At a glance
- Roles
- Politician
- Region
- Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
From the liberation army to power
Boumédiène rose through the ranks of the National Liberation Army until he commanded it by 1960, and after independence President Ahmed Ben Bella appointed him minister of defence. On 19 June 1965 he led the bloodless coup that overthrew Ben Bella, took the chairmanship of the Revolutionary Council, and governed Algeria with Arab socialist and pan-Arab policies, nationalising hydrocarbons and building a national industrial base. {cite:source/wikipedia-houari-boumediene-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-houari-boumediene-ar}
President, and death in office
Under the constitution of 1976 the presidency was restored, and Boumédiène was elected president with 99.46 per cent of the vote; he remained in office until his death in Algiers on 27 December 1978, when Rabah Bitat succeeded him on an interim basis and then Chadli Bendjedid. {cite:source/wikipedia-houari-boumediene-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-houari-boumediene-ar}
Connections
- Successor of
- Ahmed Ben Bella
- Died in
- Algiers
People and things also explored
Ahmed Ben Bella· Algiers· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)· Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· End of the beylerbey system in Algiers (995/1587)· The French Occupation of Algiers
Sources
- Houari Boumédiène — English Wikipedia
- Houari Boumédiène — Arabic Wikipedia
- Houari Boumédiène — Urdu Wikipedia
- Houari Boumédiène — Wikidata Q310855
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Houari Boumédiène”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/houari-boumediene/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.