timeline of the U.S. banking system By twang976 1816 The Privately Owned Second Bank of the US was Chartered http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/general/a-brief-history-of-central-banking/second-bank-of-the-united-states-(1816-1836).php 1833 President Jackson Issues Executive Order to Stop Depositing Government Funds Into Bank of US https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-shuts-down-second-bank-of-the-u-s 1835 Jackson Escapes Assassination https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-narrowly-escapes-assassination 1861 American Civil War www.history.com 1865 Lincoln Assassinated http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/witnessing-history-memories-from-the-night-of-the-lincoln-assassination-150342/ 1881 President James Garfield, Staunch Proponent of “Honest Money” Backed by Gold and Silver, was Assassinated https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiEstq3tazcAhVMiqwKHWvOBX4Qjhx6BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Finlightofrecentevents.wordpress.com%2Famerican-debt-crisis-in-charts-etc%2F&psig=AOvVaw0pEs_xGfEX-31KcQZUb1nu&ust=1532132756194413 1907 Banking Panic of 1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907 1908 JP Morgan Associate and Rockefeller Relative Nelson Aldrich Heads New National Monetary Commission http://www.internallydisplacedpeople.org/joomla30/index.php/temp-unlearn/74-woodrow-wilson-and-federal-reserve-history 1910 Bankers Meet Secretly on Jekyll Island to Draft Federal Reserve Banking Legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Federal_Reserve_System 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis