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2012 Event - In Oslo, Norway, leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe'

2012 Event - The United Communist Party of Nepal is removed from the U.S. terror list citing they have made a 'credible commitment to pursuing peace and reconciliation.'

2011 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, dies while undergoing treatments for cancer

2011 Event - U.S. conductor Daniel Barenboim holds a 'Peace Concert' in the Gaza Strip; he is a supporter of Palestinian rights

2010 Event - China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it

2010 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank

2010 Event - Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas communicates that Palestinians desire a 'comprehensive and just' peace agreement; he requests Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank

2009 Event - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume as soon as possible

2009 Death - Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies

2009 Event - A crowd of 50,000 people participate in a memorial service at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

2009 Event - Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou

2005 Event - Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA

2003 Death - Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75

1998 Event - Negotiators from various factions sign the Good Friday Agreement, a plan for peace in Northern Ireland.

1998 Event - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

1997 Event - Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1996 Death - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72

1996 Death - Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner, dies at 42

1995 Event - Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians

1995 Event - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1995 Death - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77

1995 Death - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90

1995 Death - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68

1994 Event - Jordan and Israel sign peace accord

1994 Death - Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88

1994 Event - U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti

1994 Event - Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina

1993 Event - Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1993 Event - Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord

1993 Event - Day of Peace in South Africa

1993 Event - Rwandian Hutu's and Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha

1993 Event - U.S. officially backs peace plan in Bosnia

1991 Event - Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain

1991 Event - Palestinians attend U.S. mideast peace talks in Madrid

1991 Event - Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain

1991 Event - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

1991 Event - Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1991 Death - J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies

1991 Event - Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak

1990 Event - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize

1990 Event - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf

1989 Death - Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52

1988 Event - U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

1987 Event - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987 Event - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987 Event - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala

1986 Event - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Event - Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Event - RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs

1986 Death - Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer

1986 Event - Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)

1986 Death - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84

1986 Event - International Peace Year begins

1985 Event - Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement

1985 Event - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

1984 Event - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Event - Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Event - U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

1983 Event - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album

1983 Event - Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Event - Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty

1983 Event - Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel

1982 Death - King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment

1982 Event - Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace

1980 Event - Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)

1980 Event - U.S.S.R. and Syria sign peace treaty

1979 Event - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1979 Event - Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario

1979 Event - Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect

1979 Event - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C.

1979 Event - Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

1979 Event - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

1979 Event - Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel

1978 Event - In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1978 Event - Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks

1978 Event - U.S.S.R. and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty

1978 Event - Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

1978 Event - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1978 Event - Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace

1978 Event - Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace

1978 Event - Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md

1978 Event - China and Japan sign peace treaty

1977 Event - Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference

1977 Birthday - Ludacris, born in Atlanta, Georgia, rapper, actor, co-founder, 'Disturbing the Peace' sold 14 million albums worldwide

1976 Death - Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79

1976 Event - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast

1975 Event - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1975 Event - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1973 Event - Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

1973 Event - Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris

1972 Event - Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks

1972 Event - Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

1972 Death - Mark A Van Doren, U.S. literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78

1972 Event - Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

1972 Event - India and Pakistan sign peace accord

1971 Event - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1971 Event - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1970 Event - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh

1970 Event - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1969 Event - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit

1969 Event - "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in U.K.

1969 Event - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"

1969 Event - John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)

1969 Event - John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

1969 Event - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

1969 Event - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1968 Event - Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam

1968 Event - North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1967 Event - Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace

1967 Birthday - Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist

1967 Event - U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1966 Event - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I

1966 Birthday - Michael Franti, born in San Francisco, California, poet, musician, head of Michael Franti & Spearhead band, supports peace and social justice issues

1966 Event - India and Pakistan sign peace accord

1964 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

1963 Event - 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC

1963 Event - John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty

1961 Event - Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1961 Event - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp

1960 Event - Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy

1959 Event - Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity"

1958 Event - 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere")

1958 Event - De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"

1957 Event - Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

1957 Birthday - Amy Goodman, born in Bay Shore, New York, journalist, author, host of 'Democracy Now!' public radio news program, focusing on peace, human rights movements

1955 Event - U.S.S.R. signs peace treaty with France and Great Britain

1954 Event - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Event - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh

1953 Event - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1953 Event - U.S. and Greece signs peace treaty (U.S. bases)

1952 Event - U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid

1952 Event - WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect

1952 Event - Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan

1952 Event - U.S. senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan

1951 Event - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1951 Event - Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)

1951 Event - President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

1951 Event - 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany

1950 Event - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Event - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Event - Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)

1950 Event - U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty

1949 Birthday - Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP, Green

1947 Birthday - Cat Stevens, Yusaf Islam, rock vocalist, Peace Train, Father and Son

1947 Event - WW II peace treaties signed

1947 Event - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

1945 Event - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)

1945 Event - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"

1945 Birthday - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976

1944 Event - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize

1944 Event - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"

1942 Event - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

1941 Event - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany

1940 Event - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks

1940 Birthday - David Ackroyd, Orange, New Jersey, actor, I Come in Peace, Memories of Me

1939 Event - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I

1938 Birthday - Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

1937 Event - New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike

1936 Event - Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize

1934 Event - 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2

1932 Birthday - Edna O'Brien, born in Ireland, writer, Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace

1932 Birthday - Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler

1932 Event - Great Britain and France sign peace treaty

1932 Event - Japan and China sign a peace treaty

1931 Event - Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Birthday - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Birthday - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982

