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| 1862 |
| | A joint French, Spanish and British force lands in Mexico and captures Veracruz, ostensibly to collect the interest on European debts | |
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| 1863 |
| | The French capture Mexico City and President Juarez flees to the north | |
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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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