Treaties And Agreements

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Treaty of Lodi (1454)

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Venice receives territories for recognizing Milanese Sforza’s right to duchy

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Concordat of Bologna (1516)

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French king Francis I and Pope Leo X agree, rescinds Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, pope can receive first year’s income of new bishops and abbots, French king can select French bishops and abbots

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Treaty of Arras (1482)

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French Burgundy declared part of the kingdom of France

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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

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Portugal gets eastern trade route to Indies and Brazil, Spain gets lands west of Brazil

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Peace of Augsburg (1555)

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Charles V agrees to accept Lutheranism, each prince can choose territory’s religion, north and central mostly Lutheran, south Catholic

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Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559)

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Ends Habsburg-Valois Wars, Spain wins, dominates Italy

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Peace of Westphalia (1648)

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End of Thirty Years War, end of religious wars

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English Statute of Laborers (1351)

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Attempted to freeze salaries and wages at pre-1347 levels, failed because could not be enforced

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Statute of Kilkenny (1366)

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Attempt to prevent intermarriage, protect racial purity of English from Irish

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Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438)

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Asserted superiority of general council over papacy, giving French crown major control over appointment of bishops, depriving pope of French ecclesiastical revenues, established Gallican (French) liberties

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Golden Bull of 1356

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Legalizes government by aristocratic federation in Germany

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Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533)

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Declares king supreme sovereign in England, forbids judicial appeals to papacy, so crown is highest legal authority

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Act for the Submission of the Clergy (1534)

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Churchmen must submit to the king, all ecclesiastical laws require royal permission

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Supremacy Act (1534)

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King is supreme head of Church of England

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Elizabethan Settlement

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Parliamentary legislation of early years of reign, require outward conformity to Church of England, uniformity in all ceremonies, all had to attend

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Thirty-nine Articles (1563)

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Summary of basic tenets of Church of England

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Tametsi (1563)

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Tridentine decree that required witnesses and a parish priest present during marriage vows, ending secret marriages in Catholic countries (in England, Hardwicke Act of 1753 abolished secret marriages)

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Edict of Nantes (1598)

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Henry IV grants Huguenots liberty to worship in certain towns

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Edict of Restitution (1629)

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All Catholic properties lost to Protestantism since 1552 restored, only Catholics and Lutherans allowed to practice, ruthlessly enforced by Wallenstein

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Peace of Utrecht (1713)

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Ends War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713), end of French expansionist policy, expanded British empire

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Treat of the Pyrenees (1659)

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Ends Spanish-French wars, end of Spain as great power

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Triennial Act (1641)

Back 22

House of Commons passed, king must summon Parliament every three years

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Navigation Act (1651)

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English goods must be transported on English ships

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Pragmatic Sanction (1713)

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Charles VI states Habsburg possessions never to be divided

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Edict on Idle Institutions

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Joseph II abolishes contemplative religious orders, permitting only those engaged in teaching, nursing, or other practical work

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Stamp Act (1765)

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British tax on Americans, repealed after vigorous protest

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Coercive Acts (1773)

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Close port of Boston after Boston Tea Party, curtail local elections, expand royal governor's power

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Treaty of Paris (1783)

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End of American Revolution, Britain recognizes independence of thirteen colonies, cedes territory

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Oath of the Tennis Court (1789)

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Delegates of third estate swear not to disband until new constitution is written

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Declaration of Pillnitz

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Austria and Prussia carefully indicate they will intervene in France under certain circumstances

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Civil Code of 1804

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Napoleon reasserts liberty and equality of all male citizens before the law, absolute security of wealth and private property

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Concordat of 1801

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Napoleon and Pope Pius VII agree that French Catholics can practice freely, Napoleon gains political power

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Treaty of Luneville (1801)

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Austria accepts loss of most of its Italian possessions, German territory on west bank of Rhine incorporated into France

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Treaty of Amiens (1802)

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Napoleon and Great Britain agree that France still controls Holland, Austrian Netherlands, west bank of Rhine, most of Italy

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Treaties of Tilsit (1807)

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Prussia loses half its population, Russia accepts Napoleon's reorganization of western and central Europe, promises to enforce economic blockaded against English goods

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Treaty of Chaumont (1814)

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Creates Quadruple Alliance of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Great Britain

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Factory Act of 1833

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Limits factory workday for children, requires factory owners to establish elementary schools, employment of children declines rapidly

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Mines Act of 1842

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Prohibits underground work for all women and boys under ten

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Combination Acts (1799)

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Outlaw unions and strikes, widely disregarded by workers, repealed in 1824

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Carlsbad Decrees (1819)

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Thirty-eight German member states must root out subversive ideas in universities and newspapers

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Corn Laws (revised 1815)

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Regulate foreign grain trade, revised to prohibit importation of foreign grain unless price at home rose a lot, met with protests by urban workers and radical intellectuals

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Reform Bill of 1832

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House of Commons emerges as all-important legislative body, eliminates rotten boroughs, more voters

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Six Acts (1819)

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Place controls on heavily taxed press, almost eliminates all mass meetings, followed by enormous protest (Battle of Peterloo)

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Ten Hours Act of 1847

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Workday for women and young people in factories limited to ten hours

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Poor Law of 1834

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Relief of paupers