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Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas visits Panama, which was home to Cuna, Choco, Guaymi and other indigenous peoples
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Columbus sails on his fourth and last voyage to the New World (Honduras and Panama)
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Beginnings of slave trade to New World
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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 -
1,500 Spanish settlers go to Panama
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Panama becomes Spanish Vice-royalty of New Andalucia.
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Panama becomes independent of Spain
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Panama becomes part of Colombia following the collapse of Gran Colombia.
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France makes a failed attempt to build a Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Panama splits from Colombia and becomes fully independent
US buys rights to build Panama Canal and controls the waterway for nearly a century -
Panama Canal a massive achievement - the Panama Canal is 65 km ( 40 miles ) in length
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Panama ceases to be a US protectorate.
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Panama Al Brown was the first Panama boxer with a world championship title.
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Control of the canal passes from USA to Panama by the Torrijos-Carter treaty.
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Mariana Rivera is the best pitcher of Panama (C) closer and the 2 in all history with 572 (S) saves and can get to first with 601 of Trevor Hoffman that already retire.
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Panama canal, Staduim Juan Amoresena, Gatun Lake.
