Historical place archive

Spa in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Spa in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records5 event labels2 people1920–1920

Historical events in Spa

1920

10 July 1920
Spa Conference Armistice Plan
David Lloyd George · Coalition Government

At Spa, Lloyd George supports using the previously proposed Allied eastern line as the basis for an armistice in the Polish-Soviet War.

11 July 1920
Curzon Note Sent
George Nathaniel Curzon · Coalition Government

Curzon sends Soviet Foreign Commissar Chicherin the British armistice proposal that gives the provisional Allied boundary its enduring name.

11 July 1920
Eastern Galicia Extension
George Nathaniel Curzon · Coalition Government

Curzon's proposal extends the earlier provisional line south through Galicia, west of Rawa Ruska and east of Przemysl, to the Carpathians.

11 July 1920
Polish Withdrawal Proposal
George Nathaniel Curzon · Coalition Government

Curzon's note proposes that Polish forces withdraw to the provisional eastern line established by the Peace Conference.

11 July 1920
Soviet Stand-Off Proposal
George Nathaniel Curzon · Coalition Government

The British armistice proposal calls for Soviet forces to remain fifty kilometres east of the proposed line outside Eastern Galicia.

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