12 March 1579
Siege of Maastricht
Begins a major siege intended to restore Spanish control of Maastricht.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Maastricht in Italy. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Begins a major siege intended to restore Spanish control of Maastricht.
Directs trenches, assaults and blockade operations around the fortified city.
Represents Italy as the Maastricht European Council opens the decisive negotiations on European Union.
Takes part in the first day at Maastricht as Italy presses its priorities in the final negotiations.
Accepts the final political settlement establishing European Union and the framework for economic and monetary union.
Helps negotiate the monetary-union provisions and convergence framework agreed at Maastricht.
Helps conclude the foreign-policy and political provisions of the Maastricht settlement.
Helps finalise the political provisions that Italy accepts in the new Treaty on European Union.
Supports the convergence framework accepted by Italy at the end of the Maastricht negotiations.
Signs the Treaty on European Union for Italy as Foreign Minister.
Signs the Treaty on European Union for Italy as Treasury Minister.
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