Spain agrees to cede Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Domains

Peace treaties
Slave trade

Dates

Date of occurrence 1713-03-16-1713-03-27

Places

Spain (Location)
United Kingdom (Location)

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At the peace conference of Utrecht, Spain agrees to cede Britain the islands of Gibraltar and Minorca, and to grant its Royal African Company the Assiento (monopoly) over the slave trade to Spanish America.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Spain agrees to cede Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 April 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=17146, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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