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Events in Alexandria History

Octavian Enters Alexandria

0030-08-01 BC Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic

Battle of Alexandria

0030-07-31 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to Octavian's invasion of Egypt

Roman Politician and General Mark Antony

0328-05-09 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria
0362-02-21 Athanasius returns to Alexandria
0365-07-21 Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria
0431-06-22 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens to settle dispute between Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople and Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria
0641-06-09 Arabic-Islamic army conquers Romans at Alexandria, taking control of Egypt
0642-09-17 Arab forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria
1303-08-08 Crete earthquake strikes with estimated magnitude of 8, triggering a major tsunami that damaged the Lighthouse of Alexandria and swept ships 2 miles inland in Egypt

Napoleon Reaches Alexandria

1798-07-01 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria, Egypt

1798-07-23 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Alexandria, Egypt
1861-05-31 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1879-07-01 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1882-06-10 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1882-07-11 British fleet bombards Alexandria, Egypt
1882-08-16 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1941-05-12 British forces march into Alexandria, Egypt
1964-07-23 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1971-11-14 Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria

Film & TV History

2001-09-10 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan is awarded Actor of the Century at the Alexandria Film Festival

2002-10-16 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2004-09-11 All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
2011-01-25 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
2013-01-16 25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
2017-04-09 Two Egyptian coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead
2018-07-19 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared

Famous People from Alexandria

1863-04-29 Constantine P Cavafy, Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant, born in Alexandria, Egypt Province, Ottoman Empire (d. 1933)
1874-07-14 Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1944)
1876-12-22 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist (Futurism e Futurista), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1944)
1888-02-10 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, born in Alexandria (d. 1970)
1892-03-17 Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer-songwriter and "father of Egyptian popular music" (Ana Haweet), born in Kôm el-Dikka, Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1923)

Rudolf Hess (1894-1987)

1894-04-26 German Nazi official (Deputy Fuhrer who dramatically escaped to Britain in 1941), born in Alexandria, Egypt

1898-01-28 Vittorio Rieti, Jewish Italian-American composer, born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1994)
1899-06-04 Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (New Gourna Village), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1989)
1909-02-24 Riccardo Freda, Italian film director and screenwriter (Theodora, Slave Empress), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1999)
1911-08-24 Michel Pablo [Michalis N. Raptis], Chilean-Greek writer and Trotskyist revolutionary (Fourth International), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1996)
1915-02-08 Georges Guetary, French singer and dancer (An American In Paris), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1997)
1917-06-09 Eric J. Hobsbawm, Marxist historian (The Age of Revolution; Capital; and Empire), born in Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt, (d. 2012)
1921-11-05 Fawzia Fuad, Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, born in Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt (d. 2013)
1923-08-03 Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity, born in Abnub, Asyut Governorate, Egypt (d. 2012)
1929-01-27 Mohamed Al Fayed, Egyptian business magnate (Harrods - London; The Ritz Hotel - Paris), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 2023)
1929-06-29 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian-French classical guitarist and composer, born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1999)
1931-09-05 Moshe Mizrahi, Israeli film director (Madame Rosa), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 2018)

Omar Sharif (1932-2015)

1932-04-10 Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), born in Alexandria

1937-10-22 Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (Ta Tragoudia Mas) and well known leftist critic of the Greek military junta, born in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt (d. 1982)
1944-10-15 Haim Saban, Israeli-American media proprietor (Saban Entertainment), born in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
1946-06-15 Demis Roussos, Greek singer and performer (Aphrodite's Child), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 2015)
1955-04-15 Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman who died in a car crash in Paris with Diana. Princess of Wales, born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1997)
1966-09-22 Moustafa Amar, Egyptian pop singer and acor, born in Alexandria, Egypt
1972-11-12 Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer, born in Alexandria, Greece
1986-07-09 Kiely Williams, American singer and actress (Cheetah Girls), born in Alexandria, Virgina