- Europe
The Bismarckian empire and industrial rise
Under Bismarck's chancellorship the empire industrialised rapidly and introduced the world's first national social insurance, while maintaining a careful balance of power in Europe.
Era: The German Empire and the First World War
Sources: Germany · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
The Baku oil boom begins
Modern commercial oil extraction began in Baku in 1872; by 1900 the Abşeron field was the largest in the world, turning the city into a global energy capital.
Era: The Baku oil boom and the 1918 republic
Sources: Baku: location, history and economy · Encyclopædia Britannica, Abşeron Peninsula · Encyclopædia Britannica
- North America
Minor Keith and the banana railways
Minor C. Keith begins building railways and planting bananas, ventures that in 1899 merge into the United Fruit Company and reshape the Caribbean coast.
Era: Coffee, Bananas, and a Maturing Democracy
Sources: Minor C. Keith · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- North America
The coffee economy
Coffee becomes Guatemala's dominant export, financing railways and ports while binding the Maya to plantation labour.
Era: Coffee and the Liberal Dictatorships
Sources: Guatemala: History (Postcolonial period and after) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Economy & Trade in the 1870s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1870s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1871 to 1873. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1871
- Latest
- 1873
- North America
- 2
- Asia
- 1
- Europe
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.