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| 1621 |
| | | The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast | |
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| 1664 |
| | | Colbert founds East India and West India companies to ensure a supply of raw materials for France's factories | |
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| 1750 |
| | | Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London | |
|  | Strawberry Hill admission ticket
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
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| 1761 |
| | | John Harrison's fourth chronometer is only five seconds out at the end of a test journey from England to Jamaica | |
|  | Harrison's 1st Marine Timekeeper
National Maritime Museum
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| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1774 |
| | | In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence | |
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