List of treaties - Definition and Overview

This is a chronological list of important international treaties, agreements, peaces, etc..

• c. 1283 BC - Treaty between Egyptians and Hittites
• c. 450 BC - Peace of Callias - Ends the Persian Wars
• 421 BC - Peace of Nicias - Athens and Sparta end the first phase of the Peloponnesian War
• 387 BC - Peace of Antalcidas - Boundaries of Greek and Persian territory are set
• 651 - Bakt - peace between Nubia and Egypt
• 843 - Treaty of Verdun - Divides the Carolingian Empire
• 870 - Treaty of Mersen - Further divides the Carolingian Empire
• 1101 - Treaty of Alton - Robert Curthose recognizes Henry I as king of England
• 1108 - Treaty of Devol - The Principality of Antioch becomes a nominal vassal of the Byzantine Empire
• 1153 - Treaty of Westminster
• 1204 - Treaty of March, 1204 - Plan to divide Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade
• 1237 - Treaty of York - Established a border between England and Scotland
• 1259 - Treaty of Paris - between Louis IX of France and Henry III of England
• 1266 - Treaty of Perth - Terms of sovereignty over the now Scottish Western Isles agreed between Norway and Scotland
• 1271 - Peace of Pressburg - Ends the war between Bohemia and Hungary
• 1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sets the boundaries of Sweden and Novgorod
• 1359 - Treaty of London - cedes western France to England, repudiated by the Estates-General in Paris
• 1360 - Treaty of Brétigny - Ends the first phase of the Hundred Years' War
• 1370 - Treaty of Stralsund - Ends the war between the Hanseatic League and Denmark
• 1454 - Peace of Lodi - Peace between Milan, Florence and Venice
• 1461 - Treaty of Westminster
• 1466 - Second Treaty of Thorn - Ends the Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Knights
• 1491 - Peace of Pressburg - Defines the future succession of the Austrian and Hungarian kingdoms
• 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas - Divides the world between Spain and Portugal
• 1513 - Treaty of Westminster
• 1559 - Peace of Cateau Cambrésis - Ends the Italian Wars
• 1576 - Pacification of Ghent
• 1579 - Union of Atrecht - Southern states of the Spanish Netherlands express loyalty to the king of Spain
• 1579 - Union of Utrecht - Unifies the northern states of the Netherlands
• 1582 - Peace treaty in Jam Zapolski - Ends the Livonian War between Poland and Russia
• 1595 - Treaty of Teusina
• 1598 - Peace of Vervins - Spanish withdraw from French territory
• 1604 - Treaty of London - Ends hostilies between England and Spain
• 1613 - Treaty of Knäred - Ends the Kalmar War between Denmark and Sweden
• 1617 - Treaty of Stolbovo - Ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia
• 1626 - Peace of Pressburg - Ends the revolt against the Hapsburgs
• 1629 - Treaty of Lübeck - Denmark withdraws from the Thirty Years' War.
• 1645 - Treaty of Brömsebro - Ends the Torstenson War between Sweden and Denmark-Norway
• 1648 - Peace of Westphalia (The treaties of Munster and Osnabrück) - Ends the Thirty Years' War
• 1654 - Treaty of Westminster - Ends the First Anglo-Dutch War
• 1658 - Treaty of Taastrup
• 1658 - Treaty of Roskilde - Denmark-Norway cedes territory to Sweden
• 1659 - Treaty of the Pyrenees - Ends the war between France and Spain
• 1660 - Treaty of Copenhagen - Restores Trondheim to Norway and Bornholm to Denmark
• 1660 - Treaty of Oliva - Ends hostilities between Sweden and Poland
• 1667 - Treaty of Andrusovo - Ends the war between Russia and Poland-Lithuania
• 1668 - First Triple Alliance - Alliance between England, the United Provinces and Sweden
• 1670 - Treaty of Madrid
• 1674 - Treaty of Westminster - Ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1678 - Treaty of Nijmegen - Ends the Dutch War
• 1689 - Treaty of Nerchinsk
• 1868 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 - Ends the war between Russia and Poland
• 1697 - Treaty of Ryswick - Ends the War of the Grand Alliance
• 1699 - Treaty of Karlowitz - Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire
• 1713 - Treaty of Utrecht - Ends the War of the Spanish Succession
• 1717 - Second Triple Alliance - Alliance between Great Britain, the United Provinces and France
• 1718 - Treaty of Passarowitz - Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire
• 1720 - Treaty of Stockholm - Ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and Hanover, Prussia, and Denmark
• 1721 - Treaty of Nystad - Ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia
• 1739 - Treaty of Nissa - Ends the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire
• 1739 - Treaty of Belgrade - Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire
