The House of Rothschild

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• Revolutionary wars breach the Frankfurt ghetto walls whole source

  in 1796, had literally demolished the walls of the Frankfurt ghetto and enabled the Rothschilds to begin their phenomenal, unprecedented and…

• Mayer Amschel structures the Rothschild partnership whole source

  It was Mayer Amschel who in 1810 designed the partnership structure that was to endure, modified but essentially the same, for very nearly a…

• James Rothschild rescues Nathan in the 1825 panic whole source

  When Britain suffered in 1825, James could bail out Nathan.

• 1830 Revolution in Paris - Nathan assists James whole source

  When Paris collapsed in 1830, Nathan could reciprocate.

• Bank of the United States collapses whole source

  Instead, politically undermined and financially mismanaged, it went bust in 1839.

• Death of Gutle Rothschild, family matriarch whole source

  But on May 7, 1849, in her ninety-sixth year and with her surviving sons at her bedside, Gutle finally died.

• Pereire brothers found the Credit Mobilier whole source

  Partly because of the coincidence of the foundation of the Credit Mobilier (November 20, 1852) and the formal proclamation of the Second Emp…

• Napoleon III proclaimed Emperor of the French whole source

  by the end of 1852—when Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor on the first anniversary of the coup—3 per cents stood at 83—a capital gain of n…

• Napoleon III announces French debt conversion whole source

  On March 14, 1852, Napoleon announced a large conversion operation, intended to cut the cost of debt service by reducing the interest due on…

• Rothschilds acquire a gold refinery lease whole source

  In January 1852, therefore, Anthony acquired the lease for the refinery, and by December Lionel was in a position formally to ask the Govern…

• Crimean War breaks out whole source

  In March 1854 war came. Implausibly, the Crimean War had its origins in a dispute between Catholic and Orthodox monks about the so-called Ho…

• Darmstadter Bank founded to rival the Rothschilds whole source

  On April 2, 1853, the Cologne bankers Abraham Oppenheim and Gustave Mevissen of the Schaffhausenscher Bankverein were granted a licence by t…

• Creditanstalt chartered in Vienna whole source

  On November 6 the Imperial and Royal Austrian Credit Institute for Commerce and Industry (Creditanstalt) was formally chartered; a month lat…

• Rothschilds win Lombard and Italian railway concessions whole source

  In 1856 the Pereires were once again defeated in the contest for the crucial Lombard and Central Italian lines, the defection to the Rothsch…

• South Austrian Railway Merger Planned whole source

  By August 1858 the thought of “une affaire gigantesque” linking these various strands to Vienna and Trieste by swallowing up both the Franz…

• Urgent Message at Alphonse's Dinner whole source

  On the evening of Thursday January 14, 1858, the Austrian ambassador in Paris was dining at Alphonse de Rothschild’s house in the rue Saint-…

• Henri Dunant witnesses the Battle of Solferino whole source

  No sooner had Austria suffered what looked like a fatal blow at Solferino (June 24) than Napoleon hastily made terms, fearful—and understand…

• Peace of Villafranca ends Austro-Sardinian War whole source

  At Villafranca (July 12), he struck a compromise with Franz Joseph which seemed to leave Cavour high and dry: Austria retained Venetia and t…

• James at Imperial Court whole source

  In January 1863, for example, he was spotted by the Goncourts at a soiree given by the Emperor’s cousin Princess Mathilde.

• Alphonse's Doubts on Italian Kingdom whole source

  In September 1864 Alphonse struck his cousin (and mother-in-law) Charlotte as “preoccupied because the house is overburdened with Italian st…

• Rothschilds return to Prussian bond finance whole source

  Rothschild involvement in Prussian finance resumed as early as January 1867, when Mayer Carl managed to secure the participation of the Fran…

• Death of James de Rothschild whole source

  On November 15, 1868, at the age of seventy-six, James de Rothschild, the last of Mayer Amschel’s five sons, died.

• Prussian generals occupy Ferrières estate whole source

  On September 17 General Gordon ordered the head butler to arrange dinner for fifteen; when thirty-two guests turned up there was not enough…

• France pays war indemnity to Germany whole source

  Between June 1871 and September 1873, France paid Germany 4,993 million francs, around 8 per cent of gross domestic product in the first yea…

• Radical crowds seize the Paris Hotel de Ville whole source

  on October 31, 1870, and again on January 19

• Paris Commune seizes control of Paris whole source

  between March and May 1871, just as preparations were getting under way for the payment

• French War Bonds Attract International Investors whole source

  Three per cent rentes looked undervalued in the first half of 1871 at prices of 50

• Banque de Paris outmaneuvers Rothschilds in war finance whole source

  director Soubeyran had got the better of Alphonse in the scramble for bills in the summer of 1871

• German Empire Confronts Fragmented Monetary Systems whole source

  Within the new Reich in 1871 there were at least seven coin systems, mostly silver-based.

