Nootka Convention

Nootka Sound Conventions
Date
LocationMadrid, Spain
Also known as
Participants
OutcomeBritain and Spain were guaranteed freedom of the seas

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which averted a war between the two countries over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.