The Treaty of Passarowitz, signed in the town of Pozarevac in what is now Serbia, ended the war between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy and Venice. Austria, whose army under Prince Eugene of Savoy had won victories at Petrovaradin and Belgrade, gained the Banat of Temesvar, northern Serbia, including Belgrade, and part of Wallachia. Venice, on the other hand, lost the Peloponnese, which it had conquered a few decades earlier, though it kept some gains in Dalmatia and Albania. The treaty marked the high point of Habsburg expansion in the Balkans, but most of its gains in Serbia and Wallachia were lost again in the war of 1737-1739. It also set rules for trade between the empires.
Before and after
- 14 November 1716Death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 13 May 1717Birth of Maria Theresa of Austria
- from 18 June 1717 to 21 August 1717Siege of Belgrade
- 16 November 1717Birth of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- 21 July 1718Treaty of Passarowitz
- from 2 August 1718 to 17 February 1720War of the Quadruple Alliance
- from 28 December 1718 to 5 January 1719Carolean Death March
- 25 April 1719Publication of Robinson Crusoe
- from c. 1720s to 1740sCampaigns of Nader Shah
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- 22 February 1732Birth of George Washington
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