Collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi banks
1343–1346 · Event
The great Florentine banking houses fail after Edward III defaults on loans that funded his war, among other causes. It is one of the first great sovereign-debt crises.
On these timelines: Economic History, The Hundred Years' War, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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 1343
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Zheng He (1371)