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27 matches to Suez Canal
Lesseps, Ferdinand. 1805-94. French engineer. Suez Canal 1869. Corinth Canal. Designed and began Panama Canal 1881-89.
Suez Canal. 1850BC First. 600BC Necho II. 500BC Darius I. 250BC Ptolemy II. 100 Trajan. 1859-69 Built by Lesseps. 1875 Britain buys 44%. 1956 Egypt Nationalizes.
Trajan. 53-117. Spanish Roman Emperor 98-. First bridge across Danube. Column 106. Aqueduct 109. Extended Suez Canal.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.
Eden, Anthony. 1897-1977. British Prime Minister 55-7. Resigned over Suez Crisis.
Nasser, Abdel. 1918-70. Egypt. Led coup vs Farouk 1952. Prime Minister 1954-6, president 1956-8. UAR president 1958-. Modernized. Suez Crisis.
Pearson, Lester. 1897-1972. Canadian Prime Minister 1963-8. UN mediator in Palestine 1948, Suez 1956.
Suez Crisis. 1956. Denied US finance for Aswan Dam, Egypt nationalizes canal. Israel invades Sinai. France, Britain try to retake canal. UN occupies Canal Zone.
Bridgewater Canal. 1761. Brindley. First British canal. Brought coal to Manchester stimulating industrialization.
Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.
Canaletto. 1697-1768. Venetian painter of Venice scenes.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. 1850-1901. US-British agree not to colonize Central America. Panama Canal.
Corinth Canal. 1882-93.
Goethals, George. 1858-1928. US engineer. Built Panama Canal.
Grand Canal. 4C BC-1400. China. World’s longest, 1,000 miles.
Guadalcanal. 1942-3. US drive Japanese from Solomon Is.
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. 1903. Established Panama Canal Zone.
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. 1901. Br-US re Panama Canal.
Lowell, Percival. 1855-1916. US astronomer. Predicted Pluto 1905 (erroneously). PL of Pluto name after him. Studied Mars’ “canals” 1906. Schiaparelli.
Merritt, William. 1793-1862. Upper Canada trade promoter. Welland Canal 1824-9.
Panama. 1501 Bastidas discovers. 1510 Spanish settle. 1821 Gran Colombia. 1930 Colombia. 1903 US aided revolt, Independence. 1903-79 US administered Canal Zone. 1989 US invasion restores elected government.
Panama Canal. 1881-1889. Begun by Lesseps- bankrupt. Completed by US 1904-14. Reed.
Reed, Walter. 1851-1902. Discovered, 1900, connection between Yellow Fever and mosquito, control of which allowed the Panama Canal to be built.
Roosevelt, Theodore. 1858-1919. US president 1901-9 after McKinley assassination. Founded Bull Moose Party 1912. Led Rough Riders. Panama Canal Zone.
Schiaparelli, Giovanni. 1835-1910. Italian ’discoverer’ of non-existent canals on Mars.