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| 1874 |
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| The Coptic Communal Council was established by Coptic lay leaders. It took over control of the community's endowed property from the clergy, which steadily lost power to secular communal institutions. | 1 |
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| 1875 |
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| The newspaper al-Ahram was founded by Salim Taqla, a Greek Catholic immigrant from Lebanon. It marked the beginning of Egypt's modern independent press and has since become Egypt's most important daily by far (with present-day circulation of about 1 million copies). | 2 |
| The Khedivial Geographical Society (now the Egyptian Geographical Society) was founded by Khedive Isma’il to conduct and sponsor geographical research. It published important findings in areas such as cartography, irrigation, cotton cultivation, and desert studies. | 3 |
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| June 28 |
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| Establishment of the Mixed Courts, a new judicial system for the adjudication of all legal cases involving foreign nationals. Based on agreement between Egypt and the great powers, the courts were staffed by both Egyptian and foreign judges and applied new codes taken largely from French law. The Mixed Courts were abolished on Oct. 15, 1949. | 4 |
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| Nov |
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| The khedive, in financial straits, sold his 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal Company to the British government for £4 million. | 5 |
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