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Panama Canal

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  • 1821

    Panama becomes independent from Spain and passes to the jurisdiction of Colombia
  • 1835

    Colombia grants France a concession to build a Panama Canal.
  • 1880

    The construction of the French project begins. Eight years later the French declared bankruptcy. Twenty thousand workers
    They die in the failed attempt.
  • 1902

    U.S. Senate chooses Panama route instead of Nicaragua to build the canal.
  • 1903

    Panama separates from Colombia and then signs treaty with US
    To build the track.
  • 1904

    EEUU start the construction of the canal
  • 1964

    Violent riots on demand to raise the flag of Panama in a school in the Canal zone. Twenty-three Panamanians and four American soldiers die.
  • 1969

    President Arnulf Arias is deposed in a coup d'état; The military will control power for the next 21 years.
  • 1977

    U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian military leader Omar Torrijos sign the Treaties that establish the delivery of the channel in 1999.
  • 1979

    The Treaties enter into force and the channel zone as such ceases to exist.
  • 1981

    Torrijos dies in an aviation accident.
  • 1990

    Fernando Manfredo becomes the first Panamanian administrator of the channel, a position that until then had been only occupied by American citizens.
  • 2007

    The expansion works of the Panama Canal are started, with the creation of a third lane for larger container ships.
  • 2016

    The expanded canal capable of transporting Post-Panama ships of up to 14000 commercial containers is inaugurated.