♦ The first steam-powered cotton mill in Asia opens in Bombay, India.

Lancashire was to weave all the cotton produced by the Indies and the United States.

preparations have already been made to supply England with cotton chiefly from the

In fact, preparations have already been made to supply England with cotton chiefly from the East Indies.

But though, in the end of the fifteenth century, the muslins and other cotton goods of the East Indies were much esteemed in every part of Europe, the cotton manufacture itself was not cultivated in any part of it.

But though in the end of the fifteenth century the muslins and other cotton goods of the East Indies were much esteemed in every part of Europe, the cotton manufacture itself was not cultivated in any part of it.