Panama

By rokey.mia
  • 1502

    Columbus

    Columbus
    Columbus sails on 4th and last voyage to present day panama and Honduras
  • 1509

    Slave Trade

    Slave Trade
    Beginning of slave trade in the New World
  • 1514

    Settlers

    Settlers
    1,500 Spanish settlers go to Panama

  • Napoleon

    Napoleon
    Overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon

  • Independence

    Independence
    Panama becomes independent from Spain. They then join the confederacy that consists of Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

  • Columbia

    Columbia
    Panama Becomes part of Columbia when the Gran Columbia Confederacy collapses.

  • Railway

    Railway
    Te building of the Panama Railway is the first transcontinental railway of the New World.

  • France

    France
    France makes a failed attempt to build a canal to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

  • Complete Independence

    Complete Independence
    Panama splits from Columbia on November 3rd. US buys control of the Panama Canal for nearly a Century.

  • Control over the Canal

    Control over the Canal
    Control over the Panama Canal passes from US to Panama control under the Torrijos-Carter Treaty on January 1st.