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Dow Jones Industrial Average

stock market index

20 dated entries naming Dow Jones Industrial Average, drawn from 16 separate years between 1885 CE and 2020 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1885February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index stands at a level of 62.76, and represents the dollar average of 14 stocks: 12 railroads and two leading American industries.source
  • 1896May 26 – Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the U.S. The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.source

20th century

  • 1929September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954.source
  • 1932July 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.source
  • 1933March 15 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.source
  • 1954November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level, reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.source
  • 1972November 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.source
  • 1982November 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.source
  • 1987July 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04.source
  • 1989October 13 – Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.source
  • 1991April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time in history, at 3,004.46.source
  • 1999March 29 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.source
  • 2000January 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).source

21st century

  • 2018December 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 22,445 after its worst week since 2008.source
  • 2018December 26 – After weeks of losses the Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its largest ever one-day point gain: 1,086 points.source
  • 2019August 14 – The Dow Jones plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the yield curve inversion.source
  • 2020February 27 – 2020 stock market crash: Triggered by fears of the spreading of COVID-19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day point decline at the time. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since the 2008 financial crisis.source
  • 2020March 12 – Global stock markets crashed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the United States travel ban on the Schengen Area. The DJIA goes into free fall, closing at over −2,300 points, the worst loss for the index since 1987.source
  • 2020March 16 – The DJIA falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.source
  • 2020March 9 – International share prices fall sharply in response to a Russo-Saudi oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The DJIA plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point. Oil prices also plunged by as much as 30% in early trading, the biggest fall since 1991.source

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