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)

  [[1914m/gene1856.html">Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law]]

  16 April 1856.

  [[1914m/1867.html">The Treaty of London]]

  21 June 1867

  Granting neutrality to Luxembourg (French translation)

  [[1914m/gene68.html">St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War,

  of Certain Explosive Projectiles]]

  29 November - 11 December 1868

  [[http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/willnick/timeline.htm"> Timeline of Events]]

  1870 - 1914

  [">The Ems Telegram]

  1870

  Precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71

  [[1914m/allyahg.html">The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany]]

  7 October 1879

  [[1914m/land1880.html">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</font>

  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]]

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  [[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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