Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

* 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.

From 1967 Fairport Convention became a mainstay of the London Underground scene, producing their eponymous first album of American-inspired folk rock the following year.

Kruger was elected president in 1883 and the republic was restored with full independence in 1884 with the London Convention, but not for long.

* November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.

** The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British Parliament.

** The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in Golders Green, north London.

The International Maritime Satellite Organization ( INMARSAT ) was established under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization by the Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization signed at London on 3 September 1976.

The IMSO was reestablished by the Convention on the International Mobile Satellite Organization signed at London on 24 April 1998 and succeeded INMARSAT on 15 April 1999.

( Salisbury had referred to the London Convention of 1884, after the British defeat, as an agreement ' really in the interest of slavery '.

By the London Straits Convention of 1841, they affirmed Ottoman control over the straits and forbade any power, including Russia, to send warships through the straits.

* Otmar Issing, The euro after four years: is there a risk of deflation ?, 16th European Finance Convention, 2 December 2002, London, Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt am Main

* The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.

In 1840, at the urging of Garrison and Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands and a dozen other American male and female abolitionists to London for the first World's Anti-Slavery Convention, with the expectation that a motion put forward by Phillips to include women's participation in the convention would be controversial.

Rather, Stanton named the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London as the birth of the " movement for woman's suffrage, in both England and America ".

At the London Convention of 1814, both colonies were formally ceded to Britain.

At the London Convention of 1814, the Dutch surrendered the United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo and Berbice to the British, a colony which had the Essequibo river as its west border with the Spanish colony of Venezuela.

A total of forty-five Q codes appeared in the " List of Abbreviations to be used in Radio Communications ", which was included in the Service Regulations affixed to the Third International Radiotelegraph Convention in London ( The Convention was signed on July 5, 1912, and became effective July 1, 1913.

* Robin Seager, Tiberius, London ( Eyre Methuen ) 1972

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

McLean's first concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London in 1972 were critically acclaimed.

London: Methuen, 1972.

Finley ( London 1972 )

* Swinden, Patrick, eel., George Eliot: Middlemarch, London, Macmillan, 1972.

* 1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.

* 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England, United Kingdom.

London, 1972.

* 1972 – Jason London and Jeremy London, American actors

He then was a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies with O. Mathias Ungers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, followed by studies at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.

* 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.

* The decrepit manager of a seedy London hotel in Bruce Beresford's The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ( 1972 ).

The other members of the group from North East London, the " Stoke Newington Eight " were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history ( it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972 ).

Ithaca, New York ; London: Cornell University Press, 1972 ( hardcover, ISBN 0-8014-0712-5 ); South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustines Press, 2004 ( paperback, ISBN 1-58731-966-7 ).

* Harré, R. ( 1972 ), The Philosophies of Science: An Introductory Survey, Oxford University Press, London, UK.

Adams was interned in March 1972, on, but was released in June to take part in secret, but abortive talks in London.

* Vivienne Mylne, Prévost: Manon Lescaut, London: Edward Arnold, 1972.

Revivals took place in 1969 at La fenice ,, in 1970 at Bergamo, in 1972 in London, in 1973 in Naples, in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and in 1990 at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

* Renfrew, A. C., 1972, The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in The Third Millennium BC, London.