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On 25 April 1859 the Suez Canal Company broke ground at what is now Port Said, starting a ten-year dig across the Isthmus of Suez. The Suez Canal Authority says about 20,000 Egyptians took part in the groundbreaking despite objections from Britain and the Ottoman Empire.

The Suez Canal was inaugurated on 17 November 1869, linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea after ten years of digging. A procession of ships headed by the French imperial yacht L'Aigle, carrying Empress Eugenie, entered the canal at Port Said.

On 26 July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company in a broadcast from Alexandria, while Egyptian officials took over its offices. Britain and France were outraged, setting up the Suez Crisis.

Egypt closed the Suez Canal on 6 June 1967, the day after the Six-Day War began, and it stayed shut for eight years. Fourteen or fifteen cargo ships caught inside became the 'Yellow Fleet' in the Great Bitter Lake.

Egypt's Aswan High Dam, built with Soviet help across the Nile since 1960, was completed on 21 July 1970, creating Lake Nasser and ending the river's annual flood cycle.

President Anwar Sadat reopened the Suez Canal on 5 June 1975, eight years after the Six-Day War closed it. A mine-clearing effort by the US and Britain through 1974 had cleared the waterway.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi opened the expanded Suez Canal on 6 August 2015 at a ceremony in Ismailia, after a year of digging that added 72 kilometres of new waterways. Analysts questioned whether the projected revenue gains were realistic.

On 21 July 2020 Ethiopia announced it had completed the first-year filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's reservoir, over objections from Egypt and Sudan.

The 400-metre container ship Ever Given ran aground across the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021 in high winds and was refloated on 29 March. Hundreds of ships queued while the world's busiest east-west route was shut.

At a celebration at the Great Pyramids, the Recording Academy announced its first international GRAMMY House, to be held in Giza, Egypt in October 2026 with partners Taitan Capital Japan and Global Entertainment Holdings.

Emam Ashour's first international goal put Egypt ahead, and Romelu Lukaku's cross forced a Mohamed Hany own goal to level for Belgium.

Mohamed Salah scored the go-ahead goal as Egypt came from behind to beat New Zealand 3-1 and claim their first-ever World Cup victory.

Egypt and Iran drew 1-1 at Lumen Field after Taremi missed a penalty and VAR chalked off Khalilzadeh's 93rd-minute goal; Egypt advanced as Group G runners-up.

Egypt won their first World Cup knockout match, scoring all four shootout penalties after Emam Ashour's header and an Australia equalizer from an own goal.

Argentina trailed 2-0 after Messi missed a penalty, then Romero, Messi and Enzo Fernandez scored late to beat Egypt and reach the quarter-finals.

1,125 MW generating capacity; About USD 590 million published project cost. Operational.

Egypt's Housing Ministry signed about EGP 4.6bn of contracts with private firms, reported on 18 October 2026, to operate and maintain 11 seawater desalination plants with 485,000 m3/day of capacity in Sinai, Matrouh and the Red Sea.