This interactive timeline charts the history of the insurance industry from its primitive beginnings in ancient times, to the industry we know today.
- The first written insurance policy appeared on a Babylonian monument with the code of King Hammurabi in 1750 B.C.
- Edmond Halley created the first real Mortality Tables in 1693 and his work contributed heavily to actuarial science.
- It took another 100 years for the insurance industry to establish itself in America and Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in this in 1792.
