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Panama becomes independent from Spain and passes to the jurisdiction of Colombia
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Colombia grants France a concession to build a Panama Canal.
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The construction of the French project begins. Eight years later the French declared bankruptcy. Twenty thousand workers
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U.S. Senate chooses Panama route instead of Nicaragua to build the canal.
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Panama separates from Colombia and then signs treaty with US
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EEUU start the construction of the canal
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Violent riots on demand to raise the flag of Panama in a school in the Canal zone. Twenty-three Panamanians and four American soldiers die.
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President Arnulf Arias is deposed in a coup d'état; The military will control power for the next 21 years.
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian military leader Omar Torrijos sign the Treaties that establish the delivery of the channel in 1999.
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The Treaties enter into force and the channel zone as such ceases to exist.
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Torrijos dies in an aviation accident.
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Fernando Manfredo becomes the first Panamanian administrator of the channel, a position that until then had been only occupied by American citizens.
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The expansion works of the Panama Canal are started, with the creation of a third lane for larger container ships.
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The expanded canal capable of transporting Post-Panama ships of up to 14000 commercial containers is inaugurated.