Panama History Timeline
 

Panama History Timeline

Panama History Timeline
Important people, dates and events in Panama
The Cuna, Choco and Guaymi
The Spanish settlers
Panama splits from Colombia and becomes independent
Opening of the Panama Canal
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  1502Columbus sails on his fourth and last voyage to the New World (Honduras and Panama) 
     
  1502Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas visits Panama, which was home to Cuna, Choco, Guaymi and other indigenous peoples 
     
  1509Beginnings of slave trade to New World 
     
  1513September 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
 
     
  15141,500 Spanish settlers go to Panama 
     
  1519 -Panama becomes Spanish Vice-royalty of New Andalucia (later New Granada) 
     
  1522First slave revolt in America occurs in Hispaniola 
     
  1566Two million Indians die in South America of typhoid fever 
     
  1810Overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon 
     
  1821Panama becomes independent of Spain
Panama joins the confederacy of Gran Colombia which consists of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
 
     
  1830Panama becomes part of Colombia following the collapse of Gran Colombia 
     
  1850'sThe building of the Panama Railway which is the first Transcontinental railway of the New World crossing the isthmus from Colon to Panama City 
     
  1880sFrance makes a failed attempt to build a Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific 
     
  1903November 3 - Panama splits from Colombia and becomes fully independent
US buys rights to build Panama Canal and controls the waterway for nearly a century
 
     
  191515 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  
     
Panama History Timeline

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