassed. Several mills and shed burned, vines uprooted.
June 18	Teamster Joseph Torres, a father of six children, is killed in Algiers by a terrorist who is cut down.
June 19	Two FLN terrorists, Ahmed Zabane and Abdelkader Ferradj are guillotined at Barberousse prison in Algiers.
June 19	A retired battalion chief and secretary of the regional veterans society is murdered in broad daylight at Village Alma.
June 20 - 23	The FLN kills 49 Europeans in reprisal for the June 19th executions.
June 20	Four people including Gaston Tolila, photographer for the Journal d’Alger and Léon Legras, a veteran bicycle racer, are killed in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers. Sixteen others, all Europeans, are wounded.June 21
	Stambouli Hadj Mahfoud, age 70, Iman of the Hanéfite Mosque, is cut down by an FLN killer in Blida.
June 23	Eight people including 4 Europeans are killed during six terrorist attacks in Algiers. Seventeen others are wounded.
June 24	The bodies of three teenagers kidnapped while riding their bicycles are discovered in a pit near the village of Ain Beida.
June 24	Marcel Meniaux, a water and forestry agent is killed.
June 25	An FLN tract authored by Ben M'Hidi and Abane Rhamdane declares that, “All executions of combatants will be followed by reprisals. For each FLN soldier guillotined, a hundred Frenchmen will be cut down.”June 25Jean Claude Rovida is killed in Algiers by a terrorist.
June 26	Three people are killed and 4 are wounded in Ain Temouchent.
June 26	Farmer Lucien Poggy is murdered near Sedrata. Poggy’s throat is slit. A Moslem worker standing nearby is killed by a rifle shot.June 27
	André Stil, Editor in Chief of L'Humanité, is charged with threatening the security of the state for publishing a communiqué from the Algerian Communist Party glorifying the actions Henri Maillot who delivered a truckload of arms to the rebels.
June 30	Ten French soldiers are killed when rebels ambush their bus and an escort vehicle on the road between Géryville and El Abiad. Twenty seven others are listed as missing.
July 1	The French Army in Algeria numbers 381,000 men.
July 2	Three people are killed and 45 wounded when a grenade explodes on the terrace of the Casino Municipal de Constantine.
July 4	Raymond Hannou, a member of a Communist cell headed by Henri Maillot that gave military information to the rebels, is arrested in Algiers.
July 4	Five Communist militants; Albert Carasco, former assistant to the mayor, Gaston Poveda, Honoré Carrillo, former municipal councilor, Marcel Garcia, employee of the mayor, B. Cabrera and Séraphin Munez are banished from Orania.
July 4	Twenty seven French Moslems and a European Sergeant are captured by rebels in the Monts du Ksours, near Aïn Sefra.
July 4	The bodies of the Buhagier brothers, farmers near Medjana, are found with their throats cut.
July 4	The rural guard of Tadjemount and his wife are murdered.
July 8	Nine people are killed in rebel attacks on Boufarik.
July 9	Thirty Communist militants including Doctor Martini, a surgeon at the Orléansville Hospital, are put under house arrest in the Chélif region.
July 9	Terrorists cut the throats of Mr. Puget, a 90 year old retired farmer, and his caretaker during a late afternoon attack on the Puget Farm in the Corso Valley.
July 9	A native member of the rural guard is murdered in the oft harassed village of Saint Pierre - Saint Paul.
July 10	Communist Raymond Hannon and two Moslems are charged with threatening the security of the state.
July 11	Terrorists on scooters or in cars toss grenades and Molotov cocktails at several locations in the Algiers region including Belcourt, El Biar, and Ruisseau and behind the Opéra.
July 11	A bomb explodes in a Turkish bath in the Algiers Casbah.
July 11	A Michelet gendarme is murdered in broad daylight.
July 11	An SAS officer is murdered near Palestro.
July 11	Several Algerian student associations break their ties to the French National Students Union.
July 13	Seven Moslems are killed when rebels attack two buses, one in the Affreville region and the other in the Sidi Aissa sector.
July 13	The decapitated body of a Frenchman named Antonin is found in the Sahara.
July 15	Nineteen people are killed and 27 wounded when a bomb explodes at El Arrouka in the Constantine.
