11/30/1854 AD initiated
The first act of concession of land for the Suez Canal was granted, to Ferdinand de Lesseps.
The British opposed a Frenchman building the canal and persuaded the Ottoman Empire to deny its permission for two years.
Lesseps had corresponded at least once with the Société d'Études du Canal de Suez during the reign of Abbas I in Egypt, but Abbas had closed off most of Egypt to foreign influence.
Upon Abbas' assassination in 1854, Lesseps, made inquiries with a former, if short-term, acquaintance and successor in Egypt, Sa'id Pasha. On 7 November 1854 he landed at Alexandria; on the 30th of the same month Said Pasha signed the concession authorizing him to build the Suez Canal.
Subjects Who or What initiated?
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Ferdinand de Lesseps French diplomat and late... -
Sa'id of Egypt Wāli of Egypt and...
Objects To Whom or What was initiated?
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Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanātu s-Suways) An artificial sea-level ...
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