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. The company would ostensibly trade with South America, hence its name; and
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Around 1720
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)