1744: Mayer Amschel Bauer is born in Frankfurt, Germany, on 23 Feb 1744. He is the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, a money lender and the proprietor of a counting house.
1760- : During this decade Mayer Amschel Bauer works for a bank owned by the Oppenheimers in Hanover, Germany. He is highly successful and becomes a junior partner. Whilst working at the bank he becomes acquainted with General von Estorff. Following his father’s death, Bauer returns to Frankfurt to take over his father’s business. Bauer looks at the red sign hanging over the entrance door, gets some idea, and changes his name from Bauer to Rothschild (Rot is German for red; Schild is German for sign).
Now Mayer Amschel Rothschild, he establishes business connections with the court of prince Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel (1743-1821). In 1769 he is given permission to hang a sign on the front of his business premises declaring that he is:
“M. A. Rothschild, by appointment court factor to his serene highness, Prince Wilhelm of Hanau.”
1770: On 29 Aug Mayer Amschel marries Gutlé Schnapper (1753-1849). They will have five sons and five daughters.
1773: Amschel Mayer Rothschild is born.
1774: Salomon Mayer Rothschild is born.
1776: On 1 May 1776 the Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) founded the Order of Illuminati. Its mission was to establish a New World Order (NWO), which meant the abolition of all monarchical governments and religions. Mayer Amschel Rothschild is traditionally associated with this order, but exactly when he turned up, and what his role was, is unclear.
Relations with Masonic lodges were established at Munich and Freising in 1780 by Alexander Gibson and Joseph Vincent respectively. The order had its branches in most countries of the European continent; it reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of 10 years. The scheme had its attraction for literary men, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder. Jim Marrs (2000) writes:
“Unlike anarchists that seek an end to all government, Weishaupt and his Illuminati sought a world government based on their philosophy of human-centered rationalism. This world government, of course, would be administered by themselves”.
1777: Nathan Mayer Rothschild is born.
1785: The downfall of the Order of Illuminati is effected by The Secular Edict made by the Bavarian government.
With the death of his father, Wilhelm I becomes Wilhelm IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and inherits one of the largest fortunes in Europe at the time. He comes to depend substantially on Mayer Amschel Rothschild for managing this fortune, particularly during and after the invasion and conquest of the area by Napoleon. Much of the early Rothschild fortune and rise to prominence was built on his relationship with Wilhelm IX.
1788: Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild is born.
1792: Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild is born.
1798: Nathan Mayer Rothschild leaves Frankfurt for Manchester (England), and with this he founds the Rothschild banking family of England. With the help of his father and brothers he exports English textiles to Europe.
1805: Nathan moves to London, where he begins to deal on the London stock exchange in financial instruments such as foreign bills and government securities.
1806: In June 1806 when Napoleon’s troops pushed their way into Germany, Wilhelm IX fled to Denmark, leaving his fortune valued at $3.000.000 at that time to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping.
1810: Sir Francis Baring and Abraham Goldsmid die. This leaves Nathan as the remaining major banker in England. He is now married with Hannah Barent Cohen (1783–1850). They will have seven children.
1811: The Rothschilds set up their family bank N. M. Rothschild & Sons, named after Nathan. This bank is still active today. Wikipedia:
“It is a leading player in Mergers & Acquisitions ('M&A') work and in 2006 was named both Best UK M&A House and Best European M&A House. It made profit before tax of £87m on turnover of £370m for the year ended 31 Mar 2006.”
1791-1836: In USA there are two attempts to establish a central bank:
- the First Bank of the United States, which was given a 20 years charter from 1791 to 1811.
- the Second Bank of the United States, which was given a 20 years charter from 1816-1836.
It is uncertain what role the Rothschilds had, if any, concerning these two attempts, and in the US-UK war (1812-1815). It may be that the Rothschilds’ activity in USA began with sending their representative August Belmont (1813-1890) from Frankfurt to New York in 1837. In 1849 Alphonse Rothschild arrived in New York.
1812: Mayer Amschel Rothschild dies on 19 Sep 1812. In his will he lays out specific laws that the House of Rothschild were to follow. All key positions in the family business were only to be held by family members. Only male members of the family were allowed to participate in the family business. The family was to intermarry with it’s first and second cousins to preserve the family fortune. The eldest son of the eldest son was to become the head of the family, but this condition could be overturned if the majority of the family agreed otherwise. This was straightaway the case, and Nathan in London was elected head of the family.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild also stated in his will that no public inventory of his estate was to be published, and no legal action was to be taken with regard to the value of the inheritance;
Jacob Mayer Rothschild, the youngest of the five sons, goes to Paris. Here he founds The Rothschild banking family of France. His name Jacob is translated to James. In 1817 he formally created the bank de Rothschild Frères with some of his brothers as partners.
1814: With regard to the $3.000.000 Wilhelm IX had entrusted to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping, the Jewish Encyclopaedia [1905 edition, Vol. 10] has this to say about what happened:
“According to legend this money was hidden away in wine casks, and, escaping the search of Napoleon’s soldiers when they entered Frankfurt, was restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when the elector (Wilhelm IX) returned to the electorate (Germany). The facts are somewhat less romantic, and more businesslike.”
This last line indicates that the money was never returned by Rothschild to William IX. The encyclopaedia goes on to state that Nathan in London invested this $3.000.000 in,
“gold from the East India company, knowing that it would be needed for Wellington's peninsula campaign.”
