Key dates in financial history--DRAFT

1 Key dates in financial history Edited by Kurt Schuler (e-mail: 8 May 2011 Suggested citation to this file Kurt Schuler, editor, Key dates in financial history , original version 8 May 2011; viewed on [ date of viewing] at Historical financial Statistics Web site, The purpose of this file is to give an idea of the most significant developments in world financial history from the origin of paper money until today. It focuses on the economies that have issued the world s key currencies. Red lettering indicates important firsts. I welcome comments.)

2 1668: Bankrupt Stockholm Banco loses its charter. The Swedish parliament establishes the world’s first central bank, Riksens Ständers Bank (today Sveriges Riksbank [Bank of

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