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2013 Event - In Japan, optimism for economic revival sparked Bank of Japan's stimulus plan, impacts Japan's stock market index; following its release, the Nikkei 225 hits its highest level in nearly five years

2013 Event - Davos, Switzerland hosts its 2013 World Economic Forum

2012 Event - Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy

2012 Event - In an effort to ease economic sanctions on Myanmar, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi embarks on a 17-day tour of the United States

2012 Event - The People's Republic of China economic growth rate experiences to its lowest level in three years, 7.6 per cent

2012 Event - While Greece struggles to overcome its economic crisis, Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democratic party, negotiates with political rivals to form a coalition government

2012 Event - The decision of the Economic Community of West African States to deploy troops to the country is rejected by Mali coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo

2012 Event - French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents an economic reform package that increases taxes and proposes a new tax on financial transactions

2012 Event - A German government plan proposing that a eurozone 'budget commissioner' take control of Greece's economic affairs is leaked

2011 Event - In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis

2011 Event - For the second day in a row, global stock markets fall as fears of a deepening economic crisis continue

2011 Event - With weak economic prospects and significant levels of public debt, Japan is downgraded to Aa3 by Moody's credit rating agency

2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency

2011 Event - The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland

2010 Event - David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, embarks on an official visit aimed at building closer economic ties to the People's Republic of China

2010 Event - China's largest fair, Canton Fair, opens and is closely watched as it is the barometer of the country's trade and economic development

2010 Event - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

2010 Event - Japan's government approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package

2010 Event - President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council

2010 Event - Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

1995 Death - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75

1994 Event - Israel and PLO sign economic accord

1993 Event - U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa

1993 Event - 12 member European Economic Community sets up vast free trade zone

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq

1988 Event - U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Panama

1986 Event - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade

1986 Event - U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1986 Event - Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community

1985 Event - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief

1982 Event - President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1981 Event - Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

1977 Death - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80

1975 Event - Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market

1974 Event - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

1973 Birthday - Larry Page, born in East Lansing, Michigan, computer scientist, Google co-founder, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum

1973 Event - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1965 Event - Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia

1965 Event - U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact

1965 Event - South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products

1964 Event - President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act

1960 Event - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms

1959 Event - Iraq and U.S.S.R. sign economic/technical treaty

1959 Event - Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty

1958 Event - European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation

1957 Event - U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid

1957 Event - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market

1951 Event - British begins economic boycott of Iran

1948 Event - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization

1941 Birthday - Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic, VVD

1940 Death - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54

1931 Event - Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis

1927 Event - International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens

1926 Event - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent

1923 Birthday - Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist, Council of Economic Advisers

1921 Birthday - Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs

1921 Event - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics

1920 Birthday - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian

1915 Event - Japan claims economic control of China

1911 Birthday - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs

1879 Event - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation

1655 Event - England and France sign miltary and economic treaties

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