In order to contain Russia's influence, he launched an invasion of Afghanistan and signed the Cyprus Convention with Turkey, whereby this strategically placed island was handed over to Britain.

The Charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III of the United Kingdom | King George III of Great Britain.

* 1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

By the Treaty of Paris ( signed that September ), Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States.

He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria, and signed the Treaty of Töplitz between Britain and Austria in Vienna in October 1813.

In 1816, Congress passed another bill to charter a second national bank ; Madison signed the act, having learned the bank was needed from the war with Britain.

With the other delegates, he signed the Association of Freemen on July 26, 1775, which expressed hope for reconciliation with Great Britain, but also called for military resistance to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts.

When the Pact was signed, invitations were sent to Italy, China, Britain, and Poland to join.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

* 1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

The Qing court responded by asserting Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, resulting in the 1906 Anglo-Chinese Convention signed between Britain and China.

Many had signed treaties of friendship with Britain, but these were expressed as being between sovereign powers contracting with each other ; there was no subordination.

In the initial stage of World War II, Turkey signed a treaty of mutual assistance with Great Britain and France.

He was instrumental in obtaining the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Agreement, which was signed in Ottawa in December, 1939, binding Canada, Britain, New Zealand, and Australia to a program that eventually trained half the airmen from those four nations in the Second World War.

In 1843, the Treaty of Nanjing was signed by official representatives of both Britain and China.

Starting in the latter decades of the 19th century and continuing into the 20th century, Britain signed agreements with local rulers of traditional polities that, together, became known as the Aden Protectorate.

* January 16 – Treaty of Westminster signed between Great Britain and Prussia guaranteeing the neutrality of the German province of Hanover controlled by King George II of Great Britain.

* September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia.

* September 30 – The Treaty of London is signed for preliminary peace between the First French Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* July 1 – Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty is signed by Great Britain and Germany.

* August 3 – The Pretoria Convention peace treaty is signed, officially ending the war between the Boers and Britain.

* November 29 – An agreement is signed between Britain and France to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

The post – World War II folk revival in America and in Britain started a new genre, contemporary folk music and brought an additional meaning to the term folk music.

Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, which ended the Spanish War of Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), had an additional clause ( the Asiento ) that granted Britain ( among other things ) the exclusive rights over the shipment of captured Africans across the Atlantic.

He was instructed to travel to Britain and recruit additional agents ; instead he moved to Lisbon and created bogus reports from a variety of public sources including a tourist guide to England, train timetables, cinema newsreels and magazine advertisements.

* January 8 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the ' I'm Backing Britain ' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.

Britain did this by issuing the 1939 white paper which officially allowed a further 75, 000 Jews to move over five years ( 10, 000 a year plus an additional 25, 000 ) which was to be followed by Arab majority independence.

As a result of the French and Indian Wars, Britain began to try to recoup the costs of those wars by instituting a series of additional taxes on the Colonists, and had left parts of their army in the colonies to help provide for their defense.

* Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut ( Canute the Great, with Norway as his third realm ; 23 April 1016-12 November 1035 in Britain ) having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i. e. ' king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector ' ( the last two in the generic sense ' ruler ')

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

British efforts to mediate the quandary were fruitless – in part because additional political disputes ( particularly the Oregon boundary dispute ) arose between Great Britain, as the sovereign of Canada, and the United States.

In addition to the definitive peace treaty between France and Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, there were four additional conventions and the act confirming the neutrality of Switzerland signed on the same day.

Additional clauses insure that neither France nor the United States will seek to make any additional claims of compensation for their services during the conflict, and that neither side will cease fighting, nor sign a peace treaty with Britain, without the consent of the other nation and insurances that the independence of the United States will be recognized by Britain.

The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory of 1898 handed additional parts of Hong Kong ( the New Territories ) to Britain for 99 years, but excluded the Walled City, which at the time had a population of roughly 700.

Envisaged as a celebration of rugby league football, the size of the competition was doubled, with four additional teams invited and Great Britain split into England and Wales.

An additional CPT deployed tool used in Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France is a piezocone combined with a tri-axial magnetometer.

According to this tale, Lludd had an additional brother named Llefelys, who became king of France while Lludd ruled in Britain.

He felt that the existing force made up largely of steam ships was superior to the primarily sail ships of the Union fleet, and he was reluctant to incur additional expenses while Britain was in the process of rebuilding her fleet with iron ships.

In August 2009, Stephen was given additional responsibility for Digital Britain.

In 1749 he was given the additional title of Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby, in the County of Leicester, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the British House of Lords.

In Britain, the term " mountaineering " tends to be reserved for expeditions abroad to ranges such as the Alps, or for serious domestic hillwalking, typically in winter, with additional equipment such as ice axe and crampons, or for routes requiring rock climbing skills such as the traverse of the Cuillin ridge.

In Great Britain, the records show that the additional deaths were among outdoor workers ; the death rate in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire and the east coast was perhaps two or three times the normal rate.

His views on this question were summarized in a memorandum of December, 1907, of which Rath gives a résumé: Holstein objected to the programme of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Navy League on three main grounds: the ill-feeling likely to be aroused in South Germany, the inevitable dislocation of the finances through the huge additional charges involved, and the suspicion of Germany's motives in foreign countries, which would bind Britain still closer to France.