| A | B |
|---|
| 1650-1790 | Growth of Atlantic economy |
| 1650-1850 | Agricultural improvement and revolution |
| 1651-1663 | British Navigation Acts |
| 1700-1790 | Height of Atlantic slave trade |
| 1701-1713 | War of the Spanish Succession |
| 1701-1763 | Mercantilist wars of empire |
| 1740-1748 | War of Spanish Succession |
| 1750-1790 | Rise of economic liberalism |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Years’ War |
| 1776 | Smith, Wealth of Nations, Declaration of the United States |
| 1765 | Hargreaves invents spinning jenny |
| 1769 | Watt creates modern steam engine |
| 1780-1851 | Population boom in England |
| 1780-1830 | Industrial Revolution |
| 1810 | Strike of Manchester cotton spinners |
| 1833 | Factory Act |
| 1842 | Mines Act |
| 1844 | Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England |
| 1851 | Great Exhibition held at Crystal Palace |
