Studied by 2 people
1662
Settlement act
1571
Royal exchange established
1657
New Roads (London to Bristol route)
1663
turnpike act
1675
first road atlas of England and Wales
1550
London Population 120 000
1700
London population 500 000
1651
interest rates drop to 6%
1650
first coffee house opened in Oxford
1666
great fire of London
1638
act passed to insure citizens and business owners (destroyed when parliament was recalled)
1667
act passed to rebuild London referencing insurance claims
1681
Fire office established (specialist company)
1640
Charles I seizes funds in Royal mint
1670s
Charles II indebted to Goldsmith bankers
1672
Charles II confiscates debts
1688
William repayed previously confiscated debts
1640
cloth accounted for 92% of exports out of London
1660s
value of textile exports increased to £1.5 million
1681
French Huguenots immigrate to England
1607
Virginia founded
1638
1.6million pounds of tobacco imported from America
1630s
over 20 000 puritans arrived in America
1612
British occupation of Bermuda
1660
Jamaica seized
1670
slave population in Jamaica at 7000
1662
4000 settlers in Jamaica
1670
treaty of Madrid (2)
1651
first Navigation act
1652
First Anglo-Dutch war
1660
second navigation act
1665-67
Second Anglo-Dutch war
1672-74
Third Anglo-Dutch war
1688
England and Holland united by William
1600
24 London merchants establish the East India company
1620s
East India trading posts established
1665
Charles returns charter to East India company + £740 000
1672
East India company permitted to mint coins in India
1620s
East India Company begin using slave trade
1600s
Transatlantic slave trade developed before this but continues developing throughout the century
1640
no slaves in the English colonies
1700
nearly 120 000 slaves in Caribbean colonies
1672
Royal African company established
1654
Treaty of Westminster
1672
Treaty of Westminster (2)
1670
Treaty of Dover
1652
Commonwealth attempted to regulate finance
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