ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Mercantilism </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline Absolutism </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlabs.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlenl.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline Enlightenment </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on April 20th 2003, last revised on September 5th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline Mercantilism </B></font><BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/meh/tlmerc.html </i></font></B> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1598-1611 <BR> 1600 <BR> 1602 <BR> 1612-1636 <BR><BR> 1618 <BR> 1621 <BR> 1628 <BR> 1630 <BR> 1634-1637 <BR> 1637 <BR> 1651 <BR> 1653-1661 <BR> 1654 <BR><BR> 1655 <BR> 1655-1659 <BR> 1661 <BR><BR> 1661 <BR><BR> 1662-1681 <BR> 1674 <BR> 1682 <BR><BR> 1683 <BR> 1685 <BR> 1694 <BR> 1694 <BR> 1697 <BR> 1707 <BR><BR> 1710 <BR><BR> 1711 <BR> 1715 <BR> 1715 <BR> 1716 <BR> 1717 <BR> 1718 <BR> 1720 <BR> 1720 <BR> 1721 <BR> 1722 <BR><BR> 1724 <BR> 1731 <BR> 1741 <BR> 1747-1773 <BR> 1749 <BR><BR> 1752 <BR><BR> 1757 <BR> 1758 <BR> 1761-1764 <BR><BR> 1774-1777 <BR> 1776 <BR><BR> 1776 <BR> 1777-1781 <BR> 1798 <BR> 1799 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Maximilien de Bethune (Sully) Controleur General (Minister of Finances) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">England</A> : East India Company founded (E.I.C.), monopoly for (English) India trade <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : United East India Company (<A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/voc.html">V.O.C.</A>) founded, monopoly for (Dutch) India trade <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : Land Reclamation in Holland by Drainage of Lakes : Beemster 1612, Purmer 1622, <BR> Wormer 1632, Schermer 1632 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xdenmark.html">DK</A> : Danish East India Company acquired Frederiksnagar (Bengal), in 1620 Tranquebar (India) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : West India Company (<A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">W.I.C.</A>) founded, monopoly for (Dutch) America trade <BR> Piet Heyn, on the account of the <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">W.I.C.</A>, takes the Spanish Silver Fleet <BR> A large W.I.C. fleet takes <A HREF = "../../region/samerica/xbrazil.html">Brazil</A>'s north east - Sugar Plantation Country <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : Tulipomania at Amsterdam Stock Exchange <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> establishes her first colony, New Sweden (Delaware) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">England</A> : Navigation Act passed <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Nicolas Fouquet Controleur General (Minister of Finances) <BR> The <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">W.I.C.</A> surrenders <A HREF = "../../region/samerica/xbrazil.html">Brazil</A> to the Portuguese; emigration of Portuguese Jews to the <BR> Caribbean; they establish a Sugar Industry there <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/caribbean/xjamaica.html">Jamaica</A> conquered from Spanish by an English fleet under Sir William Penn <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> : New Sweden conquered by <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">W.I.C.</A>.; Swed. colony on Gold Coast 1659 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Jean-Baptiste Colbert appointed Controleur General (Minister of Finances); <BR> France's state debt 60 million livres <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">England</A> : King Charles II. marries Constance of Braganca (Dynasty of Portugal), <BR> receives Bombay as dowry; this possession marks real beginning of E.I.C. <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Canal du Midi constructed; connects Mediterranean, Bay of Biscay <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : W.I.C. bankrupt, reorganized as <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">G.W.I.C.</A> <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xprussia.html">Brandenburg</A> : Brandenburg Africa Company founded, establishes Fort at <BR> Gross-Friedrichsburg on Gold Coast (1683); sold to G.W.I.C. in 1720 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Death of Colbert; France's state debt 10 million livres <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Revocation of Edict of Nantes causes 10,000s of Protestants to flee <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Attempt to establish National Bank failed <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">England</A> : Bank of England founded <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/spain/xspain.html">Spain</A> cedes <A HREF = "../../region/caribbean/xhaiti.html">St. Domingue</A> (Haiti) to France (held by the latter since 1659) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">Scotland</A> : Parliament passes Act of Union, dissolves itself, creates <BR> United Kingdom of Great Britain (UK) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xsaxony.html">Saxony</A> : In Meissen, the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture was founded; production <BR> began in 1713 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : British Govt. debt at 11 million pounds <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Death of Louis XIV.; state debt 3,000 million livres <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Coffee Plantations established in <A HREF = "../../region/caribbean/xhaiti.html">St. Domingue</A> (Haiti) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : John Law establishes Banque Generale de France <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Compagnie d"Occident established (monopoly Louisiana trade) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Compagnie des Indes established by merger of earlier companies <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Banque Generale de France failed (Louisiana Wind Trade); John Law fled France <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Isaac Gervaise publishes "The System or Theory of the Trade of the World" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : At London Stock Exchange, South Sea Trading Co. went bust (South Sea Bubble) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> : Product Decree (Swed. version of Navigation Act) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xbelgium.html">Austrian Netherlands</A> : East India Company established with seat at Oostende; charter <BR> revoked in 1731 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> : (Sw.) East India Company founded <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> : Univ. of Uppsala first to employ Professor of Economics, Anders Bergh <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xprussia.html">Prussia</A> : Regulation of Oder River in Oderbruch Marsh; new farmland gained <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> : Tabellverket established, later reorganized as Sweden's Statistical Bureau, <BR> the world's first <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xbelgium.html">Austrian Netherlands</A> : Canal Rupel-Leuven constructed, connecting Antwerp and <BR> Oostende, circumventing the Dutch blockade of Antwerp <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Giacomo Girolamo Casanova establishes State Lottery <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Francois Quesnay publishes "Tableau Economique" <BR> D : J.H.G. von Justi publishes "Collected Political and Financial Works on Important Topics <BR> of Government, War, Administration and Sciences"; creates Cameralism <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Jacques Turgot Controleur General (Minister of Finances) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Louis XVI. founded the Loterie Royale, banned other lotteries; first country <BR> to make lottery state monopoly <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : Adam Smith publishes "Wealth of Nations" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Jacques Necker Controleur General Minister of Finances) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/voc.html">V.O.C.</A> bankrupt, assets and debts taken over by Batavian Republic <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/vwc.html">G.W.I.C.</A> bankrupt, assets and debts taken over by Batavian Republic <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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