Timeline Tuesday 20 October 1818

Events on Tuesday 20 October 1818 1

• 1818 Anglo-American Convention of 1818 signed Treaty fixes the US-Canada border at the 49th parallel Britain and the United States signed a convention setting the boundary between the United States and British North America along the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. The treaty also established joint occupation of the Oregon Country for ten years. It settled fishing rights disputes left over from the War of 1812.