The Corinth Canal is an artificial waterway cut through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece, linking the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf. The idea is ancient: the tyrant Periander considered a canal around 600 BCE and the Roman emperor Nero started digging in the 1st century CE, but both attempts were abandoned. The present canal, about six kilometers long, was built in 1881-1893 by a Hungarian-led company after earlier plans by the engineers Istvan Türr and Béla Gerster. It saves ships a voyage of several hundred kilometers around the Peloponnese, but its narrow width makes it unsuitable for modern large vessels. Today it is used chiefly by tourist boats and small craft.
Before and after
- 6 November 1892Discovery of Comet Holmes
- 4 December 1892Birth of Francisco Franco
- 9 December 1892Founding of Newcastle United F.C.
- 17 December 1892Launch of Vogue
- 1893Construction of Corinth Canal
- 1893Founding of VfB Stuttgart
- from 1893 to 1934Rise of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
- 12 January 1893Birth of Hermann Göring
- 17 January 1893Death of Rutherford B. Hayes
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