Data

Name: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Type: Event

Start: 1748 AD

End: 1748 AD

Parent: War of the Austrian Succession

All Statistics: All Statistics

Icon Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this event you can find it here:All Statistics

Was the treaty that ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of Aachen.

Chronology


Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

  • October 1748: France returned the Southern Netherlands (i.e. today's Belgium) to Austria.
  • October 1748: France accepted the re-establishment of the status quo in the overseas territories. Madras given back to the British.
  • October 1748: The Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla to Philip of Bourbon.
  • October 1748: Bobbio became part of the domains of the House of Savoy in 1748 after the Wars of Succession and formed the Province of Bobbio.
  • October 1748: The County of Horburg had been under French sovereignty since 1748 and was ceded to France along with the other possessions on the left bank of the Rhine in 1793.
  • October 1748: In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle restored Louisbourg to France. Louisbourg was a French fortress located on Cape Breton Island in present-day Nova Scotia, Canada. The treaty was signed by representatives of France, Great Britain, and other European powers to end the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • October 1748: The State that obtained the greatest advantage was Prussia, which definitively annexed the rich region of Silesia, wrested from Austria.

  • Selected Sources


  • Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), https://www.ieg-friedensvertraege.de/treaty/1748%20X%2018%20Friedensvertrag%20von%20Aachen/t-283-1-de.html?h=1
  • All Phersu Atlas Regions

    Africa

    Americas

    Asia

    Europe

    Oceania