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18 May – 29 July 1899

First Hague Convention

15 June – 18 October 1907

Second Hague Convention

28 July 1914

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

4 August 1914

Australia, Britain and Commonwealth nations enter the war

28 October 1916

Australian conscription referendum

20 December 1917

Australian conscription referendum

8 January 1918

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen-Point speech

11 November 1918

Armistice signed by Germany

28 June 1919

Treaty of Versailles signed

10 January 1920

Treaty of Versailles enforced

 

The League was born

1 December 1925

Locarno Pact signed

1 February 1932

Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments

22 May 1936

Australia declares trade war on Japan

25 June 1936

Japanese Boycott on Australian wool, wheat and flour

4 July 1936

Final League Assembly meeting

1 January 1937

Tentative agreement between Australia and Japan

16-19 September 1937

Australian Peace Congress

17 July 1936

Spanish Civil War commences

1 April 1939

Spanish Civil War finishes

1 September 1939

German invasion of Poland

2 September 1939

British & French joint ultimatum on Germany

3 September 1939

Britain & France declare war on Germany

8 May 1945

Germany surrenders

26 June 1945

United Nations Charter signed

2 September 1945

Japan formally surrenders

24 October 1945

UN officially came into existence

8 April 1946

Final League Assembly meeting

20 April 1946

League ceased to exist