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| 1933 |
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| Ahmad Husayn created the Young Egypt Party (Misr al-Fatat), which became a full-fledged political organization in 1936. It favored aggressive state activity in economic development and rapid expansion of the armed forces. The party's ideology originally emphasized Egyptian nationalism, but switched to more Islamic themes after it was renamed the Nationalist Islamic Party (1940). The party exercised its strongest appeal in Cairo and the surrounding suburbs, where more than half its members lived. | 1 |
| The party organized many of its young members into paramilitary squads, known as the Green Shirts, who became notorious for their hooliganism. On the political scene, such behavior was hardly isolated. The rival Wafd Party assembled its own bands of thugs, the Blue Shirts, who engaged in many of the same violent and lawless practices. | 2 |
| The first labor laws, which prohibited factories from working adolescents (ages 12–16) and women more than nine hours a day. | 3 |
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| June 21 |
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| Resignation of the Sidqi government. In the aftermath, the king tried to rule without Parliament through a palace council of ministers, but gave up the attempt in Nov. 1934 and appointed Tawfiq Nessim as prime minister. | 4 |
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