Timeline Friday 9 October 1874

Events on Friday 9 October 1874 1

• 1874 Universal Postal Union founded Treaty of Bern creates a single postal territory Representatives of twenty-two countries signed the Treaty of Bern, establishing the General Postal Union to simplify international mail exchange. It replaced a tangle of bilateral postal agreements with a single set of rules for cross-border post. The body was renamed the Universal Postal Union in 1878 and later became a specialized agency of the United Nations.