July 15	Postal Inspector Louis Raynal and Editor Faure Brac are kidnapped near Laghouat and murdered by the rebels.
July 17	The offices of the Marti stone quarry at Keddara are burnt. Elsewhere in the region; the Serra farm whose owners were murdered on March 31st, is burnt and 4,300 feet of vines are uprooted at the Ughetto Farm near Maréchal Foch.
July 18	Djilelli lighthouse keeper, Louis Rosa, is murdered by rebels who cut his throat.
July 18	Nineteen soldiers are ambushed and savagely mutilated at the douar of Sidi Galem near Terafoui.
July 19	FLN gunmen, acting on orders from Boudhries, machine gun civilians in Bab el Oued. One person is killed. Three are wounded. The gang is tracked down by the residents and two of its members are eventually arrested.
July 19	Gilbert Perello is murdered on his farm near Arba.
July 20	The first oil and gas gushes from an exploratory well drilled at Hassi Messaoud.
July 20	Joseph Interaglia is murdered and his wife is gravely wound in an attack on their home near Dellys.
July 21	French diplomats meet secretly with representatives of the FLN in Belgrade.
July 21	Rebels attack farms in the Corso Valley. Seven tobacco sheds are burnt, 2 hectares of vines uprooted, 130 orange trees cut down and 10 hectares of tobacco destroyed at the Lamy Farm. Haystacks and sheds are burnt and several hectares of vines uprooted at the Ettighofier Farm.
July 21	Alexandre “Silassen” Boualam, brother of the Bachagha, is murdered by the rebels in the Ouarsenis.July 23
	Terrorist attacks claim 17 victims including: Mr. Record, station chief of Palestro, who is seriously injured when a bomb explodes; Agha Dahmoune of Dra El Mizan murdered in Algiers; Jean Patrocinto, owner of the Michelet – Algiers bus line killed in Michelet; Stonemason Roman Esteban killed at Fort National; a workman named Lopez mortally wounded at Guettar El Aich and a Djemaa president whose throat is slit.July 23
	The Grosrenaud and Femenia farms in the Boudouaou Valley near Maréchal Foch are burnt.
July 26	Three people are killed and six including four children are wounded in an ambush near Philippeville.
July 27	A natural gas explosion in Well No.1 at Hassi Messaoud leaves several workers severely burned. One of the injured dies several days later.
July 30	Rebels attack a farm near Orléansville. One Frenchman is killed; two others are wounded along with a French Moslem.
July 31	139,000 reinforcements arrive in Algeria. French military forces in the country now number 399,000,
August 1	Jean Ribas, a retiree, is killed by a revolver shot at Bougie.
August 5	Rebels attack the Algiers – Miliana bus on the road between Bourkika and Boumedfa. Two European civilians and a military doctor are killed.August 5
	Rebels slit the throat of Joseph Sanchez, a 55 year old father of 4, near Ain El Arba.
August 6	Eight farmers including two Europeans, the Di Costa brothers, are arrested at Philippeville while transporting livestock and clothing to the rebels.
August 6	Barkeeper Henri Touitou is killed at Biskra.
August 8	Caid Saidni, a well known Francophile, is killed at Batna.
August 8	Gendarme Soler and a soldier are killed in an ambush near Batna.
August 10	The ORAF, a European counter-terrorist organization, plants a bomb outside the entrance to the Turkish bath at 9 Rue de Thèbes in the Algiers Casbah. The ensuing explosion brings down the building and 5 adjacent dwellings killing 15 people and wounding 32 others.
August 16	A bus is burnt at El Benia near Algiers. Twelve Moslem passengers are kidnapped.
August 16	Tobacconist Fernand Aiche is killed by a terrorist.
August 17	President René Coty speaking at Verdun declares, “France will not abandon the loyal population of Algeria to a minority of cutthroats.”August 19Terrorists kill a 60 year old Frenchman and wound three Moslems in Bône.
August 20	The leaders of the FLN in Algeria gather at Ighbal near Akbou for the Congress of Soummam which will set the agenda for the future organization and course of action to be under taken by the FLN.
