Gold

Ereignisse (10)

• 1539

  5/30 — In Florida landet Hernando de Soto mit 600 Soldaten in Tampa Bay, um Gold zu finden.

• 1842

  3/9 — The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

• 1848

  1/24 — California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

• 1864

  10/30 — Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".

• 1869

  2/5 — The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

• 1869

  9/24 — "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

• 1933

  6/5 — Das US-Kongress hebt die Anwendung des Goldstandards der Vereinigten Staaten durch ein gemeinsames Resolution (48 Stat. 112) auf, das das Recht der Gläubiger auf Zahlung in Gold aufhebt.

• 1938

  7/31 — Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.

• 2008

  3/13 — Die Goldpreise an der New York Mercantile Exchange erreichten zum ersten Mal 1.000 Dollar pro Unze.

• 631

  6/11 — Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.