Confederation of Cologne unites the Hanseatic League
1367
Seventy-seven Hanseatic towns signed a mutual defense pact and imposed a trade embargo on Denmark, forcing King Valdemar IV to negotiate. The confederation marked the League's political zenith - a network of merchants dictating terms to kings - though it held no army, no territory, and no sovereign beyond commerce itself.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.