History of Banking – Index (by date)

Introduction

A Brief (and unofficial) History of Banking and Other World Events

5000B.C. – 1100

Life Before Visa and Mastercard

1100 – 1463

The Cross and the Doublecross

1487 – 1557

The Fuggers and the Archduke

1565 – 1668

London Starts an Exchange

1694 – 1757

The Tally Stick Gets Whacked

1763 – 1785

Benjamin Franklin Rats Us Out In England

1787 – 1798

Jeremy Bentham Defends Usury

1800 – 1810

Napoleon Was Not a Fan of The Bank of France

1811 – 1814

Jefferson Kills the Bank of the United States

1815 – 1816

Napoleon Escapes and Rothschild Makes a Killing

1817 – 1819

Seminole Indians Get The Shaft

1820 – 1824

Missionaries Rampage and Nearly Destroy Hawaii

1828 – 1832

The US Elects a General

1836 – 1837

Biddle Makes A Threat

1838 – 1848

Navy Lands, Muka Set Ablaze

1850 – 1857

US National Debt $63,452,773, Those Were the Days My Friend

1860 – 1861

Wars Cost Money, US National Debt $64,842,287

1862

US Prints $450,000,000 Iinterest Free "Green-backs"

1863 – 1865

National Banking Act of 1863

1866 – 1872

America Starts Its Contractions

1873 – 1876

Europe Has a "Long Depression" While Caregie Starts a Steel Company

1877 – 1884

Mr. Buel Writes a Memo

1886 – 1889

The Court Case That Changed Business History

1890 – 1892

Sherman Antitrust Act Takes Aim

1893

A Feeble But Friendly and Confiding People Are Overthrown

1894 – 1895

Pullman Strike Is Crushed By Federal Troops

1896 – 1898

William Jennings Bryan Wants Free Silver

1900 – 1908

It's The Turn Of The Century

1910 – 1912

Jekyll Island

1913 – 1915

The Federal Reserve Comes To Life or The US Gets a Central Bank

1917 – 1919

The Soviets Get a Five-Year Plan

1920 – 1923

Begining of the Age of "Technological Unemployment"

1924 – 1928

First Edition of "Social Credit" Published

1929

Herbert Hoover Is Inaugurated Then The Shit Hits The Fan

1930 – 1931

Herr Hebecker Invents The Wara

1932

Herr Unterguggenberger Mayor of Worgl Decides To Do Something

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt And The "First 100 Days"

1934 – 1935

Sweden Follows a Keynesian Policy

1936

Top Tax Rate Raised To 79%

1937 – 1940

Roosevelt Balances The Budget, Recession Ensues

1941 – 1944

The Right To Issue Credit Money

1945

Federal Spending Slows, Slightly

1946 – 1953

1954 – 1967

Authority Is Given To Print Postage Stamps

1968 – 1974

Federal Reserve Notes Become A Fiat Currency, Dan Rather more popular than Nixon, Congress checks on the gold in Fort Knox

1975 – 1980

20% Of Foreign Exchange Transactions Are Speculative

1981 – 1984

The Gold Commission Finds That The US Government Owns No Gold

1985 – 1987

Jeb Bush and Armondo Codina Make No Payments and Keep Millions

1988 – 1989

Iran Air Shot Sown, Civilians Killed, American Commander Given Medal

1990 – 1992

Silverado Is a Victim of Sophisticated Schemes and Abuses

1993 – 1997

Charles Keating Admits To Banking Fraud

1998 – 1999

Long Term Capital Management Collapses

2000 – 2002

Iraq Prices Oil In Euros

2003 – 2005

Iraq Liberated, Iraqi Oil Priced In Dollars Again

2006

China Re-opens Its Oil Bourse

2007

The Year of Bankruptcies?