ECONOMIC HISTORY P1- TIMELINE

 Slik Road
 1348: Bubonic Plague

 1440: Printing Press was invented

 1470s: Invention of the matchlock rifle
 1487: Vasco de Gama sails around the Cape to India
 1492: Columbus discovers the Americas

 1500s: Conquest of the Americas and African coast by Spain and Portugal
 1517: Start of the Protestant Reformation

 1600: British, Dutch and French colonies in the Americas and trade colonies in Asia
 Mid 1600s: There was a dramatic increase in price of wood
 1660s: The Great Plague
 1600s: Price revolution
 1688: The Glorious Revolution

 1700: Half of British coal consumption used for heating

 1770s-1820s: The First Industrial Revolution; steam engine
 1750: Core regions of China and Japan were no less developed than West Europe
 1764: Creation of the Spinning Jenny
 1775: Steam Engine was invented
 1776: The Wealth of Nations
 1784: Henry Cort invented puddling and rolling

 1800: economic growth had made us wealth

 1800: Scientific approach accepted in western Europe
 1800: Britain produced most pig iron in the world
 1832: First Reform Act
 1867: Second and Third Reform Act
 1869: The Suez Canal opens
 1870s-1900s: The Second Industrial Revolution; electricity, combustion engine
 1870: Industrial Revolution spread through Europe bringing dramatic increase in productivity
 1870-1914: Economies became globally integrated
 1870-1914: The greatest migration wave in history
 1874: Universal Postal Union

 1918: The introduction of universal suffrage in the UK

 1970s- 1980s: Third Industrial Revolution; automation, computer
 1990s: Information Revolution; Internet, smart communication