August 20	Algiers salesmen José and Lucien Mendez are killed by the rebels at the village of Takrietz near Bougie.
August 20	Rebels slit the throat of Sheik Ounissi of the Zaouia Ben Tibar at douar Gassem in Ain M’lila. August 23
	Robert Lacoste increases the royalty on alfalfa from 15 centimes to 1 000 francs per ton.
August 24	Antoine Di Rosa is killed while delivering ice in the lower Casbah of Algiers.
August 24	Gendarme Georges Koeger is murdered with a revolver in Oran.
August 26	Sergeant Favrelière of the 8th Régiment Parachutiste Coloniale helps an FLN prisoner to escape and then deserts his post. The Sergeant will be sentenced to death in absentia in March 1958.
August 27	Two employees of Electricité et Gaz d'Algérie are killed by outlaws while working in the Ziama - Mansouriah district near Djidjelli.
August 28	Four French motorists are kidnapped while driving near Tlemcen.
August 28	The body of R. P. Tabart, a priest in the White Fathers of Africa order, is found with by a patrol near Géryville. Father Tabart’s throat was cut.August 30
	Six members of an Algerian terrorist network; Jean Rousset, Raymond Masure and 4 Moslems are arrested in Paris.
September 4	Communist deserter, Lieutenant Lucien Guerrab, leader of a rebel maquis, is arrested in Orania.
September 5	Colonel Bigeard is wounded in an attack at Bône. He manages to drive off his three assailants despite the 2 bullets they have put in him.
September 5	Youssef Zighout, the commander of Wilaya 2 is killed in combat while returning from the Congress of Soummam.
September 6	Marcel Nocella, proprietor of the Café de la Méditerranée in Algiers, is wound by two shots from a revolver.
September 7	Three of the four soldiers riding in a truck are missing after their vehicle hits a mine near Sakamody.
September 8	Mr. Oultras, assistant to the Mayor of Novi, is killed.
September 10	The Congress of Soummam adjourns after three weeks.
	The primacy of the interior under Ramdane Abane over the exterior directors of FLN is established.
	An all powerful Committee of Coordination and Execution is established in Algiers to replace the CRUA. The CCE is composed of Abane, Belkacem Krim, Larbi Ben M’hidi, Youssef Ben Kheddan and Saad Dahlab. The National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA) is established. It is to be composed of 34 members elected from all regions of the country and meet at regular intervals.
	The six wilayas (military districts) are subdivided into zones, regions and sectors and brought under tight control of the CCE.
	The ranks and organizational structure of the Army of National Liberation are formalized. Colonel is the established as the highest rank in the ALN in a deliberate move to thwart the development of personality cults by generals.
	The Congress decrees that no ceasefire shall be accepted until there is recognition of Algerian independence. Furthermore negotiation shall only be concluded with the acceptance of Algeria’s existing territorial boundaries including the Sahara and there shall be no acceptance of dual citizenship privileges for the Europeans. September 12
	Hervé Rubio and two Moslems are murdered at Arba.
September 14	Thirty members of a clandestine paramilitary including 15 Frenchmen, among them the head doctor of the Orléansville Hospital , are arrested.
September 15	The Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionage (SDECE), contacts the counter-terrorists of Algiers in an effort to co-opt them and steer them towards specific objectives.
September 15	Seven people are wounded when a bomb explodes in an Algiers cinéma.
September 15	Five passengers are kidnapped from a bus by outlaws in the Southern Oranais.
September 15	A Frenchman is killed and another one is wounded in the Colomb Bechar region.
September 15	Rebels slit the throat of Mr. Huguey, assistant to the Mayor of Perrégaux.
September 15	Café proprietor Mr. Dirosa is murdered in Algiers.
September 15	Two Europeans including a municipal guard are killed and two others are wounded in Algiers.
September 17	Three people including two Frenchmen are killed at Tizi Ouzou.
September 17	One soldier is killed and 8 are wounded when a bomb explodes on a military truck.
September 17	Eighteen people are injured by grenades thrown into cafés at Colomb Bechar.
September 17	An explosion on the Oujda – Oran train kills one passenger and injures another.September 17
	Partisans of the FLN trade shots with MNA supporters in a Paris café. Two people are killed and five are wounded.
