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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.
Treaty of Shackamaxon. Coordinates: 39.966°N 75.129°W. Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West, painted 1771/2. The Treaty of Shackamaxon, also called the Great Treaty and Penn's Treaty, was a treaty between William Penn and Tamanend of the Lenape signed in 1682. [1] Tamanend and Penn gifted each other and the people they represented ...
The Treaty of Tianjin ( Chinese: 中法新約 ), signed on June 9, 1885, officially ended the Sino-French War. The "unequal treaty", or colonial treaty, restated in greater detail the main provisions of the Tianjin Accord, signed between France and China on May 11, 1884. As Article 2 required China to recognize the French protectorate over ...
The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the successor of Charlemagne. One year later the Treaty of Verdun would be signed, with major consequences for Western Europe's geopolitical landscape.
The Austrian State Treaty ( German: Österreichischer Staatsvertrag [ˈøːstəraɪçɪʃɐ ˈʃtaːtsfɛɐ̯ˌtraːk] ⓘ) or Austrian Independence Treaty established Austria as a sovereign state. [2] It was signed on 15 May 1955 in Vienna, at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying powers ( France, the United Kingdom, the United ...
A treaty is a formal, legally binding written contract between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, [1] but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal persons. [2] [3] A treaty may also be known as an international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention ...
The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 was signed on 16 June 1373 [1] between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I and Queen Leonor of Portugal. It established a treaty of "perpetual friendships, unions [and] alliances" between the two seafaring states. [2] [3] [4] It is the oldest continuous treaty in effect to this day.
The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is a treaty signed by the United States and Great Britain on 18 November 1901, as a legal preliminary to the U.S. building of the Panama Canal. It nullified the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across the Central American isthmus to connect the Pacific ...