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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1767 |
| | | The British Chancellor, Charles Townshend, passes a series of acts taxing all glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the American colonies | |
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| 1771 |
| | | Richard Arkwright pioneers the factory environment with his cotton mill at Cromford in Derbyshire | |
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| 1773 |
| | | The London brokers who meet to do business in Jonathan's coffee house decide to call themselves the Stock Exchange | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Scottish economist Adam Smith analyzes the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations | |
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| 1781 |
| | | The Bank of North America is established by the Continental Congress to lend money to the fledgling Revolutionary government | |
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Under the guidance of Alexander Hamilton the First Bank of the United States is established in Philadelphia | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska | |
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