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As Europe re-imagined itself over the ages, its documents and treaties formed the basis of many modern political ideas. Explore important documents and treaties in this channel.
Featured Article: Magna Carta
Magna Charta, or Magna Carta, one of the most important documents in world history. See more »
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Declaration of Paris
Paris, Declaration of, April 16, 1856, an agreement on international maritime law signed by the major European powers and ratified by almost all nations.
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Rights of Man, Declaration of the, the charter of liberty adopted by the National Constituent Assembly of France in August, 1789, when the French Revolution was in its early stage.
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Domesday (or Doomsday) Book, the record of an official survey of England made in 1086.
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Junius, Letters of, a series of letters attacking British political figures. The letters appeared in the Public Advertiser, an antigovernment newspaper, between January, 1769, and January, 1772.
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Magna Charta, or Magna Carta, one of the most important documents in world history.
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Molasses Act of 1733, an act passed by the British Parliament. It placed prohibitive duties on sugar, rum, and molasses imported from non-British West Indian islands to the North American colonies.
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Paris, Pact of, or Kellogg-Briand Pact, August 27, 1928, a treaty renouncing war.
See more »Peace of Ryswick
Ryswick, Peace of, 1697, a collective name for the treaties that ended the War of the Grand Alliance (also called the War of the of Augsburg).
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Utrecht, Peace of, a series of treaties signed at the close of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Westphalia, Peace of, the name given to two treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and formed the basis of political and religious conditions in central Europe until the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806.
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Petition of Right, a statute of the English Parliament passed in 1628 and accepted by Charles I.
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Test Acts, various British laws excluding from public office men who were not members of the Church of England.
See more »Treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaties of historic treaties signed in 1668 and 1748. The 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of Devolution, between France and Spain.
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London, Treaties of, a number of international agreements reached at conferences in London, England, in the 19th and 20th centuries.
See more »Treaty of Adrianople
Adrianople, Treaty of, 1829, a pact that ended war between Russia and Turkey and set Greece free from Turkish rule.
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Pressburg, Treaty of, December 26, 1805, a peace treaty between France and Austria.
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Sèvres, Treaty of, an agreement signed August 10, 1920, at Sèvres, France, by the victorious Allies of World War I and the defeated Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.
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Trianon, Treaty of, June 4, 1920, the peace treaty signed in the Grand Trianon villa at Versailles, near Paris, by Hungary and the victorious Allied powers after World War I.
See more »Treaty of Verdun
Verdun, Treaty of, 843, an agreement by which the three sons of Emperor Louis I, the Pious, divided the empire built by Charlemagne.
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