Pre - 1914 Documents

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• Treaties and Documents Relative to the Neutrality of the Netherlands and Belgium
  1839-1914
  Taken from an appendix to Alexander Fuehr's The Neutrality of Belgium (1915)

  Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law

  16 April 1856.

  The Treaty of London

  21 June 1867

  Granting neutrality to Luxembourg

  (French translation)

  St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles

  29 November - 11 December 1868

  Timeline of Events

  1870 - 1914

  [">The Ems Telegram]

  1870

  Precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71

  The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany

  7 October 1879

  Oxford Laws of War on Land

  9 September 1880

  [">On the Nature of War by Helmut Moltke (the Elder)]

  1880

  [[1914m/liga3.html">The Three Emperors' League]]

  18 June 1881

  Linking Germany and Austria-Hungary with Russia.

  [[1914m/triporig.html">The Triple Alliance]]

  20 May 1882

  Joining Italy with the Germany/Austria-Hungary alliance.

  (Eight articles in the original French)

  See also [[1914m/tripori2.html">expanded version of 1912]]

  [[1914m/tripally.html">The Triple Alliance]]

  20 May 1882

  (English translation of the above)

  See also [[1914m/tripall2.html">expanded version of 1912]]

  [">Bismarck and the "Polish Question."]

  28 January 1886

  Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament

  (English translation)

  [[1914m/reinsure.html">The Reinsurance Treaty]]

  18 June 1887

  Bismarck's alliance with Russia

  [[http://h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/internat.html"> Die Internationale]]

  1888

  Translated by Richard S. Levy

  [[http://h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/dismiss.html"> Bismarck's Fall from Power]]

  1890

  [[http://h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/wilhelm.html"> Wilhelm II -- Swearing In New Recruits]]

  23 November 1891

  [[1914m/franruss.html">The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention]]

  18 August 1892

  Leading to the Triple Entente

  [[1914m/willnick/wnmaina.htm">Willy-Nicky Letters between the Kaiser and the Czar]]

  1894 - 1914

  (English translations -- including introduction and timeline)

  British Official Documents on the Origins of the War

  Multi-volume set ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley

  Vol. I, The End of British Isolation: 1897 - 1903, [">University of Toronto Digital Collections]

  Vol. XI, The Outbreak of War: June 28 - August 4 1914, [[ 1914m/gooch/mainguch.htm">Dual Frame version]]; [[1914m/gooch/firstpps.htm">Standard version]]

  Major Resource!

  [[hague.html">Hague Convention]]

  29 July 1899 & other ratification dates

  [[1914m/opendoor.html">The First 'Open Door Note']]

  6 September 1899

  [[1914m/bulow.html">Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag]]

  11 December 1899

  (German original)

  [[1914m/buloweng.html">Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag]]

  11 December 1899

  (English translation)

  [">Kaiser Wilhelm II on German Interests in China]

  2 July 1900

  [[1914m/abc.html">The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy]]

  November 1901

  [">Anglo-Japanese Alliance]

  30 January 1902

  To counter French and Russian designs in the Far East

  [[1914m/entecord.html">The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France]]

  8 April 1904

  Later joined by Russia

  [[1914m/schlieffen.html">The Schlieffen Plan]]

  1905

  [[1914m/morocco.html">The First Moroccan Crisis]]

  31 March 1905

  [[1914m/portsmouth.html">Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War]]

  1905

  [[1914m/anglruss.html">The Anglo-Russian Entente]]

  1907

  [">Proclamation of the Young Turks]

  1908

  [[1914m/bosherz.html">The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary]]

  September - October 1908

  [[1914m/dailytel.html">The Daily Telegraph Affair]]

  28 October 1908

  [[1914m/racco.html">The Racconigi Bargain]] (Excerpts)

  October 1909

  [[1914m/illusion.html">Norman Angell's The Great Illusion]]

  1910

  [[1914m/llgeorge.html">Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech]]

  21 July 1911

  [[1914m/lux-pm.html">Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report]]

  24 September 1911

  (Contains facsimiles of original handwritten documents)

  [[1914m/odbrana.html">The Narodna Odbrana]]

  1911

  [[1914m/blk-cons.html">Constitution of the Black Hand]]

  1911

  [[1914m/haldane.html">The Haldane Mission]]

  8 - 12 February 1912

  [">Heinrich Class, "If I were Kaiser"]

  1912

  English translation of Wenn ich Kaiser wär'.

  [[1914m/tripori2.html">Amended Version of The Triple Alliance]]

  5 December 1912

  (Fifteen articles in the original French).

  [[1914m/tripall2.html">Amended Version of The Triple Alliance]]

  5 December 1912

  (English translation of the above)

  [[1914m/roumaine.html">Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord]]

  5 February 1913

  (In the original French)

  [[http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/wilson1913inauguration.htm"> President Wilson's Inaugural Address]]

  4 March 1913

  [[1914m/zabern.html">The Zabern Affair]]

  1913

  [[1914m/arabetuk.html"> British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement]]

  1912-1914

  [[1914m/lichnowy.html"> Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs]]

  1912-1914

  [">The Next War, by General Friedrich von Bernhardi]

  1914

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