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Panama becomes Spanish Vice-royalty of New Andalucia(now New Grenada).
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Panama becomes independent from Spain, joins confederacy of Gran Columbia.
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Panama agrees to let the US build a railroad across the isthmus.
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France attempts to build canal to link Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Financial difficulties and tropical diseases stop them.
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Panama gives US rights to build canal and is given control of canal zone. -
The US finishes the Panama Canal joining the Atlantic to the Pacific. -
General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the National Guard Chief, overthrows the president and creates dictatorship.
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US agrees to transfer the canal to Panama.
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Right after the revolution, Torrijos is killed in a plane crash -
Mireya Moscoso become the first woman president of Panama.