List of treaties
Before AD 1200
Year
Name
c.
EgyptianHittite
1283 BC peace treaty
Summary
Treaty between the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II and the Hittite
monarch Hattusili III after the Battle of Kadesh.[1][2]
Border agreement between the rulers of the city-states of Lagash
c. 2100 (Lagash and Umma
and Umma in Mesopotamia, inscribed on a stone block, setting
BC
of Mesopotamia)
a proscribed boundary between their two states.[3]
c. 493 BC Foedus Cassianum[4]
Ends the war between the Roman Republic and the Latin
League.
c. 450 BC Peace of Callias
Ends the Persian Wars.
445 BC Thirty Years' Peace
Ends the First Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
421 BC Peace of Nicias
Athens and Sparta end the first phase of the Peloponnesian War.
387 BC Peace of Antalcidas Sets the boundaries of Greek and Persian territory.
241 BC Treaty of Lutatius
Ends the First Punic War.
226 BC Ebro Treaty
Establishes the Ebro River in Iberia as the boundary line
between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
216 BC Macedonian
Establishes an anti-Roman alliance between Philip V of
Carthaginian Treaty Macedon and Hannibal of Carthage.
205 BC Treaty of Phoenice
Ends the First Macedonian War.
196 BC Treaty of Tempea
Ends the Second Macedonian War.
188 BC Treaty of Apamea
Between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III (the Great),
ruler of the Seleucid Empire.
161 BC
RomanJewish
Treaty
85 BC Treaty of Dardanos
Establishes friendship between Judas Maccabeus and the
Roman Republic.
Ends the First Mithridatic War.
387
Peace of Acilisene
Between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the
Sassanian Persian Empire.
532
The Eternal Peace
Between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the
Sassanian Persian Empire.
562
The Fifty-Year Peace
Between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the
Sassanian Persian Empire.
587
Treaty of Andelot[5]
Between Frankish rulers Guntram and Brunhilda; Guntram
adopts Brunhilda's son Childebert II.
628
Treaty of
Hudaybiyyah
Between Muslims and the Quraish.
638
Ili River Treaty
Between Eastern Turks and the Western Turks (Onok).
651
The Bakt
713
Treaty of Orihuela[6] Establishes a dhimmi over the Christian inhabitants of Orihuela.
716
Treaty of 716
Officially ends the Battle of Anchialus and establishes the
borders between Byzantium and the Bulgarian Empire.
803
Pax Nicephori
Peace between Charlemagne and the Byzantine Empire;
recognizes Venice as Byzantine territory.
811
Treaty of Heiligen
Sets the southern boundary of Denmark at the Eider River.
815
Treaty of 815
Ends prolonged series of conflicts between the Bulgarian
Empire and the Byzantine Empire in Bulgarian favour.
836
Pactum Sicardi
Peace between the Duchy of Naples and the Principality of
Salerno under Sicard.
843
Treaty of Verdun
Partitions the Carolingian Empire.
870
Treaty of Mersen
Further partitions the Carolingian Empire.
878890
907
911
Between Nubia and Egypt.
Treaty of Alfred and Between Alfred of Wessex and Guthrum, the Viking ruler of
Guthrum
East Anglia.
Rus'Byzantine
Treaty (907)
Regulates the status of the colony of Rus' merchants in
Constantinople.
Rus'Byzantine
Treaty (911)
Between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus'.
Treaty of Saint-ClairCharles the Simple grants Normandy to Rollo.
sur-Epte
921
Treaty of Bonn
West Francia and East Francia both recognize each other.
945
Rus'Byzantine
Treaty (945)
Between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus'.
1002
Peace of Bautzen
Between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Duke Bolesaw I
the Brave of Poland.
1004
Chanyuan Treaty
Establishes relations between the Northern Song and Liao
Dynasties.
1013
Peace of Merseburg
Between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Duke Bolesaw I
the Brave of Poland.
1018
Peace of Bautzen
Between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Duke Bolesaw I
the Brave of Poland.
1031
Peace of Bautzen
Between Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II and Duke Mieszko II
of Poland.
1033
Peace of Merseburg
Between Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II and Duke Mieszko II
of Poland.
1059
Treaty of Melfi
Pope Nicholas II recognizes Norman influence in southern Italy.
1080
Treaty of Ceprano
Pope Gregory VII establishes an alliance with Robert Guiscard
and recognizes his conquests.
1082
ByzantineVenetian Byzantium grants trade concessions to Venice in return for
Treaty of 1082
military aid against the Normans.
1091
Treaty of Caen
Ends rivalry between William II of England and Duke Robert
Curthose of Normandy.
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.
1122
Pactum Calixtinum
Between Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V,
Holy Roman Emperor.
1123
Pactum Warmundi
The crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem allies with Venice.
1139
Treaty of Mignano
Roger II of Sicily recognised as king by the legitimate Pope
Innocent II.
1141
Treaty of Shaoxing
Ends conflicts between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song
Dynasty.
1143
Treaty of Zamora
Recognises Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of
Len.
1151
Treaty of Tudiln[7]
Recognises the conquests of the Crown of Aragon south of the
Jcar and recognises future conquests in Murcia.
1153
Treaty of
Wallingford[8]
Officially ends The Anarchy between Empress Matilda and her
cousin Stephen of England.
Treaty of
Constance[9]
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Pope Eugene III agree
to defend Italy against Manuel I Comnenus.
1156
Treaty of Benevento Peace between the Papacy and the Kingdom of Sicily.
1158
Treaty of Sahagn
(1158)
Between Sancho III of Castile and Ferdinand II of Len.
1170
Treaty of Sahagn
(1170)
Between Alfonso VIII of Castile and Alfonso II of Aragon.
1175
Treaty of Windsor
(1175)
Between King Henry II of England and the last High King of
Ireland, Rory O'Connor during Norman expansion in Ireland.
1177
Treaty of Venice[10]
Peace between the Papacy, the Lombard League, the Kingdom
of Sicily, and the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa.
1179
Treaty of Cazorla[11]
Defines the zones of conquest in Andalusia between Aragon and
Castile.
1183
Peace of
Constance[12]
Peace between the Lombard League and the Holy Roman
Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Reaffirms the Peace of Venice.
1192
Treaty of Jaffa
Ends the Third Crusade.
12001299
Year
Name
Summary
1200 Treaty of Le Goulet
1204
Partitio terrarum
imperii Romaniae
1209 Treaty of Speyer
John of England and Philip II of France make peace. Marriage
between Blanche of Castile and Louis VIII of France.
Agreement between the participants of the Fourth Crusade on the
division of the Byzantine Empire. Establishment of the Latin
Empire
Otto IV renounces the Concordat of Worms.
1212 Golden Bull of Sicily Determines the rights and duties of the Bohemian monarchs.
1214
Treaty of
Nymphaeum
Establishes peace between the Nicaean Empire and the Latin
Empire.
1215 Magna Carta
Between King John of England and his barons.
1217 Treaty of Lambeth
Between Louis VIII of France and Henry III of England.
Treaty with the
1220 Princes of the
Church[13]
Between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and German bishops.
1218
Golden Charter of
Bern
Establishes Bern as an independent state.
1219
NicaeanVenetian
Treaty of 1219
Grants Venetians freedom of trade and duty-free imports
throughout the Nicaean Empire in exchange for non-support for
the Latin Empire.
1222 Golden Bull of 1222
Andrew II of Hungary grants Hungarian nobles the power to
disobey the king when he acted contrary to the law.
Treaty of Melun
Forces the counts of Flanders to swear fealty to the French
crown.
Golden Bull of
Rimini
Resolves disputes over Chemno Land.
1226
1229 Treaty of Paris (1229) Officially ends the Albigensian Crusade.
1230
Treaty of San
Germano
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II restores Sicily to Pope
Gregory IX.
Treaty of Ceprano
(1230)
Establishes lines of reconciliation between Pope Gregory IX and
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
Treaty of Kruszwica
Konrad I of Masovia grants Chemno Land to the Prussians and
the Order of Dobrzy.
1234 Golden Bull of Rieti
Recognizes Kulmerland (Chemno Land) as subject to the Pope's
authority and not as a fief belonging to anyone.
1236 Treaty of Kremmen
The Margraviate of Brandenburg gains most of the territory and
the right of succession for Pomerania-Demmin.
1237 Treaty of York
A feudal agreement between Henry III of England and Alexander
III of Scotland.
Treaty of Almizra[14] Establishes the borders of the Kingdom of Valencia.
1244
Treaty of Jtiva
1245 Al-Azraq Treaty
Permits the Moors of Spain to hold on to the Castle of Jtiva for
two years before relinquishing it to King James I of Aragon.
Between the King James I of Aragon and the Muslim commander
Mohammad Abu Abdallah Ben Hudzail al Sahuir.
Treaty of Christburg
Establishes peace between the pagan Prussian clans and the
Teutonic Knights.
Treaty of Ldse
Prevents mutual hostility between the Kingdom of Sweden and
the Kingdom of Norway from escalating into war.
1249
1250 Treaty of Landin
Succession of Pomerania-Demmin: The Margraviate of
Brandenburg's rights are dropped in favour of Pomerania-Stettin
Treaty of Corbeil
Establishes a border between France and the Crown of Aragon.
Provisions of Oxford
Between King Henry III, of England and his Barons. Established
a permanent baronial council / Parliament.
1258
1259 Treaty of Paris[15]
1261
Treaty of
Nymphaeum
Between Louis IX of France and Henry III of England.
A trade and defense pact between the Nicaean Empire and the
Republic of Genoa.
1262 Old Covenant
Between the major chieftains of Iceland and Haakon IV of
Norway. The signing brought about the union of Iceland with
Norway
1265 Treaty of Pipton
Established alliance between Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of
Wales and Simon de Montford during the Second Barons' War.
1266 Dictum of
Kenilworth
Ends hostilities between the supporters of Simon de Montfort,
6th Earl of Leicester and Henry III of England; comes into effect
in 1267.
Treaty of Perth
Terms of sovereignty over the Western Isles, the Isle of Man, and
the Northern Isles agreed between Norway and Scotland.
Treaty of Badajoz
King Alfonso X and King Afonso III agree to use the Guadiana
River as the boundary line separating Castile and Portugal.
1267 Treaty of
Montgomery
Treaty of Viterbo
Henry III of England acknowledges Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's title
as the 'Prince of Wales'.
Grants Charles I of Anjou claims to the defunct Latin Empire.
1271 Peace of Pressburg[16] Ends war between Bohemia and Hungary.
1277 Treaty of Aberconwy
Between King Edward I of England and Llewelyn the Last of
Wales.
1281 Treaty of Orvieto
Between Charles I of Sicily, the Republic of Venice, and Philip of
Courtenay; attempts to recover the Latin Empire.
Treaty of Rheinfelden
Duke Rudolph II of Austria surrenders power to his older brother
Albert I of Germany.
1283
Between 8 Hanseatic towns in the Baltic region, the dukes of
Rostock Peace Treaty Saxony and Pomerania, the prince of Rgen, the lords of
Schwerin and Dannenberg and the nobility of Rostock.
1289
Treaty of Birgham
1290
Attempts to end competing claims between the House of Balliol
and the House of Bruce for the Scottish throne; never comes into
effect.
1291 Treaty of Tarascon
Ends the Aragonese Crusade.
Auld Alliance
Scotland and France forge the first treaty of mutual self-defense
against England.
Treaty of Anagni
Reaffirms the Treaty of Tarascon, but fails to diplomatically settle
the Sicilian question.
1295
13001399
Year
1302
Name
Peace of
Caltabellotta
1303 Treaty of Paris
1304
Treaty of
Torrellas[17]
Summary
Ends the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
Restores Gascony to England from France during the Hundred Years'
War.
Brought peace to Castile and Aragon and divided up the Kingdom of
Murcia between them.
Treaty of Athis-sur- France acquires the cities of Lille, Douai, and Bthune and Flanders
Orge
retains its independence.
1305
1309
Treaty of Elche
Modifies the Treaty of Torrellas and grants Cartagena to Castile.
Treaty of Soldin
(1309)
The Teutonic Order purchases from Margrave Waldemar of
Brandenburg-Stendal the rights to Pomerelia and Danzig (Gdask).
1317 Treaty of Templin
Ascanians surrender the territories of Schlawe-Stolp to the
Pomeranians.
Treaty of
Nteborg[18]
Sets the boundary between Sweden and Novgorod Republic.
Treaty of Paris
Count Louis of Flanders relinquishes Flemish claims over Zeeland.
Treaty of Corbeil
Renews the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland.
Treaty of Novgorod
End decades of border skirmishes at the border of Norway and
Novgorod Republic.
1323
1326
Treaty of
1328 Edinburgh
Northampton
Between Edward III of England and the Scots.
1329
Treaty of Pavia
(1329)
Between Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and his nephews.
1338
Declaration of
Rhense[19]
German princes elect German kings without the consent of the
Papacy.
1340 Truce of Esplchin
1343
Treaty of Kalisz
(1343)
Between the English and French crowns during the Hundred Years'
War.
Between King Casimir III the Great of Poland and the Teutonic
Knights.
Treaty of Stralsund Settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and
(1354)
Pomerania.
1354
Treaty of Mantes
First peace between Charles II of Navarre and John II of France.
1355 Treaty of Valognes Second peace between Charles II of Navarre and John II of France.
Treaty of Paris
(1355)
1358 Treaty of Zadar
1359
Treaty of London
(1359)[20]
1360 Treaty of Brtigny
Recognizes the annexation of the Barony of Gex by the county of
Savoy.
The Republic of Venice loses influence over territories in Dalmatia.
Cedes western France to England; repudiated by the Estates-General
in Paris.
Ends the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1370
Treaty of Stralsund
Ends the war between the Hanseatic League and Denmark.
(1370)
1371
Treaty of Vincennes- Renewal of the Auld Alliance between the Kingdoms of France and
Edinburgh
Scotland.
Anglo-Portuguese
1373
Treaty of 1373
Treaty of alliance between King Edward III of England and King
Ferdinand I and Queen Eleanor of Portugal; it is the oldest treaty still
in force.
1379 Treaty of Neuberg
Divides Habsburg lands between Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
Treaty of
Dovydiks
Jogaila signs a secret peace treaty with the Teutonic Knights against
Kstutis.
