Economy & Finance

972 sourced entries filed under economy & finance, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.

By century

A line from each of the last few centuries

  • 1560October 29 – Queen Elizabeth directs the minting of the first machine produced coins in the Kingdom to completely replace hammered coinage, produced manually.source
  • 1656Konoike Zen'amon (son of Konoike Shinroku) founds a baking and money-changing business in Osaka, Japan.source
  • 1767August 26 – Construction begins on Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. The construction proves more expensive than initially expected, leading the government to increase local taxes. This stirs resentment among some North Carolinians, and helps prolong the War of the Regulation.source
  • 1869The investment bank Goldman Sachs is founded in New York.source
  • 1961September 30 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).source
  • 2019January 1 – Qatar withdraws from OPEC.source