1815: The five Rothschild brothers work to supply gold to both Wellington’s army (through Nathan in England) and to Napoleon’s army (through James in France). This was the beginning of the Rothschild practice of funding both sides in wars. Later, they would also work for initiating wars, in order to make huge profits by the governments’ needs to borrow money.
Due to the fact that these brothers had banks spread out across Europe, this gave them the facility to set up an unrivalled network of secret routes and fast couriers. These Rothschild couriers were the only merchants allowed to pass through the English and the French blockades. It was these couriers who also kept Nathan up to date with how the war was going, so he could use that intelligence to buy and sell from his position on the stock exchange in accordance with that intelligence.
At that time British bonds were called consols and they were traded on the floor of the stock exchange. Nathan instructed all his workers on the floor to start selling consols. They made all the other traders believe that the British had lost the war so they started selling frantically. Therefore the consols plummeted in value, which was when Nathan discreetly instructed his workers to purchase all the consols they could lay their hands on. When news came through that the British had actually won the war, the consols went up to a level even higher than before the war ended, leaving Nathan with a return of approximately 20 to 1 on his investment.
This gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, now the financial centre of the world. This forced England to set up a new Bank of England, which Nathan controlled. Nathan would later state:
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”
The Rothschilds also use their control of the Bank of England to replace the method of shipping gold from country to country, by instead using their five banks spread across Europe to set up a system of paper debits and credits, the banking system of today.
1818: Following the French securing massive loans in 1817 in order to help rebuild after their disastrous defeat at Waterloo, Rothschild agents bought vast amounts of French government bonds causing their value to increase. On November they dumped the lot on the open market causing their value to plummet and France to go into a financial panic. The Rothschilds then stepped in to take control of the French money supply. This was the same year the Rothschilds were able to loan £5.000.000 to the Prussian government.
1820: Salomon Mayer Rothschild, the second son, goes to Vienna. Here he founds The Rothschild banking family of Austria.
1821: Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild, the fourth son, goes to Naples (Italy). Here he founds The Rothschild banking family of Naples. He would end up doing a lot of business with the Vatican, and Pope Gregory XVI subsequently conferred upon him the Order of St. George. Also, whenever the Pope received Kalmann, he would give him his hand rather than the customary toe to kiss, which showed the extent of Kalmann’s power over the Vatican. The Naples house closed in 1863.
1822: Francis II (1768-1835), the last Holy Roman Emperor, makes the five Rothschild brothers Barons. As such, four of them (but not Nathan) began to use von Rothschild to acknowledge the grant of nobility.
1827: Sir Walter Scott publishes his nine volume set The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. In volume two he states that the French Revolution (1789-1799) was planned by the Illuminati (Adam Weishaupt) and was financed by the money changers of Europe (the Rothschilds).
1837: Maria Anna Schicklgruber (1795-1847) gives birth to an illegitimate child, Alois, Adolf Hitler’s father. According to one source, she was employed as a servant at the Rothschild mansion in Vienna [Hansjurgen Koehler: Inside The Gestapo (1940)]. The only Rothschild who lived at the Vienna mansion was Salomon Mayer. Even his wife did not live there because their marriage was so bad that she stayed in Frankfurt. And Hermann von Goldschmidt, the son of Salomon Mayer’s senior clerk, wrote a book, published in 1917, which said of Salomon:
"He had a lecherous passion for very young girls, his adventures with whom had to be hushed up by the police."
However, Maria Anna was at that time 42 years. That Hitler’s grandfather was a Rothschild, may therefore be an urban legend.
1838: Amschel, the eldest of the five Rothschild brothers, who remained in Frankfurt, states:
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
1840: The Rothschilds become the Bank of England’s bullion brokers. They set up agencies in California and Australia.
1844: Salomon in Vienna purchases the United Coal Mines of Vítkovice and Austro-Hungarian Blast Furnace Company that would go on to be one of the top ten global industrial concerns.
Benjamin Disraeli, who would go on to become British Prime Minister twice, publishes Coningsby. Here he characterises Nathan in London as:
“the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.”
1845: Former US president Andrew Jackson dies. He leaves instructions in his will to have “I Killed The Bank” inscribed on his headstone, a reference to the fact that he stopped the Rothschild controlled Second Bank of the United States from getting the charter renewed.
The Rothschilds win the contract to build the first major railway line across the country. In September 1845 they founded the rail transport company Chemin de Fer du Nord in Paris, France. It was owned by de Rothschild Frères of France and N M Rothschild & Sons of London, England.
James de Rothschild served as the company’s first president from its inception until his death in 1868. From the Gare du Nord station the company built in Paris, the line led north to the English Channel, first connecting in 1846 to Douai and Lille. In 1847, lines were added to Amiens and Valenciennes and then into the Belgian cities of Kortrijk and Ghent. In 1848, construction brought the railway to Boulogne-sur-Mer and Saint Quentin, Aisne.
1849: Gutlé (née Schnapper), Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife, dies. Before her death she would state:
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”
1850: Construction begins this decade on the manor houses of Mentmore in England and Ferrières in France. More Rothschilds manors will follow throughout the world, all of them filled with works of art.
1852: N. M. Rothschild & Sons begin refining gold and silver for the Royal Mint and the Bank of England and other international customers.
1853: Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812-1870), the fourth son of Nathan in London, becomes the founder of the French wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. He moves to France i 1850, purchases Château Brane Mouton in 1853, the Bordeaux vineyard of Mouton, and renames it Château Mouton Rothschild.
1855: Three of the Rothschild brothers die: Amschel (Frankfurt), Salomon (Vienna) and Kalmann (Naples).