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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1653-02-07 |
Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France |
1661-09-05 |
French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested |
1683-09-06 |
Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance |
1696-07-28 |
De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance |
1710-08-07 |
Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance |
1737-02-20 |
French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns |
1776-05-12 |
Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns |
1788-08-27 |
Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance |
1812-03-14 |
Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 |
1813-11-29 |
Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance |
1814-04-09 |
Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands |
1848-03-05 |
Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. |
1903-08-29 |
The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese |
1913-06-30 |
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup |
1914-08-22 |
Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent |
1932-02-02 |
Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
1950-10-29 |
British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns |
1957-10-10 |
US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware |
1961-01-31 |
Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium |
1966-05-06 |
Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin |
1967-05-03 |
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University |
1995-02-26 |
London finance house Barings collapses after huge losses in Singapore by rogue trader Nick Leeson |
1995-07-28 |
Norwegian Finance Minister Sigbjorn Johnsen says that Norway should not lower its crude oil production in an attempt to boost world oil prices |
1997-02-05 |
Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products |
2010-09-08 |
Egypt's Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Butros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs revenues |
2013-01-21 |
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands' Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group |
2013-02-22 |
In its National Economic Report of Bermuda for 2012, the Bermudan Ministry of Finance expects GDP will decline by 0% to 1.5% in 2013 but five years of recession will end with "modest growth in 2014" |
2015-12-11 |
US-led coalition says it killed ISIS finance minister in Iraq |
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1693-07-21 |
Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance |
1727-05-10 |
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76) |
1732-09-30 |
Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804) |
1761-01-29 |
Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Switz, US minister of Finance (1801-14) |
1765-12-10 |
[Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot |
1767-03-22 |
Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance |
1767-04-30 |
Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance |
1777-01-25 |
Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14) |
1791-04-13 |
Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance |
1791-05-15 |
Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance |
1809-12-16 |
Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance |
1855-11-30 |
Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance |
1877-08-10 |
Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance |
1883-02-08 |
Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance |
1886-01-21 |
Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy |
1886-12-05 |
Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52) |
1893-05-16 |
Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30) |
1902-09-30 |
Piet[er J] "Piet" Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52) |
1902-12-09 |
Richard A Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs |
1904-09-28 |
Hendrik J Hofstra, Dutch minister of Finance (PvdA) |
1913-06-11 |
John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp) |
1921-06-12 |
Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director (IMF) |
1931-12-28 |
Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance |
1934-03-31 |
Wim H Sinnige, Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic) |
1935-07-09 |
Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance (PvdA)/pres (Nethche Bank) |
1940-01-19 |
Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- ) |
1946-11-22 |
Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance (PvdA) |
1948-12-21 |
Willem AFG Vermeend, Dutch economist/undersecretary of Finance (1994-) |
1950-07-19 |
Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance |
1954-03-23 |
Mark Kologi, Private Finance |
1954-06-08 |
Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister |
1982-06-22 |
Landen Celano, M.O.B Finance |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2005-10-22 |
Austria's finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser (36) weds Fiona Swarovski in Weissenkirchen, Austria |
2007-03-09 |
Model and actress Erika Heynatz (30) weds finance broker Andrew Kingston at Whale Beach retreat |
2012-12-21 |
CNN anchor Erin Burnett (36) weds finance executive David Rubulotta (42) in New York City Hall |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1712-12-15 |
Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 |
1743-07-02 |
Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies |
1785-01-06 |
Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution |
1821-06-13 |
[Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55 |
1828-04-12 |
Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60 |
1841-05-03 |
Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74 |
1849-08-12 |
Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 |
1861-10-06 |
Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84 |
1879-02-21 |
Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 |
1888-08-21 |
Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 |
1920-01-26 |
Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered |
1921-08-26 |
Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45 |
1931-07-24 |
Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 |
1932-02-09 |
Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered |
1936-07-13 |
Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43 |
1941-02-11 |
Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 |
1950-01-08 |
Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66 |
1967-02-07 |
Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74 |
1982-03-09 |
Richard A Butler, England, min of Finance, dies at 79 |
1989-06-09 |
Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies |
1993-03-06 |
Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 |
1995-01-24 |
Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60 |
