World War I, Treaties by Date
Conventions and Treaties
Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
(April 16, 1856)
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)
Treaty of London
(1915; excerpts)
Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- English translation
(March 3, 1918)
Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- photographic facsimile with synoptic German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Russian texts.
(March 3, 1918)
Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- German-language transcription.
(March 3, 1918)
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(1920; never adopted, superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne).
League of Nations Protocol
(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)
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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