📅 23 September 1817
Britain and Spain signed a treaty aimed at abolishing the slave trade and suppressing illicit trafficking by their subjects. Spain agreed to end the trade north of the equator sooner than its trade to...
📅 10 Februari 1763
The Treaty of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763, transferred Tobago from France to Britain. Tobago was then a separate colony from Spanish-ruled Trinidad, but it is part of present-day Trinidad and...
📅 20 December 1780
The declaration opened the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and exposed the vulnerability of Dutch colonial trade and overseas settlements. Britain targeted Dutch shipping and possessions as part of a global...
📅 10 Februari 1763
The Treaty of Paris ceded Grenada and the Grenadines to Great Britain. The change in imperial rule did not end slavery: Britain inherited and expanded a plantation society in which enslaved Africans...
📅 3 September 1783
The peace settlement ending the American War of Independence restored Grenada to Britain. For enslaved Grenadians, the transfer changed the colonial power but preserved the legal and economic system...
📅 13 Augustus 1814
The Treaty of London referred to the Dutch decree against the trade and committed the Netherlands to prohibit its subjects from participating. International restrictions on trafficking did not...
📅 4 Mei 1818
The two states agreed on enforcement measures against slave trading by their subjects, including legal penalties and cooperation to prevent the use of their flags to protect trafficking. Enforcement...
