* 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor had requested a Byzantine princess for his son, Otto, to seal a treaty between the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.

A ransom treaty of 60, 000 marks ( less a dowery remittance of 10, 000 marks ) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal.

Documents which require the seal include treaty ratifications, international agreements, appointments of ambassadors and civil officers, and communications from the President to heads of foreign governments.

Usually skippets were made out of sterling silver, though for the Japanese treaty following Commodore Perry's mission a golden box was used ( the ratification of that treaty, made later in 1854, had an even more elaborate and expensive seal and heavy gold skippet ).

At least one 1871 treaty seal was actually made using a Lewis skippet mold instead of the Masi die, meaning it too is technically an official die.

To seal the treaty, he married Ptolemy's daughter Berenice and received an enormous dowry.

A banquet is said to have taken place ostensibly to seal a peace treaty between the Britons and their Germanic foes, which may have involved the cession of modern-day Essex.

The federal treaty of 1815 introduced design with the cross suspended in the field without touching the edges, surrounded by the cantonal coats of arms, as the seal of the Confederacy.

Koriand ' r has been married twice, both times to Tamaranean men: once to the Prince Karras to seal a peace treaty ; and once to General Phy ' zzon out of duty.

To seal the treaty, Philippus married king Sverre ’ s daughter and king Inge ’ s cousin, Kristina Sverresdotter.

A ransom treaty of 60, 000 marks ( an enormous sum ) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal — he and his queen accompanied by an escort of English and Scottish nobles proceeded to Melrose Abbey arriving on 5 April where he met Albany to receive the governor's seal of office.

In March 2009, Harb attempted to introduce a bill that would have limited the East Coast seal hunt only to those with aboriginal treaty rights.

While the treaty was affixed with the national seal of the Korean Empire, Emperor Sunjong of Korea refused to sign the treaty as required under Korean law.

While François signed the treaty under duress, Gattinara refused to affix the imperial seal to the document, because of his sense of realpolitik.

According to him, the incident took place at a banquet in modern-day Wiltshire, ostensibly arranged to seal a peace treaty, which may have been the cession of Essex and Sussex in exchange for intermarriage between Rowena, the daughter of Saxon chieftain Hengest, and Vortigern.

In 1266 when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the treaty, signed in Norway in 1266.

Married to Aryenis, the sister of King Croesus of Lydia, to seal the treaty between the two empires, Astyages ascended to the Median throne upon his father's death later that year.

Richard agreed to seal the treaty at a personal meeting with Charles IV of France.

She was given in marriage to Astyages to seal a treaty between Cyaxares of Media and Alyattes II of Lydia, following the Battle of the Eclipse.

But before she left her room she dug into her big moire bag, took out the envelope holding her marriage contract and the wax seal had been broken.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

Meanwhile, Smith introduced temple ceremonies meant to seal families together for eternity, as well as the doctrines of eternal progression or exaltation, and plural marriage.

Once there, he manages to defeat plotters who sought to seal off the only wormhole to Barrayar, and falls in love with his hostess, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage.

She was most likely given by her father, a tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites, as a peace offering in a marriage to seal the peace, and she is thought to have brought with her a great dowry, as a great Slavic influence is represented in Sweden from her time, mainly among craftsmen.

His marriage to Zbyslava, the daughter of Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich in c. 1103, was to seal the alliance between himself and the prince of Kiev.

The marriage was meant to seal a peace between England / Normandy and Anjou.

Pursuant to the terms of the Treaty of Paris ( 1303 ), the marriage of Philip's daughter Isabella to the Prince of Wales, heir of Philip's enemy, celebrated at Boulogne, 25 January 1308, was meant to seal a peace ; instead it would produce an eventual English claimant to the French throne itself, and the Hundred Years War.

In order to seal this alliance, a marriage was arranged between Bolesław III's daughter Richeza with Niels ' eldest son, Crown Prince Magnus.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

John Fitz-Thomas FitzGerald, by virtue of his royal seigniory as a Count Palatine, created three of his sons by the second marriage, knights ; and their descendants have been so styled in acts of parliament, patents under the great seal, and all legal proceedings, up to the present ( 1910 ) time.

Shuttarna's daughter Kilu-Hepa ( sometimes spelled Gilukhepa ) was given to Amenhotep III in marriage to seal the alliance between the two royal houses in the Pharaoh's 10th regnal year, taking with her a great dowry.

It became high treason to deface money ; to escape from prison whilst detained for committing treason, or to aid in an escape of a person detained for treason ; to commit arson to extort money ; to refer to the Sovereign offensively in public writing ; to counterfeit the Sovereign's sign manual, signet or privy seal ; to refuse to abjure the authority of the Pope ; to marry any of the Sovereign's children, sisters, aunts, nephews or nieces without royal permission ; to marry the Sovereign without disclosing prior sexual relationships ; attempting to enter into a sexual relationship ( out of marriage ) with the Queen or a Princess ; denying the Sovereign's official styles and titles ; and refusing to acknowledge the Sovereign as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

Late in 1921, Janco and his wife left for Romania, where they had a second marriage to seal their union in front of familial disputes.

His father arranged his marriage to Uttara, daughter of King Virata to seal an alliance between the Pandavas and the royal family of Virata, in light of the forthcoming Kurukshetra War.

In 1558, with the support of John Knox and John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, he became a pawn in his father's aspirations who tried to negotiate his marriage to Elizabeth I to seal an Anglo-Scottish alliance.

In order to seal this alliance, was decided the marriage between Bolesław III's eldest son Władysław with Agnes.

It is likely that the marriage, as in the case of many kings and those aspiring to be kings in those days, was political, to seal an alliance with her father who paid homage to the King of Norway.

To seal the alliance, Diarmait offered his daughter, Aoife — who was also Lorcán's niece — in marriage to the leader of the Normans, Strongbow.

Her marriage was politically motivated and was used to seal an alliance between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga.

He was present at the marriage of Louis XII and the Princess Mary Tudor in 1514, and in 1516 was made keeper of the privy seal.

To seal the alliance, he betrothed his eldest son, Michael Asen IV, to Andronikos's daughter Maria ( Eirene ), the marriage eventually taking place in 1339.

Her new family tells the invaders that the girl has been impregnated, which would be the last seal on the marriage.

With both powers angered at France, marriage was the way to seal the alliance between the two.