The Sid El-Antri massacre took place on the night of 23-24 December 1997 in two small villages near Tiaret, Algeria. During the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s a variety of massacres occurred Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar The Thalit massacre took place in Thalit village ( Médéa, near Ksar el Boukhari; see map some 70 km from Algiers, on April 3 - Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. The Haouch Khemisti massacre took place before dawn on 22 April 1997 in the Algerian village of Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti (also spelled Boughelef Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) The Dairat Labguer massacre took place on June 16, 1997 - less than two weeks after parliamentary elections - in the hamlet of Dairat Labguer (also (misspelled Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre took place on 3 August 1997 in two villages near Arib (see map in the wilaya of Ain Defla, Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. The largest of the Souhane massacres took place in the small mountain town of Souhane (about 25 km south of Algiers, between Larbaa and Tablat Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. The Beni-Ali massacre took place in the mountain hamlet of Beni Ali, 40 miles south of Algiers near Chrea, on 26 August 1997. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. The Rais massacre, of August 29, 1997, was one of Algeria 's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s Events 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708) The Beni-Messous massacre took place on the night of September 5, 1997, in Sidi Youssef an outlying neighborhood of the town of Beni-Messous. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started The Guelb El-Kebir massacre took place in a small town near Beni Slimane ( Medea, Algeria; see map on the night of the 19 and 20 September Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. At the village of Bentalha, about 15 km south of Algiers, on the night of September 22 -23 1997, more than 200 villagers (according to Amnesty Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes The Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December, 1997 were probably the single bloodiest day of killing in the Algerian conflict of Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St The Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January, 1998 took place in three remote villages around Oued Rhiou about 150 miles (240 km Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Tiaret ( Berber:; Tihert or Tahert, ie "station" تيارت is the name of a large Algerian town one that gives its name to the wider farming Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's The death toll is unclear; Reuters cites "at least 80", or 48 according to the government, Le Jeune Independent says 117 people were killed and 11 abducted by terrorists, and a timeline gives 53 (including 15 children) killed in Sidi el-Antri (or Sidi el-Antar, Sidi Lamri) and 28 in Shari. On the same day, 11 were killed further away in the Bainem area near Algiers. Algiers (الجزائر Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ( (From kabyle pronunciation Kabyle: Ledzayer, Alger) is the Capital and largest A few days later, another 26 civilians were killed in the Zouabria massacre, also near Tiaret.
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