• Germany enacts unified gold Coinage Law whole source

  it was not until July 1873 that a Coinage Law was passed

• Alfred Dreyfus falsely convicted of espionage whole source

  in 1894 when Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer on the French General Staff, was accused of being a German spy

• Britain Pursues Strategic Control of Egypt whole source

  As early as July 1876, it was rumoured in Berlin that

• Decree of Muharrem places Ottoman debt under control whole source

  On December 20, 1881, the Sultan promulgated the Decree of Muharrem which reduced the Turkish debt

• Egyptian debt conversion loans cut interest burden whole source

  The loans of 1890 and 1893 were conversion loans, issued to lower the interest on the Egyptian debt.

• Death of Alphonse de Rothschild whole source

  Between the death of Alphonse in 1905 and that of Alfred in 1918, the generation which had dominated Rothschild finance since around 1875 di…

• Death of Albert von Rothschild in Vienna whole source

  In Vienna Anselm’s last surviving son Albert died in 1911.

• Death of Natty de Rothschild whole source

  Lionel’s three sons Natty, Leo and Alfred died within a few years of one another in 1915, 1917 and 1918.

• Death of Charles Rothschild whole source

  after a long, debilitating illness took his own life in 1923.

• Henri de Rothschild sponsors the Ballets Russes tour whole source

  as a sponsor of the famous 1909 tour by Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe

• Jimmy Rothschild Commissions Bakst Decorative Panels whole source

  Jimmy’s decision in 1913 to commission (for his London dining room) a series of panels by Diaghilev’s set-designer Léon Bakst on the theme o…

• Balfour Declaration sent to Walter Rothschild whole source

  This text—which had been prepared by Leo Amery, assistant secretary to the War Cabinet—was sent by Balfour to Walter on November 2.

• Balfour Declaration celebrated at Covent Garden whole source

  a huge celebration was held at the Covent Garden opera house on December 2

• Lionel de Rothschild founds League of British Jews whole source

  Within a week of the issue of the declaration, Lionel took the lead in establishing a League of British Jews

• Jimmy de Rothschild inherits Waddesdon Manor whole source

  In 1922, Jimmy had rather unexpectedly inherited Waddesdon when Ferdinand’s unmarried sister Alice died

• Stavisky scandal triggers French political crisis whole source

  The suicide of a minor-league fraudster named Stavisky in January exposed yet another of those financial scandals

• Nazis seize S.M. von Rothschild bank in Vienna whole source

  On March 30 the firm of S. M. von Rothschild was placed under compulsory administration by a new Austrian Credit Institute

• Gestapo arrests Louis von Rothschild after Anschluss whole source

  The day after the Austro-German Anschluss of March 11, 1938, as cheering crowds welcomed Hitler’s troops into Vienna, Louis attempted to lea…

• Disraeli peerage prompts Buckinghamshire by-election whole source

  The party political tensions between the Rothschilds and Gladstone came to a head in 1876, when Disraeli’s elevation to the Lords necessitat…

• Natty Rothschild votes against Irish Land Bill whole source

  The first sign of a Rothschild revolt on Ireland came in 1880, when Natty joined a group of mainly aristocratic “Young Whigs” in voting agai…

• Unionists defeat Gladstone's Home Rule Bill whole source

  The result of the general election of July that year was a “smash” for Gladstone and Home Rule: 316 Conservatives were elected and 78 Libera…

• Goschen converts consols to lower interest rates whole source

  In 1889 the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Goschen undertook to convert £500 million of 3 per cent consols into 2.5 per cents—an operati…

• Rothschild intervention averts Barings Bank crisis whole source

  Credit is usually given to the “the Sinbad of Threadneedle Street”—as Goschen’s successor Harcourt called the Governor of the Bank—for savin…

• Rothschilds found the Exploration Company whole source

  in 1889 it was relaunched as a joint-stock company with a nominal capital of £300>000, and increasingly it acted as a company promoter (in o…

• Carl Meyer Reports on Transvaal Gold Fields whole source

  In early 1892 Carl Meyer was sent to the Transvaal to investigate the various gold mines. His report was euphoric. The fields, he declared,…

• Japan defeats China, enabling Russian expansion whole source

  By raising the spectre of increased Russian influence in the Far East, the Japanese defeat of China in 1894 created a perfect opportunity fo…

• Jameson Raid fails in the Transvaal whole source

  The Jameson Raid—an abortive invasion by what was, in effect, Rhodes’s private army in Bechuanaland—appalled the Rothschilds, who had no ink…

• Penjdeh crisis threatens Anglo-Russian war whole source

  In April 1885, in the dying days of Gladstone’s second ministry, an Anglo-Russian conflict threatened to break out following the Russian vic…

• French Rothschilds resume underwriting Russian loans whole source

  it was not until 1894 that the Rothschild-led syndicate issued a 3.5 per cent loan worth around £16 million (400 million francs).

• Rothschild New Year Celebration at Mentmore whole source

  a Rothschild gathering at Mentmore to see the 19th century out. I think we mustered 24 in all—R. [Rosebery] & his 3 unmarried children, the…

• Lloyd George publicly ridicules Lord Rothschild whole source

  Really, in all of these things we are having too much Lord Rothschild. We are not to have temperance reform in this country. Why? Because Lo…