StockHistoryDB
200 financial events, crashes, bubbles, and milestones spanning 400 years of market history. From tulip mania to the AI boom.
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Wall Street Crash of 1929
The most devastating stock market crash in American history. After a decade of speculation known as ...
Black Monday 1987
The largest one day percentage decline in stock market history. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones f...
Global Financial Crisis 2008
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, triggered by the subprime mortgage market col...
Dot-com Bubble
A speculative bubble in internet and technology stocks from 1995 to 2000. The NASDAQ rose 400 percen...
Bitcoin Whitepaper
On October 31, 2008, an anonymous person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9 page paper t...
Tulip Mania
A speculative bubble in Dutch tulip bulb prices that collapsed in February 1637. At its peak, single...
South Sea Bubble
A British stock bubble centered on the South Sea Company, granted a monopoly on trade with South Ame...
COVID Crash 2020
The fastest bear market in history, triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic. From February 19 to March 23...
GameStop Short Squeeze
In January 2021, retail investors on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets drove GameStop stock from 20 ...
Lehman Brothers Collapse
Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the largest bankruptcy filing...