Sale of Dunkirk

The Sale of Dunkirk took place on 27 October [O.S. 17 October] 1662 when Charles II of England sold his sovereign rights to Dunkirk and Fort-Mardyck to his cousin Louis XIV of France.^[1]

^ Grose, Clyde L. (March 1933). "The Dunkirk Money, 1662". The Journal of Modern History. 5 (1). The University of Chicago Press: 5. doi:10.1086/235963. JSTOR 1872278. S2CID 144839201.