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  2. Royal Proclamation of 1763 - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. [1] The Proclamation forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was ...

  3. Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    On 16 January 1756, the Convention of Westminster was signed, whereby Britain and Prussia promised to aid one another; the parties hoped to achieve lasting peace and stability in Europe. The carefully coded word in the agreement proved no less catalytic for the other European powers. The results were absolute chaos.

  4. Treaty of Paris (1763) - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia 's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War . The signing of the treaty formally ended the conflict between France and Great ...

  5. Acts of Union 1707 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Acts of Union ( Scottish Gaelic: Achd an Aonaidh) were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act 1707 passed by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation ...

  6. Treaty of Union - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Union is the name usually now given to the treaty [a] which led to the creation of the new state of Great Britain. The treaty joined the Kingdom of England (which already included Wales) to the Kingdom of Scotland to be "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [1] At the time it was more often referred to as the ...

  7. Munich Agreement - Wikipedia

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    Munich Agreement. The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]

  8. Lend-Lease - Wikipedia

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    President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941). House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1. Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), was a policy under which the United States ...

  9. Sino-British Joint Declaration - Wikipedia

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    Sino-British Joint Declaration中英联合声明. The Sino-British Joint Declaration was a treaty between the governments of the United Kingdom and China signed in 1984 setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory after 1 July 1997.