Treaty of St. Petersburg: Japan and Russia Swap Islands
Japan and Russia ratified the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, trading Sakhalin Island for the Kuril Islands in a diplomatic exchange that defined their northern Pacific borders for decades. The agreement temporarily defused tensions between the two expanding empires but created territorial disputes that remain unresolved to this day.
August 22, 1875
151 years ago
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