Egyptian independence
Britain ends its protectorate but keeps the Suez Canal
On 28 February 1922, after the revolution of 1919, Britain unilaterally declared Egypt independent, and Sultan Fuad I became king. But London kept control of Egypt's defence, the imperial routes including the Suez Canal, the protection of foreigners and Sudan.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 8 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 4 years earlier
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 2 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 17 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 25 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 17 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 3 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 6 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 11 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 5 years earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 7 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 14 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 14 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 7 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 6 years earlier
- 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War — 3 years earlier
- 1923 Treaty of Lausanne — 1 year later
Asia
- 1919 Amritsar massacre — 3 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 1 year later
- 1931 China floods — 9 years later
- 1931 Mukden Incident — 9 years later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 23 years later
Americas
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 9 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 8 years earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 8 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 7 years later
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 11 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 10 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 14 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 19 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 75)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 66)
- Marie Curie (aged 55)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 53)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 52)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 51)
- Winston Churchill (aged 48)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 44)
- Albert Einstein (aged 43)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 41)