List of economic crises

List of economic crisis and depressions.

1st century

• The Financial Panic of 33AD.

The result of the mass issuance of unsecured loans by main Roman banking houses.^[1]

3rd century

• Crisis of the Third Century

14th century

• 14th century banking crisis (the crash of the Peruzzi and the Bardi family Compagnia dei Bardi in 1345).

17th century

• Tulip mania (1637)

18th century

• South Sea Bubble (1720) (UK)
• Mississippi Company (1720) (France)
• Crisis of 1763 - started in Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of Leendert Pieter de Neufville, spread to Germany and Scandinavia
• Crisis of 1772 - started in London and Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of the bankers Neal, James, Fordyce and Down.
• Panic of 1785 - United States
• Panic of 1792 - United States
• Panic of 1796-1797 - Britain and United States

19th century

• Danish state bankruptcy of 1813
• Post-Napoleonic depression (post 1815)
• Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle
• Panic of 1825, a pervasive British recession in which many banks failed, nearly including the Bank of England
• Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression
• Panic of 1847, started as a collapse of British financial markets associated with the end of the 1840s railway industry boom
• Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures
• Panic of 1866, was an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London
• Long Depression (1873–1896)
  • Panic of 1873, a US recession with bank failures, followed by a four-year depression
  • Panic of 1884
  • Panic of 1890
  • Panic of 1893, a US recession with bank failures
  • Australian banking crisis of 1893
  • Panic of 1896

20th century

• Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
• Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures
• Depression of 1920-21, a U.S. economic recession following the end of WW1
• Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Great Depression (1929–1939) the worst depression of modern history
• 1970s energy crisis
• OPEC oil price shock(1973)
• Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975 in the UK
• Early 1980s Recession
• Latin American debt crisis
• Chilean crisis of 1982
• Japanese asset price bubble (1986–2003)
• Bank stock crisis (Israel 1983)
• Black Monday (1987)
• Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.
• Early 1990s Recession
• 1991 India economic crisis
• Finnish banking crisis (1990s)
• Swedish banking crisis (1990s)
• 1994 economic crisis in Mexico
• 1997 Asian financial crisis
• 1998 Russian financial crisis
• Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002)

21st century

• Early 2000s recession
  • Dot-com bubble
• Late-2000s Financial Crisis or the Late-2000s recession, including:
  • 2000s energy crisis
  • Subprime mortgage crisis
  • United States housing bubble and United States housing market correction
  • 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis
  • 2008–2010 Irish banking crisis
  • Russian financial crisis of 2008–2009
  • Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010
  • European sovereign debt crisis
• Greek government-debt crisis
• Ukrainian crisis
• 2014 Russian financial crisis
• 2015 Chinese stock market crash

See also

• Financial crisis and economic collapse
• Currency crisis, hyperinflation and devaluation
• Banking crisis, credit crunch, bank run
• Savings and loan crisis
• Balance of payments crisis
• Depression (economics), recession, stagflation, jobless recovery
• Economic bubble, stock market bubble and real estate bubble
• Market correction, nominal price, equilibrium price
• Kondratiev wave, business cycle and business cycle models
• Boom and bust
• Fictitious capital, Intrinsic value, Speculation
• Crisis theory, tendency of the rate of profit to fall, reserve army of labour
• Overproduction, underconsumption and demand shortfall
• Consolidation (business), industrial consolidation, market concentration
• Capital flight, capital strike, urban blight, deindustrialization
• Wage-price spiral
• List of banking crises

References

• Galbraith, J. K. (1990), A Short History of Financial Euphoria, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 0-670-85028-4