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Historical Events
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1479-04-24 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1425-03-11 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1279-05-31 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
0217-06-22 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
0196-03-27 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
0048-08-09 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
0048-09-28 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
0044-09-02 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
0030-08-01 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
0435-08-03 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
1006-05-01 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1099-08-12 - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians
1167-03-18 - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1218-05-24 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1250-04-13 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1250-07-03 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1260-10-24 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
1291-05-18 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1291-07-31 - Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1724-12-09 - Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
1798-07-01 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1798-07-21 - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
1798-07-23 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1799-07-15 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1799-07-25 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1799-08-23 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1801-03-08 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1811-03-01 - Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1824-06-21 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826-06-21 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1827-10-20 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet
1854-11-15 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1859-02-04 - The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1864-12-28 - Battle of Egypt Station, MS
1869-11-17 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean & Red seas
1875-11-16 - Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1876-03-07 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1879-02-18 - Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
1879-04-08 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879-06-26 - Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1881-01-22 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1881-09-09 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
1882-06-10 - Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1882-09-13 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1883-07-24 - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1883-11-05 - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
1888-06-29 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1898-04-08 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1899-01-19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
1906-05-03 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1912-12-07 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1914-02-01 - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914-12-17 - Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914-12-23 - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1916-12-23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
1917-01-09 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1922-02-21 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1922-02-28 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922-03-16 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922-05-20 - "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90
1922-11-04 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1923-04-19 - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1924-01-13 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1924-01-27 - Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1924-11-22 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925-05-21 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925-12-06 - Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
1926-06-06 - Egyptian govt of Adly Pasha forms
1928-07-19 - King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1931-04-22 - Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1935-11-13 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
1936-05-10 - Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
1939-03-16 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940-09-12 - Italian troops enter Egypt
1940-09-13 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1941-04-23 - Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1941-05-15 - British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941-05-18 - An Egyptian steamer sinks
1942-06-24 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1942-10-23 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942-11-02 - Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II)
1945-02-24 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945-02-24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1945-03-22 - Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
1946-02-21 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1948-05-10 - 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1948-05-15 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1948-05-16 - Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948-10-14 - Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
1948-10-18 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1948-10-22 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1948-12-28 - IDF crosses Egyptian border
1949-02-24 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949-11-07 - King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950-06-17 - Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
1950-11-16 - Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1951-03-08 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1951-10-15 - Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
1951-10-17 - Egyptian army fires on British troops
1951-11-18 - British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
Famous Birthdays
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0317-08-07 - Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
1553-11-23 - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
1790-12-23 - Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1821-06-08 - Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1830-12-31 - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79)
1841-02-26 - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)
1852-12-15 - Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt
1853-11-21 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)
1861-09-23 - Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt)
1868-03-26 - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1874-07-14 - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1886-10-01 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author
1886-11-15 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1899-06-04 - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
1901-02-20 - Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
1904-05-04 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975)
1904-12-31 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
1906-10-14 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1908-03-07 - Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
1908-09-19 - Mika Waltari, novelist (Egyptian)
1910-11-02 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911-12-11 - Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988)
1915-09-15 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1917-02-17 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917-03-03 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
1918-01-15 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
1918-12-25 - Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian Pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
1920-02-11 - Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
1920-11-18 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1921-11-05 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1922-11-14 - Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian secretary-general of UN (1992- )
1924-03-03 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1926-09-09 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1928-05-04 - Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981- )
1930-06-05 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1930-09-11 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1930-12-25 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986)
1931-10-27 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932-04-10 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1933-01-17 - Dalida, Cairo, actress/singer, Miss Egypt (The 6th Day)
1933-01-17 - Yolande Christina Dalida, Cairo Egypt
1933-08-29 - Jehan Sadat, 1st lady of Egypt
1935-11-19 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
1942-01-26 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1942-06-17 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1944-10-15 - Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor
1946-02-26 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1946-06-05 - Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange)
1947-05-17 - John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
1951-05-16 - Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1951-06-19 - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
1952-01-16 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1952-07-16 - Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne)
1954-06-02 - Michael Steele, rocker (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
1954-10-10 - Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
1955-03-10 - Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1955-04-15 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1955-08-18 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956-11-10 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1957-04-04 - Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
1958-10-14 - Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science)
1959-01-17 - Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
1960-07-19 - Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1960-09-18 - Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
1961-10-11 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
1962-01-04 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1966-01-07 - Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
1966-09-22 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
1966-11-02 - Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1968-04-26 - Ahmed Elmaghraby, Suez Egypt, US field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1968-09-01 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969-11-18 - Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1972-09-01 - Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe (1997)
1973-01-15 - Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
1976-11-18 - Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1977-03-17 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
1977-08-16 - Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor
1980-10-10 - Sherine, Egyptian singer
1981-10-08 - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
1983-02-23 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
1984-03-20 - Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor
Famous Deaths
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0347-05-14 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
1121-12-11 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1191-03-03 - Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
1204-12-12 - Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1249-11-23 - Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies
1250-05-02 - Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
1260-10-23 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1277-07-01 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1517-04-13 - Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1773-05-08 - Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
1773-05-08 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728)
1829-05-10 - Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
1849-08-02 - Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
1849-08-02 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1854-07-18 - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1883-11-05 - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1887-04-20 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1892-01-07 - Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1895-03-02 - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1905-08-14 - Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
1910-02-20 - Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
1911-09-21 - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
1917-01-29 - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75
1917-10-09 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1919-11-15 - Mohammad Farid, an influential Egyptian political figure.
1924-11-19 - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1927-07-23 - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1936-04-28 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
1936-05-14 - Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
1944-12-20 - Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
1945-02-24 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1948-12-28 - Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1949-02-12 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
1951-01-07 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1952-08-05 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
1954-05-30 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1964-10-20 - Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
1965-03-18 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45
1966-08-29 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1967-09-14 - Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
1969-03-09 - Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1970-09-28 - Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
1972-05-24 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
1973-10-28 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1975-02-03 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1977-03-30 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1977-07-03 - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1981-10-06 - [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1982-04-15 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1984-08-29 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1986-04-21 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1990-01-31 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1990-10-12 - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1990-11-12 - Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
1991-05-03 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992-06-08 - Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1993-04-11 - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993-09-08 - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1994-04-09 - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
1995-01-22 - Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1995-10-13 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1997-11-21 - Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies
1999-08-09 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2001-06-21 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2002-07-25 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2006-08-30 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006-08-31 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2008-07-27 - Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
