Died 1895-03-02.
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al-Khidīwī Ismāʻīl
Isma'il Pasha, also known as Ismail the Magnificent, was the Khedive of Egypt and ruler of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain and France. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanization, and the expansion of th…
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culture · Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879 · politician · statesperson · writer · also al-Khidīwī Ismāʻīl, Isma'il Pasha of Egypt, Ismā‘īl Bāshā, İsmail Paşa, Ismail the Magnificent, Ismaʿil
Born 31 December 1831 · Died 2 March 1895 · Q159378
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1895· 1 entry
1884· 1 entry
With the Anglo-Egyptian-Ethiopian Hewett Treaty, when Bogos was given back to Ethiopia
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1879· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Egypt (1879–1879).
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1878· 1 entry
Culminated in Isma'il handing over much of his personal estates' to the nation and accepting the position of a constitutional sovereign, with Nubar as premier, Charles Rivers Wilson as finance minister, and de Blignières
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1876· 1 entry
When the assembly persuaded Isma'il to reinstate the law (enacted by him in 1871 to raise money and later repealed) that allowed landownership and tax privileges to persons paying six years' land tax in advance
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1875· 1 entry
With the assistance of Yacoub Cattaui to the British government for £3,976,582; this was immediately followed by the beginning of direct intervention by the Great Powers in Egypt and Sudan
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1874· 2 entries
Won: Honorary member with Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1872 (1874).
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Annexed Darfur, but was prevented from expanding into Ethiopia after his army was repeatedly defeated by Emperor Yohannes IV, first at Gundet on 16 November 1875, and again at Gura in March of the following year
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1873· 1 entry
Confirmed the virtual independence of the Khedivate of Egypt from the Porte
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1872· 1 entry
Bogos (with the city of Keren) was annexed by the governor of the new "Province of Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Coast", Werner Munzinger Pasha
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1869· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (1869).
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1867· 3 entries
Visited Paris during the Exposition Universelle (1867) with Sultan Abdülaziz, and also London, where he was received by Queen Victoria and welcomed by the Lord Mayor
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Isma'il succeeded in persuading the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz to grant a firman finally recognizing him as Khedive in exchange for an increase in the tribute, because of the Khedive's help in the Cretan Revolt between 186
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In exchange of a hefty financial compensation to the Ottoman Sultan, he secured a firman for the recognition for his title of Khedive (Great Master/Sovereign Prince) in preference to Wāli (Governor), which was previously
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1866· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1866).
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1865· 1 entry
The Ottoman Sublime Porte ceded the African portion of the Habesh Eyalet (with Massawa and Suakin at the Red Sea as the main cities of that province) to Isma'il
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1864· 1 entry
To the arbitration of Napoleon III, who awarded £3,800,000 to the company as compensation for the losses they would incur by the changes which Isma'il insisted upon in the original grant
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1863· 1 entry
Career landmark: khedive (1863–1879).
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1861· 1 entry
Was dispatched at the head of an army of 18,000 to quell an insurrection in Sudan, a mission which he accomplished
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1831· 1 entry
Born 1831-12-31.
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