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Events in Cairo History

Mansa Musa Arrives in Cairo

1324-07-19 Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire, arrives in Cairo on his way to Mecca, with a procession of 600,000 men, 12,000 slaves and 80 camels carrying 136 kg (300 pounds) of gold each

1517-01-22 Ottoman forces take Cairo, capital of the Mamluk Sultanate
1517-04-13 Ottoman army occupies Cairo
1800-03-20 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo
1811-03-01 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1824-03-21 Fire at a Cairo ammunition dump kills 4,000 horses
1862-12-12 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1863-10-18 Boulaq Museum is inaugurated in Cairo with French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as director - the basis of the Egyptian National Museum [1]
1870-09-24 Dar Al-Kutub (National Library of and Archives of Egypt) inaugurated in Mustafa Fadel's palace, Cairo. The first national library in the Middle East. [1]
1871-12-24 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" opera premieres in Cairo, Egypt
1879-06-30 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full of stolen goods
1879-08-23 Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1882-09-14 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1882-09-15 British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
1902-11-15 The Egyptian Museum, the first national museum in the Middle East, opens to the public in its new premises on Ismailia Square (now Tahir Square) in Cairo [1]
1905-04-02 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1914-02-01 Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning, 3-3 tie in Cairo, Egypt in an exhibition MLB game; part of special 56-game world tour
1914-12-23 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt

Cairo Conference

1921-03-12 Cairo Conference begins, British meeting to determine Middle Eastern policies, Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence attend

Churchill Arrives in Cairo

1942-08-04 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo, Egypt

Montgomery in Cairo

1942-08-12 Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo

British WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

1942-08-16 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1942-08-23 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo, Egypt

Cairo Conference

1943-11-22 The Cairo Conference: FDR, Churchill and Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek meet in Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan

Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

1943-12-04 Second Cairo Conference: FDR, Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü meet (till Dec 6)
1945-02-22 Arab League forms (Cairo)
1945-03-22 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt
1948-02-29 Stern-group bomb on Cairo-Haifa train kills 27 British soldiers
1948-06-20 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948-07-15 Israel bombs Cairo during Arab-Israeli War
1952-01-26 At least 20 people have been killed and 100s injured during riots in Cairo against the British
1958-09-20 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
1961-06-12 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
1962-06-26 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1965-05-20 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965-11-01 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1967-05-30 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967-07-17 Race riots in Cairo, Illinois
1969-06-19 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1973-10-24 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974-02-17 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1977-12-14 Egyptian & Israeli representatives gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference
1978-09-16 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt

Meeting of Interest

1979-04-02 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo, Egypt

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat

Event of Interest

1980-03-24 Deposed Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (60) arrives in Egypt for cancer treatment at Maadi Military Hospital, near Cairo

1981-06-17 Battle between Muslims & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed

Event of Interest

1981-10-10 Anwar Sadat's funeral service held in Cairo

1990-02-04 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1992-10-12 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
1999-10-31 EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
2001-12-28 OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
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

Event of Interest

2013-07-02 16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

2013-07-08 42 people killed, hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit-in protest in Cairo
2013-07-27 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
2013-11-18 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt

Israel, Hamas Review Ceasefire

2014-07-25 Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo

King Tut's Beard Badly Glued

2016-01-23 8 museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for prosecution for reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue

2016-05-19 EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo
2016-12-11 Bombing at a chapel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 25 and wounds 45
2018-12-01 Egyptian actress Rania Youssef charged for "inciting debauchery" after wearing see-through dress to Cairo film festival
2018-12-15 Egyptian Archaeologists announce discovery of 4,400 year old tomb of Fifth Dynasty priest in Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo
2019-01-16 Egyptian city Cairo is engulfed by a sandstorm turning it orange
2019-02-02 More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt
2019-02-27 Train crashes into a buffer at Cairo's main railway station killing 25 and injuring dozens in Egypt
2019-06-17 Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi dies after collapsing during a court appearance in Cairo
2019-08-04 Car explosion kills 20 with 47 injured in Cairo, Egypt, in terrorist-related incident
2019-09-20 Rare Egyptian political protests take place against corruption in President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government in Tahrir Square, Cairo and elsewhere
2019-12-19 Earliest fossilized trees, 386 million years old, found at a quarry in Cairo, New York, study published in "Current Biology"

Famous People from Cairo

1005-06-20 Ali az-Zahir, 7th Caliph of the Fātimids (1021-36), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1036)
1029-07-02 Al-Mustanṣir, 8th Fāṭimid Caliph of Cairo, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1094)
1830-12-31 Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1863-79), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1895)
1852-12-15 Muḥammad Tawfīq Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1879-92), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1892)
1853-11-21 Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt (1914-17), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1917)
1868-03-26 Fuʾād I [Aḥmad Fuʾād Pasha], King of Egypt (1922-36), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1936)
1874-08-14 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist and nationalist activist, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1908)
1886-10-01 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian and author (My Life), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1954)
1889-03-27 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer and translator, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1974)
1899-08-27 C. S. Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1966)
1899-12-13 Yusef Greiss, Egyptian composer, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1961)
1910-04-10 Abu-Bakr Khairat, Egyptian composer, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1963)

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)

1910-05-12 British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), born in Cairo, Egypt [1]

1911-03-11 Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish adventurer, soldier, writer and politician who was an inspiration for Ian Flemings James Bond, born in Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire (d. 1996)
1911-04-12 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1976)
1911-12-11 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist (Palace Walk, Sugar Street) and first Arabic writer to win a Nobel Prize (1988), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2006)
1914-07-18 Mack Robinson, American 200m dash (Olympic silver 1932), born in Cairo, Georgia (d. 2000)
1915-05-10 Salah Abou Seif [Salah Abu Saif], Egyptian film director (Bidaya wa Nihaya), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1996)
1918-02-17 Charles Hayes, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1983-93), born in Cairo, Illinois (d. 1997)

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

1919-01-31 American Baseball HOF second baseman (1st African-American MLB player Brooklyn Dodgers; 6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1955; NL MVP 1949), born in Cairo, Georgia

1920-02-11 Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), born in Abdeen Palace, Cairo, Egypt (d. 1965)
1921-03-04 Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American pianist, darabukha drummer, and composer (Martha Graham ballet scores), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2017)
1921-08-02 Alan Whicker, British journalist and TV broadcaster (Whicker's World), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2013)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922-2016)

1922-11-14 Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), born in Cairo, Egypt

1923-11-06 Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist and baritone, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1998)

Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)

1929-08-24 Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, born in Cairo, Egypt