Hague Conventions

The Hague Conventions, based on conferences in 1899 and 1907, produced the first comprehensive international agreements on the conduct of war. They form the basis for the subsequent Geneva Conventions.

• Hague Conference of 1899
  • Hague I - Pacific Settlement of International Disputes : 29 July 1899
  • Hague II - Laws and Customs of War on Land : 29 July 1899
  • Hague III - Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of Principles of Geneva Convention of 1864 : July 29,1899
  • Hague IV - Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons : July 29, 1899
    • Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons; July 29, 1899
    • Declaration II - on the Use of Projectiles the Object of Which is the Diffusion of Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases; July 29, 1899
    • Declaration III - on the Use of Bullets Which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body; July 29, 1899
  • Final Act of the International Peace Conference; July 29, 1899
• Hague Conference of 1907
  • Hague I - Pacific Settlement of International Disputes : 18 October 1907
  • Hague II - Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts : October 18, 1907
  • Hague III - Opening of Hostilities : 18 October 1907
  • Hague IV - Laws and Customs of War on Land : 18 October 1907
  • Hague V - Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land : 18 October 1907
  • Hague VI - Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities : 18 October 1907
  • Hague VII - Conversion of Merchant Ships into War Ships : 18 October 1907
  • Hague VIII - Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines : 18 October 1907
  • Hague IX - Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War : 18 October 1907
  • Hague X - Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention : 18 October 1907
  • Hague XI - Restrictions With Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War : 18 October 1907
  • Hague XIII -Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War : 18 Octob