The Dinshaway Incident occurred in Egypt in June 1906. It was an important impetus to the growin nationalist movement in that country.
In 1906 Egypt was a de-facto British protectorate. In June of that year five British officers decided to go pigeon hunting near the Nile Delta village of Dinshaway. During the course of the expedition the officers succeeded in shooting and wounding the wife of a local religious and set fire to the village threshing floor. The villagers turned against the officers and two of them were badly wounded, one later dying.
The British response was swift and harsh. Fifty-two members of the village were put on trial for premeditated murder. Thirty-two were found guilty, most were flogged by four men of the village were hanged.
The incident caused outrage amongst the Egyptian population. For the first time urban intellectual critics of the British regime found common cause with the local peasantry. In to upsurge of protest that followed the long time British administrator of Egypt, Lord Cromer, was forced to resign.
