Latest history
1400
1493First exchange locations
1600
1602VOC: the start of global share trading
1609The Bank of Amsterdam
1610First rules for share trading
1611The exchange of Hendrick de Keyser
1622Exchange drumming
1624A perpetual bond
1634The Tulip mania
1688The first book on share trading
1695Netherlands: Financier of foreign countries
1700
1720The Wind Trade Crisis
1774The world’s first investment fund
1782The Netherlands finances the US
1789Collegie tot Nut des Obligatiehandels
1796The first price list
1800
1823Poyais: investing in an imaginary country
1833The Nieuwe Handel-Sociëteit
1845The Zocher exchange
1845Mercury: symbol of exchange trading
1856Collaborating organizations
1865Railroads on the exchange
1876The Vereniging voor de Effectenhandel
1888The origins of clearing
1890A Second Golden Age
Beurs Rotterdam1898Rotterdam Exchange
1900
1903The exchange of Berlage
1905A stock exchange in The Hague
1913Beursplein 5
1917Russian securities declared invalid
1920A world first: prices through radio
1923The first woman on the show floor
1929Wall Street stockmarket crash
1940The Second World War
1955Everyone is an investor!
De optiebeurs1978The Options Exchange
1983The AEX index
1987Black Monday
1989Independent supervision
1997Amsterdam Exchanges
2000
2000Euronext
2002From floor to screen
2003Corporate Governance Code
2007Competition and new players
2008The gong
Ajax logo2013A goodbye to the paper share

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