The Grand Tour · event 9 of 10

1869

The Suez Canal opens. The canal cuts the sea route from Europe to Asia by thousands of miles. In the same year the first American transcontinental railroad is completed and Cook runs his first Nile cruise. Long-distance travel becomes a schedule rather than an expedition.

The The Grand Tour era

  1. 1600s
  2. 1719
  3. 1750s
  4. 1786
  5. 1830
  6. 1836
  7. 5 July 1841
  8. 1855
  9. 1869
  10. 1888

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