1720 AD
South Sea Company crisis
Money, banking & finance · Acciones, crédito y crisis
The South Sea Company crisis of 1720 affected share prices and London financial confidence; the Bank of England recorded the episode as a shock to confidence in its notes. This entry describes a market and credit crisis in a specific British setting. It neither assigns the outcome to a single person nor treats later anecdotes about Isaac Newton as historical explanation.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
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- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- 2026-09-23
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