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S012; S015", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T003", "sort_key": -1754, "date_start": "c. 18th century BCE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "c. eighteenth century BCE", "region": "Babylonia", "event": "Legal collections associated with Hammurabi regulate loans, agents, deposits, interest and collateral.", "significance": "The rules demonstrate developed credit and custody practices without creating a single identifiable 'first bank.'", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S011", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T004", "sort_key": -600, "date_start": "c. sixth century BCE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "c. sixth century BCE", "region": "Eastern Mediterranean", "event": "Coined money becomes increasingly important in Mediterranean exchange.", "significance": "Standardized coinage expanded the work of money changers and specialists who tested, exchanged and stored currency; coinage did not itself invent banking.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S014", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T005", "sort_key": -500, "date_start": "fifth–fourth centuries BCE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "fifth–fourth centuries BCE", "region": "Ancient Greece", "event": "Trapezitai operate as money changers and private financial intermediaries.", "significance": "Some accepted deposits, made payments and loans, and financed trade; activities varied by person and city.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S014", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T006", "sort_key": -430, "date_start": "late fifth–fourth century BCE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "late fifth to fourth century BCE", "region": "Athens", "event": "Pasion rises from enslaved bank employee to prominent Athenian banker and citizen.", "significance": "His career is unusually well documented, but he was not the first banker in world history.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S014", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T007", "sort_key": -400, "date_start": "classical period", "date_end": "", "display_date": "classical period", "region": "Greek Mediterranean", "event": "Maritime loans finance voyages at high risk.", "significance": "Repayment depended on successful voyages, linking interest and risk-bearing in a form unlike ordinary secured lending.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S014", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T008", "sort_key": -300, "date_start": "third–first centuries BCE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "third to first centuries BCE", "region": "Ptolemaic Egypt", "event": "Royal, temple-linked and private banking arrangements process taxes, payments and transfers.", "significance": "Papyri reveal monetized fiscal administration and bank registers; institutional categories changed over the Ptolemaic period.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S016; S019; S020; S118", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T009", "sort_key": -200, "date_start": "late Republic–early Empire", "date_end": "", "display_date": "late Roman Republic to early Empire", "region": "Roman world", "event": "Argentarii, nummularii and other specialists provide money-changing, auction-payment and credit services.", "significance": "Roman law and practice differentiated financial occupations rather than treating all finance as one bank type.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S022; S023; S024", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T010", "sort_key": 100, "date_start": "first–third centuries CE", "date_end": "", "display_date": "first to third centuries CE", "region": "Roman Empire", "event": "Credit and payment intermediation operate across urban and trade networks.", "significance": "The scale and market integration are debated, but documentary and literary evidence supports substantial financial intermediation.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S022; S023", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T011", "sort_key": 650, "date_start": "seventh–tenth centuries", "date_end": "", "display_date": "seventh to tenth centuries", "region": "Islamic world", "event": "Long-distance merchants use partnerships, agents, money changers and transfer arrangements across a large commercial zone.", "significance": "Islamic legal and reputational institutions supported trade finance; direct one-to-one transmission into later European banking remains debated.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S034; S035; S036; S039", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T012", "sort_key": 810, "date_start": "c. 810", "date_end": "", "display_date": "c. 810", "region": "Tang China", "event": "Exchange notes known as flying money or flying cash circulate for remittance.", "significance": "They reduced the need to transport heavy coin and are better understood as remittance or credit instruments than ordinary circulating banknotes.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S154; S155; S156", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T013", "sort_key": 1000, "date_start": "eleventh century", "date_end": "", "display_date": "eleventh century", "region": "Song China", "event": "Privately issued and then state-regulated paper instruments expand in Sichuan and beyond.", "significance": "Chinese paper money demonstrates that monetary innovation did not follow a uniquely European path.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S130; S155; S156", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T014", "sort_key": 1100, "date_start": "medieval period", "date_end": "", "display_date": "medieval period", "region": "South Asia", "event": "Merchant communities use credit instruments that later sources classify under the broad and variable term hundi.", "significance": "Hundi could perform remittance, draft, promissory and credit functions; mapping it to one European instrument is misleading.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S127; S128; S153", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T015", "sort_key": 1150, "date_start": "twelfth–thirteenth centuries", "date_end": "", "display_date": "twelfth to thirteenth centuries", "region": "Mediterranean Europe", "event": "Fairs, merchant networks and exchange contracts support long-distance trade.", "significance": "Bills of exchange developed through commercial practice, allowing payment across places and currencies while navigating legal and religious constraints.