Treaty of Vienna
June 9, 1731
Britain, Austria, and the Dutch Republic agreed to accept the Pragmatic Sanction and Maria Theresa's eventual inheritance in exchange for the dissolution of Charles VI's Ostend East India Company. Each side thought it had got the better bargain. Nine years later, every one of the signatories would be at war.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.