25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said

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The canal was designed as a sea-level waterway stretching approximately 120 miles across the Isthmus of Suez, and its completion in 1869, ten years after work began, significantly reduced travel time between Europe and ...

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