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S035; S040", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T016", "sort_key": 1200, "date_start": "thirteenth–fourteenth centuries", "date_end": "", "display_date": "thirteenth to fourteenth centuries", "region": "Italian city-states", "event": "Merchant firms refine branch networks, correspondence, partnership structures and ledger accounting.", "significance": "These firms combined trade, exchange, deposits, payments and sovereign finance; they were not simply modern commercial banks in medieval dress.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S040; S041; S042; S043", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T017", "sort_key": 1300, "date_start": "fourteenth century", "date_end": "", "display_date": "fourteenth century", "region": "Florence and Mediterranean", "event": "Bardi and Peruzzi companies operate multinational merchant-banking networks.", "significance": "Their failures reflected concentrated sovereign and commercial exposures, partner governance and wider shocks—not one simple royal default.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S044", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T018", "sort_key": 1397, "date_start": "1397", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1397", "region": "Florence", "event": "The Medici Bank is founded.", "significance": "Its partnership and branch system became a major case in the history of merchant banking, information control and governance.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S040", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T019", "sort_key": 1401, "date_start": "1401", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1401", "region": "Barcelona", "event": "The Taula de Canvi begins operations as a municipal public bank.", "significance": "It centralized municipal receipts and payments and is a strong candidate for an early European public bank, not an uncontested first central bank.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S133; S134", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T020", "sort_key": 1407, "date_start": "1407", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1407", "region": "Genoa", "event": "The Casa or Banco di San Giorgio is established.", "significance": "It managed funded public debt and acquired broader administrative and financial functions; claims that it was the first modern bank depend on definition.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S135", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T021", "sort_key": 1472, "date_start": "1472", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1472", "region": "Siena", "event": "A Monte Pio is established in Siena, the institutional ancestor claimed by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.", "significance": "The surviving-bank claim is important but requires continuity and current-status qualification.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S132", "live_check_required": "yes" }, { "event_id": "T022", "sort_key": 1494, "date_start": "1494", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1494", "region": "Florence", "event": "The Medici Bank ceases operations.", "significance": "Its decline illustrates governance failures, weak branch control, political exposure and the fragility of reputation-based networks.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S040", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T023", "sort_key": 1587, "date_start": "1587", "date_end": "1637", "display_date": "1587–1637", "region": "Venice", "event": "The Banco della Piazza di Rialto operates under public authority.", "significance": "It provided deposit-transfer and settlement services intended to stabilize commercial payments.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S136; S137", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T024", "sort_key": 1609, "date_start": "1609", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1609", "region": "Amsterdam", "event": "The Bank of Amsterdam is founded.", "significance": "Its ledger money and settlement role created a trusted unit for wholesale payments and later central-bank-like functions.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S045; S046; S047", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T025", "sort_key": 1619, "date_start": "1619", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1619", "region": "Venice", "event": "The Banco del Giro is established.", "significance": "It became a major public transfer bank and eventually absorbed functions associated with Venetian public banking.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S136; S137", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T026", "sort_key": 1656, "date_start": "1656", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1656", "region": "Sweden", "event": "Stockholms Banco is chartered.", "significance": "Its later note issue and failure directly shaped the establishment of the Riksbank.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S049", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T027", "sort_key": 1661, "date_start": "1661", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1661", "region": "Sweden", "event": "Stockholms Banco issues early European banknotes.", "significance": "The notes are conventionally described by the Riksbank as the first banknotes in Europe, with regional and definitional qualification.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S049", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T028", "sort_key": 1668, "date_start": "1668", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1668", "region": "Sweden", "event": "Sveriges Riksbank is founded.", "significance": "It is conventionally described as the world's oldest central bank, although its modern central-bank functions evolved over time.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S049; S052", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T029", "sort_key": 1694, "date_start": "1694", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1694", "region": "England", "event": "The Bank of England is founded to finance government.", "significance": "Its note issue, fiscal role, banking relationships and later lender-of-last-resort functions made it a central model in modern central-banking history.