Permanent historical factsheet

Economy of Great Britain

Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1731Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1731

Robert Walpole Orford, 1st1731

Government / Whig Party Government

Taxation is shifted toward commodities

Names involved

Robert Walpole Orford, 1st

Provenance

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