Treaty of Vienna (1731)

The Second Vienna Treaty of 1731 between the Habsburg Monarchy under Charles VI. and the Kingdom of Great Britain under King George II was signed by Prince Eugene of Savoy, Count Sinzendorf, Starhemberg and the British envoy Thomas Robinson on March 16, 1731. He finished a previously existing since the first Treaty of Vienna ( 1725) rapprochement between Britain and France and replaced it with an alliance between Great Britain and the Emperor. The British Prime Minister Robert Walpole and Prinz Eugen had operated since 1729 intensively on secret diplomatic channels, the new rapprochement between the Habsburg Empire and the UK. Complicating they were the fact that the period from the Treaty of Seville ( 1729 ) had expired, after France and Great Britain to the Emperor should declare war if that the Spaniards brought the invasion of Spanish troops in the duchies of Parma and Tuscany (on the claim ) would not allow. France therefore urged the British to war ( attack in the Austrian Netherlands ). Another difficulty was the dislike of George II to the Emperor, as the rights of George as a German Elector not recognized at Jülich and Cleves. A further danger threatened after France had become aware of the ongoing secret negotiations. In the negotiations was much involved from the English side Chesterfield.

The Treaty Great Britain recognized the Pragmatic Sanction (successor of Maria Theresa ) and reached for the dissolution of the Habsburg trading company in Ostend, the British East India Company made the competition.

On July 22, 1731, the Spaniards also joined the agreement, of which reign claims to the Duchy of Parma, whose duke had died in January, for the later Spanish King Charles III. have been recognized.

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