Oil & Federation · event 2 of 7

1969

The first export cargo. Oil begins shipping. The revenue funds infrastructure rather than becoming the economy.

The Oil & Federation era

  1. 1966
  2. 1969
  3. 1968
  4. 2 December 1971
  5. 1979
  6. 1985
  7. 1990

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