Thursday, March 19, 2009

timeline of re-coinage, coin-clipping, debasements, bankruptcies, manias, panics, crashes, recessions, & depressions since 1278 A.D.

1278 A.D Coin clipping.
1557 State bankruptcy (France & Spain).
1558 Re-coinage of 1558.
1557 Spain bankrupt.
1607 Spain bankrupt.
1614 Bankruptcy (Augsburg).
02/1622 (February 1622) Debasement of coin.
02/1637 (February 1637) Market debasement (first recorded joint-stock debasement).
1696 New-coinage in England (carried out by John Locke and Issac Newton; speculation: East India Company, treasure, new companies, lotteries) (silver-re-coinage in England til 1698).
1720 Object of speculation: Selected companies: South Sea Company, Compagnie d'Occident, Sword Blade Bank, Bank Generale, Bank Royale (Isaac Newton is said to have lost 20,000 English pounds in public funds in the South Sea Bubble; Newton is Master of the London Mint until 1727).
04/1720 (April 1720) England speculative peak.
05/1720 (May 1720) France Crisis (crash, panic) Failure of John Law's Mississippi Company leads to French national bankruptcy.
09/1720 (September 1720) England Crisis (crash, panic) South Sea Bubble.
1740 Gradually the British government began to restrict the rights of the colonies to issue paper money. A dispute arose involving a "Land Bank or Manufactury Scheme" in Boston, and the following year the British parliament ruled that the bank was illegal in that it transgressed the provisions of the Bubble Act of 1720 passed after the collapse of the South Sea Bubble.
09/1763 (September 1763) Amsterdam Crisis (crash, panic).
01/1773 (January 1773) Market Crash Amsterdam (note: Britain?) East India Company, Housing, Turnpikes, Canals.
03/1792 (March 1792) Market Crash (U.S.).
02/1793 (February 1793) Market Crash (England) Reign of Terror, France, Canal Mania.
02/1797-06/1979 (February-June 1797) Market Crash (England) Collapse of assignats, French landing, Fishguard, securities, canals.
08/1799-11/1799 (August-November 1799) Market Crash (Hamburg).
1810 Market Crash (England).
1811 Austria bankrupt.
01/1811 (January 1811) Market Crash (England).
1816 Market Crash (England).
11/1818 (November 1818) Beginning of Market Crash (U.S.).
06/1819 (June 1819) End of Market Crash (U.S.).
1819 Depression.
12/1825 (December 1825) (note: "early") Market Crash (England) Latin American Bonds, Mines, Cotton, Bonds sold in installments, country banks.
12/1827 (December 1827) Market Crash (France, Paris Banks) Canals, cotton, building sites.
1828 Depression.
12/1836 (December 1836) Market Crash; England.
06/1837 (June 1837) Market Crash (France).
09/1837 (September 1837) Market Panic/Crash (U.S.).
1837 Depression.
10/1847 (October 1847) Market Crash (England) Railways, Railroad shares, wheat, installment sale of railway securities, 1846 potato blight, wheat failure.
03/1848 (March 1848) Market (Continent) Railways, wheat, building
(Cologne?).
30/08/1857 (August 30 1857) Market Crash (U.S.) Railroads, public lands; Objects of speculation: Railroad shares (France & United States)
10/1857 (October 1857) Market Crash (England) Railroads, wheat, bank mergers, clearinghouse.
11/1857 (November 1857) Market Crash (Continent) Lender of last resort: Silberzug (Hamburg).
01/1864 (January 1864) Market Crash (France) End of Civil War.
05/1866 (April 1866) Market Crash (England, Italy) Suspension of Bank, Italy abandoned fixed parity.
24/09/1869 (September 24 1869) Black Friday.
05/1873 (April 1873) Market Crash (Germany, Austria).
20/09/1873 (September 20 1873) Panic of 1873; Market Crash (U.S.).
Fraud exposed in 1872 campaign, railroads, homesteading, Chicago (Peshtigo) building.
1873 Depression.
01/1882 (January 1882) Market Crash (France).
11/1890 (November 1890) Market Crash (England) Lender of last resort: Baring Liabilities, Bank of France, Russian gold loans to Britain, Argentine clearing of southern lands, Brazil, coffee, Chile, nitrates, South Africa, gold, Argentine securities, private companies going public, Goshen conversion.
