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Overend Gurney Crisis

Great Britain · Economy / Financial Crisis. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1866Date range
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Chronological records

1866

William Ewart Gladstone11 May 1866

London · Economy / Financial Crisis

Gladstone authorises emergency liquidity after the collapse of Overend Gurney triggers panic.

Names involved

William Ewart Gladstone

Provenance

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