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27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines

  • 27th March 2022
  • Tagged as: Beeching Cuts, Britain, British Rail, Economics, Politics, Railway, Railways, Richard Beeching, Transport

Not all the recommendations were implemented, but the subsequent Beeching Cuts resulted in the closure of 2,128 stations, thousands of miles of track, and the loss of up to 70,000 jobs.

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25th March 1957: Treaty of Rome signed, which laid the foundations for the European Economic Community

  • 25th March 2022
  • Tagged as: Agreement, Economics, Economy, Europe, European Union, Italy, Politics, Rome, Treaty

The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European Union.

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10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble

  • 10th March 2022
  • Tagged as: Computing, Economics, Economy, Finance, Investment, Money, NASDAQ, Shares, Stock Market, Technology

The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.

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9th January 1799: Modern income tax introduced to pay for the French Revolutionary Wars

  • 9th January 2022
  • Tagged as: Britain, Economics, Economy, England, Finance, France, French Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon, Pitt the Younger, Tax, Taxation, United Kingdom, War of the First Coalition

Although the income tax was abolished in 1802, it was reinstated and repealed another two times before being made permanent.

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27th March 1963: Dr Beeching publishes his first British Rail report

  • 27th March 2020
  • Tagged as: 1960s, Britain, Economics, Economy, Railways, Train, Transport

On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.

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20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

  • 20th March 2020
  • Tagged as: Dutch East India Company, Dutch Republic, East India Company, Economics, Economy, Finance, India, Netherlands, Ship, Spices, Trade

By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.

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21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

  • 21st March 2019
  • Tagged as: Communism, Economics, Lenin, New Economic Policy, Russian Civil War, Soviet Union, USSR

Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.

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16th November 1945: Foundation of UNESCO

  • 16th November 2018
  • Tagged as: Economics, Politics, Society, United Nations

On the 16th November 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – otherwise known as UNESCO – was founded.

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