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| 1799 |
| | Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt | |
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| 1799 |
| | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1803 |
| | The USS Philadelphia is captured, with its 300 crew, in the first Barbary War between the US and north African pirate states | |
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| 1811 |
| | All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo | |
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| 1816 |
| | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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| 1822 |
| | Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone | |
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| 1827 |
| | The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion | |
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| 1830 |
| | A French army invades Algeria, beginning the process which brings the region within the French empire | |
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| 1832 |
| | French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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