October 14 (Baba), November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal, completed in navigable. Suez Canal re-opened


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in 1869 11, 17, communication between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, the Suez Canal after a decade more than the painstaking construction finally completed in navigable for the construction of this canal, the Egyptian people to pay the cost of 1.2 million lives. Canal 172.5 km in length, 180-200 meters wide and 12-15 meters deep, the canal navigable, from Europe to the Indian Ocean, the Pacific voyage shortened nine thousand kilometers.