September 18	Two new arrests follow the denunciation of a Communist plot in Orléansville by captured deserter Lucien Guerrab. Postal Inspector Antoine Raynaud is one of those arrested.
September 18	Foreman Albert Rozet is killed by a terrorist at Arba.
September 22	Talks between representatives of France and the FLN end in Rome.
September 22	An arms cache is found in the home of Communist Antoine Raynaud.
September 22	Three Communist militants are arrested in Sidi Bel Abbes.
September 22	Postal Inspector Ruiz is implicated in the Communist plot and flees.
September 22	Two people are killed and 7 wounded during an exchange of shots by rival Moslem groups in a Paris café.
September 22	Ten people are killed and 14 farms burnt in Orania.
September 22	Four soldiers are killed and one is wounded in a grenade attack at Mascara.
September 22	Police detective Rineau is killed at Blida.
September 22	A territorial guard, Mr. Grozart, is cut down in Kouba.
September 24	Twenty spectators are injured when a grenade is tossed into a cinéma at Saint Arnaud in the Constantine Department.
September 24	Three people are killed and 5 wounded in terrorist attacks in Algiers.
September 26	Three more people arrested in the Orléansville Communist Plot.
September 26	Stonemason Emile Segond, age 61, is killed in Blida.
September 28	Two Communists including the son of a General Councilor are arrested in Oran for collusion with the rebels.
September 29	A European is killed by a shot to the head at Miliana.
September 30	Zohra Drif, Samia Lakdahri and Djamila Bouhired, plant FLN bombs at La Cafétéria, the Milk Bar and the Air France terminal in Algiers. The bombs at La Cafétéria and the Milk Bar explode killing 11 people and seriously injuring 105 others, 12 of whom require amputations. The Air France bomb fails to detonate.
September 30	Eight people are injured when a bomb explodes in Tlemcen.
September 30	Jean Claude Anglade is killed by a terrorist at Fort De L'Eau.
September 30	Etienne Munoz is killed at Miliana by FLN terrorists.
October 1	Andrés Azoulay, a grain trader, is killed in Orléansville.
October 1	Joseph Hiennebisque is killed in Algiers.
October 1	Moslem students obey the FLN strike call.
October 2	Three Frenchmen; Jean Roig and the Di Cantanzo brothers, are convicted of aiding the rebels by a court in Philippeville.
October 2	Two Algiers police officers are gravely wounded by terrorists.
October 2	Nine Moslems are killed when a bomb explodes on the Algiers – Arba – Tablat bus.October 2
	A soldier is killed and five are missing in Orania.
October 5	An FLN commando unit hijacks a taxi in the center of Bône and fires a machinegun at passers by killing 4 and wounding 24.
October 5	Thirty eight soldiers of the 1st and 110th Infantry Regiments are killed in an ambush near Aflou.
October 6	A car carrying General Massu along the highway between Beau Fraisier and El Biar is fired on by members of Les Combattants de la Libération, a Communist terror cell composed of both Europeans and Moslems. The shots fall wide of their mark.
October 8	Nine Moslem workers are cut down by terrorists in the Constantine Department.
October 9	The French Secret Service establishes Force “K”, a 400 man commando unit led by Belhadj Djillali aka Kobus, an ex-soldier trained at the Cherchel School. Kobus is a pro-independence Marxist opposed to the FLN.October 9
	Mr. Vinette, a water and forestry agent is kidnapped at Tagat El Nador.
October 10	An FLN safe house in the Algiers suburb of El Biar is destroyed in an explosion set off by bomb maker Kaouche Rachid’s mishandling of explosives.October 10
	Three Moslems are killed and one is wounded during a rebel attack on the village of Lavoisier.
October 11	Twenty two people are injured by a grenade explosion in Oran.
October 13	A young woman is killed and six other people are wounded when terrorists machinegun an Algiers café from a passing car.
October 13	Six people are injured when the Bougie – Algiers train hits a mine.October 14
	One person is killed and 21 others are wounded in grenade attacks at Mostaganem and Colomb Bechar.
