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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Basic timeline of modern Egypt

This post is a basic timeline of modern Egypt. There are 23 events listed below chronology. Source: Wikipedia

• Alexander the Great and Macedonia conquer Egypt (332 BC)
• Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 - 30 BC)
• Roman Egypt (30 BC - 641 AD)
• Sasanian Egypt (618 - 628 AD)
• Muslim conquest of Egypt (639 - 646 AD)
• Tulunids (868 - 905 AD)
• Fatimid Caliphate (909 - 1171 AD)
• Ikhshidid dynasty (935 - 969 AD)
• Ayyubid dynasty (1170-1260)
• Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
• Ottoman Empire occupation (1517-1867)
• Suez Canal construction (1859-1869)
• Khedivate of Egypt (1867-1914)
• Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)
• Britain occupies Egypt (1882-1956)
• Egyptian Revolution (1952)
• Republic of Egypt (1953)
• Britain withdraws from Suez Canal (1956)
• Six Day War (1967)
• Hosni Mubarak is President (1981-2011)
• Egypt-Israel peace treaty (1979-1980)
• Egyptian Revolution of 2011
• Attempted coup d'état (2013)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Egypt at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Egypt.)