• 1740 - Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between the Miskito nation and England
• 1743 - Treaty of Åbo - Ends the Hats' Russian War
• 1745 - Treaty of Dresden - Austria confirms the loss of Silesia to Prussia after the Second Silesian War
• 1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle - Ends the War of the Austrian Succession
• 1755 - Treaty of Westminster
• 1758 - Treaty of Easton - Native Americans agree not to fight the British during the French and Indian War
• 1763 - Treaty of Hubertusburg - Ends the Seven Years' War
• 1763 - First Treaty of Paris - Ends the Seven Years' War
• 1768 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix
• 1774 - Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji
• 1778 - Treaty of Alliance - Alliance between the United States and France
• 1783 - Second Treaty of Paris - Ends the American Revolutionary War
• 1788 - Third Triple Alliance - Alliance between Great Britain, the United Provinces and Kingdom of Prussia
• 1789 - Jay-Gardoqui Treaty - Trade treaty between United States and Spain
• 1795 - Jay Treaty - Attempts to settle post-Revolution disputes between the United States and Britain
• 1795 - Treaty of Madrid - Defines boundaries of the United States and Spanish colonies
• 1795 - Treaty of Greenville - Ends the war between the United States and a coalition of Native Americans
• 1796 - Treaty of Tripoli - Ends the war between the United States and Tripoli
• 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio - Ends the first phase of the Napoleonic Wars
• 1801 - Treaty of Lunéville - Ends the Second Coalition against France
• 1802 - Treaty of Amiens - Ends the war between France and Britain
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase - United States buys Louisiana from France
• 1805 - Treaty of Pressburg - Ends the war between France and Austria
• 1807 - Treaty of Detroit
• 1807 - Treaty of Tilsit - between France, Russia and Prussia; created the Duchy of Warsaw
• 1809 - Treaty of Fredrikshamn - Ends the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia
• 1810 - Treaty of Paris - Ends the war between France and Sweden
• 1812 - Treaty of Bucharest - Ends the Russian-Turkish war
• 1814 - First Anglo-Dutch Treaty
• 1814 - Third Treaty of Paris, ended war between France and the Sixth Coalition
• 1814 - Treaty of Ghent - Ends the War of 1812
• 1814 - Treaty of Kiel - Cedes Norway to Sweden
• 1815 - Fourth Treaty of Paris - Follows the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo
• 1815 - Vienna Treaty
• 1815 - Treaty of Springwells
• 1816 - Sugauli Treaty - Ends Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–16)
• 1817 - Rush-Bagot Treaty - Settles boundary disputes between the United States and Britain
• 1818 - Anglo-American Convention of 1818 - Settles boundary disputes between the United States and Britain
• 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty - Settles a border dispute between the United States and Spain
• 1819 - Treaty of Saginaw - Native Americans cede land to the United States
• 1821 - Treaty of Córdoba - Gives Mexico independence from Spain
• 1824 - Second Anglo-Dutch Treaty - Settles disputes between Britain and the Netherlands
• 1827 - Treaty of London - Alliance between Britain, France, and Russia for end to Turkish action in Greece
• 1829 - Treaty of Edirne - Russia secures control of the Danube mouths and the right to protect Greece
• 1830 - Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek - United States grants rights to the Choctaw
• 1839 - Treaty of London - Guarantees the neutrality of Belgium
• 1840 - Treaty of Waitangi - Makes New Zealand a British colony
• 1842 - Treaty of Nanjing - Ends the First Opium War
• 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty - Settles boundary disputes between the United States and Canada
• 1846 - Oregon Treaty - Establishes the border between the British and American sections of the Oregon Country
• 1847 - Treaty of Cahuenga - Ends the Mexican-American War in California
• 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Fully ends the Mexican-American War
• 1850 - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty - The United States and Britain agree not to colonize Central America
• 1854 - Kanagawa Treaty - Japan is forcibly opened to American trade
• 1856 - Fifth Treaty of Paris or Congress of Paris - Ends the Crimean War
• 1858 - Treaty of Tientsin - Ends the first phase of the Second Opium War
• 1858 - Treaty of Aigun - Establishes a border between Russia and China
• 1859 - Treaty of Zürich - Franco-Austrian armistice (formalized the Peace of Villafranca)
• 1860 - Convention of Peking - Cedes Hong Kong to Britain