October 15	An explosives laboratory is discovered in Birkadem. Seven people including an Italian, Georgio Arbib and two Frenchmen, Daniel Timsit, an intern at the civilian hospital in Mustapha, and Georges Smadja, a medical student, are arrested.
October 15	The Algiers – Bougie train is machine-gunned. Three soldiers are wounded.October 17
	The Athos, a Sudanese flagged, Greek captained, freighter, is seized by the French Navy while transporting a cargo of arms and ammunition for the FLN from Egypt to Morocco.
October 17	Farmworker Diego Flores and his three sons are killed at Eugene-Etienne in Orania.
October 19	Three students, Jean-Claude Reynaud, son of the Inspector of Posts and Telephones, Nicola Isnard and Paulette Bacri, implicated in the Algerian Communist plot, are arrested in Algiers.
October 19	Mme. Annie Foriot, wife of an architect, and Mr. Neplez, a schoolteacher, implicated in the terrorist plot organized by Dr. Daniel Timsit, are arrested in Algiers.
October 19	A retired postal worker, Charles Choukroune, is killed and two others are wounded in terrorist attacks in Algiers.
October 19	An SAS officer is killed in a workshop near Tigzirt. Three other Frenchmen are wounded.
October 19	Roger Ode, Vice President of the Morris Wine Cooperative, is killed by shots from a terrorist’s revolver.October 19
	A bomb explodes in a café at Blida wounding 7 patrons.
October 19	Caid Bendjamed Abdelkader is kidnapped by the terrorists.
October 19	One of two nuns kidnapped in the Ighilali region, Sister Marie, is murdered. Sister Dorthee is found dead.
October 19	Henri Cazeaux, municipal councilor for Tizi Ouzou, is murdered.
October 19	Le Gaumont Palace in Paris and La Salle Pierre Bordes in Algiers organize a gala soirée to benefit the troops called up for service in Algeria.
October 22	The French pilot of an Air Maroc DC-3 carrying the FLN Cairo Chiefs of Staff on a flight from Rabat to Tunis lands at Algiers where Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohamed Boudiaf, Mohamed Khider, Lachref and Hocine Aït Ahmed are arrested.
October 22	Father Hubert Buchez, a Swiss member of the White Fathers of Africa order, is killed at Azazga.
October 24	Ernest Soler is killed by a terrorist in Oran.
October 24	Ange Quiri is murdered by an outlaw in Algiers.
October 27	Fifteen farms are attack or burnt in the Southern Oranais region.
October 27	Music professor, Pierre-André Poncelet, is gravely wounded in Algiers.
October 29	Premier Guy Mollet calls for a ceasefire in Algeria and proposes introduction of a single electoral college, free elections and recognition of Algeria's, "individual character".
October 29	Two French children ages 11 years and 7 months, are killed in an attack in Orania
October 31	Roger Serano is killed at Perrégaux.
October 31	Benieto Faes, a baker, is cut down in Orléansville.
November 5	Twenty two people are wounded when a grenade is thrown into a crowd in Constantine.
November 5	Albert Tessier, the manager of a grain growers’ cooperative, is killed at Oued Fodda.November 5
	Manuel Quidi, a retired road worker, is killed at Chebli.
November 6	Georges Galindri, comptroller for the postal administration, is place under surveillance for his clandestine Communist activities.
November 6	Mr. Vargag, a Perrégaux farmer, is killed; his wife wounded and his son kidnapped by the terrorists.
November 6	Terrorists slit the throats of Mr. Garila and his son at Saint Denis DuSig.
November 6	Shopkeeper Lazaro Ferrandis is killed in Algiers.
November 10	Nine people including 7 soldiers are wounded in a grenade attack at Batna.
November 10	Lucien Tur, age 13, is killed by the rebels at Saint Pierre - Saint Paul.
November 12	Three bombs planted by the FLN and the Communists explode in the railway station at Hussein Dey, a Monoprix store in Maison Carrée and in an Algiers trolley car. Thirty six people are wounded including 11 women and ten children.
November 12	Twelve soldiers and two civilians including Father Joseph Pfister, Curé of Rabelais and Saint Pierre - Saint Paul, are killed in an ambush between El Marsa and Le Guelt in the Ténes region.
