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Spanish explorer, Rodrigo de Bastidas, spanish explorer, discovered.
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Beginning of slave trade to New World
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean
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1,500 Spanish settlers go to Panama
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Panama City was founded by Pedro Arias Dávila.
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Panama City was relatively free of the permanent menace of pirates that roamed the Atlantic coast for over one and a half century, until it was destroyed by a devastating fire, when the Pirate Henry Morgan sacked it on January 28, 1671
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Panama declared its independence in 1821 from Spain
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Panama became part of Colombia, after collapse of Gran Colombia
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France makes a failed attempt to build a Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific
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Panama splits from Colombia and becomes fully independent
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United States buys rights to build Panama Canal and controls the waterway for nearly a century
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President Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama, became first president to make official visit outside US
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Official opening of the Panama Canal a massive achievement - the Panama Canal is 65 km ( 40 miles ) in length
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Control of the canal passes from USA to Panama by the Torrijos-Carter treaty
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The building of the Panama Railway which is the first Transcontinental railway of the New World crossing the isthmus from Colon to Panama City
