8500 - 560 BC
Emergence of farmers and stockbreeders
Invention of the wheel
Appearance of the first towns
520 BC - 1474
Failure of the Gracchi's reforms
1474 - 1740
Beginning of the agricultural revolution in Europe
1740 - 1945
Promulgation of the General Enclosure Act by the British Parliament
Irish potato famine
Abolition of the Corn Laws and beginning of a period of free trade
Independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi
The first Five-Year Plan in the USSR
