Memory of the day: English expedition to Egypt, led by Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser, arrives at Rosetta in 1807

CAIRO – 30 March 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on March 30.

818 - The departure of thousands of Andalusians from Cordoba after the failure of their revolution against the rule of Prince Al-Hakam bin Hisham, who oppressed the revolutionaries, demolished their homes and displaced them in Andalusia, so a group of them, amounting to approximately 15 thousand, headed to Egypt. They then left Egypt for the island of Crete in the year 212 AH - and they established the Emirate of Aqrisht, which lasted for about a century and a third.

1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Capetians of Anjou and King Carlo I of Naples, in what became known as the Sicilian Vespers.

1807 - The English expedition to Egypt, led by Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser, arrives at Rosetta.

1814 - Britain enters Paris with the rest of the allies after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1842 - American physician Crawford Long uses anesthesia in surgical operations for the first time.

1858 - Sultan Bahadur Shah is removed from power in India. He was the last sultans of the Islamic state that ruled India. With his isolation, Islamic rule in India ended after lasting eight and a half centuries.

1889 - The completion of the construction of the Eiffel Tower in the French capital, Paris.

1968 - The "March 30 Statement" is issued as a constitutional document in Egypt.