• 1864 - First Geneva Convention - Established rules for the treatment of battlefield casualties
• 1867 - Alaska Purchase - The United States buys Alaska from Russia
• 1867 - Medicine Lodge Treaty - The United States negotiates with Native Americans
• 1868 - Burlingame Treaty - Established relations between the United States and China
• 1868 - Treaty of Fort Laramie - Ends Red Cloud's War
• 1868 - Treaty on Naturalization, United States-North German Confederation - First recognition by a European power of the legal right of its subjects to beome American citizens.
• 1871 - Treaty of Frankfurt - Ends the Franco-Prussian War
• 1871 - Treaty of Washington - Settles grievances between the United States and Canada
• 1878 - Treaty of San Stefano - Ends the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire
• 1878 - Treaty of Berlin - Amends the Treaty of San Stefano
• 1882 - Fourth Triple Alliance - Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
• 1883 - Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property - Intellectual property systems, including patents, of any contracting state become accessible to the nationals of other states party to the Convention
• 1886 - Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• 1886 - Treaty of Bucharest ends the war between Serbia and Bulgaria
• 1887 - Reinsurance Treaty
• 1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki - Ends the Sino-Japanese War
• 1898 - Sixth Treaty of Paris - Ended the Spanish-American War
• 1899 - Hague Conventions - One of the first formal statements of the laws of war
• 1901 - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - Nullifies the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
• 1901 - Boxer Protocol- Peace Agreement between the Great Powers and China
• 1903 - Hay-Herran Treaty - The United States attempts to acquire a lease on Panama
• 1903 - Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty - Establishes the Panama Canal Zone
• 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth - Ends the Russo-Japanese War
• 1906 - Second Geneva Convention - Covers the treatment of wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea
• 1913 - Treaty of London - Ends the First Balkan War
• 1913 - Treaty of Bucharest - Ends the Second Balkan War
• 1913 - Tibet-Mongolia Treaty - Alliance between Mongolia and Tibet
• 1915 - London Pact - Italy enters World War I
• 1916 - Treaty of Bucharest - alliance between Romania and the Entente
• 1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement - Trade treaty between the United States and Japan
• 1917 - Corfu Declaration - Allows for the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• 1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Russia pulls out of World War I
• 1918 - Treaty of Bucharest - between Romania and the Central Powers, never ratified
• 1919 - Treaty of Saint-Germain
• 1919 - Treaty of Versailles - Ends World War I
• 1919 - Faisal Weizmann Agreement - Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation in the Middle East.
• 1920 - Seventh Treaty of Paris - Declares the union between Bessarabia and Romania
• 1920 - Treaty of Tartu - Establishes borders between Russia, Finland, and Estonia
• 1920 - Treaty of Trianon - Regulates the situation of newly-independent Hungary
• 1920 - Treaty of Sèvres - Peace between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire
• 1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty - Ireland becomes independent
• 1921 - Peace of Riga - Ends the Polish-Soviet War
• 1921 - Treaty of Berlin
• 1922 - Washington Naval Treaty - Limits the naval armaments race
• 1923 - Treaty of Lausanne - Sets the boundaries of modern Turkey
• 1926 - Treaty of Berlin - Germany and the Soviet Union pledge neutrality
• 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact - Calls "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy"
• 1929 - Lateran Treaty - The Kingdom of Italy and Vatican City formally recognize each other
• 1929 - Third Geneva Convention - Establishes rules for the treatment of prisoners of war
• 1930 - London Naval Treaty - Regulates submarine warfare and shipbuilding
• 1931 - Treaty of Westminster - Creates the British Commonwealth
• 1938 - Munich Agreement - Surrenders Czechoslovakia to Germany
• 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - Germany and the Soviet Union pledge non-aggression
• 1940 - Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) - Ends the Winter War
• 1944 - Bretton Woods Agreement - Establishes the rules for commercial and financial relations among the major industrial states
• 1944 - Tito-Subasic Agreement - Attempts to merge Yugoslavian governments

