Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1669
Hudson's Bay Company Founded
1669
Charles II granted Prince Rupert and a group of investors a monopoly over the fur trade of the vast drainage basin of Hudson Bay. The Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay would become the oldest continuously operating commercial corporation in North America and a de facto government of the Canadian north.
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Also in 1669 (3 other events on record)
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.