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In the early eighteenth century the cattle trade expand from around 30,000 head a year in 1700, to perhaps 80,000 by the middle of the century. [7] Coal mining also continued to expand, rising from around 225,000 tons a year in the late seventeenth century to at least 700,000 tons by 1750. [15]
The term Scottish Agricultural Revolution was used in the early 20th century primarily to refer to the period of most dramatic change in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century. More recently historians have become aware of a longer processes, with change beginning in the late 17th century and continuing into the mid-19th ...
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ... Pages in category "Trading companies established in the 17th century" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
From the sixteenth century, the central government became increasingly involved in local affairs. The feud was limited and regulated, local taxation became much more intrusive and from 1607 regular, local commissions of Justices of the Peace on the English model were established to deal with petty crimes and infractions. [168]
In the beginning of the European colonial era, trade companies such as the East India Company were the most common method used to settle new land. [1] That changed after Maryland's Royal Grant in 1632, when King Charles I granted George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, proprietary rights to an area east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived there.
Note that per consensus individual year categories should not be created for companies before the 19th century or so - use a century category for the type of company, a decade category for organisations established in the ????s, and a simple "???? establishments" year category.
Economic conditions were generally favourable from 1660 to 1688, as land owners promoted better tillage and cattle-raising. [49] By the end of the century the drovers roads , stretching down from the Highlands through south-west Scotland to north-east England, had become firmly established as routes for Highland cattle to reach English markets ...
The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the hundred-year period ending in 1770, and ...