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1502 |
Columbus sails on his fourth
and last voyage to the New World (Honduras and
Panama) |
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1502 |
Spanish explorer Rodrigo de
Bastidas visits Panama, which was home to Cuna,
Choco, Guaymi and other indigenous peoples
|
|
1509 |
Beginnings of slave trade to
New World |
|
1513 |
September 25: Vasco Nunez de
Balboa, Spanish explorer, crossed the Isthmus of
Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain
He was named governor of Panama and the Pacific by
King Ferdinand
|
|
1514 |
1,500 Spanish settlers go to
Panama |
|
1519 - |
Panama becomes Spanish
Vice-royalty of New Andalucia (later New Granada) |
|
1522 |
First slave revolt in America
occurs in Hispaniola |
|
1566 |
Two million Indians die in
South America of typhoid fever |
|
1810 |
Overthrow of the king of Spain
by Napoleon |
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1821 |
Panama becomes independent of
Spain Panama joins
the confederacy of Gran Colombia which consists of
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
|
|
1830 |
Panama becomes part of
Colombia following the collapse of Gran Colombia |
|
1850's |
The building of the Panama
Railway which is the first Transcontinental railway
of the New World crossing the isthmus from Colon to
Panama City
|
|
1880s |
France makes a failed attempt
to build a Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific |
|
1903 |
November 3 - Panama splits
from Colombia and becomes fully independent
US buys rights to build Panama
Canal and controls the waterway for nearly a century
|
|
1915 |
15 August Official opening of
the Panama Canal a massive achievement - the Panama
Canal is 65 km ( 40 miles ) in length
|
|
1939 - |
Panama ceases to be a US
protectorate |
|
2000: |
1 January Control of the canal
passes from USA to Panama by the Torrijos-Carter
treaty |
