List of sovereign debt crises

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| 1797 || Deflation after the withdrawal of the assignat and mandat territorial led Finance Minister Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret to repudiate of 2/3 of French state debt.{{cite podcast| url= https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2015/08/347-the-directorial-terror.html| title= 3.47 The Directorial Terror | work=Revolutions | last=Duncan |first=Mike |author-link= Mike Duncan (podcaster) | date= 16 August 2015| access-date=16 May 2022}}

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| rowspan="3" | {{flag|Germany}} || 1812 || State spending during the Napoleonic Wars was extremely high due in large manner to the high level of military expenditures.

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| 1932 || Under the Versailles Treaty ending the First World War, Germany was forced to make war reparations. The Young Plan of 1929 was meant to settle the structure, but in the Great Depression repayments became impossible. In the Lausanne Conference of 1932, the UK and France agreed to a suspension of payments. The US Congress rejected it, but payments ceased until the implementation of the London Agreement on German External Debts in 1953.

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| 1948 || See London Agreement on German External Debts

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| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Greece}}

| 2012 || {{cite book|last1=Zettelmeyer|first1=Jeromin|last2=Trebesch|first2=Christoph|last3=Gulati|first3=Mitu|title=The Greek Debt Restructuring - An Autopsy|date=July 2013|url=http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5343&context=faculty_scholarship}}

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| 2015 || Due to the Greek government-debt crisis, Greece failed to make a €1.6 billion payment to the IMF on time (payment was made with a 20-day delay{{cite news |url= http://www.ekathimerini.com/199737/article/ekathimerini/business/imf-says-greece-made-overdue-payments-no-longer-in-default |title= IMF: Greece makes overdue payments, no longer in default

|work= eKathimerini |date= 20 July 2015 |access-date=10 September 2018}}{{cite news |url= https://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/greece-politics.13i2/ |title= IMF: Greece makes overdue payments, no longer in default

|work= EUBusiness |date= 20 July 2015 |access-date=10 September 2018}}).

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| 1918 || Repudiation of Tsarist debts by Bolshevik revolutionaries.Kim Oosterlinck. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7AODAAAQBAJ&pg=PT28 Hope Springs Eternal: French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign debt] Yale University Press. 2016

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| 1998 || After world commodity prices dropped on major Russian exports (particularly metals and oil) the 1998 Russian financial crisis ensued. Mounting debts led to the government declaring a moratorium on payments to international creditors.

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| 2022 || 2022 Russian debt default{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-gazeta.ru/news/542973 |script-title=ru:Силуанов: Запад заморозил примерно половину золотовалютных резервов России |work=Business Gazetta |language=ru |date=2022-03-13}}

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| {{flag|Sweden}} || 1812 || Military expenditures as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

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| {{flag|Ukraine}} || 1998–2000 ||

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| {{flag|Yugoslavia}} || 1983 || Avoided default through a multinational emergency loan.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

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• List of corporate collapses and scandals
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• List of largest U.S. bank failures
• Currency crisis
• Government debt
• War reparations
• Global settlement
• London Club
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