France invades Algiers
A swat with a fly-whisk leads to 132 years of French rule
The pretext was the 1827 'fly-whisk incident', when the Dey of Algiers struck the French consul. In June 1830 a French army landed at Sidi Ferruch and took Algiers on 5 July; the Dey abdicated, and the conquest of the country dragged on for decades — Algeria stayed French until 1962.
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 81)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 47)
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- Leo Tolstoy (aged 2)
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