On March 19
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly March 19. The closest is Joint-stock companies and the world's first stock exchange on March 20 (1 day later).
This week in history (Mar 16 to Mar 22)
1600 to 1611 (VOC chartered 20 March 1602; exchange opened 1611)Joint-stock companies and the world's first stock exchangeEconomy & trade
Between 1600 and 1611 the institutional core of modern finance took shape in northwestern Europe.
On 21 March 1804 France promulgated the Civil Code of the French, soon known as the Code Napoléon.
On 21 March 1960 South African police opened fire on a crowd of several thousand unarmed Black protesters outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville, in the Transvaal.
On 20 March 2003 a US-led coalition including Britain, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq, opening with a 'shock and awe' bombing campaign aimed at the government of Saddam Hussein.