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
1487 1557
1565 1668
1694 1757
1763 1785
Benjamin Franklin Rats Us Out In England
1787 1798
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
1836 1837
1838 1848
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
1866 1872
America Starts Its Contractions
1873 1876
Europe Has a "Long Depression" While Caregie Starts a Steel Company
1877 1884
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
1910 1912
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
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
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
2003 2005
Iraq Liberated, Iraqi Oil Priced In Dollars Again