Republic & After · event 7 of 14

1981

Sadat is assassinated. Shot at a military parade four years after making peace with Israel. Hosni Mubarak succeeds him and rules for thirty years.

The Republic & After era

  1. 1952
  2. 1956
  3. 1961
  4. 1967
  5. 1971
  6. 1973
  7. 1981
  8. 1988
  9. 2005
  10. 25 January 2011
  11. 2013
  12. 2015
  13. 2021
  14. 2020s

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