Aswan High Dam
1960–1970 · Event
Built with Soviet money after the West withdrew, Nasser's dam tames the Nile flood, lights Egypt and drowns Nubia; Abu Simbel is moved block by block.
On these timelines: North Africa, Master, Ancient Egypt
More from North Africa
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Algerian War of Independence (1954)
- Third Punic War / Destruction of Carthage (149 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- French conquest of Algeria (1830)
- Fatimid Caliphate (909)
Around 1960
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)