November 12	A bomb explodes in the Oujda – Oran train injuring 8 people.November 12
	A woman is killed and 10 other people are wounded in grenade attacks on cafés in Mascara and Bougie.
November 12	Seven bus passengers, six soldiers and one civilian, are killed between Dublineau and Perrégaux.
November 12	Nine Moslems are killed by the FLN at Laperrine and El Marsa.
November 12	Seven Europeans are wound by a grenade at Zemour.
November 12	Tobacco sheds are burnt at Almeur El Aïn and two farms are attacked at Saint Pierre - Saint Paul.
November 13	FLN grenade attacks on buses and department stores in Algiers injure 58 people.
November 14	Fernand Yveton, a militant Communist and friend of deserter Henri Maillot, is arrested while planting a bomb in his workplace, the Ruisseau gasworks in Algiers. The bomb is disarmed before it explodes. His daughter Acera is arrested as an accomplice.
November 14	A bus and a truck are attack near Mascara. Three people are killed; the bus driver, Mr. Mendez, the conductor, Mr. Karroubi and an unidentified Moslem traveler.
November 14	Joseph Requera is shot in the back and killed by a terrorist in Sali.
November 15	Doctor Nakache is murdered by a terrorist as he leaves his home in Vallee to treat a sick Moslem patient.
November 16	Félix Collozi, a fireman, and Boualem Makloul, an employee of Electricité et Gaz d’Algérie are denounced by Yveton and arrested in Algiers.November 16
	Bernard Mazella is killed by a revolver shot to the neck in Bône.
November 16	Edouard Bottaro is killed behind the steeringwheel of his car in Algiers.
November 16	Mr. Salvignol, a 61 year old farmworker and his 58 year old sister are murdered in Aumale.
November 16	Norbert Signers, age 17, is kidnapped at Blida. His throat is slit and his body buried nearby.
November 17	Three people are killed and six are wounded in a grenade attack on the Café du Progrés, Place du Gouvernement, Algiers.
November 17	Five people are murdered in Algiers including, two 15 year old Moslems who are shot in the back, a 21 year old soldier, Robert Legart, and Police Brigade Chief Malessaque who was shot twice in the head.
November 17	Ait Saada, an employee of the soil conservation service, is murdered in Tenes.
November 18	A Communist terror network is broken up in Oran. Thirty seven people including several Frenchmen and five women are arrested. Another 120 Communists are arrested elsewhere in Algeria most notably several doctors including the head of Social Welfare Services for Electricité et Gaz d’Algérie, Doctor Liddi. Five Communists militants, all women, are expelled from Algeria.November 18
	Two people are wounded when a bomb explodes in the Café de la Poste at Maison Carrée.
November 18	Five French motorists are killed and several more are missing after attacks near Tiaret.
November 18	Four soldiers of the 131st Infantry Regiment and two civilian officials are attacked and killed near Teniet El Haad.
November 18	A tenant farmer named Chambord , his two children and their governess are reported missing in the Champlain region.
November 18	Henri Branzuela is shot in the head and killed in Algiers.
November 18	Anne-Marie Cholet, a student at the Algiers Normal School, who served as an intermediary to the FLN is arrested in Algiers.
November 21	Communists Elie Angonin, Ali Khodja and Henriette Placelle are place under surveillance in Algiers.
November 21	Gabriel Pelo, municipal councilor for Haussonvillers, is killed along the highway from Bordj Menaiel to Cape Djinet.
November 22	Two Berber villages are attacked by the rebels. Eighteen French Moslems are kidnapped.
November 22	Auxiliary police detective Ghezal Abdelkader is killed in Cherchel.
November 23	Three motorists including the head of the district water and forestry service are murdered by the rebels in the Bordj Bou Arreridj region.
November 23	Farmworker Armand Bloch is killed at Ain Boucif.
November 23	Communist Dieudonné Iriu, an employee of the Hospital of Beni Messous, near Algiers, steals medicines for the rebels.
November 24	Twelve people are killed including four civilians in an ambush at Berrouaghia.
November 24	Police Brigadier Fernand Breton is killed.