1380
Jogaila promises to convert the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to
1382 Treaty of Dubysa[21] Christianity, cede Samogitia, and establish a four-year alliance with
the Teutonic Knights; never comes into effect.
1385 Union of Krewo[22]
Establishes a dynastic union between Poland and Lithuania.
1386
Treaty of Windsor
(1386)
1390
Treaty of
Establishes alliance between Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic
Knigsberg (1390) Order.
Renews the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance.
1397 Treaty of Kalmar
Establishes the Kalmar Union; becomes null and void in 1523.
1398 Treaty of Salynas
Vytautas the Great cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
14001499
Year
1401
Name
Pact of Vilnius and
Radom
Summary
Reaffirms the Union of Krewo and grants autonomy to the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania.
1411 First Peace of Thorn Ends the PolishLithuanianTeutonic War.
1412 Treaty of Lubowla
Between Wadysaw II of Poland and Sigismund of Luxemburg,
king of Hungary.
Compromise of
1412
Caspe
Between the crowns of Aragon and Castile, ensuring the access of
the royal House of Trastmara to the Aragonese crown, thus
eventually uniting Spain.
1412 Treaty of 1412
Signed by the Swiss Confederation and Frederick IV, Duke of
Austria, broken after 2 years by the Swiss.
1413 Union of Horodo[23]
Reaffirms the Union of Krewo and the Pact of Vilnius and Radom;
permits Lithuania to have a separate Grand Duke and parliament.
OttomanVenetian
1416 maritime treaty
(1416)
Maritime trade rights to Republic of Venice
1420 Treaty of Troyes
Attempt to pass the French throne to England.
1422 Treaty of Melno
The Teutonic Knights relinquish Nieszawa to Poland and all claims
to Samogitia and northern Lithuania to the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania; Poland renounces claims to Pomerelia, Culmerland, and
the Michelauer Land east of Culmerland.
1424 Edict of Wielu
Outlaws Hussitism in the Kingdom of Poland.
1428 Treaty of Delft[24]
Ends hostilities between England and Flanders.
1431
Treaty of Medina del
Peace between Portugal and Castile; ratified in Almeirim in 1432.
Campo (1431)
1432
Union of Grodno
(1432)[25]
Reinforces the PolishLithuanian union.
1433 Truce of czyca
Mitigates hostilities in the PolishTeutonic War (143135) between
the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order in czyca.
1435 Treaty of Arras
(1435)
Reconciles a longstanding feud between King Charles VII of France
and Philip, Duke of Burgundy.
Peace of Brze
Kujawski
Ends the PolishTeutonic War (143135).
Treaty of
Christopher of Bavaria crushed a great peasant rebellion in Northern
1441 Copenhagen (1441)
Jutland; Baltic Sea is opened to Dutch traders.
[26]
1443 Treaty of Gyehae
Between the Joseon dynasty and S Clan (lord of Tsushima Island);
controls Japanese piracy and legitimizes trade between Tsushima
Island and a Korean port.
1444 Peace of Szeged[27]
Between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
Treaty of Lodi[28]
Peace between Milan, Florence and Venice.
Treaty of Clln
State of the Teutonic Order pawns Neumark to Electorate of
Brandenburg
1454
1455 Treaty of Mewe
State of the Teutonic Order sells Neumark to Electorate of
Brandenburg
1456 Treaty of Yazhelbitsy Establishes peace between Vasili II and the people of Novgorod.
1460 Treaty of Ribe
Treaty of
1462 Westminster (1462)
[29]
Defines status of Schleswig and Holstein.
Divides Scotland between King Edward IV of England and the Earl
of Douglas.
1464 Treaty of York (1464) Aligns James III of Scotland with Yorkist England
1465 Treaty of Conflans[30] Officially ends the Guerre folle (Mad War).
Second Peace of
Thorn (1466)[31]
Ends the Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic
Knights.
Treaty of Soldin
(1466)
Duchy of Pomerania becomes a nominal fief of the Electorate of
Brandenburg. Implementation failed, war ensued.
Treaty of Pronne
(1468)
Between Duke Charles I of Burgundy and King Louis XI of France.
1466
1468
1472 Treaty of Prenzlau
1474
Treaty of Utrecht
(1474)
1475 Treaty of Picquigny
1478
Treaty of Brno
(1478)
1479 Peace of Olomouc
Declares Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg, ruler of Pomerania
Stettin.
Ends the Anglo-Hanseatic War between England and the Hanseatic
League led by Lbeck and Danzig.
Louis XI pays Edward IV to stay in England and not pursue his
claim to the French throne.
Divides Bohemian territories between Ladislaus II of Bohemia and
Hungary and Matthias Corvinus.
Ratifies the Treaty of Brno (1478).
Treaty of
Alcovas[32]
Between the Kingdom of Castile and Portugal; ends the Castilian
Civil War begun in 1474.
Treaty of
Constantinople
(1479)
Officially ends the fifteen-year war between Venice and the
Ottoman Empire.
1482 Treaty of
Fotheringhay
Edward IV of England undertook to place the Duke of Albany on
his brother's throne of Scotland.
Treaty of Arras
(1482)
Between King Louis XI of France and the governments of the Low
Countries.
Treaty of Mnsingen
Count Eberhard V reunites the divided county of Wrttemberg and
declares it indivisible.
1484 Treaty of Bagnolo
Ends the War of Ferrara (14821484) between Ercole d'Este I and
Pope Sixtus IV along with his Venetian allies.
1485 Treaty of Leipzig
Divides Saxony between Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Albert,
Duke of Saxony.
1488 Treaty of Sabl[33]
Duke Francis I of Brittany becomes a vassal of King Charles VIII of
France.
1489 Treaty of Medina del Primarily a marriage contract between Arthur Tudor and Catherine
Campo (1489)
of Aragon.
Treaty of Frankfurt
(1489)
Between Maximilian of Austria and the envoys of King Charles VIII
of France.
Treaty of Dordrecht Establishes an alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I
(1489)
and King Henry VII of England.
Treaty of Redon
1490 Treaty of Woking
(Okyng)
Henry VII of England grants Lord Daubeney of Brittany 6000
English troops.
Between King Henry VII of England, and Queen Isabella I of
Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Ambassador in
London, Dr Rodrigo Gonzalez de la Puebla; for the marriage of
Catherine of Aragon to Arthur, Prince of Wales
1491 Peace of Pressburg
(1491)
Treaty of Granada
(1491)[34]
Defines the future succession of the Austrian and Hungarian
kingdoms.
Relinquishes the sovereignty of the Moorish Kingdom of Granada
to Spain.
1492 Peace of Etaples
Ends war between England and France.
1493
Treaty of Barcelona
France cedes Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain in return for
Spanish neutrality during its war with Italy.
Treaty of Senlis
France cedes the Duchy of Burgundy, the County of Artois, Picardy
and the Low Countries to the House of Habsburg.
Treaty of Pyritz
preliminary end to the Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas Divides the world between Spain and Portugal.
1496 Intercursus Magnus Resolves some trade wars between England and the Netherlands.
1497 Treaty of Ayton
1499
Treaty of Basel
(1499)
15001599
Seven year peace between England and Scotland under the
arbitration of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
Concludes the Swabian War fought between the Swabian League
and the Old Swiss Confederacy.
Year
Name
Summary
1500 Treaty of Granada
King Ferdinand II of Aragon agrees to support French claims
over the Kingdom of Naples.
1501 Treaty of Trente
Austria recognises all French conquests in northern Italy.
1502 Treaty of Perpetual Peace Ends hostilities between England and Scotland; void in 1513.
1504 Treaty of Blois
Treaty of Lyons
Temporarily halts the Italian Wars.
Louis XII of France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1511 Treaty of Westminster
Treaty of alliance between Henry VIII of England and
Ferdinand II of Aragon against France.
1516 Peace of Noyon
Divides Italy between France and Spain.
1517 Treaty of Rouen
Attempts to renew the Auld Alliance.
1518 Treaty of London
Establishes a non-aggression pact between France, England,
Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the
Netherlands.
1522 Treaty of Windsor
Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Henry VIII of
England; its main clause was the invasion of France.
1524 Treaty of Malm
Ends the Swedish War of Liberation.
1526 Treaty of Hampton Court Establishes peace between France and England.
Treaty of Madrid
Temporarily ends French interests in Italy.
Alliance treaty between
Geneva, Berne and
Fribourg
Ending effective Savoy dynasty rule over Geneva. Geneva
became part of the Swiss confederation The treaty was
concluded on February 20 and ratified on March 12, 1526
Treaty of Berwick
Three year peace agreement between Scotland and England.
1527 Treaty of Westminster
Treaty of alliance between King Henry VIII of England and
King Francis I of France against King Charles V of Spain.
1528 Treaty of Gorinchem
Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Charles
of Guelders.
1529
Treaty of Barcelona
Francis I, returns the Franche-Comt and promises to return
the Duchy of Burgundy.
Treaty of Cambrai
Also known as the Paix des Dames (Ladies' Peace).
Treaty of Saragossa
Specifies the anti-meridian line of demarcation between
Spanish and Portuguese imperial territories.
Treaty of Grimnitz
House of Hohenzollern and House of Pomerania agree on legal
status and succession in the Duchy of Pomerania
1533 Treaty of Constantinople
Ends hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the
Archduchy of Austria.
1534 Treaty of Bassein
Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat cedes the Mumbai Islands and other
territories to the Portuguese Empire.
1537 Treaty of Novgorod
Russo-Swedish truce
1538 Treaty of Nagyvrad[35]
Recognizes John Zpolya as the king of Hungary while
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor retains the western parts of
the Hungarian Kingdom.
1541 First Treaty of Brmsebro Between DenmarkNorway and Sweden.
1543
1544
Treaty of Greenwich[36]
Contains two agreements that attempts to unite the Kingdom of
England with the Kingdom of Scotland.
Treaty of Venlo
Duke Wilhelm of Jlich-Cleves-Berg cedes the territory of
Guelders and the county of Zutphen to Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V.
Treaty of Speyer
Establishes peace between Denmark and the Holy Roman
Empire.
Treaty of Crpy
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V relinquishes his claim to the
Duchy of Burgundy and Francis I of France surrenders his
claim to the Kingdom of Naples.
1551 Treaty of Weissenburg[37]
Declares Archduke Ferdinand of Austria king of Hungary and
Transylvania.
Peace of Passau
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V guarantees Lutheran religious
freedoms to Protestants.
Treaty of Chambord
Maurice of Saxony cedes Toul, Verdun, and Metz to Henry II
of France.
1552
1555 Peace of Augsburg
Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of
the Schmalkaldic League.
Treaty of Amasya
1556 Treaty of Vaucelles
Ends the war between Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Persia.
King Henry I of France cedes Franche-Comt to King Philip II
of Spain.
Treaty of Novgorod
Russia and Sweden, ended the Russo-Swedish War (1554
1557)
Treaty of Pozvol
Livonia and Poland-Lithuania, triggered the Livonian War
Peace of Cateau
Cambrsis
Ends the Italian Wars.
Treaty of Vilna
Livonian War: LivonianPolishLithuanian alliance
1557
1559
1560 Treaty of Edinburgh
England, Scotland, France: concludes Siege of Leith, attempts
to end Auld Alliance.
1561 Treaty of Vilna
Livonian War: Livonian Order subordinated to PolandLithuania
1562
Edict of Saint-Germain[38]
Recognizes the existence of French Protestants and guarantees
them freedom of conscience and private worship.
Establishes military and economic ties between Queen
Treaty of Hampton Court Elizabeth I of England and Huguenot leader Louis I de
Bourbon.
1562 Treaty of Mozhaysk
Livonian War, Russo-Danish mutual assurance of their claims
in Livonia
1563 Edict of Amboise
Ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1564 Treaty of Dorpat
1568
Livonian War, Russo-Swedish mutual assurance of their claims
in Livonia
Peace of Longjumeau[39]
Ends the second phase of the French Wars of Religion;
confirms the Edict of Amboise; expires in August 1568.
Treaty of Roskilde (1568)
peace between Lbeck, DenmarkNorway and Sweden during
the Northern Seven Years' War, not ratified
1569 Union of Lublin
Unites the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania into a single state, the PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth.
1570 Treaty of Stettin
Ends the Northern Seven Years' War.
Peace of Saint-Germainen-Laye
Ends the third phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1572 Treaty of Blois
Queen Elizabeth I of England and Catherine de' Medici of
France establish an alliance against Spain.
1573 Edict of Boulogne
Ends the fourth phase of the French Wars of Religion; gives
Huguenots the right to worship in La Rochelle, Montauban,
and Nmes.
1576
Edict of Beaulieu[40]
Ends the fifth phase of the French Wars of Religion; Henry III
of France gives the Huguenots the right of public worship.
Pacification of Ghent
Alliance of the provinces of the Netherlands against the
Spanish.
1577
Treaty of Bergerac
1579
[41]
Ends the sixth phase of the French Wars of Religion;
Huguenots can practice their faith only in the suburbs of one
town in each judicial district.
Edict of 1577[42]
Provides for the removal of Spanish troops from the
Netherlands; upholds Pacification of Ghent.
Union of Atrecht
The southern states of the Spanish Netherlands express loyalty
to the King of Spain.
Union of Utrecht
Unifies the northern states of the Netherlands.
Treaty of Fleix[43]
Ends the seventh phase of the French Wars of Religion;
recognizes previous treaties granting religious privileges to the
Huguenots.
Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours
Franois, Duke of Anjou becomes sovereign of the Dutch
Republic.
1580
1582 Peace of Jam Zapolski
Ends the Livonian War between Poland and Muscovy.
1583 Treaty of Plussa
A truce between Russia and Sweden; ends the Livonian War
(15581583).
1584 Treaty of Joinville
Forms a Catholic alliance between the French Catholic League
and Habsburg Spain against Protestant forces such as Elizabeth
I of England.
1585
Treaty of Nemours
Revokes previous concessions made to the Huguenots;
instigates the War of the Three Henries.
Treaty of Nonsuch
England assists Dutch in the Eighty Years' War.
1586 Treaty of Berwick
Agreement of amity between Queen Elizabeth I of England
and King James VI of Scotland.
