1816 CE–1821 CE
Formal British gold standard and resumption of convertibility
Money, banking & finance · Patrones monetarios y convertibilidad
The 1816 Coinage Act legally established the British gold standard, and banknote convertibility was restored at the pre-war parity in 1821. Britain had already operated with de facto gold predominance at earlier points, and the system remained subject to suspensions and institutional decisions; this entry does not portray the gold standard as an automatic or immutable world order.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
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Sources
- www.bankofengland.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2006-03
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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