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immediately taken up by the upper class in Europe and the United States, and it would become a cogni- tive foundation for the idea of “the emergence of a strong state,” in terms of “programming an analytical systems substructure”—the substructure being the children who, under this paradigm, are entities to be possessed and controlled—paradigm that would persist for 400 years. 1700 From 1700 to 1830, the East India Company would gain control of India and wrestle control of the opium monopoly. 1700 Deaths from tuberculosis increase dramatically in England and other sugar consuming countries as the body environment nt changes t to accommodate it. 1702 First appearance of yellow fever in the United States. It would appear 35 times between 1702 and 1800 and would | appear a almost every year between 1800 and 1879. 1717 Inoculation against smallpox instituted in England by Lady Mary Montague after she returns from Turkey, where it was ina popular experimental stage at the time 1720 British government issues instruction that American colony governors consent to no Act emitting Bills of Credit. 1721 In the United States, a clergyman named Cotton Mather attempts to introduce a crude form of smallpox vaccination by smearing smallpox pus into scratches in healthy people. Over 220 people are treated during the first six months of experimentation. Only six had no apparent reaction. Mather was bitterly attacked for recommending this practice in Boston, Massachusetts. 1722 In Wales, a Dr. Wright refers to inoculation against smallpox in the British Isles as “an ancient practice.” A citizen of Wales, 99 years old, states that inoculation had been known and used during his entire lifetime, and that his mother stated it was common during her life, and that she got smallpox through | her “inoculation.” 1723 First record of smallpox immunization in Ireland, when a doctor in Dublin inoculates 25 people. Three died, and the custom was briefly abandoned. 323 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1692 Salem witch trial executions in New England. 1693 National Debt begins in England. 1694 Bank of England founded. 1695 Royal Bank of Scotland founded. University of Berlin founded. 1695 Paris and Rome experience ferocious epidemics of Pertussis. 1696 First English property insurance company founded. 1698 Tax on beards in Russia instituted. 1699 Philadelphia epidemic of yellow fever. 1700 British Isles importing 20 million pounds of sugar per year. 1700 Refined sugar is the most important export of France. 1709 Plague in Turkey, Russia, Scandinavia and Germany through 1710. 1712 First record of vaccinations for smallpox in France. 1715 British East India Company opens its first trading office in Canton; China begins trading in opium. 1718 First bank notes in England. 1719 Outbreak of the plague in Marseilles, France through 1720. 1723 Johann Peter Rockefeller arrives in the U.S. colonies from Germany. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation