England and the Netherlands sign the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Westminster_(1674)" id="mwNA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treaty of Westminster (1674)">Treaty of Westminster</a>, ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War" id="mwNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Third Anglo-Dutch War">Third Anglo-Dutch War</a>. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Amsterdam">New Amsterdam</a> to England.<sup about="#mwt30" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_19#cite_note-4" id="mwNw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOA">[4]</span></a></sup>
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