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Events on Thursday 28 October 1790 1
1790Nootka Convention SignedSpain and Britain avert war over Pacific Northwest territorial claimsSpain and Great Britain signed the Nootka Convention, resolving a dispute over control of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. The agreement ended Spain's claim to exclusive sovereignty over the Pacific coast of North America and opened the region to British trade and settlement.