20-21/03/1893 (Spring) (March 20-21 1893) Market Crash (Australia).
05/05/1893 (April 05 1893) Market Crash (U.S.) Panic of 1893; Repeal of Sherman Silver Act.
27/06/1893 (June 27 1893) New York Stock Market Crash.
1893 Depression.
09/11/1903 (November 09 1893) End of crash of 1901-1903.
08/1907 (August 1907) Market Crash (France, Italy).
15/11/1907 (November 15 1907) End of crash (U.S.).
19/12/1917 (December 19 1917) End of current crash (U.S.?).
20-21/03/1921 (Spring) (March 20-21 1921) Market Crash (Britain &
U.S.).
24/08/1921 (August 24 1921) End of 5th worst market crash in 20th century.
1921 Depression.
1927 "Black Friday" in Germany; economic system collapses.
1927 Brazil's economy collapses owing to over-production of coffee.
29/10/1929 (October 29 1929) Stock Market Crash.
1929 Depression.
17/04/1930 (April 17 1930) Start of worst market crash of 20th century; Starting DJIA: 294.07; Ending DJIA: 41.22; Total loss: 86.0%; Number of days: 813.
05/1931 (May 1931) Market Crash (Austria).
06/1931 (June 1931) Market Crash (Germany).
09/1931 (September 1931) Market Crash (Britain).
12/1931 (December 1931) Market Crash (Japan).
10/03/1937 (March 10 1937) Start of 2nd worst market crash of 20th century; Starting DJIA: 194.40; Ending DJIA: 98.95; Total loss: 49.1%; Total days: 386.
1937 Recession.
31/03/1938 (March 31 1938) End of crash.
12/09/1939 (September 12 1939) Beginning of 8th worst stock market crash in 20th century; Starting DJIA: 155.92; Ending DJIA: 92.92; Total loss: 40.4%; Total days: 959.
28/04/1942 (April 28 1942) End of 8th worst market crash in 20th century.
1958 Market Panic/Crash (France) Speculation in currencies.
1962 Market Panic/Crash (Canada).
1963 Market Panic/Crash (Italy).
1964 Market Panic/Crash (Britain).
1968 Market Panic/Crash (France).
1972 Recession.
11/01/1973 (January 01 1973) Beginning of 7th worst market crash in the 20th century; Starting DJIA: 1,051.70; Ending DJIA: 577.60; Total loss: 45.1%; Related to: Collapse of Bretton Woods, OPEC 1973 price rise, stocks, REITs, office buildings, tankers, Boeing 747s, Eurodollar market flooding in 1970-1971.
12/1974 (December 1974) On the last trading day of 1974, Gold reaches a high of $195.
31/12/1974 (December 31 1974) The U.S. government ends its ban on individual ownership of gold.
01/1975 (January 1975) U.S. government legalizes gold ownership for American citizens.
30/08/1976 (August 30 1976) Gold bottom at $102.
1979 Market Crisis/Panic; dollar, farmland.
1980 Market Crisis/Panic; related to: oil.
21/01/1980 (January 21 1980) Gold reaches intra-day high price of $870 in New York.
1982 Market Crisis/Crash/Panic; related to: third world debt.
1982 Deep Recession.
21/06/1982 (June 21 1982) Gold bottom at $296.
19/10/1987 (October 19 1987) Market Crash; market falls more than 500 points; related to stocks.
01/1990 (January 1990) Market Panic/Crisis; (Japan).
1994-1995 Market Crash (Mexico) related to: deregulation, capital inflow and outflow, domestic boom, bank lending, domestic new banks..
1991, nationalized banks privatized 1991.
1997-1998 Market Panic/Crisis (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Russia, Brazil; related to: deregulation, capital inflow and outflow, borrowing abroad, bank lending, construction boom, crony capitalism.
02/2000 (February 2000) Start of worst market crash of 21st century; related to: Kenneth Lay was greedy?
10/03/2000 (March 10 2000) Nasdaq closes at 5048.62 after hitting an intra-day high of 5,132.52.
15/03/2008 Start of 2nd worst market crash of 21st century.

Thanks to the mysterious Reinhardt who posted the above on google finance where he predicted the Sep 15 crash on Sep 5th, but is now banned by Google. His YouTube pages have also disappeared, and his website is down, except for a page that says "I told you so ;-) 6 for 6."

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