1590 Treaty of Ferhat Paa
Ends the war between Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Persia.
Turkish control on Caucasus region.
1595 Treaty of Teusina[44]
Ends the RussoSwedish War (15901595).
1598 Peace of Vervins
The Spanish withdraw from French territory.
Edict of Nantes
Henry IV of France grants French Protestants (or Huguenots)
substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially
Catholic.
16001699
Year
Name
1601 Treaty of Lyon (1601)
Summary
Henry IV of France acquires Bugey, Valromey, Gex, and Bresse.
1604 Treaty of London, 1604 Ends hostilities between England and Spain.
1606
Peace of itava[45]
Ends the Long War between the Ottoman Turkey and the
Habsburg Monarchy.
Treaty of Vienna (1606) Restores all constitutional and religious rights/privileges to the
[46]
Hungarians in both Transylvania and Royal Hungary.
1608 Treaty of Lieben
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II surrenders Hungary, Austrian
territories near the Danube River, and Moravia to his brother
Matthias.
1609
Treaty of Antwerp
(1609)[47]
Spain and the Netherlands agree to a 12-year truce.
1610 Treaty of Brussol[48]
Establishes a military alliance between Charles Emmanuel I and
Henry IV of France against the Spanish in Italy.
1612 Treaty of Nasuh Pasha
Treaty between Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Persia Revision of
1590 treaty. Persia regained some of its loses in 1590.
1613 Treaty of Knred
Ends the Kalmar War between Denmark and Sweden.
Two Row Wampum
Treaty[49]
Treaty between the Iroquois and representatives of the Dutch
government.
1614 Treaty of Xanten
Ends the War of the Jlich Succession.
1615
Peace of Asti
Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy relinquishes claims on
Monferrato.
Peace of Tyrnau
Recognizes Gbor Bethlen as the Prince of Transylvania.
Treaty of Serav
Ratifies the treaty of 1612 between Ottoman Turkey and Safavid
Persia
1616 Treaty of Loudun
Ends hostilities between Queen Marie de' Medici and rebellious
French princes led by Henry II, the third Prince of Cond.
1617 Treaty of Pavia
Savoy cedes Monferrato to Mantua.
Treaty of Stolbovo
Ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Muscovy.
1618 Truce of Deulino[50]
Ends the PolishMuscovite War (160518); expires in 1632.
1619
Ends civil war in France between supporters of Queen Marie de'
Medici and her son, King Louis XIII of France.
Treaty of Angoulme
Duke Maximilian of Bavaria allows Holy Roman Emperor
Treaty of Munich (1619) Ferdinand II to use his forces in exchange for territories in the
Electorate of the Palatinate.
1620 Treaty of Ulm (1620)
1621
The Protestant Union ceases its support of Frederick V of
Bohemia.
Peace of Nikolsburg[51]
Ends the war between Prince Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania
and Emperor Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire.
Treaty of Madrid (1621)
Restores Valtelline to the Grisons and grants Protestants in the
region religious freedoms.
Treaty of Khotyn
Between Ottoman Turkey and PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth.
Treaty of the Hague
(1621)
A failed treaty of alliance between Denmark and the Dutch
Republic
Treaty of Bremen
A failed treaty of commerce between Denmark and the Dutch
Republic
1622 Treaty of Montpellier[52]
Between King Louis XIII of France and Duke Henry II of
Rohan; confirms the Edict of Nantes.
1623 Treaty of Paris (1623)
1625
Treaty of The Hague
(1625)
1626 Peace of Pressburg
(1626)[16]
1627
France, Savoy, and Venice agree to have Spanish forces leave
Valtelline.
England and the Netherlands agree to economically support
Christian IV of Denmark during the Thirty Years' War.
Ends the revolt against the Habsburgs.
Treaty of Monzn
France and Spain share equal rights in their control of Valtelline.
Capitulation of
Franzburg
Duchy of Pomerania occupied by Albrecht von Wallenstein's
imperial army
1628 Treaty of Munich
1629
Recognizes Duke Maximilian of Bavaria as a prince-elector;
grants Maximilian control of the Upper Palatinate and the right
bank of the Rhine River for thirty years.
Edict of Restitution
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II attempts to reinforce the
territorial and religious settlements made after the Peace of
Augsburg.
Treaty of Lbeck
Denmark withdraws from the Thirty Years' War.
Truce of Altmark[53]
Ends hostilities between Sweden and the PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth.
Peace of Alais[54]
Between the Huguenots and King Louis XIII of France; confirms
the basic principles of the Edict of Nantes with additional
clauses.
1630 Peace of Regensburg[55] Temporarily halts the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Treaty of Stettin (1630)
The Duchy of Pomerania allies with and is occupied by the
Swedish Empire
Treaty of Madrid (1630) Ends English involvement in the Dutch Revolt.
1631
Treaty of Brwalde
France and Sweden establish an alliance against the Holy Roman
Empire.
Treaty of Cherasco
Ends the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Treaty of Munich (1631) France and Bavaria establish a secret "Catholic" alliance.
1632 Treaty of SaintEngland returns New France (Quebec) to France.
Germain-en-Laye (1632)
Treaty of Ahmet Pasha
Short lived peace treaty, ends hostalities between the Ottoman
Turkey and the Safavid Persia
1634 Treaty of Polyanovka[56] Ends the Smolensk War between Poland and Muscovy.
1635
1636
Peace of Prague (1635)
Between the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, and most of
the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Treaty of Sztumska
Wie[57]
The Swedish Empire concedes territories to the Polish
Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Treaty of Wismar
Establishes alliance between Sweden and France against the
Habsburgs.
1638 Treaty of Hamburg
(1638)
Confirms Treaty of Wismar; France pays Sweden 1,000,000
livres.
Treaty of Hartford
Cedes Pequot Indian lands to Connecticut River towns and
outlaws Pequot settlement and the use of the Pequot language.
1639 Treaty of Berwick
(1639)[58]
Ends the First Bishops' War between Charles I of England and
the Scots.
Treaty of Zuhab[59]
Ends the war between Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Turkey.
The borderline drawn by the treaty is still effective today.
Treaty of Asurar Ali
Establishes the boundary between the Mughals and the Ahom
kingdom.
1640 Treaty of Ripon
Between Charles I of England and the Scots in the aftermath of
the Second Bishops' War.
1642 Treaty of Axim (1642)
Regulates the jurisdiction of the Netherlands and the Dutch West
India Company in the town and polity of Axim.
1643
Solemn League and
Covenant
Between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English
Parliamentarians.
1645
Second Treaty of
Brmsebro (1645)[60]
Ends the Torstenson War between Sweden and Denmark
Norway.
1647 Truce of Ulm (1647)[61]
1648
Forces Duke Maximilian of Bavaria to renounce his alliance
with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
Peace of Westphalia[62]
Ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War, and
establishes the principle of the sovereignty of nations in use
today.
Treaty of Concordia[63]
Divides the island of Saint Martin between France and the
Netherlands.
Peace of Rueil
Ends the opening episodes of the Fronde, France's civil war.
Treaty of Zboriv
Places three provinces of Ukraine under the control of the
Cossacks.
Treaty of Breda (1650)
Between Charles II of England and the Scottish Covenanters
during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Treaty of Hartford
Establishes boundary lines between New Amsterdam and
English settlers in Connecticut.
1649
1650
1651 Treaty of Bila Tserkva
Establishes peace between the PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth and the Ukrainian Cossacks after the Battle of
Berestechko.
1653 Treaty of Stettin (1653) The Swedish Empire and Brandenburg partition Pomerania.
1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav
1655
Between Muscovy and Cossack Hetmanate.
Treaty of Westminster
(1654)
Ends the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Treaty of Kdainiai
Second Northern War Grand Duchy of Lithuania becomes
Swedish protectorate
Union of Kdainiai
Second Northern War LithuanianSwedish union
Treaty of Rinsk
Second Northern War anti-Swedish alliance of BrandenburgPrussia and Royal Prussian estates
1656 Treaty of Knigsberg
(1656)
Second Northern War Duchy of Prussia and Ermland become
Swedish fiefs.
Treaty of Marienburg
Second Northern War alliance between Brandenburg-Prussia
and Sweden
Treaty of Elbing
Second Northern War Dutch-Swedish settlement of conflicts
over Danzig (Gdask)
Treaty of Labiau
Second Northern War Hohenzollerns become full souvereigns
in Prussia and Ermland.
Truce of Vilna
Second Northern War / Russo-Polish War Russo-Polish truce
and alliance against Sweden
Treaty of Vienna (1656)
Second Northern War: 1st HabsburgPolish alliance against
Sweden
Treaty of Radnot
It envisaged a partition of the PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth; Transylvania enters the Second Northern War
on the Swedish side
Treaty of Butre (1656)
Between the Gold Coast (West Africa) state of Ahanta and the
States General and the Dutch West India Company, establishing
a Dutch protectorate over Butre and Upper Ahanta.
Treaty of Vienna (1657)
Second Northern War: 2nd HabsburgPolish alliance against
Sweden
1657
Treaty of Wehlau
Second Northern War: Poland accepts Hohenzollerns as full
souvereigns in Prussia, anti-Swedish alliance.
Treaty of Bromberg
(Bydgoszcz)
Second Northern War Wehlau confirmed and amended
Treaty of Paris (1657)
Establishes military alliance between England and France
against Spain.
Treaty of Raalte
Willem II no longer is viceroy of Overijssel.
1658 Treaty of Hadiach
Between Poland and Cossack Hetmanate.
Treaty of Taastrup[64]
An accord that preceded the Treaty of Roskilde between Charles
X Gustav of Sweden and King Frederick III of Denmark.
Treaty of Roskilde
Second Northern War: DenmarkNorway cedes territory
("Skneland") to Sweden.
Treaty of Valiesar
Second Northern War: Sweden temporarily cedes territory to
Russia, cession of hostilities.
1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees
Concert of The Hague
(1659)
1660 Treaty of Copenhagen
(1660)
Treaty of Oliva[65]
1661 Treaty of Cardis[66]
Ends war between France and Spain.
Second Northern War Anglo-Franco-Dutch agreement
regarding peace between Denmark and Swede
Second Northern War peace between Denmark and Sweden,
restores Trondheim to Norway and Bornholm to Denmark.
Second Northern War peace between Sweden, BrandenburgPrussia and Poland.
Second Northern War peace between Sweden and Russia.
Treaty of Den Haag
1662 Treaty of Montmartre
The Dutch Empire recognizes Portuguese imperial sovereignty
over Recife in Brazil.
Duke Charles IV gives to Louis XIV the throne to the Duchy of
Lorraine.
1663 Treaty of Ghilajharighat Between the Ahoms and the Mughal forces.
1664 Peace of Vasvr
1665
Treaty of Purandar
(1665)[67]
1667 Treaty of Breda (1667)
Between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman
Turkey after the Battle of Saint Gotthard; lasted until 1683.
Between Rajput Jai Singh and Shivaji Maharaj.
Ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Treaty of Andrusovo
Ends the war between Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania.
Treaty of Bongaja
Sultan Hasanuddin of Makassar recognizes the influence of the
Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Indonesian territories.
1668 First Triple Alliance
Alliance between England, the United Provinces and Sweden.
Treaty of Aix-laChapelle (1668)
Ends the War of Devolution between Louis XIV of France and
Habsburg Spain.
Treaty of Lisbon (1668)
Spain recognizes Portuguese sovereignty after the Portuguese
Restoration War; Portugal cedes Ceuta to Spain.
1670 Secret Treaty of Dover
France helps England to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church and
England assists France militarily against the Dutch Republic.
Treaty of Madrid (1670) Between England and Spain.
Treaty of Copenhagen
(1670)
1672 Treaty of Buczacz
An alliance and commercial treaty between Britain and
Denmark-Norway, establishing terms of contraband and
permitting Danish settlement of the Virgin Islands
Between the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman
Turkey. Podolia under Turkish control.
1674
Treaty of Westminster
(1674)
Ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1675
Strasbourg Agreement
(1675)
First international agreement banning the use of chemical
weapons (i.e. poisoned bullets); signed between France and the
Holy Roman Empire.
1676 Treaty of urawno
Between Ottoman Turkey and PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth Ratifies 1672 treaty.
1677 Treaty of 1677[68]
Native American tribes in Virginia swear fealty to the British
Empire.
1678 Treaties of Nijmegen
Ends the Franco-Dutch War.
Treaty of Casco (1678)
1679
Ends war between the eastern Native Americans and the English
settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Treaty of SaintSwedish Pomerania and Bremen-Verden restored to Sweden
Germain-en-Laye (1679) after the Scanian War
1681 Treaty of Bakhchisarai
Concludes the Russo-Turkish War (16761681); establishes a
20-year truce whereby the Dnieper River would separate the
Ottoman Empire from Russian territories.
1684 Truce of Ratisbon
1686
Ends War of Reunions between France and Spain
Eternal Peace Treaty of
Ends war between Muscovy and Poland.
1686
1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk
Ends war between the Russian Empire and the Qing Dynasty of
China.
1691 Treaty of Limerick
Ends the Williamite War in Ireland.
1697 Treaty of Ryswick
Ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698
Treaty of Den Haag
(1698)[69]
1699
Treaty of Karlowitz
[70]
Treaty of
Preobrazhenskoye
Attempts to resolve the issue of who would inherit the Spanish
throne.
Ends the war between the alliance consisting of Austria, Venice
and PolishLithuanian Commonwealth on one side and the
Ottoman Turkey on the other side.
Denmark, Russia, Saxony, and the PolishLithuanian
Commonwealth divide Swedish territories.
17001799
Year
Name
1700
Summary
Treaty of London[71]
An attempt to restore the Pragmatic Sanction
following the death of Duke Joseph Ferdinand of
Bavaria.
Treaty of Constantinople
Establishes peace between Russia and the Ottoman
Empire.
1701
Peace of Travendal
Temporary peace between the Swedish Empire and
DenmarkNorway during the Great Northern War.
Great Peace of Montreal
Establishes peace between New France and the 39
First Nations of North America.
Treaty of The Hague (1701)
England, Austria, the United Provinces, and the
Holy Roman Empire establish a defensive alliance
against France.
