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The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory and to move west of the Mississippi River.
In 1795, in a then minor part of the Treaty of Greenville, a Native American confederation granted treaty rights to the United States in a six-mile parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River. [nb 1] [2] This was followed by the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis, which ceded additional land in the Chicago area, including the Chicago Portage. [3]
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
Category: Thirty Years' War treaties. ... Treaty of Compiègne (1635) Treaty of Münster (October 1648) Treaty of Stettin (1630) U. Truce of Ulm (1647) W. Peace of ...
Ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War, and establishes the principle of the sovereignty of nations in use today. Treaty of Concordia [note 61] Divides the island of Saint Martin between France and the Netherlands. 1649 Peace of Rueil: Ends the opening episodes of the Fronde, France's civil war. Treaty of Zboriv
August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1] 1833 1833 Treaty of Chicago; Chicago incorporated as a town. [1] 1835 August 31, about 800 Potawatomi men gathered for a war dance in Chicago before being removed to west of the Mississippi River. [2] 1837 Chicago incorporated as a ...
Treaty of Hamburg (1638) Heidelberg Castle; Heilbronn League; ... Template:Thirty Years' War treaties; Torstenson War; Treaty of Naples (1639) Treaty of Stettin (1653) U.
Europe had been battered by both the Thirty Years' War and the overlapping Eighty Years' War (begun c. 1568), exacting a heavy toll in money and lives. The Eighty Years' War was a prolonged struggle for the independence of the Protestant-majority Dutch Republic (the modern Netherlands), supported by Protestant-majority England, against Catholic-dominated Spain and Portugal.