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The first treaty signed at Utrecht was the truce between France and Portugal on 7 November, followed by the truce between France and Savoy on 14 March 1713. That same day, Spain, Great Britain, France and the Empire agreed to the evacuation of Catalonia and an armistice in Italy .
14 April – first performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy. 1 May – as part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the Spanish Crown agrees the Asiento de Negros with Queen Anne, granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, the Real Asiento de Inglaterra , a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves ...
Anderson–Gual Treaty: First bilateral U.S. treaty with another country of the Americas. 1825 Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825) The Kingdom of Portugal recognized the independence of the Empire of Brazil. Osage Treaty (1825) [note 103] The Osage Nation cedes territories to the United States within and west of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory.
On 12 July 1641 Portugal and the Dutch Republic signed a 'Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance', otherwise known as the Treaty of The Hague. Dutch ships were allowed in any Portuguese port for ten years. Dutch merchant Jan Valckenburgh saw an opportunity but was expelled from Loango-Angola in 1648. Dutch private entrepreneurs were ...
In 1717 Spanish forces retook Sardinia [87] and in 1718 Sicily, [88] both of which had been ceded to Austria under the Treaty of Utrecht. The effective Spanish repudiation of the treaty prompted the British initially to propose handing back Gibraltar in exchange for a peace agreement and, when that failed, to declare war on Spain. [88]
The Treaty of Utrecht did not include any map or specific description of the ceded elements, so that Article X is subject to different interpretations from each side. According to Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht, dominion is ceded over the town and castle of Gibraltar, together with the port, fortifications, and forts thereunto belonging.
The terms of the Treaty of Utrecht were bitterly contested by the Whigs once they became clear. Jonathan Swift's The Conduct of the Allies was published as a defence of the Tory government. [10] The celebrated Hamilton-Mohun Duel was fought between Lord Mohun, a Whig partisan, and the Duke of Hamilton, who had just been appointed Ambassador to ...
1713 - International peace treaty relating to the War of the Spanish Succession signed in Utrecht. [1] 1773 - Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences founded. [13] 1787 - 9 May: Prussians in power. [14] 1795 - 18 January: Utrecht "acquired by the French." [14] 1807 - Genootschap Kunstliefde (art society) formed.