| 1600–1850 | 1756–1763 |
| – Growth in agriculture, pioneered by the Dutch Republic and England | – Seven Years’ War |
| 1651–1663 | 1760–1815 |
| – British Navigation Acts | – Height of parliamentary enclosure in England |
| 1652–1674 | 1763 |
| – Anglo-Dutch wars | – Treaty of Paris; France cedes its possessions in India and North America |
| 1700–1790 | 1770 |
| – Height of Atlantic slave trade; expansion of rural industry in Europe | – James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for England |
| 1701–1763 | 1776 |
| – British and French mercantilist wars of empire | – Adam Smith publishes An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
| 1720–1722 | 1805 |
| – Last outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe | – British takeover of India complete |
| 1720–1789 | 1807 |
| – Growth of European population | – British slave trade abolished |