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Events relating to money
Private financiers in Athens give loans, take deposits, change money from one currency to another and arrange credit for travellers
Paper money is developed in China, becoming later one of the aspects of Chinese life which most impresses Marco Polo
The Jews, barred from any work which Christians want to do, find profitable employment as money-lenders
Charles I demands ship money to increase his revenue, albeit in the absence of its conventional justification - a crisis of national defence
John Hampden refuses to pay ship money to Charles I, beginning a campaign that gradually wins wide support
A banker in Sweden, Johan Palmstruch, issues Europe's first paper currency, on behalf of the Stockholm Banco
A tontine is launched in Richmond to raise money for the construction of a bridge across the Thames
The Bank of North America is established by the Continental Congress to lend money to the fledgling Revolutionary government
Benjamin Disraeli buys for Britain a controlling share in the Suez Canal, with money borrowed from Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII
Oliver North arranges for clandestine money from Iran to provide illegal support for the Nicaraguan Contras