Monopoly: Timeline

1602   A private trading company is established in Copenhagen Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital [i] of Denmark [i] and the country's largest city , at present made up of 16 ... 

, with the monopoly on the trade with Iceland Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland is a volcanic island nation [i] in the northern Atlantic Ocean [i] ... 

.

1849   In Milan Milan

Milan is the main city of northern Italy [i], located in the plains of Lombardy [i]. ... 

, anti-Austria Austria

Austria is a landlocked [i] country in central Europe [i]. ... 

n activists organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian monopoly on tobacco Tobacco

Tobacco refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade [i] family indigenous to North [i] ... 

. Protests erupts into brief riots.

1911   The United States Supreme Court Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body [i] in the United States [i] ... 

 declares Standard Oil Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a large, integrated, oil [i] producing, transporting, refining, and marketin ... 

 to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.

1989   Cold War Cold War

The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical [i], ideological [i], and economic [i] ... 

: Velvet Revolution Velvet Revolution

The "Velvet Revolution" refers to a bloodless revolution [i] in Czechoslovakia [i] that saw the overthro ... 

 - With other Communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia was a country in Central Europe [i] that existed from 1918 until early 1993 . ... 

 in more than 40 years).