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The House of Muhammad Ali
AD 1805 - 1953
Muhammad Ali seized a weakened Egypt from the
Mameluke Sultans. The
Egyptians were still under the authority of the Ottoman Empire,
however. |
1805 - 1848 |
Muhammad Ali |
Pasha. |
1818 - 1822 |
Muhammed Ali occupies
Arabia. |
1827 |
Ordered by the Ottoman Empire
to send a fleet to Greece to put a stop to the efforts being made for
independence there,
Muhammed Ali's fleet is sunk by vessels sent by the
Russians,
French and
British. |
1838 - 1843 |
Muhammed Ali re-occupies
Arabia. |
1848 |
Ibrahim |
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1848 - 1854 |
Abbas Hilmi I |
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1854 - 1863 |
Muhammad Said |
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1859 |
Contruction on the Suez Canal is started by the
British. |
1863 - 1879 |
Ismail |
Khedive 1867-1879
(d.1895). |
1869 |
The Suez Canal is opened.
Britain buys Khedive's share in
the canal in 1875. |
1879 - 1892 |
Muhammad Tawfiq |
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1882 |
British Occupation of Egypt begins. |
1892 - 1914 |
Abbas Hilmi II |
(d.1944) |
1914 - 1922 |
Egypt becomes a
British Protectorate. |
1914 - 1917 |
Husayn Kamil |
Sultan. |
1917 - 1936 |
Ahmad Fuad I |
Sultan 1917-1922.
King in 1922. |
1936 - 1952 |
Faruq |
Deposed by military
coup (d.1965). |
1952 - 1953 |
Ahmad Fuad II |
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1953 |
A Republic of Egypt is declared. |
1954 |
Parliamentary rule
is instigated. |
1967 |
The Yom Kippur War of Egypt and
Jordan against
Israel. Jordan loses the West Bank, a third of the
kingdom. |
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