Nationalist leader Ahmed Orabi Pasha defeated by British at Tal al-Kebir and deported to Ceylon. A seventy-two year period of British military occupation begins.

1883

Lord Cromer appointed British consul-General in Egypt.

1904

Professor archeologist Hermann Junker discovers pre-historic human skeletons on Willibald Luthy's property following severe flashfloods.
April 20: Egyptian Delta Land & Investment Company (Delta Land) registered in London with a capital of 100,000 pounds Sterling. Controlling shares of new company remain with Egyptian Delta Light Railways Co.
April 30: Egyptian Delta Light Railways Company (EDLR) buys the Helwan line from the Suares consortium.
December: Government gives formal sanction for the taking over of Helwan Line by EDLR.
December 7: Delta Land purchases 371 acres from Elie and Victor Mosseri in vicinity of Maadi al-Khabiri at LE 19.50 per acre.

1905

January 17: Delta Land purchases 434 feddans (feddan=acre) from Mosseri cousins.
January: Delta Land's authorized capital increased by 150,000 poounds Sterling.

1906

Second set of tracks between Sayeda Zeinab and Torah, on the Cairo-Helwan, line are laid.
February 15: Delta Land's first general manager, Alexander James Adams, resigns.
July: Delta Land alters Articles of Association and takes control of its own management from Delta Light Railways Company.

1907

Control of Delta Land is moved from London to Cairo. The capital is increased.

1909

June 23: New Maadi railway station inaugurated.

1910

Cairo-Maadi Road (old Agricultural road) is completed.

1911

January 1: There are now 32 houses in Maadi, of which 29 are occupied.

1913

May 16: Flashfloods from the Mokattam Hills and Wadi Digla devastate Maadi. Train service stop.
St. Charles Borromeo Convent inaugurated.
World's first solar energy power generator installed in Maadi by Professor Frank Shuman of New York.

1914

March 31: Delta Land Railways sells Helwan line to ESR
August 26: World War I breaks out.
December 1: Australian 2nd Light Horse Brigade camp at Maadi.
December 14: The British depose Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and appoint his uncle Hussein Kamel as Sultan.

1915

March 2: Delta Land Bungalow Hospital taken over by Australian army.

1916

March 6: Reginald Henriquez dies and Tom Dale appointed new general manager at Delta Land.

1917

October 9: Sultan Hussein Kamel dies and is succeeded by his brother Sultan Fouad.

1918

Nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul demands independence for Egypt.

1921

Saad Zaghloul returns from exile and deported to the Seychelles.
The Maadi Sporting Club opens.

1922

February: Britain declares Egypt independent state. Sultan Fouad becomes King.
The Delta Land headquarters moves from Cairo to Maadi.

1925

February: Delta Land purchases 71 acres of land east of Digla Line from heirs of Suares Cie.

1926
March 18: Severe earthquake shock felt in Maadi at 16:04.
July: February: Delta Land purchases 214 acres of land east of Digla Line from heirs of Suares Cie.
August 9: First recorded railway level crossing accident. A 10-year old Swiss dies.

1929

November 23: Opening of the first Maadi Church Bazaar by Lady Percy Lorraine
December 21: The Ismaili barracks (Thakanat) inaugurated by King Fouad.

1930

March 30: Digla level-crossing accident. Miss Cleave fatally injured.
April 25: Laying foundation stone of St. John the Baptist Church.

1931

Second pre-historic site discovered at Digla.
January 2: First evensong performed at St. John the Baptist Church.
August: Hold-up and assault on Cairo-Maadi road leads to death of Italian and serious wounding of his Greek fianc�e.

1932

May 10th: English School opens new premises at No. 22 Road 82.
May 22nd: Inauguration of Marconi Telephone and Wireless Station in Digla.

1933

August 22: Lady Percy Lorraine inaugurates electric lighting of the Cairo-Helwan Road.

1934

Meyr Y. Biton Synagogue on Mosseri Avenue inaugurated.

1935

The number of houses in Maadi al-Sarayat reached 269.

1936

April 28: King Fouad dies. Sixteen year-old Farouk ascends throne. August: Anglo-Egyptian Treaty signed in London.

1939

February 17: H.M. King Farouk inaugurates Farouk al-Awal Mosque
April 7: Dr. Josef Goebbels alleged to have visited Maadi
September 3: World War II breaks out.

1940
February 12th: New Zealand troops welcomed in Digla Camp by General Freyberg.
June 10: Italy declares war on Allies and Delta Land's Chairman Elie Mosseri dies.
September 30: HRH Prince Nayef Ibn Abdallah weds Mahramah Sultan in Maadi.

1941

May 18: New Zealand's Premier Peter Frazer visits New Zealand camp in Digla.

1942

April 19: The Duke of Gloucester visits the Ismaili Barracks and NZEF in Digla.

1943

March 13: Victor Carmona fatally assaulted by NZEF Maori in burglary.

1945

January 1: Torrential flashfloods crash down Wadi Digla flooding Maadi.
February 24: Prime Minister Ahmed Maher assassinated.
April 18: The Lawn Tennis Association championships of Egypt played at Maadi Sporting Club.
May 14: Maadi hit by second flashflood. Surrounding villages devastated.
June 2: Inauguration of Maadi Child Welfare Association's new premises.

