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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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| 1956 |
| | Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez canal and wins Soviet finance for his Aswan dam | |
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| 1956 |
| | Nasser disregards a French and British ultimatum to withdraw from the Suez canal | |
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| 1956 |
| | The British and French bomb Egyptian airfields, and land troops near Port Said and the Suez canal | |
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