Welcome to the Timeline of SEC and Securities History

Explore important events in the history of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the securities industry with our interactive timeline.

Select a decade, scroll left or right to see different years and click on the events
in bold to read more detail.

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Opened March 2004
Curated by Felice Batlan, Ph.D.

The creation of this timeline has made substantial use of The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance, Third Edition, by Joel Seligman (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003).

Expanded December 2006
Curated by Felice Batlan, Ph.D., Chicago-Kent Law School
With support from the T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.