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1990: Great Britain joined the ERM.

1991:European leaders signed the Treaty of Maastricht, definition of the European Union (EU) and urges countries that secures the opt-out for the United Kingdom EMU John Major.

16 September 1992: Black mercredi.La Britain is forced to withdraw sterling from the ERM, after he was unable to maintain sterling over the agreed limit.

1995: European leaders agree to call the new single currency, the euro.

1997: Newly elected Chancellor Gordon Brown said that the Government is pro-euro in principle but should pass "five economic tests" before the holding of a referendum on the issue.William Hague, announces that the conservative party depart to join the euro at least two parliaments.

On January 4, 1999:The euro was born in 11 of the 15 Member States and trade starts at $1.1747, reaching a maximum of $1.1906 on the same day.The United Kingdom, the Sweden and the Denmark remain out of the currency unique.La Greece is initially excluded due to the weakening of the economy.

December 2, 1999:Euro below parity with the dollar for the first time.

On October 26, 2000:Euro hits a record low of $0.8225, 30pc below its value launch.

On September 22, 2000:The European Central Bank with the central banks of the United States and the Japan intervenes in foreign exchange markets to support the value of the euro.

September 11, 2001 - the terrorist attacks against the United States sees lower to $0.90 euro.

On January 2, 2002:Euro banknotes and coins become legal in 12 countries of the euro - zone the Greece is the twelfth member.

On June 28, 2002:Euro rises back above $1.00.Pressure on the dollar intensifies after months of concern from the Enron of WorldCom accounting scandals.

On June 30, 2004:Fed raises rates by a quarter of a record low 1% percentage point, the first of a series of walks that take rates as high as 5.25% in June 2006.Euro closes on $1.2185.

February 27, 2008:Euro trades above the psychological key $ 1.50, barrier after the President of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke marked that the Central Bank was ready to cut rates again in front of mounting risks to economic growth.

Fall 2008:Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, while the leasing of government insurer stolen AIG.Investisseurs safe-haven status of the dollar and a minimum of 1.2328 yen.Euro files $ 1.4825 28 October $ September 22.

6 May 2010:Euro falls to a 14-month low of $1.2510 as the debt contagion risk Greek rock crisis markets mondiaux.Tombe to a minimum of four years against the dollar on May 17 at $1.2234.

30 November 2010:Euro drops below the mark of $1.30 for the first time since mid-September, as fears about the crisis of the debt of the euro area.

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Goldman Sachs has begun in New York, when a German immigrant, Marcus Goldman, has opened an Office in the piece on Pine Street.?Photo: GETTY IMAGES

September 2010:Vince Cable makes reference to bankers "scam artists and players" in the Liberal Democrat Party Conference.

28 April 2010 - M. Blankfein admits that he believed that Goldman Sachs have no moral obligation to tell the clients he has bet against a product is asking them to buy.

16 April 2010 - ESA continues Goldman Sachs for fraudulent sale accompanied by a guarantee of the debt associated with the sub-prime mortgages.

January 13, 2010 - M. Blankfein testifies before the financial crisis Inquiry Commission considers role of Goldman Sachs as primarily a content market, not a creator of sub-prime mortgage-based securities.

November 2009 – Mr. Blankfein, said he and colleagues of bankers, "" God work make"."

2009 - Forbes magazine appoints Mr. Blankfein "most outrageous Director General" of the year, the Financial Times names while he "person of the year".

June 2009 - Goldman pays money bailing out more outrage 23pc.Invites interests when it announces almost as soon as it will set aside $6. 65bn to compensate staff this year.

October 2008 - Goldman receives a taxpayer bailout $with problematic property assistance program of the u.s. Government.

2008 - The financial downturn finally taken, Goldman becomes a bank holding company so it can more easily access federal funds.

2007 - While many of his rivals tried, reports that Goldman had benefited from the sub-prime crisis emerged, with merchants in Paris generation that risky mortgage-backed securities would enter into value would have been $4 profits, erasure of. 1 $ 5bn to $transmitters losses related to mortgage elsewhere in the company .Goldman later deny that he made any profits of the subprime crisis.

31 May 2006 - resignation following Henry Paulson became u.s. Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Blankfein is appointed Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs.Il received a total of $53.4 m, including a bonus cash of $27.3 m in 2006, making him one of paid managers higher on Wall Street.

1956 - After slowing moving away from its business and to the banking, investment services Goldman is rewarded by the title of Adviser to lead on Ford Pit in 1956.

1928 - The company launches Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., a fund closed end that failed after the stock market crash of 1929, undermining its reputation for several years.

1869 - Goldman Sachs begins in New York, when a German immigrant, Marcus Goldman, opens an office room on the street of the pins.Goldman joined in 1882 by his son-in-law, Samuel Sachs.Goldman Sachs was born.

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