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Treaty 7 is an agreement between the Crown and several, mainly Blackfoot, First Nation band governments in what is today the southern portion of Alberta. The idea of developing treaties for Blackfoot lands was brought to Blackfoot chief Crowfoot by John McDougall in 1875. [1] It was concluded on September 22, 1877, and December 4, 1877. [2]
The Torrijos–Carter Treaties (Spanish: Tratados Torrijos-Carter) are two treaties signed by the United States and Panama in Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1977, which superseded the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903. The treaties guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that ...
1868 – Treaty of Fort Laramie – with the Sioux and Arapaho ending Red Cloud's War. 1869 – Naturalization Convention – with Sweden and Norway. 1870 – Naturalization Convention – with United Kingdom. 1871 – Treaty of Washington – settles grievances between the U.S. and Canada including the Alabama Claims.
The Treaty of Tordesillas, [a] signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues [b] west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. That line of demarcation was about halfway ...
The Seven Years' War and its North American theater, the French and Indian War, ended with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.Under the treaty, all French colonial territory west of the Mississippi River was ceded to Spain, while all French colonial territory east of the Mississippi River and south of Rupert's Land (save Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which France kept) was ceded to Great Britain.
As of December 2014, 36 treaties signed by the President were awaiting action by the Senate. [2] Among the treaties unsigned or unratified by the United States, a few have been singled out by organizations such as Human Rights Watch (2009), as extremely important, and the United States’ reluctance to ratify them problematic. [3]
Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was adopted in 2015. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 ...
The North Atlantic Treaty is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. , on 4 April 1949.