List of economic crises

1st century

• The Financial Panic of AD 33.

3rd century

• Crisis of the Third Century

  7th century

14th century

• 14th century banking crisis.

  17th century

• Kipper und Wipper financial crisis at start of Thirty Years' War
• Tulip mania an economic bubble that bursted, hurting the economy of the Dutch Republic
• The General Crisis Arguably the largest worldwide crisis in history

  18th century

• Great Tobacco Depression -
• South Sea Bubble
• Mississippi Company
• Crisis of 1763 – started in Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of Leendert Pieter de Neufville and Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, spread to Germany and Scandinavia
• Great East Indian Bengal Bubble Crash Crash started by rapid overvaluation of East India company.
• Crisis of 1772 – started in London and Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of the bankers Neal, James, Fordyce and Down.
• War of American Independence Financing Crisis - The French Revolution was initiated by its 1.4 billion livre investment here; Spain invested 700 million reales into fighting
• Panic of 1785 – United States
• Panic of 1792 – United States
• Panic of 1796–1797 – Britain and United States

  19th century

• Danish state bankruptcy of 1813
• Post-Napoleonic depression
• Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle
• Panic of 1825, a pervasive British recession in which many banks failed, nearly including the Bank of England
• Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression
• Panic of 1847, started as a collapse of British financial markets associated with the end of the 1840s railway industry boom
• Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures
• Panic of 1866, was an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London
• Great Depression of British Agriculture
• Long Depression
• *Panic of 1873, a US recession with bank failures, followed by a four-year depression
• *Panic of 1884
• *Panic of 1890
• *Panic of 1893, a US recession with bank failures
• *Australian banking crisis of 1893
• *Panic of 1896

  20th century

1900s

• Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
• Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures

  1920s

• Depression of 1920-21, a U.S. economic recession following the end of WW1
• Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Great Depression the worst depression of modern history

  1970s

• 1970s energy crisis
• *OPEC oil price shock
• *1979 energy crisis
• Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975 in the UK
• Latin American debt crisis known as "lost decade"

  1980s

• Early 1980s Recession
• Chilean crisis of 1982
• Bank stock crisis
• Japanese asset price bubble
• Black Monday
• Savings and loan crisis failure of 1,043 out of the 3,234 S&Ls from 1986 to 1995 in the U.S.

  1990s

• Special Period in Cuba
• Early 1990s Recession
• 1991 India economic crisis
• Finnish banking crisis
• Swedish banking crisis
• 1994 economic crisis in Mexico
• 1997 Asian financial crisis
• 1998 Russian financial crisis
• 1998-99 Ecuador financial crisis
• Argentine economic crisis
• Samba effect

  21st century

2000s

• Early 2000s recession
• *Dot-com bubble
• 2001 Turkish economic crisis
• 2001 September 11th Attacks
• 2002 Uruguay banking crisis
• Venezuelan general strike of 2002–03
• 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
• Late-2000s recession
• *2000s energy crisis oil price bubble
• *Subprime mortgage crisis
• *United States housing bubble and United States housing market correction
• *Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010
• *2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis
• *2008–2010 Irish banking crisis
• *Russian financial crisis of 2008–2009
• *2008 Latvian financial crisis
• *Venezuelan banking crisis of 2009–10
• 2008-16 Spanish financial crisis

  2010s

• European sovereign debt crisis
• *Greek government-debt crisis
• 2010-14 Portuguese financial crisis
• Crisis in Venezuela
• Ukrainian crisis
• 2014 Russian financial crisis
• 2014-2017 Brazilian economic crisis
• 2015 Chinese stock market crash
• Turkish currency and debt crisis, 2018

  2020s

• Coronavirus recession
• Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
• *2020 stock market crash
• **Black Monday
• **Black Thursday
• Lebanon liquidity crisis of 2020