November 24	Farmworker Albert Blanc is murdered at Rouhach
November 25	Communist Fernand Yveton, who planted a bomb at the Algiers gasworks, is sentenced to death.
November 25	Four people are injured when a bomb explodes in Ain Temouchent near Oran.
November 25	Rebels kidnap and slit the throats of a farmworker, a mechanic and the son of Adjutant of Fontaine near Trezel.
November 25	André Maillette, age 72, is murdered in Cherchel.
November 25	Edmond Dudouet, a town employee, is killed in Tizi Ouzou.
November 28	René Justrabo, former Communist Deputy in the Algerian Assembly and the wife of fugitive UGTA trade union general secretary Ruiz are interned.
November 28	Seven members of the Algerian Communist Party and 3 Moslems are arrested in Oran.
November 28	Three people are killed and 24 wounded in an attack of the Oran – Colomb Bechar at Bou Aich.November 28
	Ten people are wounded when four bombs explode in Algiers. Roland Seror, a city employee, is killed.
November 29	Three people, a lawyer and two policemen, are killed when terrorists machine-gun a crowd in Affreville.
November 29	An arms shipment originating in Tunisia and destined for the rebels is intercepted near Tebessa.
November 30	Twenty three people are killed and 15 are wounded when two bombs explode at Nedromah near Nemours.
November 30	Terrorist slit the throat of a youth, Paul Bonthoux, before the eyes of his father who is grievously wounded in Bayard.
December 1	The French Army in Algeria numbers 325,000 men.
December 1	Alain Mimoun wins the Marathon at the Melbourne Olympics. It is the first time the 35 year old has run the marathon.
December 1	Three people are killed when a bomb explodes in Bou Hanifa.
December 1	Raymond Gonalous and Salomon Gorian are killed in Algiers.
December 4	Industrialist Guy Ricci, cousin of General Councilor Paul Ricci, is killed by three shots from a terrorist’s revolver in Blida. Two mourners are killed in an attack on Ricci’s funeral service. The attacker, a Moslem, is cut down.December 5
	The French Government dissolves the departmental General Councils and municipalities in Algeria.
December 7	Algiers police brigadier, Jean Massou, is killed. His wife and two children are wounded.
December 7	Joseph Palsona, inspector of bridges and dams is wounded in an attack at Novi. His attacker is cut down.
December 7	Farmer Marc Bertrand is murdered in Reghaia by his longtime Moslem butler.
December 7	Businessman Raymond Bordona is killed by a revolver shot in Sidi Bel Abbes.
December 7	Taxi driver Antoine Gomez is killed by terrorists in Molière.
December 7	Caid Lamouri is killed in Ain Bessem.
December 7	Forest Ranger James is killed at Tenes.
December 7	Captain Lapergue is killed in Sidi Okba.
December 11	Serge Barret takes office as Prefect of Algiers.
December 12	Highway worker Charles Thomas is killed in his shop at Azazga.
December 13	Four members of a Communist terror cell are arrested in Oran.
December 13	Judge Paul Morlier, a city employee and one other man are killed by the fellagha in Bône.
December 13	Albert Prosse, chauffeur to the Director of Posts, Telephone and Telegraph, is killed in Oran.
December 13	Rural Guard Hassini is killed at Darguinah in the Constantine.
December 14	General Raoul Salan replaces General Lorillot as commander of the 10th Military Region sparking anger in certain quarters of the European community. Salan calls for intensified night sorties executed with speed and mobility and for all units to take the offensive.
December 14	National Assembly Deputy Demarquet, serving as a Lieutenant in Algeria, is wounded in a battle in the southern Constantine.
December 14	Terrorist attacks in Algiers leave one person dead and three wounded.
December 15	Terrorists open fire on the patrons of a café near the Algiers Normal School. A graduate student, Yves Guido, is killed and two others are seriously wounded.
December 15	The body of Jean Antoine Peresi, brother of the Curé of Lambeze is found in the nearby mountains. His throat was cut.
December 15	Normal school student Jacques Added is killed in Constantine.
December 15	Surveyor Edmond Trumeaux is killed in Tizirenif.
