Sultan Abdulaziz I decided to go to Egypt and departed from Istanbul in April 3, 1863 with a ship named “Feyz-i Cihan”. His nephews Murat, Abdulhamid, Mehmed Resad accompanied him. He was the first Ottoman Sultan went to Egypt since Sultan Selim I. The people of Egypt celebrated the arrival of sultan.

Abdulaziz renovated the regulations about Egypt, from then on the governors of Egypt were begun to be called as “Hidiv”.