1899 - 1954
The Hague Convention
(Mostly Avalon Project Documents from the Yale Law School)

First Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 29 July 1899;
entry into force -- 4 September 1900.
• Hague I -- Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
  
• Hague II -- Laws and Customs of War on Land
• Hague III -- Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of Principles of Geneva Convention of 1864
  
• Hague IV -- Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons

• Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons
• Declaration II - on the Use of Projectiles the Object of Which is the Diffusion of Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases
• Declaration III - on the Use of Bullets Which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body

• Final Act of the International Peace Conference; July 29, 1899

Second Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 18 October 1907;
entry into force -- 26 January 1910.
• Hague Convention I -- The Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
• Hague Convention II -- The Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts
• Hague Convention III -- The Opening of Hostilities
• Hague Convention IV -- The Laws and Customs of War on Land
• Hague Convention V-- The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land
• Hague Convention VI -- The Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities
• Hague Convention VII -- The Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships
• Hague Convention VIII -- The Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines
• Hague Convention IX -- Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War
• Hague Convention X -- Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention
• Hague Convention XI -- Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War

  Hague Convention XII -- The Creation of an International Prize Court (Never Ratified)

• Hague Convention XIII -- The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War

Slavery Convention: Signed -- 25 September 1926;
Protocol signed -- 7 December 1953.
• Convention and Protocol to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery

Geneva Protocol to Hague Convention: Signed -- 17 June 1925;
Entry into force -- 8 February 1928.
• Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

The Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict -- 14 May 1954;
Entry into force -- 7 August 1956
• Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict