Editing 1750 (section)

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[[File:Westminster Bridge by Joseph Farington, 1789.jpg|thumb|300px|[[November 18]]: [[Westminster Bridge]] is dedicated in London.]]
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Various sources, including the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]], use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the [[Pre-industrial society|pre-industrial era]].<ref>{{cite web| title= The NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index | url= http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/ | date= Summer 2012 | first= James H.|last= Butler | publisher= [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] | access-date= 2013-05-11| quote= IPCC takes the pre-industrial era (arbitrarily chosen as the year 1750) as the baseline.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title= Pre-industrial England : Economy and Society, 1500-1750 | first= B. A. | last= Holderness | year= 1976 | location= London | publisher= Rowman & Littlefield | isbn= 0874719100 | url-access= registration | url= https://archive.org/details/preindustrialeng0000hold }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lecture II &mdash; Before the Industrial Revolution |first=Elisa |last=Newby |year=2009 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge |url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/teach/newby/teaching09/LectureII.pdf |access-date=2013-05-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015033238/http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/teach/newby/teaching09/LectureII.pdf |archive-date=October 15, 2009 }}</ref>

1750 is commemorated as the year that started the [[Industrial Revolution]], although the underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution could have started earlier.