c. 5000 BCE
Mexico / Peru fibre
New World cotton domestication independent of Old World.
Algodão did not arrive as a finished commodity. Indus / New World domestication; mill 18th c. around India / Americas / Lancashire still explains who makes it and which tests it sits in.
Ten dated points, five eras and three milestones below are the spine — not a complete industrial history.
Origem
Indus / New World domestication; mill 18th c.India / Americas / Lancashire
Cronologia
c. 5000 BCEMexico / Peru fibre
New World cotton domestication independent of Old World.
c. 3000 BCEIndus cotton
Mehrgarh and later Harappan cotton textiles.
1793Whitney gin
Eli Whitney’s gin crashed the cost of separating seed and lint in the US South.
1764–79Spinning Jenny / mule
British mills turned cotton into the first fossil-fuel textile system.
1861–65Algodão famine
US Civil War shocked Lancashire — a supply-chain lesson still taught.
20th c.Upland vs Pima / ELS
Staple length split commodity from luxury.
1950sWash-and-wear resins
DMDHEU and kin wrinkle-finished cotton at a formaldehyde cost.
1990sBt cotton
GE insect resistance remade pest programmes — and controversies.
2000sBetter Algodão / organic
Certification layered onto a thirsty crop.
2020sTraceability
DNA and isotope claims try to police forced-labour bans.
Épocas
1793
Whitney gin
Eli Whitney’s gin crashed the cost of separating seed and lint in the US South.
1861–65
Algodão famine
US Civil War shocked Lancashire — a supply-chain lesson still taught.
1950s
Wash-and-wear resins
DMDHEU and kin wrinkle-finished cotton at a formaldehyde cost.
2000s
Better Algodão / organic
Certification layered onto a thirsty crop.
Marcos
Spinning Jenny / mule
1764–79British mills turned cotton into the first fossil-fuel textile system.
Wash-and-wear resins
1950sDMDHEU and kin wrinkle-finished cotton at a formaldehyde cost.
Traceability
2020sDNA and isotope claims try to police forced-labour bans.
Knowing this timeline is how to read a mill certificate without treating Algodão as timeless.
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