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Timeline: the most important events that Egypt witnessed throughout history
Chronology of major events in Egypt
About 7000 BC
Settlement begins in the Nile Valley.
Around 3000 BC
Unification of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt. Successive dynasties witnessed a thriving trade and the development of cultural traditions, the most important of which was writing and calligraphy in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic language.
Around 2500 BC
Building the pyramids, which express a tremendous engineering achievement.
669 BC
The Assyrians from Mesopotamia conquer and rule Egypt.
525 BC
Persian conquest.
332 BC
Alexander the Great, from ancient Macedonia, conquers Egypt and establishes Alexandria, and the Macedonian dynasty ruled until 31 BC.
31 BC
Grate fall under Roman rule; And Queen Cleopatra commits suicide after the Octavian armies defeated her forces.
642 AD
Arab conquest of Egypt.
969 AD
Establishing Cairo as the capital.
1250-1517
The Mamluks (slave soldiers) ruled, their era marked by prosperity and the establishment of organized civil institutions.
1517
Egypt absorbed under the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
1798
Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces invade Egypt, and the British and Turks repel it in 1801. Egypt once again becomes part of the Ottoman Empire.
1869-1859
The construction of the Suez Canal.
1882
British forces control Egypt.
1914
Declaring Egypt a British protectorate.
1922
King Fuad I becomes King of Egypt and gains its independence.
1928
Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1936 – April
Farouk succeeds his father as king of Egypt.
1948
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria enter the first war with Israel.
1949 February
The assassination of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1949
Formation of the Free Officers Movement.
1952 January
At least 20 people were killed in anti-British riots in Cairo.
1952
King Farouk abdicates in favor of his son Fuad II.
1952
Gamal Abdel Nasser leads a coup by the Free Officers Movement, which has since become known as the July 23 Revolution, which brought Muhammad Naguib to the position of President and Prime Minister of Egypt.
Declaration of the Republic
1953 June
Mohamed Naguib declares Egypt a republic.
1954
Abdel Nasser becomes prime minister and later, in 1956, president.
1952
Gamal Abdel Nasser leads a coup by the Free Officers Movement, which has since become known as the July 23 Revolution, which brought Muhammad Naguib to the position of President and Prime Minister of Egypt.
1954
Signing the evacuation treaty, British forces begin a gradual withdrawal.
1956 July
Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal to finance the Aswan High Dam.
1956 October
Triple invasion of Egypt by Britain, France and Israel due to the nationalization of the Suez Canal. And then the declaration of a cease-fire in November.
1958 February
Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic as a first step towards Arab unity.
1961
Syria withdraws from the union, but Egypt retains the name of the United Arab Republic.
1965 March
King Farouk dies in Rome.