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31 matches to Straits Convention
Montreux Convention. 1936. Abolished 1923 Straits Convention. Straits Question.
Straits Convention. 1841-1923. Banned warships from Dardanelles in peacetime.
Unkiar Skelessi, Treaty. 1833-41. Russia/Ottoman mutual defence alliance. Straits Convention.
Hercules, Pillars of. Straits of Gibraltar.
Magellan, Ferdinand. c1480-1521 Portuguese navigator. Died leading first circumnavigation of the world. Discovered Straits of Magellan 1520.
Malacca. (Melaka). 1403 Malay. 1511 Portugal. 1641 Dutch. 1795 British, «Straits Settlements. 1946 Malaya. 1963 Malaysia.
Singapore. 13-14C Malay city. 1377 Javanese destroy. 1819 Raffles refounds. 1867 «Straits Settlements. 1942-45 Japanese occupy. 1946 British Crown Colony. 1963 Federation of Malaysia. 1965 Independent republic.
Straits Settlements. British colony in SE Asia 1795-1946. Malacca, Penang, Singapore.
Akkerman, Convention. 1826. Russia-Turkey. Serbia autonomous. Russian shipping rights in Turkey.
Biological Weapons Convention. 1972. Britain, US, USSR agreement to ban germ warfare.
Connecticut Compromise. 1787 Constitutional Convention. Bicameral US Congress.
Constitutional Convention. 1787. Philadelphia. Amended Articles of Confederation. Constitution.
Convention of 1818. Established 49th parallel as US-Canada border.
Convention Parliament. 1660. Restored monarchy. William and Mary 1689.
Copyright ©. 1518 Pynson, king’s printer. 1710 Britain. Copyright Act. 1789 Ramsey in US. 1831 US Act. 1838 International. 1886 Berne Convention. 1952 Universal Copyright Convention. 1988 US joins Berne. 1998 US Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.
Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.
Dufour, Henri. 1787-1875. Swiss General with Napoleon. Led 1864 Geneva Convention.
Gastein, Convention. 1865. Schleswig-Holstein divided between Prussia and Austria.
Geneva Convention. 1864. Established humane treatment of war wounded. Sanctioned Red Cross. 1949. Agreements concerning wounded, prisoners, and civilians in war.
Ives, Charles. 1874-1954. First major US composer. Unconventional work anticipates 20C techniques. Very influential on later Americans. 3rd Symphony 1904.
Legislative Assembly. 1791-2. 1849-51. French national parliament...National Convention.
Linnaeus, Carolus. 1707-78. Swedish botanist. Created Latin genus/species naming convention. Systema Naturae 1735. Philosophia Botanica 1751. Classified Homo Sapiens 1766.
Lomé Convention. 1975. 46 third World Countries gain free access to EEC. 1979 $7B aid from EEC to developing countries.
National Convention. 1792-5. French legislature after Legislative Assembly.