Treaty of Vienna

…1689, the emperor concluded the Treaty of Vienna with the United Provinces for the avowed purpose of undoing the annexations of Louis XIV and restoring the peace settlements of Westphalia (1648) and of the Pyrenees (1659). During the next 18 months they were joined by England, Brandenburg, Saxony, Bavaria, and…

…and the emperor concluded the Treaty of Vienna (May 1689) and declared war on Louis; over the next 18 months William’s rare diplomatic skill brought into the alliance Brandenburg, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Savoy, and Spain, as well as England, which became its linchpin.

…Opposition, and in the Second Treaty of Vienna, signed in March 1731, Walpole jettisoned the Anglo-French alliance in favour of an alliance with Austria. But whether forming an alliance with the French or the Austrians, Walpole always considered it his primary aim to keep Britain out of war in continental…

In 1731 the Treaty of Vienna dissolved the company in return for outright recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction (Maria Theresa’s right of succession). Nevertheless, unofficial trading activities continued until 1744, when the company’s servants lost their last Indian settlement.

…to the preliminary Peace of Vienna (October 3, 1735). Austria lost Naples and Sicily, which fell to a secondary branch of the Bourbons, and had to cede a tract of territory in Lombardy to Sardinia. As some compensation, Austria received Parma and Piacenza. Francis Stephen of Lorraine was promised Tuscany…

In 1738 Fleury concluded a peace treaty by which Leszczyński renounced his claims to the Polish throne and accepted instead the crown of Lorraine. (In accordance with this agreement, Lorraine was annexed by France upon Leszczyński’s death in 1766.) Fleury’s diplomatic maneuvers had secured closer relations between France and Austria…

…were confirmed by the 1738 Treaty of Vienna.

…peace with Austria (Peace of Vienna; Oct. 3, 1735). It provided for Augustus to remain king of Poland. In addition, Don Carlos was to retain Naples-Sicily but had to give Austria both Parma and Piacenza, which he had inherited in 1731, and to renounce his claims to Tuscany. Sardinia-Savoy also…

…and by the Peace of Vienna (October 30) the duchies became the joint possession of Prussia and Austria.

By the Peace of Vienna (October 1864), Christian IX ceded Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia and Austria. Prussia and Austria then quarreled with each other over the newly won territories, and, as a result of Prussia’s victory over Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War of 1866, both…

…Denmark was forced by the Treaty of Vienna in October to surrender almost all of Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia and Austria.