1703 Methuen Treaty
Between Portugal and the Kingdom of England.
1704
Treaty of Ilbersheim
Removes Bavaria from the War of the Spanish
Succession.
Treaty of Narva
Great Northern War: SaxonPolishLithuanian
Russian alliance.
1705 Treaty of Warsaw
Great Northern War: PolishLithuanianSwedish
alliance.
1705 Treaty of Genoa
War of the Spanish Succession: EnglishCatalan
alliance.
1706 Treaty of Altranstdt
Great Northern War peace between Augustus the
Strong, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, and
Charles XII of Sweden. Augustus resigns as king.
1707 Treaty of Union
Unites the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to
create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1709
1710
1711
Treaty of Altranstdt (1707)
Emperor Joseph I guarantees to Charles XII
religious tolerance and liberty of conscience for
Silesian Protestants.
Treaty of Thorn (1709)
Great Northern War: SaxonPolishLithuanianRussian alliance.
Treaty of Copenhagen (1709)
Great Northern War: Russo-Danish alliance
Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia
Great Northern War: Estonian and Livonian estates
and towns surrender to Russia.
Treaty of Hanover (1710)
Great Northern War: HanoveranianRussian
alliance.
Treaty of Szatmr[72]
Ends the Kuruc Rebellion led by Francis II
Rkczi.
Treaty of Pruth
Between Ottoman Turkey and Russia Russia loses
some territories and grants a free passage for
Charles XII of Sweden.
1713 Treaty of Utrecht
Ends the War of the Spanish Succession.
Treaty of Portsmouth
Ends Queen Anne's War hostilities between the
Abenakis and the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Treaty of Schwedt
Great Northern War: Russo-Prussian alliance
1714 Treaty of Baden
Ends hostilities between France and the Holy
Roman Empire and also ends the War of the
Spanish Succession.
1715
Treaty of Rastatt
Ends the War of the Spanish Succession; hostilities
between Louis XIV of France and Holy Roman
Emperor Charles VI cease.
Treaty of Stettin (1715)
Great Northern War: HanoveranianBritish
Prussian alliance
Treaty of Berlin (1715)
Great Northern War: HanoveranianBritish
DanishNorwegian alliance
Treaty of Greifswald
Great Northern War: HanoveranianBritish
Russian alliance
1717 Second Triple Alliance
Alliance between Kingdom of Great Britain, the
United Provinces and France.
1718 Treaty of Passarowitz[73]
Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman
Empire.
1720
Treaty of Den Haag[74]
Spain abandons her claims in Italy after the War of
the Quadruple Alliance.
Treaty of Frederiksborg
Ends Great Northern War between Sweden and
DenmarkNorway.
Treaty of Stockholm
Ends the Great Northern War between Sweden,
Hanover and Brandenburg-Prussia
1721 Treaty of Nystad
1725 Treaty of Hanover
Ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and
Russia.
Establishes a military alliance between Great
Britain, France, Prussia, Sweden, the Netherlands
and Denmark against Spain.
Ends Austrian claims to the Spanish throne;
Austria helps Spain to reacquire Gibraltar from the
British.
Treaty of Vienna
1727 Treaty of Kyakhta
Redefines boundaries between Russia and China.
1729 Treaty of Seville (1729)
Britain maintains control over Port Mahon and
Gibraltar.
1731 Treaty of Vienna (1731)
Verifies the Quadruple Alliance between the Holy
Roman Empire, Britain, the Dutch Empire, and
Spain.
1732
Lwenwolde's Treaty
Establishes a joint policy between Austria, the
Russian Empire, and Prussia pertaining to the
succession of the Polish throne.
Treaty of Rasht
Ends Russian claims over Persian territories.
Treaty of Turin (1733)
Secret treaty between France and the Duke of
Savoy for military alliance prior to War of the
Polish Succession.
Treaty of the Escorial
First of the Bourbon Family Compacts between
France and Spain, agreeing to mutual defense and
military alliance in the conquest of Italian
territories held by the Habsburgs.
[75]
1733
1736 Treaty of Constantinople (1736)
Ends hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and
Safavid Persia
1738 Treaty of Vienna (1738)
Ends the War of the Polish Succession.
1739
Treaty of El Pardo (1739)
Spain and the United Kingdom settle their
respective claims to American navigation and
trade.
Treaty of Ni (1739)
Ends the war between Russia and the Ottoman
Empire.
Treaty of Belgrade
Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman
Empire.
1740 Treaty of Friendship and Alliance
Between the Miskito nation and Kingdom of Great
Britain.
1742 Treaty of Berlin (1742)
Ends First Silesian War.
Treaty of Breslau
Ends First Silesian War.
Convention of Turin
Ends Austria and Sardinia promise to assist each
other against Spain.
1743 Treaty of bo[76]
1745
Ends the Hats' Russian War.
Treaty of Worms (1743)
Establishes political alliance between the Kingdom
of Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia.
Treaty of Dresden
Austria confirms the loss of Silesia to Prussia after
the Second Silesian War.
Treaty of Fontainebleau (1745)
Establishes a military alliance between Louis XV
of France and Charles Edward Stuart against
George II of Great Britain.
Treaty of Fssen
Ends Bavaria's support of the French in the War of
the Austrian Succession.
1746 Treaty of Kerden
Ends hostalities between Ottoman Turkey and
Afsharid Iran
1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
Ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1750 Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750)
Defines the boundaries of the Spanish and the
Portuguese colonies in South America, replacing
the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1752 Treaty of Aranjuez (1752)
Recognizes Spanish and Austrian interests in Italy.
1755 Treaty of Giyanti[77]
Divides the Sultanate of Mataram between Prince
Mangkubumi and Pakubuwono III.
1756 Treaty of Westminster (1756)
Treaty of neutrality between Prussia and the
British Empire.
1757 Treaty of Alinagar
Between the British East India Company and the
Nawab of Bengal.
1758 Treaty of Easton
Native Americans agree not to fight the British
during the French and Indian War.
1761 Treaty of El Pardo (1761)
Nullifies the Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750).
1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)
A secret agreement whereby France cedes
Louisiana to Spain.
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762)
Ends the Seven Years' War between Russia and
Prussia.
Treaty of Hamburg (1762)
Between Prussia and Sweden after Russia breaks
its alliance with Prussia.
1763 Treaty of Hubertusburg
Ends the Seven Years' War.
First Treaty of Paris[78]
1765 Treaty of Allahabad
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II grants Diwani
rights to the British East India Company.
1766 Treaty of Batticaloa[79]
King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy recognizes
Dutch imperial possessions in Sri Lanka.
1768
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
In North America, the boundary established by the
Proclamation of 1763 is moved west.
Treaty of Masulipatam
Confirms the conquest of the state of Hyderabad
by the British.
1770 Treaty of Lochaber
The Cherokee relinquish territories to the British
Empire.
1774 Treaty of Kk Kaynarca
Ends Russo-Turkish War (176874).
1776 Treaty of Watertown
Alliance between the State of Massachusetts Bay
and the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia.
Treaty of Purandar (1776)[67]
Between the peshwa of the Maratha people and the
British East India Company.
First Treaty of San Ildefonso
Ends disputes between Portugal and Spain over the
territories of The Seven Missions and of Colonia
del Sacramento.
Treaty of Aranjuez (1777)
Defines Spanish and French colonies on Santo
Domingo.
1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce
(United StatesFrance)[80]
Establishes a commercial alliance between the
United States and France
1777
1779
Treaty of Alliance (1778)[81]
Establishes a military alliance between the United
States and France.
Treaty of El Pardo (1778)
Queen Maria I of Portugal cedes Annobn, Bioko,
and territories on the Guinea coast to King Charles
III of Spain.
Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778)[82]
Gives the United States permission to travel
through Delaware territory, as well as to call upon
the Delaware Indians to help American troops fight
against the British.
Treaty of Aranjuez (1779)
Spain joins the American Revolutionary War
against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Treaty of Teschen
Ends the War of the Bavarian Succession between
Austria and Prussia.
Treaty of Aynalkavak
Ratifies the terms of the Treaty of Kk Kaynarca
1780 Treaty of Aranjuez (1780)
Spain cedes territories to Morocco.
1782 Edict of Tolerance
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II promotes religious
tolerance towards Jews.
Treaty of Salbai
Between the Maratha Empire and the British East
India Company.
1782
1783 Treaty of Amity and Commerce
(United StatesSweden)
1784
Sweden becomes the first neutral nation to
officially recognize the young American republic.
Second Treaty of Paris
Ends the American Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Georgievsk
Establishes the east Georgian Kingdom of KartliKakheti as a protectorate under suzerainty of the
Russian Empire.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
The Iroquois Confederacy cedes all lands west of
the Niagara River to the United States.
Treaty of Mangalore
Ends the Second Anglo-Mysore War.
Treaty of Fontainebleau
Reinforces the Treaty of Mnster whereby the
Scheldt Estuary is under the sovereignty of the
United Provinces.
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
(PrussiaUnited States)
Between the Kingdom of Prussia and the United
States promoting free trade and demanding the
unconditionally humane custody for war prisoner,
a novelty at the time.
1785
Treaty of Hopewell
Between the United States and the Cherokee
Indians.
Treaty of Fort McIntosh
1786 Eden Agreement
1787
Native American tribes cede to the United States
all claims to land in the Ohio Country east of the
Cuyahoga and Muskingum rivers; tribes also cede
the areas surrounding Fort Detroit and Fort
Michilimackinac.
Between the Kingdom of Great Britain and France.
MoroccanAmerican Treaty of
Friendship
The oldest non-broken friendship treaty between
Morocco and the United States.
Treaty of Hartford
Resolves territorial and border disputes between
the states of New York and Massachusetts.
Treaty of Hopewell
Between the United States, the Choctaw Indians,
and the Chickasaw Indians.
Convention of London (1786)
Great Britain agrees to evacuate Mosquito Coast in
exchange for Spanish concessions in present-day
Belize.
Treaty of Beaufort[83]
Officially sets the all-river boundary between the
U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina.
US Constitution
States cede limited powers to create Federal
Government.
1788 Third Triple Alliance
Alliance between Kingdom of Great Britain, the
United Provinces and Kingdom of Prussia.
1789 JayGardoqui Treaty
Trade treaty between United States and Spain.
Treaty of Fort Harmar
Between the United States government and several
Native American tribes with claims to the Ohio
Country.
1790
Treaty of Reichenbach (1790)
Between Frederick William II of Prussia and Holy
Roman Emperor Leopold II of Austria.
Treaty of Vrl
Ends Russo-Swedish War (178890).
Treaty of New York
Between Henry Knox and the Creek people.
Treaty of Holston
Settles disputes between the United States and the
Cherokee over the territories south of the Ohio
River; proclaimed and amended in 1792.
Treaty of Sistova
Ends the war between Ottoman Turkey and Austria
(17871791)
1791
1792 Treaty of Jassy
Treaty of Seringapatam
Ends the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
Jay Treaty[84]
Attempts to settle post-Revolution disputes
between the United States and the Kingdom of
Great Britain.
Treaty of Canandaigua
Establishes peace and friendship between the
United States and the Six Nations of the Iroquois
(Haudenosaunee).
Pinckney's Treaty[85]
Defines boundaries of the United States and
Spanish colonies.
Treaty of The Hague (1795)[86]
The Batavian Republic cedes Venlo, Flanders, and
1794
1795
Ends the Russo-Turkish War (17871792).
Maastricht to France.
1796
Treaty of Greenville
Ends the war between the United States and a
coalition of Native Americans.
Treaty of Basel
Three agreements whereby France made peace
with Prussia, Spain and Hessen-Kassel; concludes
the early stage of the French Revolutionary Wars
against the First Coalition (17921795).
Treaty with Tripoli (1796)[87]
Ends the war between the United States and
Tripoli.
Treaty of New York
Between the Seven Nations of Canada and a U.S.
delegation led by Abraham Ogden.
Treaty of Colerain
Affirms the binding of the Treaty of New York
(1790) and establishes the boundary line between
the Creek Nation and the United States.
Second Treaty of San Ildefonso
Treaty of alliance between Spain and France
against Britain.
Treaty of Leoben[88]
Preliminary accord to the Treaty of Campo
Formio; Austria loses Belgium and Lombardy in
exchange for Istria and Dalmatia.
Treaty of Campo Formio
Austria recognizes hegemony of French Republic
over northern Italy and Belgium. Effective end of
the War of the First Coalition (17921797).
Treaty of Tolentino
Between France and the Papal States.
Treaty with Tunis (1797)
Peace treaty between the United States and the
1797
'Barbary State' of Tunis, nominally part of the
Ottoman Empire.
18001899
Year
Name
1800 Third Treaty of San Ildefonso[89]
1801
Summary
Cedes Spanish holdings in America to France.
Treaty of Mortefontaine[90]
Ends the Quasi-War between the United States and
France.
Carnatic Treaty
The Nawab of Arcot cedes territories in India to the
British Empire in exchange for two-hundred rupees.
Treaty of Aranjuez
Confirms the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
Treaty of Badajoz[91]
Portugal cedes Olivenza to Spain and agrees to close
its harbors to the English.
Treaty of Madrid
Reinforces the Treaty of Badajoz; Portugal also
agrees to pay France an indemnity of 20 million
francs and surrender half of Guiana.
Treaty of Florence
The Kingdom of Naples cedes some central Italian
possessions, the island of Elba, and the Athena of
Velletri to France.
Treaty of Lunville
Ends the Second Coalition against France.
1802 Treaty of Amiens
Ends the war between France and the United
Kingdom.
Treaty of Bassein
The Maratha peshwa of Pune cedes territories in
western India to the British Empire.
Treaty of Al Arish
Napoleon agrees to return Egypt to Ottoman Empire
1803 Louisiana Purchase
United States buys Louisiana from France.
Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon
Between the British and Daulat Rao Sindhia, chief of
the Maratha people; treaty was revised twice.
Treaty of Fort Wayne
Defines the boundaries of the Vincennes Tract in
Indiana
1804 Treaty of St. Louis
Treaty of Fort Industry
1805 Treaty of Pressburg
Treaty of Peace and Amity (U.S.
and Tripoli)
The Sac and Fox tribes ceded lands to the United
States from northeast Missouri through almost all of
Illinois north of the Illinois River as well as a large
section of southern Wisconsin.
