Timeline: Egypt

1882 - British troops take control of Egypt

1914 - Egypt becomes a British protectorate

1919 - The 1919 Revolution - Egyptians demand independence

1922 - Fu'ad I becomes King of Egypt and Egypt claims its independence

1928 - Muslim Brotherhood founded by Hasan al-Banna

1936 - April - Faruq succeeds his father as King of Egypt

1948 - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attack the new state of Israel

1949 February - Hasan al-Banna of the Muslim Brotherhood is assassinated

1949 - Committee of the Free Officers' Movement formed

1952 - King Faruq abdicates in favour of his son Fu'ad II

1952 - Jamal Abd al-Nasir leads a coup by the Free Officers' Movement, now known as the July 23 Revolution, which results in Muhammad Najib becoming President and Prime Minister of Egypt

1953 June - Egypt is declared a Republic by Najib

1954 - Nasir becomes prime minister and later, in 1956, president

1954 - Evacuation Treaty signed. British forces, who began a gradual withdrawal in 1936 finally leave Egypt

1956 July - Nasir nationalizes the Suez Canal to fund the Aswan High Dam

1956 October - Tripartite Invasion of Egypt by Britain, France and Israel due to the nationalization of the Suez Canal. A cease-fire is declared in November

1958 February - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic (UAR) in the first step of their aim for Arab unity

1961 - Syria withdraws from the union with Egypt but Egypt remains known as the UAR

1965 March - King Faruq dies in Rome

1967 June - Egypt, Jordan and Syria go to war with Israel and are defeated. Israel takes control of Sinai, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It is known as the Six-Day War

Assassinated: Anwar Sadat

1970 September - Nasir dies and is replaced by his Vice-President, Anwar al-Sadat

1971 - Treaty of Friendship between Egypt and the Soviet Union is signed

1971 - Egypt's new constitution is introduced and the country is renamed Arab Republic of Egypt

1971 - The Aswan High Dam is completed. It proves to have a huge impact on irrigation, agriculture and industry in Egypt

1973 October - Egypt and Syria go to war with Israel during Israel's celebration of Yom Kippur to reclaim the land they lost in 1967. Egypt begins negotiations for the return of Sinai after the war

1975 June - The Suez Canal is reopened. It had been closed since the 1967 war

1976 - Anwar al-Sadat ends the Treaty of Friendship with the Soviet Union

1978 September - Camp David Accords for peace with Israel are signed

1979 March - The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is signed. Egypt is then condemned by the other Arab nations and excluded from the Arab League

1981 6 October - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated by Jihad members

1981 October - A National Referendum approves Husni Mubarak as the new President of Egypt

1987 October - Mubarak begins his second term in office

1989 Egypt rejoins the Arab League

1993 October - Mubarak begins his third term in office

1995 June - Mubarak is the target of an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, upon his arrival at a summit of the Organization of African Unity

1997 - 58 tourists are killed by gunmen in front of the Temple of Hatshepsut near Luxor. It is alleged that Egypt's Islamic Group (al-jama'ah al'islamiyah) is responsible

1999 October - Mubarak begins his fourth term in office