On April 11, 1713, in Utrecht, Holland, Françoise signed a treaty putting an end to the War of Spanish Succession. Louis XIV secured the throne of Spain for his Pretender, Philippe d'Anjou ...

When the diplomatic dust had settled following the 1713 signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, officials in Europe’s imperial capitals got back to talking about extending their empires into uncolonized ...

The rocky outcrop was taken in 1704, and Spain ceded it to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht. But that has not ended numerous attempts by the Spanish government to get the 2.6 square miles of ...

Madrid is kicking up a fuss, again, over the Rock they have coveted ever since ceding it to Britain "for ever" in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. And London, says the Times of London, "is drawing up ...

The Treaty of Utrecht... Spain argues that Britain could easily hand sovereignty back. The Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 says that if Britain gives up Gibraltar, it has to offer it first to Spain. "And in ...

The Chief Minister has hinted that a Treaty might only be announced once there is a legal text that has been translated into ...

British sailors became involved in the trade in the 16th century and their involvement increased in the 18th century when the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave them the right to sell enslaved people ...

A few years later, in 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht - which formally ceded Gibraltar to the British - made clear Jews and Muslims should be banned from the Rock. It did not work. A century later - in ...

But it proves a fascinating complement to two works written by Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, heralding the end of many decades of widespread international hostilities, in England in ...

He said the isthmus was not ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht and “illegally” occupied, but that Spain had yet to decide whether to “legally reclaim it or not”. The following ...