Establishes the western boundary of the United States
through present-day Toledo, Ohio.
Ends the war between France and Austria.
Ends First Barbary War between the United States of
America and Tripoli
1806 Treaty of Pozna
Ends the war between France and Saxony after the
latter's defeat during the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1807 Treaty of Detroit
Between the United States and the Native American
nations of Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and
Potawatomi.[92]
Treaties of Tilsit
Agreements between France, Russia and Prussia
creating the Duchy of Warsaw.
Treaty of Finckenstein
Between the French Empire and Persia.
Treaty of Fontainebleau (1807)
Agreement between Spain and France that proposed
the partition of Portugal.
1808 Treaty of Fort Clark[93]
1809
The Osage Nation cedes to the United States large
portions of the Missouri Territory.
Treaty of Amritsar, 1809
Agreenent between Ranjit Sikh and the East India
Company that prevent Singh from expanding his
territories south of the Sutley river but gave him carte
blanche to unify what became the Sikh empire to the
north of it.
Treaty of the Dardanelles[94]
Agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the
United Kingdom.
Treaty of Hamina[95]
Ends the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia.
Treaty of Schnbrunn[96]
Ends the Fifth Coalition during the Napoleonic Wars.
Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)
Obtains more than two million acres (8,000 km) of
American Indian land for the white settlers of Ohio
and Indiana.
1810 Treaty of Paris (1810)
Ends the war between France and Sweden.
1812 Treaty of Bucharest (1812)
Ends the Russo-Turkish War (180612).
1813
Treaty of Gulistan
A peace treaty between Imperial Russia and Qajarid
Persia.
Treaty of Fulda
Wrttemberg leaves the Confederation of the Rhine.
Treaty of Kalisz
Russia and Prussia establish the Kalisz Union against
Napoleon I.
Treaties of Reichenbach
Establishes a coalition between Great Britain, Prussia,
Russia, and Austria against Napoleon of France.
Treaty of Tplitz
1814
[97]
Augments the coalition between Great Britain,
Prussia, Russia, and Austria against Napoleon of
France.
Treaty of Peterswaldau
Great Britain agrees to support a German legion of
10,000 men for the Russian service.
Treaty of Ried
Bavaria leaves the Confederation of the Rhine and
agrees to join the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon.
First Anglo-Dutch Treaty[98]
Between the United Kingdom and the United
Provinces (Netherlands).
Third Treaty of Paris
Ends war between France and the Sixth Coalition.
Treaty of Ghent
Ends the War of 1812.
Treaty of Kiel
The king of DenmarkNorway cedes Norway to
Sweden in exchange for territories in Pomerania.
1815
Convention of Moss
Armistice agreement and de facto peace treaty
between Norway and Sweden.
Treaty of Fontainebleau
Exiles Napoleon Bonaparte as the Emperor of Elba.
Treaty of Fort Jackson[99]
The Creek cede territories to the United States after
their defeat at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
London Protocol
The Eight Articles of London amalgamates The
Netherlands and Belgium.
Fourth Treaty of Paris
Follows the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of
Waterloo.
Many bilateral treaties were agreed at the Congress of
Vienna between plenipotentiaries from the major
Final Act of the Congress of Vienna
powers in Europe, most of these were incorporated
into the "Final Act".
Sugauli Treaty[100]
Ends the Anglo-Nepalese War; goes into effect on
March 4, 1816.
Treaty of Springwells
The United States waives all territorial rights over the
Genessee County and restores to the Indians all of
their possessions.
1816 Treaty of St. Louis
The Council of Three Fires cedes a 20-mile (32 km)
strip of land, which connected Chicago and Lake
Michigan with the Illinois River.
1817 RushBagot Treaty
Settles boundary disputes between the United States
and the United Kingdom.
Treaty of Fort Meigs
[101]
Between the United States and the Wyandot, Seneca,
Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Ottawa and Ojibwa
tribes.
Treaty of Titalia
Between the chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim and the
British East India Company.
Treaty of 1818[102]
Resolves boundary disputes between the United
States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland; both agree to abey pursuit of formal claims
and to allow unimpeded commerce by the other in the
region known in the USA as Oregon Country (the
Pacific Northwest).
Treaty of St. Mary's
Between the United States and the Miami people.
1818
Treaty of the Creek Agency (1818) Between the United States and the Creek people.
Treaty of St. Louis
1819
[93]
The Osage Nation cedes all territories to the United
States beginning at the Arkansas River and ending at
the Verdigris River.
AdamsOns Treaty[103]
Settles a border dispute between the United States and
Spain.
Treaty of Saginaw
Native Americans cede land to the United States.
1820 Treaty of Doak's Stand[104]
The Choctaw agree to surrender one-third of their
land to the United States.
1821 Treaty of Crdoba
Mexico becomes independent from Spain.
Treaty of Chicago
The Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes cede to
the United States all lands in the Michigan Territory
south of the Grand River.
Treaty of Indian Springs
Creek Indians cede land to the state of Georgia in
return for cash payments totaling $200,000 over a
period of 14 years.
1822 Capitulation of Quito.
1824
Set forth conditions for the withdrawal of the Spanish
royalist forces from the territories of the Real
Audiencia de Quito after the Battle of Pichincha.
Second Anglo-Dutch Treaty[105]
Settles disputes between the United Kingdom and the
Netherlands, dividing the Malay World.
Russo-American Treaty of 1824[106]
Fixes border between Russian America and US claims
at 5440'.
AndersonGual Treaty
First bilateral U.S. treaty with another country of the
Americas.
Osage Treaty (1825)[107]
The Osage Nation cedes territories to the United
States within and west of Missouri and the Arkansas
Territory.
Treaty of St. Louis
The Shawnee cede Cape Geredeau to the United
States.
Treaty of Hanover (1825)
Ends the War of German Dissolution.
Treaty of Indian Springs
Relocates the Creek Indians in Georgia (except the
Tokaubatchee) to a parcel of land along the Arkansas
River.
1825
Treaty of Prairie du Chien
Between the United States and representatives of the
Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago
and the Anishinaabeg tribes.
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1825)
Also known as the Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825.
Parallel to but signed a year later to the RussoAmerican Treaty of 1824, in this case fixing the
boundary between Russian America and British
claims in the Pacific Northwest at 5440' and roughly
outlining the land boundary between the two Powers
northwards from there.
United StatesCentral America
Treaty
Between the United States and the Federal Republic
of Central America.
Akkerman Convention
Forces the Ottomans to retreat from Moldavia and
Wallachia; grants autonomy to the Principality of
Serbia.
Treaty of Mississinwas[108]
Between the United States and the Miami tribe.
Treaty of Yandaboo
Ends the First Burmese War.
Burney Treaty
British acknowledge Siamese claim over the four
northern Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and
Terengganu.
1826
1827 Treaty of London (1827)
1828
Alliance between the United Kingdom, France and
Russia to end Turkish action in Greece.
Treaty of Turkmenchay
The Persian Empire loses many of its northern
territories to Imperial Russia after its defeat at the end
of the Russo-Persian War, 18261828.
Treaty of Montevideo (1828)
Brazil and Argentina recognize the independence of
Uruguay.
Treaty of Limits (MexicoUnited
States)
1829 London Protocol (1829)
Formulates the boundaries of modern Greece.
Treaty of Edirne
Between Russia and Ottoman Turkey. Russia secures
the right to protect Greece and control the mouths to
the Danube River.
Treaty of Prairie du Chien
Between the United States and representatives of the
Council of Three Fires.
1830 London Protocol (1830)
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
1831 Treaty of the Eighteen Articles
1832
Mexico and the United States confirm their shared
border, which had previously been agreed to by Spain
and the U.S. in the 1819 AdamsOns Treaty.
Confirms sovereignty of Greece.
United States grants rights to the Choctaw.
An attempt to establish Belgium's borders.
Pacto Federal
Establishes a military alliance between the Argentine
provinces of Buenos Aires, Entre Ros, and Santa Fe.
Treaty of Cusseta
Between the government of the United States and the
Creek people.
Treaty of Constantinople (1832)
Officially ends the Greek War of Independence and
establishes the borders of modern Greece.
London Protocol (1832)
Reiterates and ratifies the terms of the Treaty of
Constantinople (1832).
1833
Treaty of Hnkr skelesi
Between Russia and Ottoman [Link] gains
use of the Bosporus.
Convention of Ktahya
Between Ottoman Turkey and its vassal Muhammad
Ali of Egypt. Muhammad Ali gains extra privileges.
Treaty of Chicago
Native American tribes cede lands west of Lake
Michigan to the United States in exchange for a
reservation of equal size further to the west on the
Missouri River; proclaimed in 1835.
Treaty of Zonhoven
Establishes special regulations over the use of the
Meuse River by Holland and Belgium.
1834 Treaty of Desmichels
1835
1836
France acknowledges Abd-el-Kader as bey of
Mascara and independent sovereign ruler of Oran in
Algeria.
Treaty of New Echota
Between the United States and several members of a
faction within the Cherokee nation.
Batman's Treaty
Between John Batman and a group of Wurundjeri
elders for the sale of land around Port Phillip.
Treaties of Velasco
Between the republics of Mexico and Texas in the
aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto.
Treaty of Washington (1836)
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians cede to the United
States the northwest portion of the Lower Peninsula
of Michigan and the eastern portion of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan.
1837 Munich Coin Treaty
Unification of currency by six south German states.
Treaty of Tafna
Ends conflict between French and Algerian forces;
France cedes territories to Abd-el-Kader.
Treaty of Balta Liman
Commercial treaty between the Ottoman Empire and
the United Kingdom.
Treaty of Buffalo Creek
Between the Seneca tribe of Western New York and
certain purchasers of rights to the Indians' land.
Dresden Coinage Convention
Currency treaty between the states of the Zollverein.
Edict of Toleration (Hawaii)
King Kamehameha III establishes the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
Treaty of London (1839)[109]
Guarantees the neutrality of Belgium.
1838
1839
1840 Treaty of Waitangi
New Zealand becomes a British colony.
1842
Treaty of Nanjing
Ends the First Opium War; cedes Hong Kong Island
to the United Kingdom.
WebsterAshburton Treaty
Settles boundary disputes between the United States
and Canada.
1843 Treaty of Maastricht (1843)
Establishes borders between Belgium and the
Netherlands.
1844 Treaty of Tangiers
Ends First Franco-Moroccan War.
1846
Treaty of Tehuacana Creek[110]
Establishes peace between the Republic of Texas and
various Native American tribes.
Treaty of Wanghia[111]
First diplomatic agreement between China and the
United States in history.
Treaty of Whampoa
China grants privileges to the French Empire.
Oregon Treaty[112]
Establishes the border between the British and
American sections of the Oregon Country.
Treaty of Lahore
Ends the First Sikh War.
Treaty of Amritsar
Settles dispute over territory in Kashmir.
MallarinoBidlack Treaty[113]
Agreement of mutual cooperation between New
Granada (today Colombia) and the United States.
1847 Treaty of Cahuenga
First treaty to end the MexicanAmerican War.
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Second treaty ending the MexicanAmerican War.
1850
AranaSouthern Treaty
Argentina and the United Kingdom agree to end of
existing differences & restoring perfect relations of
friendship.
ClaytonBulwer Treaty
The United States and the United Kingdom agree not
to colonize Central America.
Punctation of Olmtz
Treaty between Prussia and Austria.
1851
Treaty of Mendota
Between the United States and the Sioux tribes of
Minnesota (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute).
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)
United States negotiates safe passage for Oregon Trail
settlers with Native Americans.
Treaty of Kulja[114]
A treaty that regulated trade between China and
Russia.
Treaty of Traverse des Sioux
Between the United States government and the Sioux
Indians of Minnesota.
1852 London Protocol (1852)
Sand River Convention
1854 Convention of Kanagawa[115]
Signed after the First War of Schleswig.
Regulated the relationship between British
government of the Cape Colony and the Boers north
of the Orange River in South Africa.
Japan is opened to American trade.
Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty Japan is opened to British trade.
Treaty with the Umpqua and
Kalapuya
Between the United States and the tribes of Umpqua
and Kalapuya in the Oregon Territory.
Treaty of Medicine Creek
The Nisqually, Puyallup, and Squaxin Island tribes,
along with six other smaller Native American tribes
cede territories to the United States government.
1855 Bowring Treaty[116]
Between Britain and Siam; opened Bangkok to
foreign free trade, but guaranteed Siam's independent
sovereignty.
Treaty of Hellgate
The Bitteroot Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and the Kootenai
tribes cede territories to the United States
government.
Treaty of Shimoda
Defines the border between Japan and Russia; three
Japanese ports opened to international use.
Treaty of Neah Bay
Between the United States and the Makah people.
Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc.
Between the United States and the tribes of Kalapuya,
Molala, Clackamas and others in the Oregon
Territory.
CanadianAmerican Reciprocity
Treaty[117]
Trade treaty between the colonies of British North
America and the United States.
Point Elliott Treaty
United States government and various Native
American tribes of the Puget Sound region in the
newly formed Washington Territory.
Point No Point Treaty
Original inhabitants of the Kitsap Peninsula cede
ownership of their land in exchange for small
reservations in Hood Canal and a payment of 60,000
dollars from the U.S. federal government.
Quinault Treaty
The Quinault and Quileute (including the Hoh) tribes
cede territories to the United States government.
Treaty with the Nez Perce
Conducted at Walla Walla, Washington, wherein the
United States recognizes the sovereignty and lands of
the Nez Perce. Territory becomes part of United
States. Ratified 1859.
Treaty with the Confederated
Conducted at Walla Walla, Washington, wherein the
Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla United States recognizes the sovereignty and lands of
Tribes
the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. Territory
becomes part of United States. Ratified 1859.
Treaty with the Yakama
Confederated Tribes and Bands
Conducted at Walla Walla, Washington, wherein the
United States recognizes the sovereignty and lands of
the many and varied bands and tribes making up the
Yakama Confederated Tribes and Bands . Territory
becomes part of United States. Ratified 1859.
"Buffalo" Treaty
Conducted near Ft. Benton, Montana, at Blackfoot
Council wherein several tribal nations east and west
of continental divide agreed to peace terms and
mutual use of territories while hunting buffalo.
