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
- 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
- 20 May 1882
- (English translation of the above)
- See also expanded version of 1912
- 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
- (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, Dual Frame version; Standard 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 5 December 1912
- (English translation of the above)
- 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
- 1839-1914
