<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Partition_of_Poland" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Partition of Poland">First Partition of Poland</a>: The representatives of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" id="mwjA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Habsburg monarchy">Austria</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia" id="mwjQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prussia">Prussia</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a> sign three bilateral conventions condemning the ‘anarchy’ of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth</a> and imputing to the three powers ‘ancient and legitimate rights’ to the territories of the Commonwealth. The conventions allow each of the three great powers to annex a part of the Commonwealth, which they proceed to do over the course of the following two months.<sup about="#mwt40" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_5#cite_note-6" id="mwkA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwkQ">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt37" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLukowski2014">Lukowski, Jerzy (2014). <i id="mwB74">The Partitions of Poland: 1772, 1793, 1795</i>. Routledge. p.<span id="mwB78" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>81. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB8E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-582-29274-1" id="mwB8I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-582-29274-1"><bdi id="mwB8M">978-0-582-29274-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt37" class="Z3988" id="mwB8Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Partitions+of+Poland%3A+1772%2C+1793%2C+1795&amp;rft.pages=81&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-582-29274-1&amp;rft.aulast=Lukowski&amp;rft.aufirst=Jerzy&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+5"></span></span>