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S050; S051; S053", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T030", "sort_key": 1700, "date_start": "late seventeenth–eighteenth centuries", "date_end": "", "display_date": "late seventeenth to eighteenth centuries", "region": "Britain", "event": "Goldsmith bankers and private banks expand deposit, note and payment services.", "significance": "Private banking and clearing arrangements connected commercial payments before large joint-stock branch systems emerged.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S054", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T031", "sort_key": 1775, "date_start": "1775", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1775", "region": "Birmingham, Britain", "event": "A commonly cited first building society is founded.", "significance": "Mutual savings-and-housing finance created an ownership model distinct from shareholder-owned commercial banks.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S141", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T032", "sort_key": 1781, "date_start": "1781", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1781", "region": "United States", "event": "The Bank of North America is chartered.", "significance": "It became an early national commercial institution in the new United States; 'first U.S. bank' claims depend on charter and geography.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S066", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T033", "sort_key": 1791, "date_start": "1791", "date_end": "1811", "display_date": "1791–1811", "region": "United States", "event": "The First Bank of the United States operates.", "significance": "It combined government banking, payments and regulatory influence in a contested early federal system.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S060", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T034", "sort_key": 1800, "date_start": "1800", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1800", "region": "France", "event": "The Banque de France is founded.", "significance": "It developed from a note-issuing bank into France's central bank within a changing relationship to the state.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S055", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T035", "sort_key": 1816, "date_start": "1816", "date_end": "1836", "display_date": "1816–1836", "region": "United States", "event": "The Second Bank of the United States operates.", "significance": "Its branch network, government deposits and discipline over state banks made it central-bank-like but politically contested.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S061", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T036", "sort_key": 1820, "date_start": "c. 1820", "date_end": "1930", "display_date": "c. 1820–1930", "region": "China", "event": "Shanxi piaohao remittance banks build national transfer networks.", "significance": "They moved funds over long distances through branch, family and reputational systems, including government remittances.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S029; S030", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T037", "sort_key": 1826, "date_start": "1826", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1826", "region": "England and Wales", "event": "Legislation permits joint-stock banks beyond the Bank of England's immediate London privilege.", "significance": "The change helped expand larger, more capitalized banking organizations and branch networks.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S050; S054", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T038", "sort_key": 1830, "date_start": "nineteenth century", "date_end": "", "display_date": "nineteenth century", "region": "South and Southeast Asia", "event": "Indigenous bankers and Chettiar networks finance trade, agriculture and migration.", "significance": "Hundi-based and relationship-based systems coexisted and interacted with colonial corporate banks.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S027; S028; S129; S151; S152", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T039", "sort_key": 1835, "date_start": "1835", "date_end": "1865", "display_date": "1835–1865", "region": "United States", "event": "Private-bank networks carry drafts and settle long-distance payments.", "significance": "The networks show that payments infrastructure can emerge through correspondents before a unified central-bank system.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S148", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T040", "sort_key": 1844, "date_start": "1844", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1844", "region": "United Kingdom", "event": "The Bank Charter Act restricts new note issue and separates Bank of England issue and banking departments.", "significance": "The Act shaped British note-issue concentration, though deposit money later became more important than private banknotes.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S050; S054", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T041", "sort_key": 1850, "date_start": "nineteenth century", "date_end": "", "display_date": "nineteenth century", "region": "Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin America", "event": "Imperial and colonial banks expand with trade, plantations, mining and government finance.", "significance": "Their networks improved some payments and trade links while often directing credit toward imperial commerce and privileged sectors.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S070; S071; S072", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T042", "sort_key": 1863, "date_start": "1863", "date_end": "1864", "display_date": "1863–1864", "region": "United States", "event": "National Banking Acts create federal charters and a national-banknote system.", "significance": "They reduced note fragmentation and created the OCC but did not eliminate seasonal liquidity problems or panics.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S059; S060", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T043", "sort_key": 1865, "date_start": "1865", "date_end": "1874", "display_date": "1865–1874", "region": "United States", "event": "The Freedman's Savings Bank operates and fails.", "significance": "Its collapse harmed Black depositors and illustrates the difference between inclusion in name and sound governance, supervision and asset management.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S067", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T044", "sort_key": 1866, "date_start": "1866", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1866", "region": "United Kingdom", "event": "The Overend Gurney crisis tests Bank of England crisis management.", "significance": "Nineteenth-century crises helped crystallize lender-of-last-resort practice, although the doctrine was never a single founding event.