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| 1864 |
| | | The French arrange for the coronation of the Austrian archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico, leaving the emperor Maximilian in a dangerous situation | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, and two of his generals are shot after being surrounded and captured at Querétaro | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet at Promontory Summit in Utah, completing the first transcontinental line | |
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| 1879 |
| | | A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union) | |
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| 1903 |
| | | A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama | |
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