Treaty of London Ends Anglo-Spanish War
1604
English and Spanish diplomats meeting at Somerset House ended nineteen years of inconclusive war. England abandoned its support for Dutch rebels; Spain stopped trying to restore Catholicism by armada. The peace freed English merchants to prey on Spanish America only semi-officially, which many of them promptly did, blurring the line between licensed trade and outright piracy for decades.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.