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Events relating to panama
Francisco Pizarro sails from Panama to attempt the conquest of Peru
Scotland makes a disastrous attempt to establish a colony in Darien, on the isthmus of Panama
Bolívar attempts to create a pan-American gathering in the Congress of Panama
Panama becomes part of the newly independent rebublic of Colombia
The Panama Railroad company completes a line between the Atlantic and the Pacific, providing America's first transcontinental link
A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama
The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress
De Lesseps, on trial for his management of the Panama Canal company, is sentenced to five years in prison
A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic
The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama
The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal
The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I
The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America
Anastasio Somoza is assassinated on a visit to Panama, but the dictatorship of Nicaragua remains in his family
A treaty provides for the gradual transfer of the Canal Zone from US to Panamanian control
Manuel Noriega wins control of the National Guard in Panama on his way to achieving absolute power
President Bush sends 24,000 US troops to occupy Panama City and seize Manuel Noriega
Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, is captured by US troops and taken to Miami on drug trafficking charges
Manuel Noriega, ex-president of Panama, is convicted in a US court of drug trafficking
The US relinquishes sovereignty over the canal zone to Panama on the last day of the century, as agreed in the 1977 treaty