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| c. 1700 |
| | | Peter the Great sets up numerous schools and commercial enterprises to enable Russia to compete in Europe | |
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| 1710 |
| | | Machines are thrown out of the window of a Spitalfields factory, in an early protest against industrialization | |
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| 1717 |
| | | Scottish entrepreneur John Law establishes the Louisiana Company to develop the Mississippi valley for France | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in John Law's Louisiana Company rise spectacularly and then collapse, in what becomes known as the Mississippi Bubble | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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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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