At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family-with the donation valued at £ 25 million.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At this point Italian financier Benedict Spinola had loaned Oxford over £ 4, 000 for his 15 month long continental tour, while in England over 100 tradesmen were seeking settlement of debts totalling thousands of pounds.

At the end of November it was agreed that the purchasers of Oxford's lands would pay his entire debt of some £ 3, 306 due to Court of Wards over a five-year period, finishing in 1592.

At the closure of the UK Film Council on 31 March 2011, The Guardian reported that " The UKFC's entire annual budget was a reported £ 3m, while the cost of closing it down and restructuring is estimated to have been almost four times that amount.

* 2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £ 53m ( about $ 92. 5 million or € 78 million ) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

At the end of 2003, GCHQ moved to a new circular HQ ( popularly known as ' the Doughnut '): at the time, it was the second-largest public-sector building project in Europe, with an estimated cost of £ 337 million.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

At the start of the 1994 – 95 season Dalglish paid a record £ 5 million for Chris Sutton, with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership.

At the same time, plans were made for a new South Stand, which was estimated to cost £ 60, 000, however the tender price came out at GB £ 90, 000, a compromise was made, and it was decided to build a new upper South Stand costing £ 64, 000 instead, with the Cardiff Athletic Club contributing £ 15, 000 and the remainder coming from the WRU.

At the start of the project, the total cost was estimated at £ 2. 25M, although by time it was finished in 1984, it had risen by nearly four times that amount.

At present the Prime Minister receives £ 142, 500 including a salary of £ 65, 737 as a Member of Parliament.

At £ 25, 000 it is one of the largest prizes in British literature.

At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £ 50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police.

** At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting " The Massacre of the Innocents " ( first version ) is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

At the same time he argues that not everyone can speak in tongues ( 1 Cor 12: 29 ) and discourages simultaneous speaking in tongues directed at people rather than God, lest unbelievers should think that the assembled believers were " mad " ( 1 Cor 14: 23, 27 ).

At the same time, employees were given a further discount between 25 and 29 percent on selected models.

At the same time, it was announced that 7-Eleven had on sold 29 South Australian service stations to Peregrine Corporation.

At 14: 29 he appeared on air defense radar and, after failure to reply to an IFF signal, was assigned combat number 8255.

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

At the COP 7 meeting in Marrakech, Morocco from October 29 to November 10, 2001, negotiators wrapped up the work on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, finalizing most of the operational details and setting the stage for nations to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. deadlink deadlink The completed package of decisions is known as the Marrakech Accords.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yerevan city's population was over 29, 000, of which 49 % were Azerbaijani Tatars, 48 % Armenians and 2 % Russians.

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

* July 29, 2126: At 16: 08 UTC, Mercury will occult Mars.

At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.

At Matthew 5: 29 Jesus appears to state that if your vision is leading you to adultery, then you should remove your eye.

At Dover he paused for a week receiving the submission of Canterbury on October 29.

At age 29, he was the youngest person to hold this position.

At the heart of these interpretations is the proliferation of richly complementary meanings that turn upon three translations of the word chol ( חול ) – as phoenix, palm tree, or sand – in Job 29: 18.

At the age of 29, he was considered too old for pilot training, but he re-applied in September after this rule was relaxed.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

At age 29 ( going on 30 ), he was the youngest player on the list.

At the time of his retirement, Mantle was the Yankees all-time leader in games played with 2, 401, which was broken by Derek Jeter on August 29, 2011.

At the First Zionist Congress, held from August 29 to 31 in Basel, Switzerland, the World Zionist Organization was founded.

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

At least 29 survivors are known.