Second Hague Peace Conference
June 15, 1907
Forty-four nations met at The Hague to lay down rules of war: treatment of prisoners, neutral shipping, arbitration of disputes. The conventions would be flouted within a decade across every front of the Great War. Still, they established a baseline of legal expectations about conduct between states that outlived the failure.
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Also in 1907 (2 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.