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16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco

16th July 2026
Tagged as: Bank, Banking, Copper, Economy, Europe, Finance, Merchant, Money, Stockholm, Sweden, Trade

The new banknotes were welcomed because they were lighter, easier to carry, and more convenient for trade. The bank also found that paper currency encouraged greater commercial activity.

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16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

16th January 2023
Tagged as: Antipope, Banking, Finance, John XXIII, Medici, Medieval, Papacy, Religion, Renaissance, Rome, Vatican

Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.

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16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco

16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad

7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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