The South Sea Bubble (In Our Time)
1720 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The South Sea Bubble, the speculation mania in early 18th-century England which ended in the financial ruin of many of its investors. The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 with a view to restructuring government debt and restoring public credit.
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Around 1720
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)