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 ...

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 ...

The Utrecht Union of 1579 was the first step towards independence from the Spanish rule. In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht ended the Spanish Succession war. As the Dutch fleet gained importance ...

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 ...

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 ...