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    The document provides a timeline of major global events from the 15th century to the post-World War 2 period that helped connect the world and establish a global economic system. Key developments include the expansion of trade networks like the Silk Road in the 15th century, famines and population movements in Europe and Ireland in the 19th century, the repeal of the Corn Laws and growth of global agriculture and trade in the late 19th century, the First and Second World Wars, the Great Depression, and the establishment of Bretton Woods institutions like the IMF and World Bank in the mid-20th century to manage the global economic system.

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    The document provides a timeline of major global events from the 15th century to the post-World War 2 period that helped connect the world and establish a global economic system. Key developments include the expansion of trade networks like the Silk Road in the 15th century, famines and population movements in Europe and Ireland in the 19th century, the repeal of the Corn Laws and growth of global agriculture and trade in the late 19th century, the First and Second World Wars, the Great Depression, and the establishment of Bretton Woods institutions like the IMF and World Bank in the mid-20th century to manage the global economic system.

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    THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD TIMELINE

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    The document provides a timeline of major global events from the 15th century to the post-World War 2 period that helped connect the world and establish a global economic system. Key developments include the expansion of trade networks like the Silk Road in the 15th century, famines and population movements in Europe and Ireland in the 19th century, the repeal of the Corn Laws and growth of global agriculture and trade in the late 19th century, the First and Second World Wars, the Great Depression, and the establishment of Bretton Woods institutions like the IMF and World Bank in the mid-20th century to manage the global economic system.

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    THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD

    TIMELINE

    Dates Happenings

    15th century Silk routes linked the world

    1845-1849 Great Irish Potato Famine

    Slaves for sale, a prospective buyer carefully inspecting slaves lined up before the
    1851
    auction

    1815-1846 Corn Laws

    1839 Triumph for the The Anti-Corn Law League, founded in Manchester

    26 June 1846 Corn Laws were finally repealed

    By 1890 Global agricultural economy

    1869 Emigrant ship leaving for the US, by M.W.Ridley

    1874 Irish emigrants waiting to board the ship, by Michael Fitzgerald.

    1820-1914 World trade is estimated to have multiplied 25 to 40 times.

    1851 The Smithfield Club Cattle Show, Illustrated London News

    1878 Export of meat was possible only after ships were refrigerated

    1885 The European powers met in Berlin to complete the carving up of Africa between them
    Dates Happenings

    1890’s Spread of Rinderpest or Cattle plague.

    1887 Transport to the Transvaal gold mines, the graphic

    Late 1880’s Rinderpest arrived in Africa

    1892 Rinderpest moved like a forest fire and reached Africa’s Atlantic coast

    1897 Rinderpest reaches the Cape

    India’s Nationalist Leaders began opposing the system of indentured labour migration as
    1900’s
    cruel and abusive.

    1914-1918 First World War (fought between Allies and Central Powers)

    August 1914 First World War began

    1921 Huge job losses – one in every five British workers were out of work

    Mass Production in the US economy (Henry Ford, a well-known pioneer of mass


    1920’s
    production of cars)

    January 1914 Ford doubled the daily wages to $5

    1919-1929 Car Production in the US rose from 2 million in 1919 to more than 5 million in 1929

    1923 The US resumed exporting capital and become the largest overseas lender.

    1929-mid1930’s Great Depression


    Dates Happenings

    1928 US overseas loan reached over $1 billion in the first half of 1928

    By 1933 Over 4,000 banks had closed

    Between 1929-
    About 110,000 companies had collapsed.
    1932

    1935 A modest economic recovery was underway in most industrial countries

    Between 1928-
    Due to the crash in international prices, the prices in India fell by 50%
    1934

    Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement at the height of the
    1931
    depression

    1934-1945 Second World War (between Axis powers and Allies)

    German forces attack Russia (Hitler’s attempt to invade Russia was a turning point in the
    July 1941
    war)

    July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference

    1947 IMF(International Monetary Fund) and WB (World Bank) began financial operations

    Between 1950-
    World trade grew annually
    1970

    Bretton Woods institutions began to shift their attention more towards developing
    Late 1950s
    countries
    Dates Happenings

    Group of 77 (G-77) was established (to demand a new international economic order
    15 June1964
    [NIEO])

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