1820s |
The first savings banks in Sweden.
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1824 |
Proclamation for private banks.
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1831 |
Skånes Enskilda Bank is founded.
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1830s |
Mortgage institutions are introduced.
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1834 |
Currency reform. Silver standard.
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1844 |
Oscar I succeeds Karl XIV Johan.
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1855 |
Currency reform; in the new decimal system; the riksdaler riksmynt (rmt) is subdivided into 100 öre.
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1856 |
A.O.Wallenberg founds Stockholms Enskilda Bank.
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1857 |
Commercial crisis after the boom associated with the Crimean war.
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1859 |
Karl XV succeeds Oscar I.
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1861 |
General Mortgage Bank founded.
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1863 |
Skandinaviska Kredit AB is established. A.W. Björck becomes the Estates’ Bank’s delegate for internal administration (the first governor in the modern sense).
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1864 |
The Bank of England starts to use its discount rate as a monetary policy instrument. Sweden’s interest rate ceiling is abolished for most kinds of loan.
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1866 |
The Riksdag is replaced by a bicameral parliament.
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1867 |
The Bank of the Estates of the Realm is renamed Sveriges Riksbank (National Bank of Sweden).
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1868 |
A.W. Dufwa is appointed ‘governor’ of the Riksbank.
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1871 |
Stockholms Handelsbank is founded.
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1872 |
Oscar II succeeds Karl XV
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1873 |
Gold standard. Scandinavian monetary union. New currency unit, krona.
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1875 |
Norway joins the Scandinavian monetary union.
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1878–9 |
International financial crisis.
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1883 |
Johan Wolter Arnberg is appointed ‘governor’ of the Riksbank.
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1890 |
The Baring crisis. The Riksbank uses its discount rate for the first time.
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1897 |
The Riksbank Act institutes the Bank as the central bank of Sweden with an exclusive right to issue bank notes.
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1901 |
Karl Langenskiöld is appointed first delegate (governor) of the Riksbank.
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1906 |
The Riksbank moves into its new building on Helgeandsholmen.
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1907 |
Gustav V succeeds Oscar II.
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1907–8 |
Financial crisis.
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1912 |
Victor Moll is appointed first delegate (governor) of the Riksbank.
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