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Mayer Amschel Rothschild
1744 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild partnership is born in Frankfurt 1810 Mayer’s son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, establishes the London banking house that still bears his name
1814 In the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars, the five Rothschild brothers worked to supply gold to Wellington’s army
1825 150,000 sovereigns paid into the Bank of England by the house of Rothschild following a run on the Bank’s reserves Lionel de Rothschild
1858 Lionel de Rothschild elected to City of London parliamentary seat 1
1887 The Rothschilds he
lp finance the establishment of De Beers 1911 A Rothschild directed firm, the Alliance Assurance Company, refuses to insure the liner Titanic
1923 Edmond de Rothschild establishes the Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association
1949 Guy de Rothschild becomes head of the French bank Associé de M M de Rothschild Frères