December 16	Terrorists attack three Algiers cafés, the Lion d’Or, the Rendezvous des Amis and the Cité des Eucalyptus. One person is killed and another is wounded.December 16
	Terrorists attack the police station in the Saint Eugene district of Algiers. Three people including a brigadier and a detective are killed and four are wounded.
December 16	One person is killed and 2 are wounded when three students from the normal school open fire with a machinegun in a Bouzaréah bar.
December 16	Two gendarmes are killed and three are wounded in an attack outside Notre Dame d’Afrique Church in the Bal El Oued district of Algiers.December 16
	A young woman and a 6 year old child are killed and 30 people are wounded by a grenade thrown into the hall of a Boufarik cinéma. The terrorist is lynched by the crowd.
December 16	Eight Moslem women and several children are burned to death by the rebels in the douar of Medrina south of Tiaret.
December 16	The Keddara barite mine in the Boudouaou Valley is abandoned after numerous attacks.
December 16	Pascal Santacreu is murdered and André Delacruz is wounded in a terrorist attack in the Clos Salembier, Algiers.
December 16	Two people are killed and 2 are wounded in terrorist attacks at Blida.
December 16	Gendarme Arpia is killed in Tizi Ouzou.
December 17	Madame Hernandez, the wife of a railway worker, and her 19 year old daughter are murdered with an ax at Sidi Bel Abbes.
December 17	A Berber and his wife are hung by the rebels near Bouira.
December 18	The Mayor of Algiers, Jacques Louis Chevalier, is wounded by a terrorist.
December 18	Five soldiers and 3 civilians are wounded when two bombs explode in a Saint Lucien café.
December 18	Retired Colonel Raymond Roy is wounded in a terrorist attack at Boufarik but manages to cut down one of his attackers.
December 18	Fisherman Jean Rubio is killed behind the wheel of his car in Oran.
December 18	Cap Martin, a 70 year old retiree, is killed at Damiette.
December 19	Professor Mandouze, a self-described “progressive”, is released from Santé Prison in Paris.December 19
	Maurice Bensaid, manager of the BATA shoe company and his saleswoman, Suzanne Pezet, are wounded by the same bullet fired by a terrorist in Algiers.
December 19	One person is killed and 3 wounded when terrorist open fire on a bus in Algiers.
December 21	Farmer Joseph Pique and his manager François Sultana are kidnapped by the fellagha at Millesimo in the Constantine.
December 22	Nicolas Mortier, age 39, a water meter reader, is killed by two bullets fired into his back in the Clos Salembier, Algiers.
December 22	Jean Canavera, age 22, is mortally wounded in Batna.
December 22	Mr. Benadira is killed at Belcourt.
December 23	A forest ranger and his wife are attacked near Keddara.
December 24	Nine people are killed in four grenade attacks in Constantine. Mr. Conrad the chief of staff at the Préfecture is gravely wounded.
December 24	Ten people, 4 railway workers and 6 soldiers, are killed when the train from Colomb Bechar derails during a terrorist attack in Oran.
December 24	Robert Blanche, a 40 year old surveyor, is killed at Batna by two bullets to the head.
December 24	Two men are killed and a third is seriously wounded in terrorist attacks at Blida.
December 24	An FLN bomb planted on a school bus claims several victims among the students.
December 25	Bachagha Ait Ali, President of the Algiers Departmental General Council, is seriously injured. His attacker is cut down.
December 25	Mr. Descamps, secretary to the Mayor of Texenna near Djidjelli, is wounded by a terrorist.
December 25	Norbert Hadj Adj and two sisters Raymonde and Sylvie Poncet, ages 22 and 6, are killed by terrorists in Bougie.
December 25	Brahim Touati, a prison guard, is seriously wounded. Adrien Burzo and Manuel Frere are killed in Oran.
December 25	Farmworker René Comard is murdered with an ax at Mascara.
December 25	Two people are killed and four are wounded by terrorists in Bône.
December 25	Police officer Lucien Lung is killed at Blida.
December 26	President René Coty pardons five terrorists facing death sentences.
December 26	Bachaga Aït Ali, who publicly declared his loyalty to France, is killed in an FLN attack.
December 27	Two water conservation and forestry agents are killed near Saida.
December 27	Blida jeweler Pascal Arvadian