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.

Declaration of the Rights of Man

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.

Domesday Book

Domesday (or Doomsday) Book, the record of an official survey of England made in 1086.

Letters of Junius

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.

Magna Carta

Magna Charta, or Magna Carta, one of the most important documents in world history.

Molasses Act of 1733

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.

Pact of Paris

Paris, Pact of, or Kellogg-Briand Pact, August 27, 1928, a treaty renouncing war.

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).

Peace of Utrecht

Utrecht, Peace of, a series of treaties signed at the close of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Peace of Westphalia

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.

Petition of Right

Petition of Right, a statute of the English Parliament passed in 1628 and accepted by Charles I.

Test Acts

Test Acts, various British laws excluding from public office men who were not members of the Church of England.

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.

Treaties of London

London, Treaties of, a number of international agreements reached at conferences in London, England, in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Treaties of Paris

Paris, Treaties of, various treaties of peace signed in Paris, France.