Conventions and Treaties

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• Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law

(April 16, 1856)

• First Geneva Convention: "Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

(August 22, 1864)

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

(November 29 - December 11, 1868)

• Oxford Laws of War on Land

(September 9, 1880)

• Hague Convention

(Ratified 1899, 1907, 1926 & 1928)

• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War

(1905)

• Geneva Convention of 1906 relating to the treatment of sick and wounded

(July 6, 1906)

• The London Naval Conference

(1909)

• Treaty of London

(1915; excerpts)

• Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - English translation
• Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Photographic facsimile with synoptic German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Russian texts
• Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - German-language transcription
• Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Russian-language transcription

(March 3, 1918)

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

(signed November 11, 1918)

• The Peace Treaty of Versailles

(signed June 28, 1919)

• Treaty of Neuilly

(November 27, 1919)

• Treaty of Sèvres

(1920; never adopted, superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne).

• The League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes

2 October 1920

• Treaty of Trianon

(signed June 4, 1920)

• US Peace Treaty with Austria

(24 August, 1921)

• US Peace Treaty with Germany

(25 August, 1921)

• US Peace Treaty with Hungary

(29 August, 1921)

• Washington Conference Establishing a Commission of Jurists to Consider Laws of War

(February 4, 1922)

• Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare

(February 6, 1922)

• San Remo Convention

(24 July, 1922)

• The Hague Rules of Air Warfare

(December, 1922 - February, 1923: Never adopted)

• Treaty of Arbitration between Austria and Hungary

(April 10, 1923)

• Straits Treaty

(June 24, 1923)

• Treaty of Lausanne

(July 24, 1923)

• Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

(June 17, 1925)

• Treaty Providing for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy (Kellogg-Briand Pact)

(August 27, 1928)

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WWI Document Archive > Conventions and Treaties

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