• 1945 - UN Charter - Establishes the United Nations
• 1946 - bilateral Bermuda Agreement on Civil Aviation between US and UK
• 1947 - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Establishes rules for trade
• 1947 - Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 - Establishes peace after World War II
• 1947 - Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty)
• 1947 - Ratification of the Convention on International Civil Aviation in Chicago, also known as the Chicago Convention of 1944.
• 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty of Washington) - Establishes NATO
• 1949 - Fourth Geneva Convention - Establishes rules for the protection of civilians during times of war
• 1951 - Eighth Treaty of Paris - Establishes the European Coal and Steel Community
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco - A peace treaty between the Allied powers and Japan and ended the conflict in the World War II.
• 1952 - ANZUS Treaty - Alliance between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
• 1954 - Baghdad Pact- Central Treaty Organization - Alliance of Arab states
• 1955 - Warsaw Pact - Alliance of Communist states
• 1955 - Open Skies Treaty
• 1957 - Treaty of Rome - Establishes the European Economic Community
• 1957 - International Atomic Energy Treaty (US PL 85-177)
• 1961 - Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (US PL 87-297)
• 1961 - Antarctic Treaty
• 1961 - Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
• 1961 - Alliance for Progress
• 1961 - Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
• 1961 - Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
• 1963 - Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
• 1963 - Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
• 1963 - Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water
• 1963 - Elysée Treaty
• 1967 - Outer Space Treaty
• 1968 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• 1969 - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• 1971 - Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
• 1972 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (US PL 92-448)
• 1972 - Biological Weapons Convention
• 1972 - Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention)
• 1974 - Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite
• 1978 - Camp David Accords
• 1979 - Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
• 1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration
• 1986 - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or Between International Organizations
• 1988 - Intermediate Range Nuclear Force
• 1989 - Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer
• 1990 - Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany
• 1991 - Brioni Agreement
• 1992 - Maastricht Treaty
• 1992 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• 1993 - Oslo Accords
• 1993 - Chemical Weapons Convention
• 1994 - Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
• 1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement
• 1994 - Kremlin accords
• 1995 - General Agreement on Trade in Services
• 1996 - WIPO Copyright Treaty
• 1996 - WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• 1996 - Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• 1997 - Ottawa Convention on Landmines
• 1997 - Worldwide Chemical Weapons Convention
• 1998 - Good Friday Agreement
• 1998 - Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• 2001 - Treaty of Nice
• 2002 - SORT - Limits the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States
• 2005 - Kyoto Protocol

Pending

• Central American Free Trade Agreement
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• WIPO Protection of Broadcasting Organizations

See also

• Environmental agreements
• List of wars
• List of United States treaties