Arrest of Saad Zaghloul

Date: March 8, 1919 • Location: London, United Kingdom

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1919.

During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.

The 1919 Egyptian revolution was a nation-wide revolution in the Sultanate of Egypt against British occupation that 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 nationalists to occupation, and was directly sparked by the British-ordered exile of Wafd Party leader Saad Zaghloul and several other party members.