landmarks in nationalisation

This page highlights some landmarks in the history of nationalisation of domestic and offshore-owned infrastructure and enterprises.

As a preceding page noted, nationalisation - although often ad hoc and frequently followed by privatisation (and even re-nationalisation) - has broadly occurred in four waves.

1879 major railways (Germany)

1889 telephone network (France)

1902 railways (Switzerland)

1905 railways (Italy)

1912 National Telephone Company (UK) - £12.5m

1918 national railways (Canada)

1927 British Broadcasting Company (UK)

1937 UFA (Germany)

1938 Gaumont cinemas (France)

1938 main railways (France)

1938 oil production (Mexico)

1940 Havas news service as Office Français d'Information (France)

1941 railways (Spain)

1944 Scherl media group (Germany)

1944 Hydro-Québec (Canada)

1944 Renault (France)

1945 coal mining (France)

1946 gas and electricity production and distribution (France)

1946 much of insurance industry (France)

1946 Banque de France (France)

1946 Bank of England (UK)

1946 Crédit Lyonnais, Société Générale, Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie and Comptoir d’Escompte de Paris (France)

1946 French-owned raiways (Argentina) - £183 million

1947 British-owned railways (Argentina) - £150 million

1947 Cable & Wireless (UK)

1947 electricity (UK)

1947 airlines (Spain)

1947 railways (Uruguay)

1948 railways (UK)

1949 gas (UK)

1950 coal mining (UK)

1951 Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Iran)

1952 mining (Bolivia)

1953 Air India (India)

1955 Imperial Bank of India (India)

1956 Suez Canal (Egypt)

1958 Dutch enterprises (Indonesia)

1962 electricity (Italy)

1967 copper mining (Zaire)

1967 British Steel (UK)

1969 14 major commercial banks (India)

1971 copper mining (Chile)

1971 bauxite (Guyana)

1972 coal (India)

1973 water (England and Wales)

1973 oil (Libya)

1975 oil (Kuwait)

1976 sugar production (Guyana)

1976 copper (Zambia)

1976 British Leyland Motor Corporation (UK)

1977 British Aerospace

1980 6 more commercial banks (India)

1981 Paribas (France)

1982 Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (France)

1982 Thomson (France)

2006 oil and gas (Bolivia)

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