Suez Canal opens
1869 · Event
Ferdinand de Lesseps's canal links Mediterranean and Red Sea; transforms global shipping and British strategic position.
On these timelines: North Africa, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined), France
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- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Algerian War of Independence (1954)
- Third Punic War / Destruction of Carthage (149 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- French conquest of Algeria (1830)
- Fatimid Caliphate (909)
Around 1869
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)