Economy & Finance
2,950 sourced entries filed under economy & finance, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.
By century
- Economy & Finance in the 2nd century — 10 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 3rd century — 13 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 7th century — 8 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 12th century — 12 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 13th century — 46 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 14th century — 17 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 15th century — 25 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 16th century — 32 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 17th century — 142 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 18th century — 295 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 19th century — 820 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 20th century — 1,171 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 21st century — 359 entries
A line from each of the last few centuries
- 1560October 4 – Queen Elizabeth of England notifies the official treasurers and Lords Mayor throughout the kingdom that the existing coins will be replaced and that those in circulation are to be devalued, to be stricken with a special mark to indicate lesser worth. Treasurers are all instructed to send the coins withdrawn from circulation to be sent to the Royal Mint to be melted down for the new coins.source
- 1659March 28 – The Danish Africa Company (Dansk afrikanske kompagni) is chartered to Hendrik Carloff for the purpose of capturing Africa slaves from the area around Denmark's colony on the Danish Gold Coast for use in the West Indies.source
- 1772June 10 – The crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks to fail, extends to Scotland, Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy.source
- 18633 November – Banker wins the Melbourne Cup, in the smallest field in Cup history of six horses.Australiasource
- 195325 June – Malaysian Chinese Association announced that it will end all welfare and social programs due to the Government's ban on lottery organized by political organization.Singaporesource
- 20151 May – Establishment of Ulaanbaatar Securities Exchange.Mongoliasource