{"id":21963,"date":"2025-01-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=21963"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:03:25","slug":"industrialisation-achieved-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/industrialisation-achieved-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The industrialisation we achieved in a century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The date of 1714 lingers vividly in our memory. Little or much, everyone would know how to explain what it meant to Catalonia. Even so, this dark period in history began to change with the Royal Decree on free trade with America. This regulatory text would be the crack that would lead to industrialisation in our country. We find out about it from agent Oriol Garcia Farr\u00e9.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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After the war of 1714, Catalonia had been banned from direct trade with the American colonies, which meant a brutal impoverishment. From the 1750s onwards, this began to change. <\/span>The system of privileges of Bourbon trade policy was failing,<\/b> and the powers that were being forced to introduce new agents to guarantee the viability of trade with America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, in 1756 the Crown once again allowed ships to leave Catalan ports for the new continent, and in 1778 Carlos III signed the Royal Decree on free trade, putting an end to the monopoly of Cadiz and Seville and once again favouring trade from Catalonia. <\/span>This marked the beginning of a significant export of agricultural products, such as wine, eau-de-vie, nuts and paper<\/b>, which allowed Catalonia’s balance of trade to increase spectacularly. This was the true genesis of Catalonia’s industrialisation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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