- — Europe:
The Benelux customs convention
The exiled governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed a customs union in London on 5 September 1944, launching the Benelux that entered into force in 1948 and was deepened by the 1958 Economic Union.
Era: A Founder of the New Europe
Sources: The Benelux · The Luxembourg Government (gouvernement.lu), Benelux Union: About us · Benelux Union, Benelux: the first organisations and cooperative ventures in post-war Europe · CVCE (Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe), University of Luxembourg
- — Asia:
First oil exports
Kuwait began exporting crude oil in 1946, launching the rapid transformation of the pearling port into a wealthy oil state.
Era: Oil, Independence, and the Welfare State
Sources: Kuwait Oil Company · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kuwait: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
First oil exports begin
Commercial export of Dukhan crude began in 1949, starting the transformation of an economy battered by the collapse of the pearl trade in the 1930s.
Era: Oil, the End of Pearls, and Independence
Sources: Qatar: History (Persian Gulf, Oil, Gas) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Persian Gulf States: Country Studies (Qatar) · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division
Economy & Trade in the 1940s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 1940s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1944 to 1949. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1944
- Latest
- 1949
- Asia
- 2
- Europe
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.