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S051; S053", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T045", "sort_key": 1870, "date_start": "late nineteenth century", "date_end": "", "display_date": "late nineteenth century", "region": "Germany and continental Europe", "event": "Universal and industrial banks combine deposits, lending, securities and corporate relationships.", "significance": "National banking systems diverged: some emphasized universal banks and industry links; others retained stronger functional separation or smaller local institutions.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S056; S109; S146", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T046", "sort_key": 1882, "date_start": "1882", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1882", "region": "Japan", "event": "The Bank of Japan is established.", "significance": "Japan created a central bank as part of Meiji monetary and institutional reform.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S032; S112", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T047", "sort_key": 1890, "date_start": "1890", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1890", "region": "London and Argentina", "event": "The Baring crisis threatens a leading merchant bank after concentrated Argentine exposures.", "significance": "The episode reveals underwriting conflicts, sovereign risk and the role of coordinated rescue in preserving market stability.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S147", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T048", "sort_key": 1905, "date_start": "1905", "date_end": "1906", "display_date": "1905–1906", "region": "United States", "event": "The Armstrong investigation examines relationships among insurers and investment banks.", "significance": "The episode illuminates securities-market power, conflicts and reform pressures around investment banking.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S145", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T049", "sort_key": 1907, "date_start": "1907", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1907", "region": "United States", "event": "The Panic of 1907 produces runs and payment disruption.", "significance": "Reliance on private rescues exposed the absence of an elastic central reserve and helped build support for the Federal Reserve.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S062; S103", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T050", "sort_key": 1907.5, "date_start": "1907", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1907", "region": "Switzerland", "event": "The Swiss National Bank begins operations.", "significance": "The SNB centralizes note issue and performs national monetary functions within Switzerland's federal setting.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S057; S110", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T051", "sort_key": 1913, "date_start": "1913", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1913", "region": "United States", "event": "The Federal Reserve Act establishes the Federal Reserve System.", "significance": "The regional reserve-bank design sought elastic currency, improved payments and a more organized response to banking stress.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S063; S102", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T052", "sort_key": 1914, "date_start": "1914", "date_end": "1918", "display_date": "1914–1918", "region": "Global", "event": "World War I transforms bank-state relations and monetary systems.", "significance": "War finance, suspensions, controls and public debt expanded state influence and weakened the prewar gold-standard order.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S052; S113; S114", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T053", "sort_key": 1920, "date_start": "1920s", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1920s", "region": "Colonial systems", "event": "Currency boards and imperial banks structure money and credit in many colonies.", "significance": "Convertibility rules could stabilize exchange rates while limiting domestic monetary discretion and reproducing imperial priorities.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "medium", "source_ids": "S071; S072", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T054", "sort_key": 1929, "date_start": "1929", "date_end": "1933", "display_date": "1929–1933", "region": "Global / United States", "event": "The Great Depression becomes a banking and monetary catastrophe.", "significance": "Runs, failures, debt deflation and policy mistakes contracted money and credit; reforms expanded federal supervision, emergency lending and deposit insurance.", "claim_classification": "strongly supported scholarly interpretation", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S074; S120", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T055", "sort_key": 1933, "date_start": "1933", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1933", "region": "United States", "event": "The Banking Act of 1933 creates federal deposit insurance and separates key commercial and investment banking activities.", "significance": "The reform rebuilt depositor confidence and reshaped bank organization, though the separation was never absolute or globally universal.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S064; S138", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T056", "sort_key": 1935, "date_start": "1935", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1935", "region": "India", "event": "The Reserve Bank of India commences operations.", "significance": "It assumes currency, government-banking and public-debt functions and later develops a substantial supervisory and developmental role.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S157", "live_check_required": "no" }, { "event_id": "T057", "sort_key": 1944, "date_start": "1944", "date_end": "", "display_date": "1944", "region": "International", "event": "The Bretton Woods conference creates the institutional basis for the IBRD and IMF.", "significance": "Development banking and postwar monetary cooperation become formal international functions.", "claim_classification": "directly documented", "confidence": "high", "source_ids": "S142; 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