1764-76. Great inventions in spinning industries.
1765. Stamp Act passed. 1765. Watt's steam engine.
1776. Declaration of 1776. Publication of "Wealth of Independence Nations."
1778. Death of Chatham.
1782. Rodney's victory.
1783. American Independence recognised.
1787. Constitution framed.
North West Territory ceded
by States to Congress and
slavery excluded from it.
1789. Constitution comes into 1789. Meeting of States General.
force.
1793. Eli Whitney invents cotton 1793. England at war with French
gin. Republic.
1794. Slave Trade abolished by
French Convention.