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This is a timeline of events in Egypt which highlight the activities where Pisani families would have been involved. Obviously a timeline of all of Egypt's history would run to a very long page! I have snipped off early Egyptian history in order to facilitate download times and in order to make the information more relevant to the topics within this site. Likewise I have cut it short in order to focus on the key considerations off the British control of Egypt and the subsequent unrest concerning the Suez canal.
1517 - Egypt absorbed into the Turkish Ottoman empire. 1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade but are repelled by the British and the Turks in 1801. Egypt once more becomes part of the Ottoman empire. 1859-69 - Suez Canal built. 1882 - British troops take control of Egypt. 1914 - Egypt becomes a British protectorate. 1922 - Fu'ad I becomes King of Egypt and Egypt gains its independence. 1928 - Muslim Brotherhood founded by Hasan al-Banna.1936 - April - Faruq succeeds his father as King of Egypt . 1948 - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attack the new state of Israel. 1949 February - Hasan al-Banna of the Muslim Brotherhood is assassinated. 1949 - Committee of the Free Officers' Movement formed. 1952 January - At least 20 people are killed in anti-British riots in Cairo. 1952 - King Faruq abdicates in favour of his son Fu'ad II. 1952 - Gamal Abdul Nasser leads a coup by the Free Officers' Movement, now known as the July 23 Revolution, which results in Muhammad Najib becoming President and Prime Minister of Egypt. Republic declared 1953 June - Egypt is declared a Republic by Najib. 1954 - Nasser becomes prime minister and later, in 1956, president. 1954 - Evacuation Treaty signed. British forces, who began a gradual withdrawal in 1936 finally leave Egypt. 1956 July - Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal to fund the Aswan High Dam. 1956 October - Tripartite Invasion of Egypt by Britain, France and Israel due to the nationalisation of the Suez Canal. A ceasefire is declared in November. European Nationals expelled from Egypt.1958 February - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic (UAR) in the first step of their aim for Arab unity. 1961 - Syria withdraws from the union with Egypt but Egypt remains known as the UAR. 1965 March - King Faruq dies in Rome. |