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
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Keynes publishes The General Theory (1936)
- Adam Smith (1723)
- Global financial crisis (2007)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Bretton Woods conference (1944)
- Croesus introduces the first bimetallic coinage (550 BCE)
- Bank of England founded (1694)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- 1973 oil crisis (1973)
- Dutch East India Company chartered (1602)
- Marshall Plan (1948)
- New Deal (1933)
- Nixon ends the gold standard (1971)
- Medici Bank founded (1397)
- Euro introduced (1999)
- Introduction of the Spanish dollar (piece of eight) (1497)
- Sakoku (closed country policy) (1639)
- Marshall Plan announcement (1947)
- Diwani of Bengal granted to East India Company (1765)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- Potosi silver mines opened (1545)
- South Sea Bubble (1720)
- Eurozone debt crisis (2010)
- Lehman Brothers collapse (2008)