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Stock brokers and merchants meet to acknowledge the start of the New York Stock Exchange.
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The New York Stock Exchange and Board is established and the brokers begin to rent rooms on 40 Wall Street
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The prices drop from 8% to 10% in one trading session. There was a 45% drop in the market value.
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Trading securities with seceding states was suspended at the start of the Civil War.
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The name gets changed from the NYS&EB and becomes the New York Stock Exchange.
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Members of the New York Stock Exchange are allowed to sell their seats.
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A banking firm in Philadelphia fails after speculations. The Stock Exchange closes for 10 days as the panic spread across the nation.
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The new headquarters of the New York Stock Exchanged are established on Broad Street.
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Financial problems at a leading New York bank, Knickerbocker Trust began to spread.
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Security exchanges all around the world begin to suspend operations when Europe gets engulfed by World War 1. The New York Stock Exchange closed its doors for 4.5 months.
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Five days after black Thursday, the stock market crashes, marking the start of the Great Depression.
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The New York Stock Exchange gets their first full-time president, William McChesney Martin Jr.
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President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack, which leads to a huge wave of selling at the Exchange
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The Dow had the largest drop in a single day. It dropped by 508 points or 22.61%
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Dow had largest gain in a single day. It gained 499 points.
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After 9/11, the stock exchange closed for four days and the Dow dropped 685 points.
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The New York Stock Exchange group was formed after the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago Holdings merged.
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NYSE Group and Euronext merged, creating the NYSE Euronext group.
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NYSE Euronext gets the American Stock Exchange. They then become the third largest marketplace option in the United States.
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Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange buys the New York Stock Exchange.
