South Sea Bubble
1720 · Event
British financial mania ends in spectacular collapse; first modern stock-market bubble.
On these timelines: Economic History, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from Economic History
- Adam Smith (1723)
- Keynes publishes The General Theory (1936)
- Bretton Woods conference (1944)
- Croesus introduces the first bimetallic coinage (550 BCE)
- 1973 oil crisis (1973)
- New Deal (1933)
- Marshall Plan (1948)
- Nixon ends the gold standard (1971)
Around 1720
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)