1856 Fifth Treaty of Paris[118]
Ends the Crimean War.
1858 Treaty of Tientsin
Ends the first phase of the Second Opium War.
Treaty of Aigun
Specifies border between Russia and China.
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
(United StatesJapan)[119]
Japanese treaty ports opened to commerce.
1859 Treaty of Zurich
Franco-Austrian armistice formalizing the Peace of
Villafranca.
1860 CobdenChevalier Treaty
Free trade between Britain and France.
1860 Convention of Peking[120]
Ends the Second Opium War; cedes Kowloon
Peninsula to the United Kingdom.
1861 Franco-Monegasque Treaty
Grants sovereignty to Monaco.
1862 Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation
Convention of Scutari
Established official trade agreements between the
United States and Ottoman Empire.[121]
Montenegro acknowledges Ottoman suzerainty.
1862 First Treaty of Saigon
Emperor T c cedes Saigon, the island of Poulo
Condor, and three southern provinces (Bin Ha, Gia
nh, and Dinh Tuong) to the French Empire.
1863 Treaty of Hu (1863)
Confirms the First Treaty of Saigon.
1864
1865
Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863)
Peace treaty giving certain rights to the United States
in the Nevada Territory. As late as December 1992,
Western Shoshone were still disputing the terms of
this treaty with President-Elect Clinton. The United
States Congress had attempted to settle the agreement
in 1979, appropriating $26 million to purchase title to
24 million acres (97,000 km) of tribal lands. By
1992, interest on that appropriation had increased it to
$75 million, and it continues to grow.
First Geneva Convention[122]
Establishes rules for the treatment of battlefield
casualties.
Treaty of London (1864)
Britain cedes the Ionian Islands to Greece.
Treaty of Vienna (1864)
Ends the Second War of Schleswig between Denmark
and Austria/Prussia.
Battle of the Appomattox Court
House (1865)
This was not an actual peace treaty but during the talk
General Robert E Lee surrender of all Confederate
forces to Ulysses S. Grant.
Peace of Prague
Ends Austro-Prussian War.
1867 Alaska Purchase
1868
Medicine Lodge Treaty
Negotiations between the United States and Native
Americans.
Treaty of London (1867)[20]
An international accord in the aftermath of the
Austro-Prussian War and the Luxembourg Crisis.
Burlingame Treaty
Establishes relations between the United States and
China.
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Ends Red Cloud's War.
Treaty on Naturalization
First recognition by a European power of the legal
right of its subjects to become American citizens.
(U.S./North German Confederation)
1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)
1873
The United States buys Alaska from Russia.
Ends the Franco-Prussian War.
Treaty of Washington (1871)
Conducted in Washington, D.C. to settle grievances
between the United States and Great Britain.
Treaty 1 (Stone Fort Treaty)
Conducted in Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba, Canada,
negotiating an agreement between Queen Victoria the
Canadian monarch and First Nations.[123]
Treaty 2 (Manitoba Post Treaty)
Conducted in Manitoba Post, Manitoba, Canada,
negotiating an agreement between Queen Victoria the
Canadian monarch and First Nations.[123]
Conducted at North-West Angle of the Lake of the
Woods Manitoba, Canada, negotiating an agreement
Treaty 3 (Northwest Angle Treaty)
between Queen Victoria the Canadian monarch and
First Nations.[124][125]
1874
1875
Pangkor Treaty of 1874
Perak becomes the first Malay state to accept British
Resident.
Treaty of Berne
Universal Postal Union becomes the second oldest
international organization.
Second Treaty of Saigon
Reiterates the Treaty of Saigon (1862); the Red River
(Song Hong) opens for trade, as well as the ports of
Hanoi, Haiphong and Qui Nonh.
Treaty 4 (Qu'appelle Treaty)
Conducted at Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan,
Canada, negotiating an agreement between Queen
Victoria the Canadian monarch and First Nations.[126]
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)
In exchange for the Kuril Islands, Japan relinquishes
claims on Sakhalin.
Convention du Mtre[127]
An international treaty that establishes three
organizations to oversee the keeping of metric
standards.
Reciprocity Treaty of 1875
A free trade agreement between the United States and
the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Treaty 5
Conducted initially at Beren's River, Manitoba,
Canada, negotiating an agreement between Queen
Victoria the Canadian monarch and First Nations. The
northern portion signing was in 1908.[128]
1876 JapanKorea Treaty of 1876[129]
Treaty 6
First Unequal treaty of Korean Joseon dynasty.
Conducted at Fort Carlton, and Duck Lake,
Saskatchewan, Canada, negotiating an agreement
between the Canadian monarch and First Nations.[130]
1877
London Protocol (1877)
The British agree to remain neutral in any conflict
between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
Treaty 7
Conducted at Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta, Canada,
negotiating an agreement between the Canadian
monarch, Queen Victoria, and First Nations.[131]
Cyprus Convention
The Ottoman Empire relinquishes Cyprus to the
United Kingdom in return for military support against
the Russians.
Pact of Zanjn
Ends the Cuban Ten Years' War.
Treaty of San Stefano
Ends the war between Russia and the Ottoman
Empire.
Treaty of Berlin (1878)
Amends the Treaty of San Stefano.
1878
1879 Treaty of Gandamak
Ends the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
1881 Boundary treaty of 1881 between
Chile and Argentina
Chile and Argentina define their boundary.
1882
Treaty of Akhal
Iran officially recognizes the Russian Empire's
annexation of Khwarazm.
Treaty of Bardo[132]
Tunisia becomes a protectorate of the French Empire.
Fourth Triple Alliance
Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Italy.
Kilmainham Treaty
Between the British government under William Ewart
Gladstone and the Irish nationalist leader Charles
Stewart Parnell.
1883
Intellectual property systems (including patents) of
Paris Convention for the Protection
any contracting state become accessible to the
of Industrial Property
nationals of other states party to the Convention.
Treaty of Ancn
Settles territorial disputes between Peru and Chile.
Treaty of Hu (1883)[133]
Cedes Annam and Tonkin to the French Empire.
1884 Treaty of Hu (1884)
Confirms the 1883 Treaty of Hu.
1885 Treaty of Simulambuco
Between the Portuguese government and officials in
the N'Goyo Kingdom.
1886 Berne Convention[134]
International agreement about copyright.
Treaty of Bucharest
1887 Reinsurance Treaty
1889
Ends war between Serbia and Bulgaria.
An attempt by Bismarck to continue to ally with
Russia after the League of the Three Emperors broke
down.
Treaty of Berlin (1889)
The United States, Great Britain, and Germany
establish condominium and recognize the
independence of Samoa.
Treaty of Wuchale
Peace treaty between Ethiopia and Italy, subsequently
disputed.
1890 HeligolandZanzibar Treaty[135]
Agreement between the United Kingdom and
Imperial Germany concerning mainly territorial
interests in Africa.
1891 Treaty of Madrid (1891)[136]
Gives France legal protection of the word champagne.
1895 Treaty of The Hague (1895)
Establishes boundaries of British New Guinea.
Treaty of Shimonoseki[137]
Ends the First Sino-Japanese War.
Treaty of Friendship, Commerce
and Navigation between Brazil and Treaty between Brazil and Japan, signed in France.
Japan[138]
1896 Treaty of Addis Ababa
1897
Abrogates the Treaty of Wuchale, formally ends the
First ItaloEthiopian War, and recognizes Ethiopia as
an independent state.
Treaty of Constantinople (1897)
Ends hostilities between Ottoman Empire and Greece.
Greece pays reparations. Crete autonomous under
Ottoman suzerainty (Cretan State).
Franco-Ethiopian treaty
Terms include defining the boundary between French
Somaliland and Ethiopia
1898 Sixth Treaty of Paris
Convention for the Extension of
Hong Kong Territory[139]
1899 Hague Conventions of 1899 and
1907
Ends the SpanishAmerican War.
Cedes the New Territories to the United Kingdom.
Attempts to formalize laws of war.
Tripartite Convention (1899)
Divides Samoa between the United States and
Germany.
Treaty 8
Conducted at Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada,
negotiating an agreement between the Canadian
monarch, Queen Victoria, and First Nations. There
were later adhesions to the treaty.[140]
19001999
Year
1900
Name
Summary
Treaty of Paris
Ends all conflicting claims over Ro Muni (Equatorial
Guinea).
Treaty of Washington
Seeks to remove any ground of misunderstanding growing
out of the interpretation of Article III of the Treaty of Paris
(1898) by clarifying specifics of territories relinquished to
the United States by Spain.[141]
Convention for the
Preservation of Wild
Animals, Birds and Fish in
Africa
First international agreement on wildlife conservation.
1901 HayPauncefote Treaty
Boxer Protocol[142]
1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Replaces the ClaytonBulwer Treaty.
Peace agreement between the Eight-Nation Alliance and
China.
Treaty of alliance between England and Japan; signed by
Lord Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu.
1903
Treaty of Vereeniging
Ends the Second Boer War.
CubanAmerican Treaty
The Republic of Cuba leases to the United States the
Guantnamo Bay area.
HayHerrn Treaty
The United States attempts to acquire a lease on Panama.
HayHerbert Treaty
Between the United Kingdom and the United States on the
location of the border between Alaska and Canada.
HayBunau-Varilla
Treaty[143]
Establishes the Panama Canal Zone.
Treaty of Petrpolis
Ends tensions between Bolivia and Brazil over the territory
of Acre.
Southern African Customs
Union Agreement
Creates customs union between British colonies and
protectorates in Southern Africa.
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
Ends the Russo-Japanese War.
Treaty of Bjrk
A secret mutual defense accord between the German Empire
and Russia.
October Manifesto
Response to Russian Revolution of 1905. Created the Duma
but Tsar Nicholas II of Russia disregarded it after the
country was stable again and continued his absolute rule.
TaftKatsura Agreement[144]
Japan and the United States agree on spheres of influence in
Asia.
Convention of Karlstad
This treaty dissolves of the union between Norway and
Sweden established by the Convention of Moss and Treaty
of Kiel in 1814.
This treaty deprived Korean Empire of its diplomatic
JapanKorea Treaty of 1905 sovereignty, in effect making Korea a protectorate of Empire
of Japan; void in 1965.
Conducted at Osnaburgh House trade post, on Lake St.
Joseph (Albany River), Ontario, Canada, negotiating an
Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty) agreement between the Canadian monarch, King Edward
VII, and First Nations. There were later adhesions to the
treaty.[145]
1906
1909
1910
Second Geneva Convention
Specifies the treatment of wounded, sick and shipwrecked
members of armed forces at sea.
Treaty 10
Conducted at le--la-Crosse and Lac du Brochet,
Saskatchewan, Canada, negotiating an agreement between
the Canadian monarch, King Edward VII, and First Nations.
There were later adhesions to the treaty in 1907.[146]
Treaty of Limits (Brazil
Netherlands)
Defined international boundary between Brazil and Dutch
colony of Surinam
Anglo-Siamese Treaty of
1909[147]
Formally divides northern Malay states between Siam and
the British Empire.
JapanKorea Treaty of 1910
Begins the period of Korea under Japanese rule; declared
null and void in 1965.
Brussels Collision
Convention
Governs apportionment of legal liability in maritime
collision cases.
1911 North Pacific Fur Seal
First international treaty seeking the management and
1912
Convention of 1911
conservation of wildlife.
International Opium
Convention
The first international drug control treaty.
1913 Treaty of London (1913)
Ends the First Balkan War.
Treaty of Bucharest (1913)
Ends the Second Balkan War.
Treaty of friendship and
alliance between the
Government of Mongolia
and Tibet
Alliance between Mongolia and Tibet.
Treaty of Athens
Peace treaty between Ottoman Empire and Greece. Ottoman
Empire acknowledges union of Crete with Greece.
Treaty of Constantinople
(1913)
Peace treaty between Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.
Bulgaria acknowledges Ottoman control on Eastern Thrace.
1914 BryanChamorro Treaty
The United States acquires the rights to any canal built in
Nicaragua, to build a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca, and
to lease the Great and Little Corn Islands in the Caribbean;
ratified in 1916.
1915 Treaty of London (1915)
(London Pact)
Italy enters World War I.
Treaty of Kyakhta (1915)
1916 SykesPicot Agreement
Status of Mongolia
France and the United Kingdom define spheres of influence
in the Middle East.
Treaty of Bucharest (1916)
1917 LansingIshii Agreement
Corfu Declaration
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
(UkraineCentral Powers)
Alliance between Romania and the Entente.
Trade treaty between the United States and Japan.
Statement of intention to form a Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Between Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central
Powers.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Between Russia and the Central Powers; Russia pulls out of
World War I.
Treaty of Bucharest (1918)
Between Romania and the Central Powers; never ratified.
Treaty of Batum
Between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the
Ottoman Empire.
Armistice of Mudros
Ends the Middle-Eastern part of World War I and forces the
Ottomans to renounce most of their imperial holdings.
Armistice with Germany
Between France, Britain, and Germany, ending World War I
1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-enDissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Laye (1919)
Treaty of Versailles
Formally ends World War I.
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine Between Allied Powers and Bulgaria.
FaisalWeizmann Agreement Agreement for ArabJewish cooperation in the Middle East.
Between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan during the
Anglo-Afghan Treaty of
Third Anglo-Afghan War; United Kingdom recognizes
1919 (Treaty of Rawalpindi)
Afghanistan's independence; amended in 1921.
1920 Seventh Treaty of Paris
Union of Bessarabia and Romania.
Treaty of Brno (1920)
Naturalizes all populaces within the respective language
groups of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Treaty of Rapallo (1920)
Between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes (subsequently the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
Treaty of Moscow (1920)
Mutual recognition of the Russian SFSR and the Democratic
Republic of Georgia
Treaty of Tartu (Russian
Finnish)
Establishes border between Russia and Finland.
Treaty of Tartu (Russian
Estonian)
Establishes border between Russia and Estonia.
Treaty of Trianon
Regulates the newly independent Hungary.
Treaty of Svres
Peace between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman
Empire.
LatvianSoviet Peace Treaty
Brings peace between the Republic of Latvia and Russian
SFSR.
