Peace of Nijmegen
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Were a series of treaties that ended various interconnected wars, notably the Franco-Dutch War.
Chronology
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August 1678: France returned Charleroi, Ghent and other towns to the Spanish Netherlands.
August 1678: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had to accept the French occupation of the towns of Freiburg and Kehl.
September 1678: By the Treaty of Nijmegen of 1678, Spain relinquished Cambrai, which has remained as a part of France, to this day.
September 1678: Peace of Nijmegen
September 1678: France took Alsace (in 1648), Franche-Comté (in 1678 during the Franco-Dutch War) and Strasbourg (in 1681).
January 1679: Weissenburg made part of France.
January 1679: The castle of Lichtenberg was conquered by troops of Louis XIV in 1678 and came under French sovereignty, as did almost the entire left bank of the Rhine in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
August 1678: With the Peace of Nijmegen France gained further territories of the Spanish Netherlands, adding to those it had annexed under the 1659 Peace of the Pyrenees and 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. These included the town of Saint-Omer with the remaining northwestern part of the former Imperial County of Artois, the lands of Cassel, Aire and Ypres in southwestern Flanders, the Bishopric of Cambrai and the towns of Valenciennes and Maubeuge in the southern County of Hainaut.
August 1678: Spain ceded Franche-Comté to France with the Treaty of Nijmegen of 1678.
January 1678: Valenciennes was formally ceded to France in the Peace of Nijmegen.
