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| 1832 |
| | | The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic | |
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| 1850 |
| | | US Secretary of State John Clayton and British ambassador Henry Bulwer come to an agreement about the building of a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Ferdinand de Lesseps is granted the concession to construct a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Thousands of distinguished guests assemble at Port Said for the opening of the Suez Canal | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Benjamin Disraeli buys for Britain a controlling share in the Suez Canal, with money borrowed from Lionel Nathan de Rothschild | |
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| 1879 |
| | | A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress | |
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| 1893 |
| | | De Lesseps, on trial for his management of the Panama Canal company, is sentenced to five years in prison | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I | |
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