Treaty of Alexandropol
Ends the war between Turkish nationalists and the Armenian
Republic.
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard becomes part of the
Kingdom of Norway.
Svalbard Treaty[148]
1921 Franco-Polish alliance
(1921)
Military alliance between Poland and France that was active
between 1921 and 1940.
Anglo-Irish Treaty[149]
Ends the Irish War of Independence and created the Irish
Free State.
Peace of Riga[150]
Ends the PolishSoviet War.
ThomsonUrrutia Treaty
Colombia recognizes Panama's independence in return for
25 million dollars.
Treaty of Berlin (1921)
Separate post-World War I peace agreement between the
United States and Germany.
Treaty of Kars
Friendship treaty between Turkey and the Soviet
governments of the Transcaucasian Republics.
Treaty of Ankara (1921)
[151]
France agrees to evacuate Cilicia in return for economic
concessions from Turkey; Turkey acknowledges French
imperial sovereignty over Syria.
Russo-Persian Treaty of
Friendship (1921)
Grants both Iran and the Soviet Union full and equal
shipping rights in the Caspian Sea.
Treaty of Moscow (1921)
A friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey (TBMM) and the Bolshevik government of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
AngloAfghan Treaty of
1921
Amendments to and expansion of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty
of 1919 between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan
Treaty 11
Conducted at Northwest Territories, Canada, negotiating an
agreement between the Canadian monarch, King George V,
and First Nations. There were further signings in 1921.[152]
1922 Washington Naval Treaty[153] Attempts to limit naval expansion.
Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
Between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia.
Legalized the creation of a union of several Republics of the
Treaty on the Creation of the
Soviet Union in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist
USSR
Republics.
1923 Treaty of Lausanne
Halibut Treaty
Sets the boundaries of modern Turkey.
Canadian-American agreement concerning fishing rights in
the northern Pacific Ocean.
Convention and Statute on
Mandated equal treatment of all ships in maritime ports,
the International Rgime of
regardless of nationality.
Maritime Ports
1924
Brussels Agreement (1924)
Multilateral treaty providing for medical treatment of
seamen with venereal diseases.
Treaty of Rome (1924)
Revokes parts of the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) that created
the independent Free State of Fiume; Fiume would be
annexed to Italy while the town of Suak would be assigned
to Yugoslavia.
1925 Locarno Treaties
Seven treaties between the World War I Western European
Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern
Europe.
1926 Treaty of Berlin (1926)
Germany and the Soviet Union pledge neutrality.
1927 Treaty of Jeddah (1927)
1928
1929
Establishes the independence of present-day Saudi Arabia
from the United Kingdom.
KelloggBriand Pact[154]
Calls "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of
national policy".
Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of
1928
20 year treaty of peace between the Kingdom of Italy and
the Empire of Ethiopia.
Lateran Treaty
The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican City formally
recognize each other.
Geneva Convention (1929)
Establishes rules for the treatment of prisoners of war;
predecessor of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention.
International Convention for
the Suppression of
Criminalises the counterfeiting of currency.
Counterfeiting Currency
1930 London Naval Treaty[155]
Convention Between the
United States and Great
Britain (1930)
1931
1932
Treaty of Westminster (1931)
Regulates submarine warfare and shipbuilding.
Definitely delimits the boundary between North Borneo
(then a British protectorate) and the Philippine archipelago
(then a U.S. Territory).
[156]
Creates the British Commonwealth.
SovietPolish NonAggression Pact
International treaty of non-aggression signed by
representatives of Poland and the USSR.
1934
GermanPolish NonAggression Pact
International treaty between Nazi Germany and the Second
Polish Republic; both countries pledged to settle disputes
through bilateral negotiations.
Balkan Pact
Between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia;
signatories agree to suspend all disputed territorial claims
against each other.
1935 Franco-Soviet Treaty of
Mutual Assistance
1936
Bilateral pact between France and the USSR with the aim of
containing German aggression.
Treaty of Establishment,
Commerce and
Navigation[157]
Reinforces the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship.
Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of
1936
The United Kingdom withdraws its troops from Egypt
except those necessary to protect the Suez Canal and its
surroundings.
Franco-Syrian Treaty of
Independence (1936)
France provides independence to Syria.
Montreux Convention
Approve Turkish control on Bosphorus and Dardanelles
Regarding the Regime of the
Straits
Straits
International Convention for Establishes limitations on whaling practices; protocols
the Regulation of Whaling signed in 1938 and again in 1945.
1937
Treaty of Saadabad[158]
1938 Munich Agreement
A non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Surrenders the Sudetenland to Germany.
1939 MolotovRibbentrop Pact[159] Soviet-German non-aggression pact.
Pact of Steel
1940 Moscow Peace Treaty
1944
Ends the Winter War.
Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation
Reinforces the Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and
Navigation between Iran and the Soviet Union.
Treaty of Craiova
Romania cedes territories to Bulgaria.
1941 Tokyu Convention
1942
Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy.
Ends the Franco-Thai War.
Twenty-year mutual assistance agreement between the
Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 United Kingdom and the USSR that establishes both a
military and political alliance.
Bretton Woods Agreement
Establishes rules for commercial and financial relations
among the major industrial states.
Titoubai Agreement[160] Attempts to merge Yugoslavian governments.
Chicago Convention on
International Civil Aviation
Establishes the International Civil Aviation Organization;
ratified in 1947.
London Protocol (1944)
Prepares for the division of Germany into three occupation
zones.
1945 Treaty of Varkiza[161]
United Nations Charter
Attempts to officially end the Greek Civil War.
Establishes the United Nations.
1946
Wanfried Agreement
Transfers three Hessian villages to the Soviet Union and two
Eichsfeld villages to the United States.
Bermuda Agreement
Bilateral agreement on civil aviation between the United
States and United Kingdom.
GruberDe Gasperi
Agreement
South Tyrol and Trentino remain part of Italy, but ensures
their autonomy as region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Sdtirol.
Replaces the International Agreement for the Regulation of
International Convention for
Whaling; governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal
the Regulation of Whaling
subsistence whaling practices of fifty-nine member nations.
1946 Lake Success
Protocol[162]
Shifts drug control functions previously assigned to the
League of Nations to the United Nations.
Treaty of Manila (1946)[163]
The United States recognizes the independence of the
Republic of the Philippines.
Treaty of London (1946)
Great Britain recognizes the independence of Transjordan.
1947 General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade[164]
Establishes international trade rules.
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
Formally ends World War II.
Inter-American Treaty of
Reciprocal Assistance[165]
A "hemispheric defense" doctrine signed by many nations in
the Americas.
1949 North Atlantic Treaty[166]
Establishes NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1950
Fourth Geneva
Convention[167]
Establishes rules for the protection of civilians during
wartime.
Treaty of The Hague (1949)
The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia except
for the South Molucca Islands and West Irian.
Treaty of London (1949)
Creates the Council of Europe.
LiaquatNehru Pact
Between Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Treaty of Zgorzelec[168]
Establishes borders between the Republic of Poland and the
German Democratic Republic.
1951 Mutual Defense Treaty
([Link])
A mutual defense accord between the Philippines and the
United States.
Genocide Convention
Defines and outlaws genocide.
Treaty of San Francisco[169]
Formally ends the war between the Allies of World War II
and Japan.
Security Treaty Between the A mutual defense agreement between the United States and
United States and Japan
Japan; goes into effect on April 28, 1952.
U.S. and Japan Mutual
Defense Assistance
Agreement
1952 ANZUS Treaty[170]
Permits U.S. armed forces to station troops in Japan while
encouraging Japan to rearm for defensive purposes only;
goes into effect on May 1, 1954.
Alliance between Australia, New Zealand and the United
States.
1953
Treaty of Taipei[171]
Peace treaty between Japan and the Republic of China.
General Treaty[172]
Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the
Western Allies (France, UK, USA) restoring (limited)
German sovereignty.
International Convention
relating to Arrest of Seagoing Ships
Standarises rules relating to arrest of ships in port.
Korean War Armistice
Agreement[173]
Ended the fighting between the United Nations Command
and the Korean People's Army & PRC People's Liberation
Army.
1954 Central Treaty
Organization[174]
Alliance of Middle Eastern countries and the United
Kingdom.
Southeast Asia Collective
Defense Treaty[175]
Established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization,
(SEATO), a defensive alliance between Australia, France,
New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, South
Vietnam, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United
States.
AsianAfrican
Conference[176]
Conference stated to promote Afro-Asian economic and
cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or
neocolonialism by the United States, the Soviet Union, or
any other "imperialistic" nation.
Austrian State Treaty[177]
Re-establishes a free, sovereign and democratic Austria.
Simonstown Agreement
The Royal Navy surrenders its naval base at Simonstown,
South Africa and transfers command of the South African
1955
Navy to the government of South Africa.
1956
Warsaw Pact[178]
Alliance of Central and Eastern European communist states.
SovietJapanese Joint
Declaration of 1956
Reestablishes diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union
and Japan following World War II.
1957 Anglo-Malayan Defence
Agreement[179]
Treaty of Rome[180]
Provides a security umbrella for the independent Malaya.
Establishes the European Economic Community.
International Atomic Energy
Establishes the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Treaty
1958 1958 USUK Mutual
Defence Agreement
Bilateral treaty between the United States and the United
Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation.
Convention on the Territorial Provides new universal legal controls for the management of
Sea and the Contiguous Zone marine natural resources and the control of pollution.
Sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, establishes
1959 Antarctic Treaty System[181] freedom of scientific investigation and bans military activity
on the continent; comes into force in 1961.
1960 Treaty of Mutual
Cooperation and Security
between the United States
and Japan
Indus Waters Treaty
Strengthens Japan's ties to the "West" during the Cold War
era.
Water-sharing treaty between India and Pakistan.
1960 Treaty of Montevideo
Establishes the Latin American Free Trade Association.
London and Zurich
Agreements
Between United Kingdom, Turkey and Greece about the
independence and Guarantee of Cyprus.
1961 Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
Strengthens U.S. national security by implementing
effective policies of arms control and disarmament.
Hague Convention of 5
October 1961
International treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on
Private International Law. It specifies the modalities through
which a document issued in one of the signatory countries
can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory
states. Such a certification is called an apostille (French:
certification). The apostille is an international certification.
Columbia River Treaty
International agreement between Canada and the United
States on the development and operation of the upper
Columbia River basin.
Vienna Convention
on Diplomatic Relations
International treaty on diplomatic intercourse and the
privileges and immunities of diplomatic missions; came into
force in 1964.
Alliance for Progress
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower attempts to establish
economic cooperation between North America and South
America.
Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs
International treaty against the illicit manufacture and
trafficking of narcotic drugs.
Convention on the Reduction International treaty against statelessness; goes into effect on
of Statelessness
December 13, 1975.
1962 Nassau Agreement
The United States provides the United Kingdom with
nuclear-armed Polaris missiles in return for a nuclear
submarine base in the Holy Loch, near Glasgow.
New York Agreement
1963 Vienna Convention
on Consular Relations
Agreement between the Republic of Indonesia and the
Kingdom of the Netherlands Concerning West New Guinea
(West Irian). Transferred responsibility for a territory to the
United Nations and arranged for subsequent administration
by Indonesia pending an act of self-determination defined in
agreement.
Multilateral treaty that codifies consular practices.
Vienna Convention
Sets rules of liability for any and all forms of nuclear
on Civil Liability for Nuclear
damage.
Damage
Partial Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty[182]
Prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except
underground.
lyse Treaty[183]
Franco-German agreement for joint cooperation in foreign
policy, economic and military integration, and exchange of
student education.
Strasbourg Convention[184]
Harmonizes patent laws across European countries.
Merger Treaty
Organizes the European Coal and Steel Community, the
European Economic Community and Euratom; creates
European Commission and the Council of the European
Communities; comes into force on July 1, 1967.
Treaty on Basic Relations
between Japan and the
Republic of Korea
Established basic relationship between Japan and the
Republic of Korea (South Korea).
1965
1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco[185]
Keeps Latin American and the Caribbean regions free of
nuclear weapons.
ASEAN Declaration[186]
Founding document of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations.
WIPO Convention[187]
Established the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Forbids the placing of nuclear weapons or any other
weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and into
outer space in general.
[188]
Outer Space Treaty
Treaty on the Non1968 Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons[189]
Limits the spread of nuclear weapons through nonproliferation, disarmament, and the right to utilize nuclear
technology for peaceful purposes.
1969 Convention on the
Commits signatories to the elimination of racial
Elimination of All Forms of discrimination and the promotion of understanding among
Racial Discrimination
all races.
Vienna Convention on the
Law of Treaties[190]
Codifies the pre-existing international customary law on
treaties with some necessary gap-filling and clarifications.
Arusha Agreement
Establishes better economic relations between the European
Community and the nations of Kenya, Uganda, and
Tanzania; comes into force in 1971.
1970 Hague Hijacking Convention Criminalises the hijacking of civil aviation aircraft.
Patent Cooperation Treaty
Provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to
protect inventions internationally; comes into force in 1978;
amended in 1979; modified in 1984 and 2001.
Boundary Treaty of 1970
Settles boundary disputes between the United States and
[191]
Mexico.
Treaty of Warsaw (1970)
West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland pledge
themselves to nonviolence and accept the OderNeisse line;
ratified in 1972.
1971 Convention on Psychotropic Attempts to control psychoactive drugs such as
Substances
amphetamines, barbiturates, and LSD.
Five Power Defence
Arrangements[192]
Security agreement between Australia, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Ramsar Convention
Focuses on the conservation and sustainable utilization of
wetlands; goes into effect in 1975.
IPC Agreement
[193]
Establishes a common classification for patents for
invention, inventors' certificates, utility models and utility
certificates; goes into effect in 1975; amended in 1979.
Seabed Arms Control
Treaty[194]
Bans the placement of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor
beyond a 12-mile (19 km) coastal zone; comes into force in
1972.
Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful
Acts against the Safety of
Civil Aviation
Criminalises sabotage of civil aircraft and dangerous acts on
board aircraft
Indo-Soviet Treaty of
Specifies strategic cooperation between India and the Soviet
Friendship and Cooperation Union.
