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The Treaty of Wallingford, also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster, was an agreement reached in England in the summer of 1153. It effectively ended a civil war known as the Anarchy (1135–54), caused by a dispute over the English crown between King Stephen and Empress Matilda .
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1153 Treaty of Wallingford [note 6] Officially ends The Anarchy between Empress Matilda and her cousin Stephen of England. Treaty of Constance [note 7] Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Pope Eugene III agree to defend Italy against Manuel I Comnenus. 1156 Treaty of Benevento: Peace between the Papacy and the Kingdom of Sicily. [32] 1158
On 5 February, a Dutch trumpeter arrived in London, carrying the response of the States General. [7] The very day, Parliament advised the King to conclude a "speedy peace". [7] A Royal Commission was appointed to make a final draft. The Treaty of Westminster was signed in 1674 by the King on 9 February Old Style (19 February New Style). [8]
The Treaty of Westminster, concluded between the Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, and the States General of the United Netherlands, was signed on 5/15 April 1654. [ 1 ] : 7 The treaty ended the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654).
The Act's main purpose was to adopt sections two, three, four, five and six of the Statute of Westminster 1931. [1] Section two of the Statute repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, section three allowed the Parliament to legislate extraterritoriality, section four disallowed the British Parliament to legislate for the Dominion, except by its own consent.
Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 199 (1796), also known as the British Debt Case, was a decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that treaties take precedence over state law under the U.S. Constitution.
The Anglo-Prussian Alliance was a military alliance created by the Westminster Convention between Great Britain and Prussia that lasted formally between 1756 and 1762, during the Seven Years' War. The alliance allowed Britain to concentrate most of its efforts against the colonial possessions of the French -led coalition while Prussia bore the ...