Economics Timeline Outline

Costs of Professional Writing Measured by the Normal Length of a Line in a Verse of Virgil
(303 CE)

De rebus bellicis, Including Images of War Machines
(Circa 337 CE – 378 CE)

At the Beginning of the Dark Ages Production of New Manuscripts Essentially Ceased
(Circa 400 CE – 600)

"A Public Popularity for Books Never Existed in Antiquity"
(Circa 550)

Traversing the Mediterranean in Twenty Days
(700)

The First Printing Encountered by European Travelers
(994)

More than One Million Charters Survive from the Period of Norman Rule in England
(1066 – 1307)

First Recorded Issue of Paper Money in the Mongol Empire
(1224 – 1227)

Possibly the First Joint-Stock Company
(Circa 1250)

The Earliest Use of Paper Money in Japan
(1319 – 1327)

The Relative Costs of the Components of Medieval Manuscripts
(1374 – 1375)

The Best Medium for Long Term Information Storage
(1494)

The First Great General Work on Mathematics
(November 10 – November 20, 1494)

The First Large-Scale Production-Line
(Circa 1525)

Invention of the Stocking Frame Knitting Machine
(1589)

The Beginning of the Collection of Medical Statistics
(1592 – 1593)

Demography & Vital Statistics
(1662)

Argument for Forest Management
(1664)

The World's Oldest Auction House
(1674)

Political Arithmetick
(1690)

The Breslau Tables
(1693)

There Are 150 Paper Mills in England
(1699)

The Foundation of Occupational Medicine and Ergonomics
(1700)

Lombe's Silk Throwing Mill: The First Factory
(1718 – 1721)

Theory of Annuities
(1725)

Proving the Need for a Healthy and Industrious Population
(1742)

The First Correct Life Tables
(1746 – 1760)

Probably the Most-Widely Read English Cookery Book of the 18th Century
(1747)

Mechanical and Industrial Arts of 18th Century France
(1749 – 1814)

Printing about 200 Sheets per Hour
(Circa 1750)

"The First Treatise on Economics" (Jevons)
(1755)

Candide, ou l'Optimism
(1759)

Hargreaves Invents the Spinning Jenny
(1764)

Arkwright Patents his Spinning Machine
(1769 – 1775)

The Age of "Laissez-Faire"
(1776)

Technology Leading to Disruptive Economic and Social Change
(1779)

Foundation of Statistical Graphics: the Line Chart and Bar Chart
(1785 – 1786)

The First Automated Flour Mill
(Circa 1785)

"The Magna Carta of Industrial America"
(December 5, 1791)

Mathematical Tables Calculated by Hairdressers Unemployed after the French Revolution
(1793 – 1801)

The First Comprehensive Bibliography of Technology
(1795)

Malthus on Population
(1798)

The First Official National Industrial Exposition
(1798)

The Industrial Revolution Advances
(Circa 1800)

The First Census of England, Scotland and Wales
(1801)

Invention of the Pie Chart
(1801)

The Jacquard Loom Uses Punched Cards to Store Patterns
(1803)

Fourdrinier Machines for Paper Manufacture
(1804 – 1807)

The Ludd Riots
(November 11, 1811 – January 12, 1813)

The Distribution of Wealth, Including How it Applies to the Value of Rare Books
(1817)

Foundation of the Birth Control Movement
(1822)

The First Publically Subscribed Passenger Railroad
(September 27, 1825)

Brownian Motion
(1828)

The Beginning of Operations Research
(1832)

The Penny Post: Perhaps the Greatest Single Stimulus to Written Communication
(1837 – 1840)

Exposition of Bubbles
(1841)

The First Annotated Bibliography of the History of Economics
(1845)

Beginning of the American Conservation Movement
(1846)

The Communist Manifesto
(February 21, 1848)

100,000 Tons of Paper, Only 4% Made by Hand
(1860)

Origins of the Internal Revenue Service
(July 1, 1861 – 1862)

The Role of Women as Typesetters in the French Printing Industry
(1865 – 1867)

Das Kapital
(September 14, 1867)

British Telegraph is Nationalized
(1870)

Requring Universal Education of Children Between the Ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales
(1870)

Traveler's Cheques
(1874)

The Principia of Thermodynamics
(1874 – 1878)

The First National Thematic Atlas
(1874)

First Use of the Term "Credit Card"
(1887)

77 Windmill Factories Employ 1,100 Workers in the U.S.
(1889)

The First Production Automobiles
(1893 – 1894)

Foundation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
(May 26, 1896)

The First Automobile Assembly Line
(August 21, 1897 – 1901)

Henry Ford Sponsors Improvements in the Automotive Assembly Line
(1908 – December 1, 1913)

The First Suburban Shopping Center Designed for Shoppers Arriving by Automobile
(1923)

The Minimax Theorem
(1928)

Hundreds of Thousands of Wind Turbines Power Farms in the U.S.
(Circa 1930 – 1945)

The First Publications on Statistical Quality Control in Manufacturing
(April 1930 – 1939)

"Modern Times"
(1936)

The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
(1944)

The First Credit Card
(February 1950)

The Information Economy
(1962)

The Fractal Geometry of Nature
(1975 – 1982)

The Declining Role of Print in Total Information Flow
(1983)

Australia Issues the First Polymer Banknote ($10)
(January 1988)

Selling Wine without Bottles
(March 1994)

The Beginning of the "Dot-Com Bubble"
(August 9, 1995)

Where's George?
(December 23, 1998)

Climax of the Dot-Com Bubble
(March 10, 2000)

"Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction"?
(December 14 – December 21, 2000)

"The Long Tail"
(October 2004)

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press: A 3 Year Experiment in the United States
(July 13, 2006 – September 30, 2010)

"Anshe Chung Becomes First Virtual World Millionaire"
(November 26, 2006)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

Apple Eliminates Anticopying Restrictions from iTunes
(January 6, 2009)

Kickstarter.com is Launched
(April 28, 2009)

Size of the Online Book Market in the U.S.
(June 1, 2009)

"Revenue at Craigslist is Said to Top $100,000,000"
(June 9, 2009)

Employment in the Field of Simulation
(June 14, 2009)

General Statistics on the U.S. Book Publishing Industry
(May 6, 2010)

Seventy Online Databases that "Define Our Planet"
(December 3, 2010)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Defeats Humans at Jeopardy!
(February 14 – February 16, 2011)

The Impact of Automation on Legal Research
(March 4, 2011)

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Automation on Jobs
(March 6, 2011)

McKinsey Report on the Impact of the Internet on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity
(May 2011)

Technological Unemployment: Are Robots Replacing Workers?
(January 23, 2012 – January 13, 2013)

"Information Technology Dividends Outpace All Others"
(January 11, 2013)