• 1581

    The Dutch Independence

  • Invention of capitalism

    The opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the Dutch East India Company.
  • The establisment of the Bank of Amsterdam.

    An exchange bank to protect commercial creditors from unreliable commodity money in general circulation.
  • The Rise of the Dutch

    The Dutch gained enough wealth and power to elipse both the Habsburgs and China as the world's richest empire.
  • The Dutch Golden Age

  • The Amsterdam banking crisis

  • Dutch East Indian Company was wiped out

  • The collapse of Bank of Amsterdam

  • The Collapase of Dutch World Order

  • The Dutch East India Company's charter expired