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| 1800 |
| | | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government | |
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| 1805 |
| | | The first barge is pulled by a horse along Thomas Telford's cast-iron canal aqueduct, high in the air at Pont Cysyllte | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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| 1807 |
| | | To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The German-born US entrepreneur John Jacob Astor establishes the American Fur Company | |
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| 1810 |
| | | 16-year-old future millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt begins his career by establishing a ferry service to Manhattan | |
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