1725 AD (0) - Let's see how things stand:
We appear to be researching at a good rate, but we're running a fairly significant deficit. Some cities can still build courthouses: Timbuktu, Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Bangalore, Yakutsk, Yekaterinberg, and our Russian cities that are still rioting. Admittedly, there are a lot of things that are higher priority than courts, but I think that it's still worth mentioning. We still have Wall Street outstanding, so I'll probably start building it after Timbuktu finishes the Statue, and a factory.
We are at war with Japan, but Tokugawa doesn't have astronomy yet. I'm not going to worry too much about that. I think that I'm going to go for railroads after Biology completes so we won't have trouble if this happens again.
And now the moment you've all been waiting for!
Our deficit drops a fair bit, and we'll have factories up all over the place shortly. Good stuff.
1730 AD (1) - There are a whole bunch of caravals sailing around (mostly Peter's). We've got one up north too, and I think I'll sail it over to one of our resources for defense down the road.
1735 AD (2) - The Statue of Liberty complete, and our deficit drops further. Excellent.

Awdaghost finishes a Grocer, and starts an aquaduct in preparation for a coal plant.
Tadmekka finishes its factory, and starts an aquaduct too.
St. Petersburg finishes its theater, and starts a library.
1740 AD (3) - Mao wants us to declare war on the Spanish! That's certainly a tough decision. Isabella doesn't have a very high score, and I doubt that she has Astronomy, so we're probably not at much of a risk. I hope I don't wind up regretting this, but I agree to "help" him.

We learn biology, and research is set to steel.
Niani finishes the Globe Theatre, and starts on a factory.
Rostov comes out of resistance, and starts a lighthouse.
Yaroslavl comes out of resistance, and starts a library.
So much for our reduced deficit. Those two towns will provide lots of commerce, though.
Roosevelt converts to Buddhism. That's the same as Japan and Spain. Not good.
1745 AD (4) - Roosevelt annouces us as his worst enemy, and cancels our ongoing trade.
We finish our coal plant in Djenne, and start an observatory.
Delhi finishes its coal plant, and starts a grocer.
Bangalore finishes its library, and starts a courthouse.
Yekaterinburg finishes its courthouse, and starts a library.
1750 AD (5) - Japan attacks and defeats the caraval guarding our southernmost fishing boats.
Timbuktu finishes its factory, starts Wall Street.
Kumbi finishes its coal plant, starts an observatory.
Gao finishes its factory, starts a coal plant.
Bombay finishes its coal plant, starts an observatory.
Does anyone know how exactly the game decides which tiles you can and can't work during war? Takedda can't work any of its water tiles, so it's at a big food shortage.
1755 AD (6) - Awdaghost finishes its coal plant, starts an observatory.
Tadmekka finishes its coal plant, starts an observatory. Is anyone noticing a pattern here?
Delhi finishes its grocer, and starts an ironclad to help with those annoying Japanese boats.
Yakutsk finishes its lighthouse, starts a granary.
St. Petersburg finishes its library, starts a bank.
1760 AD (7) - Tokugawa shows up, willing to pay 30 gold for peace. He doesn't have anything more valuable, so I take the deal.
Djenne finishes its observatory, and starts a cavalry. It's time to get the war machine going again!
Kumbi does the same.
Tekedda builds a frigate, and moves on to an ironclad. While there, I also notice that half our water tiles are workable again, and our fishing net is magically back. That's odd.
Bombay finishes its observatory, and starts a university.
Delhi finishes an ironclad, starts a courthouse.
Yekatinberg finishes its library, and starts a market.
1765 AD (8) - We learn railroads, and start research on rifling. We're going to need something other than cavalry sooner or later, and this will get us infantry.
Walata finishes its factory, and starts an observatory.
Awdaghost finishes its observatory, and starts a cavalry.
Tadmekka finishes its observatory, and starts West Point.
Rostov finishes its lighthouse, and starts a courthouse.
Our golden age ends, but I think that the factories, coal plants and observatories were a good use of it.
1770 AD (9) - Djenne finishes a cavalry, and starts another.
Kumbi does the same.
Gao finishes its coal plant, and starts a cavalry.
Niani finishes its factory, and starts a grocer.
Delhi finishes its courthouse, and starts a harbor.
1775 AD (10) - Among the many ships moving around, I'm positive that I saw one sail straight through a glacier. Is the game taking shortcuts in drawing movement, or did that really happen?
Awdaghost finishes a cavalry, starts another.
Takedda finishes an ironclad, starts a university.
Bombay finishes its university, and starts a courthouse.
I'd say that the two big things to do right now are take over Russia, and get a military railnet up. I don't think that anybody else is even close to having factories up, so we have a significant production advantage. I think that it might be a good idea to use that to grab some of the new modern age wonders, like Broadway, Rock 'N Roll, and the Eifel Tower. The future is ours for the taking!