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Events on Tuesday 16 December 1800 1
1800Second League of Armed NeutralityRussia, Prussia, Sweden and Denmark unite against British naval searchesRussia and Sweden signed a convention reviving the League of Armed Neutrality, soon joined by Denmark and Prussia, to resist Britain's practice of searching neutral ships for contraband during the war with France. Tsar Paul I was its chief instigator. The league collapsed the following year after a British fleet attacked Copenhagen and Paul was assassinated.