Erie Canal Completed: Wedding of the Waters in New York
Governor DeWitt Clinton poured Lake Erie water into New York Harbor in the "Wedding of the Waters" ceremony, marking the Erie Canal's completion after eight years of construction. The 363-mile waterway slashed shipping costs by 95 percent and transformed New York City into America's commercial capital.
November 4, 1825
201 years ago
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se inicia el XIII Concilio de Toledo.
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Paganino Doria's Genoese fleet annihilates Niccolò Pisani's entire Venetian armada at the Battle of Sapienza, seizing every ship in a single day. This crushing …
sacre de Charles VI comme roi de France.
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