1972 Addis Ababa Agreement
(1972)
A series of accords between the government of Sudan and
insurgents in Southern Sudan, which ended the First
Sudanese Civil War
Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty[195]
Limits the use of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems in
defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
(US PL 92-448).
Basic Treaty (1972)[196]
Establishes relations between the Federal Republic of
Germany and the German Democratic Republic; comes into
effect in 1973.
Biological Weapons
Convention[197]
First multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production
of an entire category of biological weapons (with exceptions
for medical and defensive purposes in small quantities).
Convention for the
Conservation of Antarctic
Seals
Provides protection for Antarctic seals; comes into effect in
1978.
London Convention on the
Prevention of Marine
Pollution by Dumping of
Wastes and Other Matter
Attempts to control pollution of the sea via deliberate
dumping by vessels, aircraft, and platforms.
Sino-Japanese Joint
Communiqu[198]
Established diplomatic relations between Japan and the
People's Republic of China.
Simla Agreement[199]
Normalised relations between India and Pakistan following
the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1973 European Patent
Convention[200]
Agreement on the Transfer
of Corpses
Multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent
Organisation.
Establishes rules and standards for the transfer of human
corpses across international borders
CITES- The Convention on Also known as the Washington Convention; Regulates
International Trade in
international trade of endangered species of animals and
Endangered Species of Wild
plants (live specimens, as well as their parts and derivatives)
Fauna and Flora
1974
1975
Paris Peace Accords
Formalized American withdrawal from Vietnam.
Vientiane Treaty
A cease-fire agreement between the monarchial government
of Laos and the communist Pathet Lao.
Agreement on the Transfer
of Corpses
Establishes rules and standards for the transport of human
corpses across international borders. Intended to replace a
similar 1937 treaty.
JapanAustralia Migratory
Bird Agreement[201]
Treaty between Australia and Japan to minimise harm to the
major areas used by birds that migrate between the two
countries; comes into force in 1981.
Threshold Test Ban
Treaty[202]
Establishes a nuclear "threshold" by prohibiting nuclear tests
of devices having a yield exceeding 150 kilotons.
Treaty of Osimo
Divides the Free Territory of Trieste between Italy and
Yugoslavia.
Treaty of Lagos
Establishes the Economic Community of West African
States.
1976 Environmental Modification Prohibits the military or other hostile use of environmental
Convention[203]
modification techniques; comes into force in 1978.
Treaty of Amity and
Cooperation in Southeast
Asia
Treaty signed among the founding members of ASEAN and
acceded to by all ASEAN members and 15 non-members.
Convention on Limitation of Admiralty law treaty regarding liability for maritime claims.
Liability for Maritime
Claims
1977 TorrijosCarter Treaties
Abrogates the HayBunau-Varilla Treaty and guarantees
Panama its eventual control of the Panama Canal after 1999.
1978 Camp David Accords
Agreement between Egypt and Israel.
Treaty of Peace and
Friendship between
Japan and the People's
Republic of China
Peace agreement between Japan and the People's Republic
of China.
EgyptIsrael Peace Treaty
Israel and Egypt agree to mutually recognize each other;
Israel agrees to withdraw its troops from the Sinai Peninsula
in return for Israeli ships to gain free passage through the
Suez Canal.
Moon Treaty[204]
Turns jurisdiction of all heavenly bodies to the international
community; goes into effect in 1984.
Treaty of Accession 1979
New members for the European union
Treaty of Montevideo
Both Argentina and Chile pledge to a peaceful solution to
their border disputes at the Beagle Channel.
Australia New Zealand
1983 Closer Economic Relations
Trade Agreement[205]
A free trade agreement between the governments of New
Zealand and Australia.
1984 Sino-British Joint
Declaration[206]
The United Kingdom relinquishes Hong Kong to the
People's Republic of China.
1979
Nkomati Accord
Nonagression treaty between Mozambique and the Republic
of South Africa.
Oujda Treaty
Morocco and Libya establish the ArabicAfrican Union.
Treaty of Peace and
Resolves disputes between Argentina and Chile over the
Friendship of 1984 between
possession of the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands.
Chile and Argentina
1985
1986
Plaza Accord
The Group of Five agree to devalue the US dollar in relation
to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by
intervening in currency markets.
Schengen Agreement
Establishes for the European Community a border system
and a common policy on the temporary entry of persons.
1985 Helsinki Protocol on
the Reduction of Sulphur
Emissions[207]
Provides for a 30% reduction in sulphur emissions and their
transboundary fluxes by 1993; comes into effect in 1987.
Treaty of Rarotonga[208]
Formalizes a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the South Pacific.
ChinaAustralia Migratory
Bird Agreement
Treaty between Australia and China to minimise harm to
major areas used by birds that migrate between the two
countries; comes into force in 1988.
Convention on Early
Notification of a Nuclear
Accident
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, states agree to
promptly notify each other and the IAEA of nuclear
accidents that occur.
1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Eliminates nuclear and conventional ground-launched
Forces Treaty
ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500
kilometers (300 to 3,400 miles); ratified and comes into
force in 1988.
Joint Declaration on the
Question of Macau[209]
Portugal relinquishes Macau to the People's Republic of
China.
Nitrogen Oxide Protocol[210]
Provides for the control or reduction of nitrogen oxides and
their transboundary fluxes; comes into effect in 1991.
United Nations Convention
Against Illicit Traffic in
Enforcing the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Narcotic Drugs and
and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
Psychotropic Substances
1988
Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful
Acts against the Safety of
Maritime Navigation
Criminalises hijacking and other dangerous acts on ships.
Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful
Acts against the Safety of
Civil Aviation
Criminalises dangerous or violent acts in airports
Montreal Protocol[211]
Attempts to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the
production of a number of substances believed to be
responsible for ozone depletion.
1989
Establishes limits on key categories of conventional military
Treaty on Conventional
equipment in Europe and mandates the destruction of excess
Armed Forces in Europe[212]
weaponry.
Timor Gap Treaty
Between the governments of Australia and Indonesia;
rewritten in 2001.
Wellington Convention
Prohibits the use of fishing driftnets in the South Pacific that
are longer than 2.5 metres.
1990
MalaysiaSingapore Points
of Agreement of 1990
Treaty regarding the future of railway land owned by the
Malaysian government through Malayan Railways in
Singapore.
1990 Chemical Weapons
Accord
On June 1, 1990 Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail
Gorbachev sign the bilateral U.S.-Soviet Chemical Weapons
Accord.
Treaty on the Final
Settlement with Respect to
Germany
The Four Powers renounce all rights they formerly held in
Germany and Germany renounces all claims to territories
east of the OderNeisse line.
1991 Brioni Agreement
Ends ten-day war in Slovenia.
Abuja Treaty
International agreement that creates the African Economic
Community.
Treaty of Asuncin
International treaty signed between Argentina, Brazil,
Uruguay and Paraguay, served as the basis for the
establishment of the Mercosur trading block.
Extradition treaty
Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the Republic of
the Philippines. Signed in Manila on 7 March 1988, entered
into force on 18 January 1991.[213]
Belavezha Accords
Agreement which declared the Soviet Union effectively
dissolved and established the Commonwealth of
Independent States in its place.
1992 Maastricht Treaty[214]
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate
Change[215]
Establishes the European Union.
Attempts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas in order to
combat global warming.
1993
Treaty on Open Skies
Establishes an international program of unarmed aerial
surveillance flights over all participants' territories.
CIS Collective Security
Treaty
Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan establish framework for the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
Sochi agreement
Georgian and South Ossetian forces signed a ceasefire to
halt the contemperaneously recognized "civil war."
Oslo I Accord[216]
Between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
Chemical Weapons
Convention[217]
Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical
weapons.
1994 IsraelJordan Treaty of
Peace[218]
Normalizes relations between Israel and Jordan and resolves
territorial disputes between them.
North American Free Trade Free trade agreement between Canada, the United States of
Agreement
America, and Mexico.
Kremlin accords
Stops the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles at
targets in any nation and provides for the dismantling of
Russian nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
United Nations Convention Provides universal legal controls for the management of
on the Law of the Sea[219]
marine natural resources and the control of pollution.
United Nations Convention Agreement to combat desertification and to mitigate the
to Combat Desertification[220] effects of drought; comes into force in 1996.
Extradition treaty
Extradition treaty between the government of the republic of
the Philippines and the government of the United States of
America. Signed at Manila on 13 November 1994.[221]
Convention on Nuclear
Safety
1995 Dayton Agreement[222]
States agree to general safety rules regarding civilian nuclear
power plants and programmes.
Ends Bosnian War.
General Agreement on Trade Extends the multilateral trading system to provide services
in Services[223]
(i.e. tertiary sector of industry).
1996 Comprehensive NuclearTest-Ban Treaty[224]
Forbids all nuclear explosions in all environments for
military or civilian purposes.
Khasavyurt Accord
Ceasefire agreement that ends the First Chechen War.
WIPO Copyright Treaty[225]
Provides additional protections for copyright deemed
necessary due to advances in information technology.
WIPO Performances and
Phonograms Treaty[226]
Establishes rights and privileges for performers and
producers of audio-visual works.
Amsterdam Treaty[227]
Substantially revises the Maastricht Treaty; comes into
effect on May 1, 1999.
Ottawa Treaty[228]
Bans all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines).
Chemical Weapons
Convention[229]
Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical
weapons.
Kyoto Protocol[230]
Mandates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions;
negotiated in 1997, ratified in 2004, and went into effect in
1997
2005.
1998
Good Friday Agreement[231]
Major political development in the Northern Ireland peace
process.
POP Air Pollution
Protocol[232]
Agreement to provide for the control and reduction of
emissions of persistent organic pollutants; has not yet come
into effect.
Rome Statute of the
International Criminal
Court[233]
Establishes the International Criminal Court.
1999 Adapted Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe
Treaty
Replaces ceilings given to NATO and the Warsaw Pact with
territorial ones.
East African Community
Treaty
Establishes the East African Community between Uganda,
Kenya and the Republic of Tanzania; goes into effect on July
7, 2000.
Kumanovo Agreement
Concluded the Kosovo War; went into effect on June 9,
1999.
2000current
Year
2000
Name
Cotonou Agreement
Patent Law Treaty[234]
Summary
Attempts to reduce poverty and integrate the ACP countries
into the world economy; came into force in 2002.
Harmonizes formal procedures such as the requirements to
obtain a filing date for a patent application, the form and
content of a patent application, and representation.
Treaty of Jeddah (2000)
Resolves a border dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen
that dates backs to Saudi boundary claims made in 1934.
2001 Agreement on the
Attempts to prevent the decline of seabird populations in the
Conservation of Albatrosses southern hemisphere, particularly albatrosses and
and Petrels
procellariidae.
Treaty of Nice
Amends two founding treaties of the European Union.
Ohrid Agreement
Ends the armed conflict between the Albanian National
Liberation Army and Macedonia.
2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Twenty-year strategic treaty between Russia and the People's
Friendship
Republic of China.
Convention on Cybercrime
2002 ASEAN Agreement on
Transboundary Haze
Pollution
Gbadolite Agreement
Pretoria Accord
Prohibits the use of computers or networks as tools for
criminal activity.
Between ASEAN nations to bring haze pollution under
control in Southeast Asia.
Attempts to cease hostilities between the warring factions in
the Second Congo War; treaty has limited effect.
Rwandan troops withdraw from the Democratic Republic of
the Congo in exchange for international commitment
towards the disarmament of the interahamwe and the exFAR fighters.
2003
Strategic Offensive
Reductions Treaty[235]
Limits the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States.
ASEAN Free Trade Area[236]
Agreement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
of local manufacturing in all ASEAN countries.
Treaty of Accession 2003
Integrates ten nations into the European Union; came into
force on May 1, 2004.
Accra Comprehensive Peace
Ended the Second Liberian Civil War on August 18, 2003.
Agreement
WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco
Control[237]
First public health treaty of the world; came into force on
February 27, 2005. Its purpose is to "protect present and
future generations from the devastating health, social,
environmental and economic consequences of tobacco
consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke."
International Treaty on Plant
Assures farmers' facilitated access to seeds of the world's
2004 Genetic Resources for Food
food security crops; came into force on June 29, 2004.
and Agriculture[238]
2005
Comprehensive Peace
Agreement[239]
Ended the Second Sudanese Civil War between the
Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation
Army; creates the Government of National Unity. Signed on
January 9, 2005 and scheduled for full implementation by
July 9, 2011.
Energy Community Treaty
Establishes the Energy Community.
Treaty of Accession 2005
Integrates two nations (Bulgaria and Romania) into the
European Union; came into force on January 1, 2007.
2006 Tripoli Agreement[240]
Ends Chadian-Sudanese conflict.
Waziristan Accord[241]
Ends Waziristan War.
St Andrews Agreement
Resolves outstanding grievances in the Northern Ireland
peace process, enabling devolved power-sharing government
to resume.
2007 Treaty of Lisbon
2008
Reforming the European Union.
ASEAN Charter
New constitution making the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations a legal entity.
UNASUR Constitutive
Treaty[242]
Treaty establishing the Union of South American Nations.
2009 Extradition treaty
2010
Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines. Bilateral
treaty signed in London on 18 September 2009.[243]
Barents Sea border treaty
Treaty signed 15 September in Murmansk between the
Government of the Russian Federation and the Government
of the Kingdom of Norway. This treaty ends decades of
negotiations over the maritime border in the Barents Sea.[244]
Global Plan of Action to
Combat Trafficking in
Persons
A human trafficking action plan adopted by the United
Nations[245]
Arctic Search and Rescue
2011
Agreement
2012 Framework Agreement on
the Bangsamoro
Treaty among the 8 member states of the Arctic Council
signed 12 May 2011. It coordinates international search and
rescue (SAR) coverage and response in the Arctic.
Treaty between the Philippine government and the Islamic
militant group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The treaty
seeks to create a new autonomous political entity named
Bangsamoro to replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao.
Intergovernmental
2013
Agreement on Dry Ports
Treaty among the members of the member states of the
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific to facilitate cooperation in the development
of a network of dry ports in Asia.
Convention on the
2014 Manipulation of Sports
Competitions
Council of Europe treaty to combat match fixing in sports