While the Alaska and Louisiana purchases are well-known, another historic agreement that shaped global land distribution was the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. This treaty, signed by Spain and ...

The contract that Magellan signed with the King of Spain for this voyage stipulated that he was not to enter Portuguese territory as defined by the Treaty of Tordesillas. And if he was to find new ...

Beyond the partition of Ukraine, the White House and the Kremlin announce a kind of Treaty of Tordesillas in the Arctic ... Zelensky is pressured to capitulate, withdraw from negotiations or sign ...

(The territory fell to Portugal anyway, under the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.) The local Amerindian population, still living in the Stone Age as hunter-gatherers and fishers, came out to see their ...

The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.

The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Māori chiefs during New Zealand’s colonization was never expected to become law. But the measures ...

On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...