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Nootka Sound Conventions
Date
  • Nootka Sound Convention: October 28, 1790
  • Nootka Claims Convention: February 12, 1793
  • Convention for the Mutual Abandonment of Nootka: January 11, 1794
LocationMadrid, Spain
Also known as
  • Nootka Sound Convention
  • Nootka Claims Convention
  • Convention for the Mutual Abandonment of Nootka
Participants
  • Nootka Convention Spain
  • Nootka Convention Great Britain
OutcomeBritain and Spain were guaranteed freedom of the seas

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which averted a war between the two countries over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

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