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Events on Thursday 25 November 1875 1
1875Britain purchases Suez Canal sharesDisraeli buys Egypt's stake in the canal companyPrime Minister Benjamin Disraeli arranged a loan from the Rothschild bank to purchase the Khedive of Egypt's 44 percent shareholding in the Suez Canal Company. The deal gave Britain a controlling strategic interest in the canal route to India without prior parliamentary approval.