Treaty of Utrecht
April 11, 1713
After thirteen years of war, European diplomats signed a settlement that let a Bourbon keep Spain so long as its crowns stayed separate. Britain took Gibraltar, Minorca, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the asiento slave contract. A new European balance, held in London as much as in Vienna, had been put in place.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.