1931 Event - Egypt and Iraq sign peace treaty

1931 Event - Iraq and Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty

1931 Event - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty

1930 Birthday - Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

1930 Death - Alois Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54

1928 Event - Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia

1927 Event - Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated

1927 Event - Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada opens

1927 Birthday - Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1926 Event - Italian and Albania sign peace treaty

1926 Birthday - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner

1926 Event - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague

1926 Event - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed

1926 Event - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed

1926 Event - Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed

1926 Event - Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty

1926 Birthday - John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, born in England, 11th Duke of Marlborough, justice of the peace, cousin of Sir Winston Churchill

1925 Event - U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts

1925 Event - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)

1924 Event - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed

1924 Birthday - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner

1923 Event - Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

1923 Birthday - Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973

1922 Event - Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano

1922 Event - IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1922 Birthday - Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace

1921 Event - U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany

1921 Event - Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty

1921 Event - 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged

1921 Event - Turkey makes peace with Armenia

1920 Event - Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty

1920 Event - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson

1920 Birthday - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace

1920 Event - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia

1920 Event - Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect

1920 Event - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia

1920 Event - Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep

1920 Death - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer

1920 Event - Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary

1920 Event - German-Latvian peace treaty signed

1920 Event - Peace treaty gives Estonia independence

1920 Event - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)

1920 Event - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: U.S.S.R. recognizes Estonian independence

1919 Event - Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson

1919 Event - Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies and Bulgaria

1919 Event - President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference

1919 Event - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa

1919 Event - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

1918 Event - President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office

1918 Birthday - Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash

1918 Birthday - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner

1918 Event - President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I

1918 Event - British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace

1915 Event - Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati

1915 Birthday - Sargent Shriver, Maryland, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, 1972, directed Peace Corp

1915 Event - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace

1915 Event - League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia

1914 Event - Pope Benedict XV calls for peace

1914 Birthday - Michael Goodliffe, Cheshire England, actor, 5th Day of Peace

1914 Birthday - Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

1914 Event - Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1913 Event - Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople

1913 Event - Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)

1912 Birthday - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer, True Face of Peace

1911 Event - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace

1911 Birthday - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese representive at Paris peace talk

1911 Birthday - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace

1910 Death - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82

1908 Birthday - John Mills, England, actor, Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace

1907 Event - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1906 Event - President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1906 Birthday - Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker

1906 Birthday - Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist

1905 Birthday - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner

1904 Event - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace

1904 Death - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies

1903 Event - Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace

1902 Event - Boers and British army sign peace treaty

1902 Event - Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria

1902 Birthday - Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize-1982

1901 Event - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)

1901 Event - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China

1901 Birthday - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962

1900 Event - AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace

1899 Event - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference

1899 Event - U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam

1899 Event - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1898 Event - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1898 Birthday - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist

1896 Event - Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty

1895 Birthday - King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas

1887 Birthday - Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968

1885 Birthday - Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect, Peace Palace

1883 Birthday - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist, Acting Peace

1881 Event - Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war

1879 Birthday - Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize

1878 Birthday - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936

1878 Event - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)

1878 Event - Peace of Zanjon

1871 Event - German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas

1871 Event - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France and Germany

1866 Event - Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty

1865 Event - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse

1865 Event - President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

1862 Death - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union Brigadier-General, dies of injury at about 40

1860 Birthday - Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921

1858 Birthday - Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906

1856 Event - Peace between England and Russia

1856 Event - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1845 Birthday - Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize, 1912

1843 Birthday - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter, War and Peace

1841 Birthday - Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927

1833 Birthday - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes

1833 Birthday - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907

1831 Event - Netherlands and Belgium sign peace treaty

1831 Birthday - Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace

1829 Event - Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

1829 Event - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war

1828 Birthday - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Birthday - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Event - Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk

1828 Event - Russia and Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai

1826 Event - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty

1815 Event - 2nd Peace of Paris: France and allies

1814 Event - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium

1807 Event - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France

1807 Event - France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit

1805 Event - France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg

1805 Event - Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute

1803 Event - Peace of Amiens ends

1802 Event - France, Netherlands, Spain and England signs Peace of Amiens

1801 Event - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal

1801 Event - France and Austrian sign Peace of Luneville

1799 Event - George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen"

1797 Event - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France

1796 Event - France and Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

1795 Event - U.S. - Algiers sign peace treaty

1795 Event - Spain and France sign peace treaty

1792 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy

1791 Event - Austria and Turkey sign Peace of Sistova

1790 Event - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela

1788 Event - England, Netherlands and Prussia sign peace treaty

1784 Event - England and Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

1784 Event - England and Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty

1783 Event - Congress ratifies peace treaty between U.S. and England

1779 Event - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1774 Event - Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)

