… the French troops enter Algiers on…
July 1830 CE
… the French troops enter Algiers on July 5, 1830, after a three-week campaign.
The Dey, Hussein, accepts capitulation in exchange of his freedom and the offer to retain possession of his personal wealth.
Five days later, he exiles himself with his family, on board of a French ship heading for the Italian peninsula, currently under the control of the Austrian Empire.
Twenty-five hundred janissaries also quit the Algerian territories, heading for Asia, on July 11.
After three hundred and thirteen years of occupation, the Ottomans abandon the Regency in Algiers and therefore the administration of the country, which they had taken care of since 1517.