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The revolt led the UK government to issue a unilateral declaration of Egypt's independence on 22 February 1922. [ 33 ] The new government drafted and implemented a constitution in 1923 based on a parliamentary system .
Created. 28 February 1922. Commissioned by. United Kingdom. Purpose. To recognize Egypt as an independent state. The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence on 28 February 1922 was the formal legal instrument by which the United Kingdom recognised Egypt as an independent sovereign state.
The history of Egypt under the British lasted from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 1956 after the Suez Crisis, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954. The first period of British rule (1882–1914) is often called the "veiled protectorate ".
1957. Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957. Maldives. 26 July. 1965. Became an independent kingdom outside the Commonwealth in 1965. Became a republic in 1968. Became a Commonwealth republic in 1982. Temporarily a republic outside the Commonwealth from 2016 until 1 February 2020, when the Maldives returned.
The revolt led the UK government to issue a unilateral declaration of Egypt's independence on 22 February 1922. [64] Following independence from the United Kingdom, Sultan Fuad I assumed the title of King of Egypt ; despite being nominally independent, the Kingdom was still under British military occupation and the UK still had great influence ...
The Kingdom of Egypt (Arabic: المملكة المصرية, romanized: Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, lit. 'The Egyptian Kingdom') was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign, from the United Kingdom's recognition of Egyptian independence in 1922 until the abolition of the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan in 1953 following the Egyptian ...
A History of Modern Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1800-1953 (1954) online; Oren, Michael B. The Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Egypt, Israel and the Great Powers, 1952-56 (Routledge, 2013) Royal Institute of International Affairs. Great Britain and Egypt, 1914-1951 (2nd ed. 1952) online free; Thomas, Martin, and Richard Toye.
t. e. The Egyptian revolution of 1919 (Arabic: ثورة 1919, Thawra 1919) was a nation-wide revolution in the Sultanate of Egypt against British occupation which lasted from November 1918 to July 1919. Occurring right after the end of World War I, the revolution served as the culmination of successive decades of opposition by Egyptian ...