1773 Event - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1763 Event - Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg

1762 Event - Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty

1762 Event - Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty

1762 Event - Russia and Prussia signs peace treaty

1745 Event - Austria and Bavaria sign peace

1744 Event - France and Prussia sign peace treaty

1743 Event - Sweden and Russia sign peace treaty

1742 Event - Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty

1739 Event - Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade

1739 Event - Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1739 Event - Spain and Naples-Austria sign peace accord

1738 Event - France and Austria sign peace

1735 Event - France and Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord

1721 Event - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War

1720 Event - Sweden and Denmark sign peace treaty

1720 Event - Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)

1720 Event - Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty

1719 Event - Sweden and Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm

1718 Event - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey and Venice sign peace treaty

1714 Event - Spain and Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement

1714 Event - Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg

1713 Event - Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1713 Event - Dutch State-General signs peace with France: Netherlands loses Orange Princedom

1713 Event - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty

1711 Event - Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar

1702 Death - Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies

1700 Event - Denmark and Sweden sign peace treaty

1700 Event - Russian-Turkish peace

1699 Event - Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey

1697 Event - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1697 Event - Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)

1696 Event - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace

1679 Event - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France

1678 Event - France and Brandenburg signs peace treaty

1678 Event - France and Spain signs peace treaty

1678 Event - Netherlands and France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen

1676 Event - Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw

1674 Event - Netherlands and Cologne sign peace treaty

1674 Event - Netherlands and Munster sign peace treaty

1674 Event - Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (New York City becomes English)

1673 Event - Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg

1673 Event - France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty

1672 Event - Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz

1668 Event - 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

1668 Event - Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"

1667 Event - Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty

1666 Event - Peace of Kleef: Netherlands and bishop Von Galen of Munster

1664 Event - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar

1662 Event - Netherlands and England sign peace treaty

1661 Event - Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty

1660 Event - Denmark and Sweden signs peace treaty

1660 Event - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva

1659 Event - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV

1658 Event - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark

1656 Death - Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71

1656 Event - England and France sign peace treaty

1654 Event - England and Netherlands signs peace treaty

1648 Event - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen

1648 Event - Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War

1645 Event - Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))

1645 Event - Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Bromsebro

1644 Event - 1st European peace congress opens in Munster

1644 Event - Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara

1640 Event - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland

1635 Event - Emperor Ferdinand II and Saksen sign Peace of Prague

1634 Event - Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov

1631 Event - Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua

1630 Event - Spain and England sign peace treaty

1630 Death - Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies

1629 Event - Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark

1629 Event - Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited

1629 Event - Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck

1629 Event - England and France sign Peace of Susa

1626 Event - Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg

1626 Event - Huguenot rebels and French sign Peace of La Rochelle

1622 Event - Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

1621 Event - Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin

1620 Event - Prince Bethlen Gabor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II

1618 Event - Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino

1617 Event - Peace of Pavia (Spain and Savoye)

1617 Event - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa

1613 Event - Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark and Sweden

1598 Event - France and Spain signs Peace of Vervins

1585 Birthday - Johan Georg I, elector of Saxon, 1611-56, Peace of Prague

1580 Event - French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty

1579 Event - Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian

1577 Event - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots

1576 Event - Peace of Beaulieu and Paix de Monsieur

1573 Event - Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots

1573 Event - Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty

1570 Event - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin

1570 Event - Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots

1568 Event - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace

1564 Event - England and France sign Peace of Troyes

1563 Event - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots

1550 Event - France and England sign Peace of Boulogne

1546 Event - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland

1544 Event - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy

1544 Event - Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I

1544 Event - Charles and Francois I sign Peace of Crepy

1543 Event - England and Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich

1540 Event - Venice/Turkey signs peace

1538 Event - Peace talks between Karel and King Francois I

1538 Event - King Ferdinand of Austria and King Janos Zapolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein

1533 Event - Ferdinand of Austria and Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty

1532 Event - Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg

1529 Event - "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V and King French I

1529 Event - Zurich and catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel

1516 Event - Treaty of Freiburg French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty

1493 Event - King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis

1492 Event - Peace of Etaples (Henry VII and Charles VIII)

1490 Death - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39

1489 Event - Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I and Flemings

1482 Event - Peace of Atrecht

1466 Event - 2nd Peace of Thorn

1465 Event - Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik

1465 Event - French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout

1454 Event - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi

1436 Event - German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten

1414 Event - Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs

1387 Event - Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace

1385 Event - Peace of Doornik: Gent and Louis van Thoughts

1370 Event - Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV

1357 Event - Peace of Aat

1357 Event - Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty

1354 Event - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty

1316 Event - Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark and Luikse towns

1313 Event - Peace of Angleur

1305 Event - French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge

1229 Event - Queen Blanche of Castilie and earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace

1217 Event - French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty

1200 Event - Peace of Goulet

1183 Event - Peace of Konstanz

1177 Event - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III

860 Event - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II

413 Death - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57













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