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| 1928 |
| | | Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition | |
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| 1936 |
| | | On the death of his father, Fuad I, the 16-year-old Farouk becomes king of Egypt | |
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| 1941 December 19 |
| | | Italian frogmen enter the harbour at Alexandria and cripple two British battleships | |
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| 1942 July 4 |
| | | Auchinleck finally stops Rommel's advance, in the first battle of El Alamein | |
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| 1942 August 30 |
| | | Rommel's new thrust towards Alexandria is halted by the British at Alam al-Halfa, a ridge near El Alamein | |
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| 1942 October 23 |
| | | Montgomery launches the second battle of El Alamein against Rommel | |
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| c. 1945 |
| | | Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Arab countries, gathered for a conference in Cairo, form the Arab League to further their joint interests | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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