Treaty of Hanover (1725)

Treaty of Hanover
Defensive Treaty of Alliance between the King of Great Britain, the most Christian King, and the King of Prussia, concluded at Hannover the 3rd of September 1725.
TypeDefensive Alliance
ContextStately Quadrille
Signed3 September 1725
LocationHannover, Germany
Effective30 September 1725
Signatories
Ratifiers
LanguageFrench

The Treaty of Hanover was a treaty of defensive alliance signed on 3 September 1725 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Electorate of Hanover, the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Prussia. The alliance was formed to combat the power of the Austro-Spanish alliance, which was founded at the Peace of Vienna months earlier in May 1725.[1]

The United Provinces and the Kingdom of Sweden later acceded to the Hanoverian Alliance through the Treaties of The Hague (1726) and Stockholm (1727).[1] The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway did not formally join the Hanoverian Alliance but signed the Treaty of Copenhagen with Great Britain and France in April 1727.[2] In 1728, Prussia would ally itself with Emperor Charles VI and the Viennese Alliance by signing the secret Treaty of Berlin.

  1. ^ a b Knapton, J.J. & P. (1732). A General Collection of Treaties of Peace and Commerce, Manifestos, Declarations of War, and other Publick Papers, from the End of the Reign of Queen Anne to the Year 1731. Volume IV. University of Toronto. pp 158-186
  2. ^ Treaties, Oxford Historical (16 April 1727). "Treaty of Alliance between Denmark, France, and Great Britain, signed at Copenhagen, 16 April 1727". Oxford Public International Law.