Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Question - 605


What was this curious event?

Answer: Tulip mania. The figure charts the price of tulip bulb contracts showing the tulip bubble burst dramatically in February 1637 (as Dinesh pointed out, a history-of-the-day question courtesy Wikipedia). Ameya, Dinesh, and Kaushik got it. Great job.

3 comments:

Ameya said...

tulip price index

Dinesh said...

Tulip mania - this day in history question?

Kaushik said...

The Dutch Tulip Mania