8500 - 560 BC
Invention of the wheel
520 BC - 1474
The first banknotes or paper money
First use of movable type made in Terra cotta
Medieval economic revolution
Fibonacci brings Arab numbers to Europe
Invention of metal movable type printing
Creation of the first stock exchange
Invention of printing in Europe
First regulations on patents
1474 - 1740
Double-entry accounting
First bearer notes redeemable in cash in Sweden
1740 - 1945
The industrial revolution
Construction of the Rocket, one of the first steam engines
First industrial oil drilling
Invention of the telephone
Dissemination of electricity
Invention of radio and cinema
Creation of the Dow Jones in the United States.
First international passenger air service
Invention of television
Opening of the first supermarket in New York
The Wörgl Experiment in Tyrol, Austria: the first parallel currency
Schumpeter's creative destruction
1945 to the present
The post-World War II 30-year boom period (the trente glorieuses)
Marketing of the first electronic computer
First nuclear power stations supplying civil energy
Launch of the first general-purpose credit card
Invention of the world wide web
The digital revolution of information and communication technologies
Emergence of social networks
