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| 1811 |
| | | John Jacob Astor establishes Astoria, a settlement on the Pacific coast to develop his fur trade with China | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Damage to US trade by British orders in council prompts war (the War of 1812) between the two nations | |
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| 1814 |
| | | English engineer George Stephenson builds his first locomotive, the Blucher, and runs it at the Killingworth colliery | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Scottish engineer John McAdam builds the first macadamized road, in the Bristol region of southwest England | |
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| 1817 |
| | | An informal financial market on Wall Street is transformed into the New York Stock and Exchange Board | |
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| 1818 |
| | | The king of Prussia, Frederick William III, makes a bid for German leadership by turning his extensive lands into a custom-free zone (Zollverein) | |
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| 1819 |
| | | The United Kingdom formally adopts the gold standard for its currency, after using it on a de facto basis since 1717 | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Sante Fe Trail, from Missouri to New Mexico, is opened up by the US trader William Becknell | |
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