Economic History
Explore Economic History on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- Global financial crisis (2007)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Dutch East India Company chartered (1602)
- New Deal (1933)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Bank of England founded (1694)
- 1973 oil crisis (1973)
- Adam Smith (1723)
- Marshall Plan (1948)
- Marshall Plan announcement (1947)
- Diwani of Bengal granted to East India Company (1765)
- Silk Road established (130 BCE)
- Euro introduced (1999)
- Sakoku — Japan closes to foreigners (1639)
- Sakoku — Japanese isolation begins (1639)
- Potosi silver mines opened (1545)
- Hanseatic League at its peak (1356)
- Japanese economic miracle (1955)
- Eurozone debt crisis (2010)
- Lehman Brothers collapse (2008)
- Asian financial crisis (1997)
- Social Security Act 1935 (1935)
- Dot-com bubble burst (2000)
- Subprime mortgage crisis (2007)