TreatyDB
107 treaties, pacts, and agreements that redrew the world, from the Treaty of Tordesillas to the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. The documents that ended wars, built unions, limited arms, and shaped the international order.
Landmark Treaties
Peace of Westphalia
1648The treaties of Osnabrück and Münster ended the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Dutch. It...
Treaty of Versailles
1919Ended World War One with Germany. War guilt clause 231 assigned sole responsibility, reparations set at 132 billion gold marks...
North Atlantic Treaty
1949Created NATO, the collective defense alliance where attack on one is attack on all, Article 5. Anchored the United States in...
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
1939Molotov and Ribbentrop signed non-aggression with secret protocols dividing Poland, the Baltics, Bessarabia, and Finland into...
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
1803Napoleon, needing money for war with Britain and having failed to reconquer Haiti, sold 828,000 square miles for 15 million...
Good Friday Agreement
1998Ended the Troubles after 30 years and 3,500 deaths. Power sharing executive, cross border institutions, principle of consent, NI...
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1968The grand bargain, five recognized nuclear states, US, Russia, China, Britain, France, keep weapons but disarm eventually, all...
Paris Agreement
2015Landmark climate accord, hold warming well below 2, pursue 1.5 degrees, every country submits NDC pledges every five years...
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494Spain and Portugal agreed a dividing meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, moving west the line Pope Alexander VI...