
Suez Canal opens
The canal opened in 1869, linking Mediterranean and Red Sea shipping routes. Newspaper pages from 1869 to 1870 on a map and timeline.
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The New York Herald — 1869-01-03, page 11
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… sne will not be the last TO profit Dy the new markets which will be opened by the Suez canal 10 her commercial actlvity.n DRY TORTu0As. SltuatlOn O1 E0Ec JoAero0n-Inuueuces …
The New York Herald — 1869-01-04, page 6
… we to go in foisting the expenses of churches on the tax list ? Progress of the Suez Canal.?The Suez Canal is being pushed forward with an ac tivity scarcely excoeded by the rapidity with …
The New York Herald — 1869-01-15, page 4
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… Rypn0 d'Hdti0. The total amount OF earth TO be excavated for the formation OF the Suez canal amounts to I.e4I mil lions Of cubic feet From October 10 TO November I5 Of last …
New-York Tribune — 1869-01-18, page 2
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… greatly reduced both in England and 10 this country. Mayo, has been examining the suez Canal Jc thiuestt VIII be completed early in 1870 unless unforeseen misfortune Ships …
New-York Tribune — 1869-01-28, page 2
… ery of murder. That wound is Lis prin. cipal disability. The importance of the Suez Canal which is pow so near completion may be seen trom the followlog table of distances …
… : From St. Petersburg to Ceylon, the center of tho India trade, via the Suez Canal, the dis tance is 8,600 miles; from London to Ceylon, 7,300; from Marseilles, 5 …
… same, 11,500; New-York to Can ton via Good Hope, 16,400, via Cape Horn, 21,700 The Suez Canal, says a contributor ww The Washington Ohromscle, will not only be the ehortest …
The New York Herald — 1869-01-30, page 11
… neither is willing the other should enjoy. Tho question will yet arise whether the Suez canal and the Euphrates Valley Railway, or some other track shorter and more direct, …
… nations in an undue ascendancy over the Eastern transit by tbe way of the Isthmus of Suez Canal and tbe Euphrates Valley Railway. The question will yet be considered why should …
… what are to be the principles and regulations of the future admistraUon of the Suez Canal, of the Euphrates Valley Railway, of any future direct route from Joppa, via Jerusalem …
The New York Herald — 1869-02-15, page 4
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… reason for taking lively interest IN the progress towards competitions of the ! Suez Canal. | the 2sth December, says:- Lord Clarendon be srpccsd sdhcres 10 the old 81 npsss …
New-York Tribune — 1869-02-16, page 4
… pay in the long run: bat can the capital be raised to defray the first cost? The Suez Canal is mere child's play in comparison with a canal through Panama or Darien, A- canal …
New-York Tribune — 1869-02-25, page 2
… than his present one, Most of the stone required for the massive masonry of the Suez Canal has been made from the sand of the Desert. A deputation from the Tlinois Press …
New-York Tribune — 1869-03-20, page 3
… Mediterranean have been successfully admitted into the Bitter Lakes through the Suez Canal. tl et JAPAN. END OF THE CIVIL WAR, Yokonama, Feb. 13, via Loudon, March 10.—The …
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