Modern Era · Europe · Technology
1994
Channel Tunnel opens
May 6, 1994
Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand met in the middle and inaugurated the thirty-one-mile rail tunnel under the English Channel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world. Britain was physically connected to the continent for the first time since the Ice Age. Eurostar trains began running between London, Paris, and Brussels.
In context
Also in 1994 (5 other events on record)
- Rwandan genocide begins · Africa · War
- Mandela elected · Africa · Politics
- NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising · North America · Politics
- Republican Revolution · North America · Politics
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter · North America · Science
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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