Major market sell-offs typically occur about once every five to 10 years, according to a study, but they come at various ...

It then took four years for the Dow to fully recover from the crash. Image source: Getty Images. The most recent stock market crash occurred in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide.

The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression.

COVID-19 caused a sharp and rapid decline in the market, but it also was short-lived and regarded as one of the shortest plunges in history. The U.S. stock ... The most famous, the 1929 crash ...