ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Egypt 1805-1922 </title> <META name="keywords" keyword=""> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Egypt <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xegypt.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xegypt.html"> <img src = "../banners/banegypt.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on March 18th 2005</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Egypt 1805-1922 </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1805 <BR> 1805 <BR> 1807 <BR> 1811 <BR> 1811-1818 <BR> 1819-1820 <BR> 1820-1839 <BR> 1821 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1824 <BR> 1825 <BR> 1831-1833 <BR> 1834 <BR> 1835 <BR> 1840 <BR> 1840-1860 <BR> 1841 <BR><BR> 1844 <BR> 1848 <BR> 1848 <BR> 1852 <BR> 1854 <BR> 1854 <BR> 1858 <BR> 1859-1869 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1865 <BR> 1866 <BR> 1866 <BR> 1867 <BR> 1868 <BR> 1874 <BR> 1875 <BR> 1875 <BR> 1875-1879 <BR> 1876 <BR> 1879 <BR> 1881-1882 <BR> 1882 <BR> 1882 <BR> 1884 <BR> 1885 <BR> 1886 <BR> 1888 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1890 <BR> 1892 <BR> 1897-1907 <BR> 1898 <BR> 1898 <BR> 1898-1899 <BR> 1898-1902 <BR> 1899-1901 <BR> 1903 <BR> 1906 <BR> 1906 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1908 <BR> 1910 <BR> 1913 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1918 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1922 <BR><BR> 1922 <BR><BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Mehmet Ali (Muhammad Ali) appointed Governor <BR> Estimated Population 3,842,000 <BR> British Egypt Campaign, under General Frazer <BR> Mamluks expelled <BR> Arabian Campaign <BR> Mahmudiyya Canal dug, connecting Alexandria with the Nile <BR> Egyptian conquest of the <A HREF = "xsudan.html">Sudan</A> <BR> Ministry of War established <BR> Establishment of a modern army <BR> Egyptian occupation of <A HREF = "../asmin/xcyprus.html">Cyprus</A> <BR> Rebellion in Upper Egypt <BR> Campaign in Greece, occupation of Crete <BR> In a war with the Otoman Empire, conquest of <A HREF = "../arabworld/xsyria.html">Syria</A> <BR> Currency Reform; Ottoman Piaster replaced by Egyptian Piaster <BR> Foundation of Egyptian Museum <BR> <A HREF = "../arabworld/xsyria.html">Syria</A> lost to the Ottomans <BR> Egypt's cotton production increased fourfold <BR> Egypt recognized loss of Hejaz, <A HREF = "../arabworld/xsyria.html">Syria</A> to Ottomans; Mehmet Ali recognized <BR> as hereditary ruler of Egypt, <A HREF = "xsudan.html">Sudan</A> <BR> Egypt struck by the Plague <BR> Egypt struck by Cholera <BR> Mehmet Ali declared insane, succeeded by Abbas Hilmi <BR> Begin of railway construction in Egypt <BR> Abbas Hilmi succeeded by his son Said <BR> Establishment of the Bank of Egypt (concession to the British) <BR> Law on land property <BR> Construction of the Suez Canal <BR> Ismail became ruler of Egypt (-1879) <BR> Egyptian Postal Service established <BR> Ismail created Assembly of Delegates <BR> Egypt began to issue postage stamps <BR> Title Khedive bestowed on rulers of Egypt <BR> Telegraph cable Malta-Alexandria laid; first to connect Egypt with outside world <BR> Cadastral survey established in Egypt <BR> Cairo and Assiut connected by railroad <BR> Khedive Ismail Pasha sold Egyptian Suez Canal shares to Britain <BR> Newspaper al-Ahram founded <BR> War with Ethiopia <BR> Egypt unable to repay her debt; Anglo-French Debt Commission formed <BR> Khedive Ismail left Egypt, went into exile, to Naples (died in 1895) <BR> Nationalist (Urabi) Revolt <BR> Egypt became, in practice, a British Protectorate <BR> Estimated population 7,840,000 <BR> Reform of the Judicial System, based on the French model <BR> Egypt adopted the Gold Standard <BR> Oil discovered in Egypt <BR> Alexandria Stock Exchange founded <BR> Cairo got electricity <BR> Cultivation of tobacco banned <BR> Egyptian-Ottoman boundary dispute <BR> Cairo-Assiut railroad extended to Luxor <BR> National Bank of Egypt began issuing banknotes <BR> Anglo-Egyptian administration over <A HREF = "tlsudan.html">Sudan</A> formed <BR> Construction of the first Aswan Dam <BR> Lock, Bridge tolls on the Nile abolished <BR> Cairo Stock Exchange established <BR> Salt monopoly abolished <BR> Egyptian-Ottoman boundary dispute <BR> First population census : 11,287,400 <BR> Foreigners made up 25 % of the population of Alexandria <BR> National Party, People's Party (Umma Party) founded <BR> Cairo University founded <BR> Begin of an Egyptian oil industry <BR> Organic Law; Legislative Assembly formed <BR> Outbreak of WW I; Egypt formally declared a British protectorate <BR> WW I <BR> Egyptian political leaders demanded full independence <BR> Egyptian Revolution <BR> American University in Cairo founded <BR> Egypt formally granted independence; British maintained control of army, foreign <BR> representation <BR> Population 13,551,000 <BR><BR> For the history of Egypt since 1922, click <A HREF = "tlegyptmod.html">here</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; 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Utrecht <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> DOCUMENTS </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> REFERENCE </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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