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 (1867)

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

• The Three Emperors' League

18 June 1881

Linking Germany and Austria-Hungary with Russia.

• The Triple Alliance

20 May 1882:Joining Italy with the Germany/Austria-Hungary alliance.

(Eight articles in the original French)

See also expanded version of 1912

• The Triple Alliance (The English Translation)

20 May 1882

See also expanded version of 1912 (In English)

• Bismarck and the "Polish Question."

28 January 1886

Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament

(English translation)

• The Reinsurance Treaty

18 June 1887:Bismarck's alliance with Russia

• Die Internationale

1888:Translated by Richard S. Levy

• Bismarck's Fall from Power

1890

• Wilhelm II -- Swearing In New Recruits

23 November 1891

• The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention

18 August 1892

Leading to the Triple Entente

• Willy-Nicky Letters between the Kaiser and the Czar

1894 - 1914

Transcriptions of original English correspondence.

See also facsimile of the 1920 print edition.

• 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 (HTML version)

Major Resource!

• Hague Convention

29 July 1899 & other ratification dates

• The First 'Open Door Note'

6 September 1899

• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag

11 December 1899

(German original)

• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag (The English Translation)

11 December 1899

(English translation)

• Kaiser Wilhelm II on German Interests in China

2 July 1900

• 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

• The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France

8 April 1904

Later joined by Russia

• The Schlieffen Plan

1905

• The First Moroccan Crisis

31 March 1905

• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War

1905

• Memorandum on the Present State of British Relations with France and Germany by Eyre Crowe

1 January 1907

• The Anglo-Russian Entente

1907

• Proclamation of the Young Turks

1908

• The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary

September - October 1908

• The Daily Telegraph Affair

28 October 1908

• The London Naval Conference

26 February 1909

• The Racconigi Bargain

(Excerpts)

October 1909

• Norman Angell's The Great Illusion

1910

• Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech

21 July 1911

• Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report

24 September 1911

(Contains facsimiles of original handwritten documents)

• The Narodna Odbrana

1911

• Constitution of the Black Hand

1911

• The Haldane Mission

8 - 12 February 1912

• Heinrich Class, "If I were Kaiser"

1912:English translation of Wenn ich Kaiser wär'.

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(Fifteen articles in the original French.)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance (English translation of the above)

5 December 1912:

• Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord

5 February 1913

(In the original French)

• President Wilson's Inaugural Address

4 March 1913

• The Zabern Affair

1913

• British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement

1912-1914

• Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs

1912-1914

• The Next War, by General Friedrich von Bernhardi

1914

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WWI Document Archive > Pre - 1914 Documents

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