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| 1952 |
| | | A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Gamal Abd al-Nasser mounts another coup, this time against his colleague Mohammed Neguib, to make himself president of Egypt | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The USA and Britain withdraw their offer of financial aid for Nasser's Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez canal and wins Soviet finance for his Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Nasser disregards a French and British ultimatum to withdraw from the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Israeli troops invade the Sinai peninsula, a province of Egypt bordering the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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