1946

February 4: New Zealand Forces memorial unveiled on Fouad al-Awwal Square.
The Cairo School for American Children (CSAC) opens on Road 7.
The Maadi Yacht Club opens.

1948

May 17: Foundation stone of the Mobarah Hospital on Road 5 laid by HRH Princess Fawzia.
August 3: Delta Land offices on Road 7 bombed. Muslim Brothers suspected.
December 28: Prime Minister Mahmoud Nokrashi Pasha assassinated by Muslim Brothers.

1949

March 28: Von Cramm, Cuceli, Massip and Mottram play at the Maadi Sporting Club's tennis tournament.
October 14: Regime of Capitulations and Mixed Courts end.
November 29: Gottfreid Von Cramm beats Adli Shafei for Raymond Flower Cup at Maadi Sporting Club.

1950

October 8: Aviation College plane kills two brothers at Izbet Nafea.
November 26: Del Bello, Drobny, Cemik, Sturgess, Geoff Brown play tennis at Maadi Sporting Club.
Victoria College opens in Digla.

1951

February 8: Mobara Hospital inaugurated by HRH Princess Fawzia.
June 18: Hooting banned by decree issued by Cairo governor Mahmoud Ghazaly Pasha.
September 25: Fred Perry, Frank Wilde in action at Maadi Sporting Club.
December 17: Maadi's oldest citizen Fares Nimr Pasha dies aged 96.

1952

Maadi Nokta upgraded to Qism by interior minister Murtada Maraghi.
April 2: Bernard Ferdinand Lyot, inventor of the solar chronograph dies while on train from Bab al-Louk to Helwan.
May 1: Mobil Oil (then called Socony-Vacuum) opens first petrol service station in Maadi.
July 22: King Farouk appoints Maadi's Naguib al-Hilali Pasha Prime Minister. July 23: Officer's coup de-stabilizes monarchy. 1-day old Cabinet resigns.
July 25: King Farouk abdicates in favor of infant son and departs from Alexandria aboard Mahroussa.
August 1: Communication Minister Rashad Mohana inaugurates new telephone exchange.
October 26: Monsignor Jean Cayer inaugurates Latin Church chapel on Road 15.
December 18: Premier Mohamed Naguib opens Maadi Child Welfare Bazaar at Maadi Sporting Club.

1953

January 27: John Crawford a.k.a. Duke of Maadi dies at Anglo-American Hospital.
June 18: Monarchy abolished. General Mohammed Naguib becomes first president of the Republic Egypt.
November 2: Cardinal Tisserent of the Vatican inaugurates St. Leon Catholic-Coptic Seminary on Road 15.

1954

The last British troops evacuate Egypt.
Hassan Mazloum Pasha resigns from chairmanship of EDLICO and is replaced by Taher al-Lozy Bey.
Work begins on new Maadi-Cairo Corniche.
Maadi Association for Landlords, Tenants and Householders (MALTH) ceated.
November 4: Kowaleski, Arkinstall, Howe, Skonecki, P. Raemy play at Maadi's Sporting Club Open tennis tournament.
November 14: President Naguib deposed by RCC (Revolutionary Command Council).

1955

September 12: Egypt hit by earthquake at 08:00. Cairo reports casualties.
September 13: Three American children burnt alive in garden on Fouad al-Awwal Avenue
First regular bus service No.13 from Maadi to Ataba Square in Cairo.
CSAC renamed CAC and moves to house of Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim.
Geoffrey Dale resigns from Delta Land.

1956

January 15: Electrification of Bab al-Louk - Helwan railway line completed.
June: Geoffrey Dales resigns from Delta Land and leaves Egypt.
June: All-Egyptian Board of Directors at Delta Land for the first time.
July 23: Gamal Abdel Nasser nominated president.
July 23: Maadi-Cairo Corniche inaugurated by Minister of Planning Abdel Latif al-Boghdadi.
July 26: Suez Canal nationalized.
October 29: Israel invades Sinai. Hours later, France and Britain attack Port Said and occupy Canal Zone.
November 4: Delta Land Company sequestered. Board no longer functions.

1957

October 27: Maadi's first bank--Bank of Alexandria ex-Barclays-opens on Road 9.

1958

February: Egypt and Syria unite. United Arab Republic proclaimed.

1959

February 22: Economy Minister Hassan Abbas Zaki appoints Mohamed Nazif Delta Land's new Sequestor (CEO) replacing Hassan Mohamed Hussein.

1960
March: Delta Land and Investment Company de-sequestrated. Mohamed Nazif appointed General Manager.

1961

July 20: Delta Land Company nationalized. Free enterprise in Egypt laid to rest.
September 28: Syria backs out of union.
New Zealand memorial removed. 37 palm trees are axed in the process.

1962

January: Borhan Hassan Said Nour appointed General Manager of "Maadi Suburb Co." (the legal entity that replaced Delta Land Co.). New legal entity a subsidiary of General Authority for Cooperative Housing.
August 8: Hassan Mazloum Pasha dies in Alexandria.

1964

Dissolution of MALTH

1965

3 march 1965: Arrest of Wolfgang Lotz a.k.a. Champagne Spy on charges of espionage for account of Israel with the purpose of liquidating German rocket scientists residing in Maadi via letter bombs some of which exploded at the Maadi Post Office.

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