May 9 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1873
The Panic of 1873 begins
On Black Friday in Vienna, the stock exchange collapses, triggering a depression that will grip Europe and America for years. Railway speculation and reckless banking bring the long Victorian boom to a shuddering halt. In America it will be called the Great Depression -- until a worse one comes along.