1914 AD
British suspension of gold convertibility
Money, banking & finance · Patrones monetarios y convertibilidad
On 6 August 1914, gold convertibility was suspended in Britain at the start of the war. This record follows the monetary and legal change, not the military conflict treated in other layers; it shows that even a de jure gold standard depended on state decisions and could be interrupted in exceptional circumstances.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- 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
- Date not recorded
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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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