Battle of Tel el-Kebir

Name: Battle of Tel el-Kebir
Start: 1882

1882 CE.

Shown on the map at 30.667°, 31.933°.

The Battle of Tel El Kebir (often spelled Tel-El-Kebir), fought on 13 September 1882 at Tell El Kebir in Egypt, 110 km north-north-east of Cairo, proved the decisive engagement of the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. A British army led by Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley approached under cover of darkness and defeated an entrenched Egyptian force under the command of Ahmed ʻUrabi in a sudden assault.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Tell El Kebir, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Everything else in 1882 CE

HistoryLayer draws the world as it was in any year from 123,000 BCE to 2026. Move the slider and the borders redraw for that year; the map carries 23,890 events, 12,790 people, 837 wars and 13,183 cities, each one readable in place. Signing in is optional and lets you keep what you find.

HistoryLayer is an interactive map of world history: pick any year from 123,000 BCE to 2026 and the borders, events and people of that moment are drawn for you. It needs JavaScript to draw the map. The guide, the sources and licences and the privacy page are readable without it.

HistoryLayer

1914CE

World Wars

123,000 BCE2026 CE

54 stops — one per surviving map on file, evenly spaced drag the pin · ←→ steps one stop the same 54 stops by true elapsed time ↑

Map & filters

Show on the map

Filter

Colour by

Polity Empire

Battle of Tel el-Kebir

Saved · 0