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2013 Event - G20 finance ministers focus on the so-named "currency wars" during their meeting in Moscow, Russia

2012 Event - Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency

2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency

2011 Event - At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency

2010 Event - Thousands of Venezuelan protesters demonstrate for and against President Hugo Chavez' policies surrounding energy shortages and currency revaluation

2009 Event - For the first time in 17 years, North Korea raises the value of its currency

2009 Event - Slovakia replaces its national currency, the Slovak koruna, with the Euro

2008 Event - Cyprus replaces it's currency with the Euro

2008 Event - Malta replaces it's currency with the Euro

2007 Event - Slovenia begins using the Euro as it's currency

2002 Event - The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe

1990 Event - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency

1990 Event - West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st

1980 Event - Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens

1966 Event - Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps

1965 Event - France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

1957 Event - German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency

1955 Event - Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust"

1952 Event - Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted

1929 Event - U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

1919 Event - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910

1910 Event - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent

1908 Event - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System

1900 Event - U.S. currency goes on gold standard

1892 Event - Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms

1871 Event - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

1871 Event - Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, and mills

1863 Event - Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress

1863 Event - Lincoln signs National Currency Act

1863 Event - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1862 Event - Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln

1861 Event - Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000

1858 Event - Canada begins using decimal currency system

1857 Event - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system

1857 Event - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in U.S.

1785 Event - Congress resolves U.S. currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage

1775 Event - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1775 Event - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time

1762 Event - Austria uses 1st paper currency

1596 Event - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency

1040 Event - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency

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