Nootka Convention

Nootka Sound Conventions
Date	Nootka Sound Convention: October 28, 1790; Nootka Claims Convention: February 12, 1793; Convention for the Mutual Abandonment of Nootka: January 11, 1794;
Location	Madrid, Spain
Also known as	Nootka Sound Convention; Nootka Claims Convention; Convention for the Mutual Abandonment of Nootka;
Participants	Spain; Great Britain;
Outcome	Britain and Spain were guaranteed freedom of the seas

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which averted a war between the two countries over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

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