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Peace - Notable Historical Events

MaxentiusNov 11, 308

Charles IAug 29, 1640

Louis XIVNov 7, 1659

Benjamin FranklinSep 11, 1773

John AdamsSep 27, 1779

George WashingtonDec 26, 1799

NapoleonNov 20, 1815

Jefferson DavisJan 28, 1865

Andrew CarnegieMay 11, 1904

Theodore RooseveltDec 10, 1906

William Howard TaftJun 17, 1915

Henry FordDec 4, 1915

Benito MussoliniAug 2, 1928

Jane AddamsDec 10, 1931

Franklin RooseveltJul 3, 1938

Winston ChurchillMay 31, 1940

HitlerJul 22, 1940

Mahatma GandhiJan 2, 1947

Ralph BuncheSep 27, 1950

Harry TrumanSep 4, 1951

George MarshallOct 30, 1953

John XXIIIJun 29, 1959

JFKOct 14, 1960

Fidel CastroApr 30, 1961

Nelson MandelaJul 17, 1964

Martin Luther KingOct 14, 1964

Martin LutherDec 10, 1964

Jim MorrisonDec 9, 1967

Yoko OnoMay 31, 1969

Henry KissingerOct 26, 1972

Andrei SakharovOct 9, 1975

Menachem BeginOct 26, 1978

Mother TeresaOct 17, 1979

Paul McCartneyOct 31, 1983

Elie WieselOct 14, 1986

Mikhail GorbachevOct 15, 1990

Aung San Suu KyiOct 14, 1991

Yasser ArafatOct 23, 1998

George ClooneyJan 18, 2008

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Peace - Historical Events
Date Event
308-11-11

The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.

836-07-04

Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples

860-08-01

Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II

1129-02-18

Jerusalem re-taken by Christians in peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil

1177-08-01

Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III

1183-06-25

Peace of Konstanz

1200-05-22

Peace of Goulet

1217-09-12

French prince Louis & English King Henry III sign peace treaty

1229-04-12

Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace

1305-06-23

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

1313-02-15

Peace of Angleur

1316-06-18

Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns

1354-12-07

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

1357-01-04

Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty

1357-06-03

Peace of Aat

1370-05-24

Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV

1385-12-18

Peace of Tournai (Dutch - Doornik) signed between the Burgundian Duke Philip II and the rebellious city of Ghent

1387-10-26

Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace

1414-09-04

Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless & Armagnacs

1436-07-05

German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten

1454-04-09

Milan and Venice sign peace of Lodi

1465-10-05

French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout

1465-12-22

Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik

1466-10-19

The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany

1482-12-23

Peace of Atrecht

1489-10-30

Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings

1492-11-09

Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)

1493-05-23

King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis

1516-11-29

Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty

1529-06-24

Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel

1529-08-03

"Peace of the Ladies" (Treaty of Cambrai) made between Holy Roman Empire and the French, negotiated by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria

1532-07-23

Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg

1533-06-22

Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty

1538-02-24

Treaty of Nagyvarad/Peace of Grosswardein signed between Ferdinand I of Austria and John Zápolya of Hungary.

1538-07-15

Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I

1540-10-02

Venice/Turkey signs peace

1543-07-01

England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich

1544-09-18

Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I

1546-06-07

England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland

1550-03-24

France & England sign Peace of Boulogne

1563-03-19

Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots

1564-04-11

England & France sign Peace of Troyes

1568-02-17

Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace

1570-08-08

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

1570-12-13

Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin

1573-03-07

Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty

1573-07-06

Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots

1576-04-27

Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur

1577-08-17

Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots

1579-05-17

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

1580-11-26

French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty

1598-05-02

France & Spain sign Peace of Vervins

1613-01-20

Peace of Knarodends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden

1617-03-09

Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa

1617-10-09

Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)

1618-12-11

Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino

1620-02-04

Prince Bethlen Gabor of Hungary signs peace with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II

1621-10-09

Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin

1622-01-07

Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

1626-02-06

Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle

1626-12-20

Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Prince of Transylvania Gabor Bethlen sign Peace of Pressburg (Bratislava)

1629-04-14

England & France sign Peace of Susa

1629-05-22

Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck

1629-06-28

Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited

1629-09-26

Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark

1630-11-05

Spain & England sign peace treaty

1631-06-19

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

1634-06-14

Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov

1635-05-30

The Peace of Prague signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony (representing Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire). It effectively ended the civil war aspect of the Thirty Years' War

1640-08-29

English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland

1644-03-31

Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara

1644-12-04

1st European peace congress opens in Munster

1645-08-13

Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro

1645-08-30

Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))

1648-01-30

Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years War

1648-11-26

Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia

1649-03-11

The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.

1654-04-15

England & Netherlands sign peace treaty

1656-09-15

England & France sign peace treaty

1658-03-08

Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark

1659-11-07

Peace of Pyreneeen: French King Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV

1659-11-17

Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.

1660-05-03

Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva

1660-06-06

Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty

1661-06-21

Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty

1662-09-14

Netherlands & England sign peace treaty

1664-08-10

Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár

1666-04-18

Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster

1667-02-09

Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty

1667-07-31

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

1668-02-07

Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"

1668-05-02

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle/1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

1672-10-18

Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz

1673-06-06

France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty

1673-06-16

Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg

1674-02-19

Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)

1674-04-22

Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty

1674-05-11

Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty

1676-10-27

Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw

1677-05-29

Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.

1678-08-10

Netherlands & France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen

1678-09-29

France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty

1679-02-05

German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France

1696-07-29

Louis XIV. King of France, & Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg

1697-09-20

Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)

1697-10-30

Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War

1700-07-13

Russian-Turkish peace

1700-08-08

Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty

1701-08-02

Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk

1711-05-01

Archduke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar

1713-04-11

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

1713-04-12

Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom

1713-07-27

Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty

1714-03-06

Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg

1714-06-26

Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement

1718-08-21

Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty

1719-11-20

Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm

1720-02-01

Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty

1720-02-11

Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)

1720-07-03

Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty

1721-08-30

Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War

1735-10-03

France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord

1738-11-18

France & Austria sign peace

1739-04-21

Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord

1739-09-18

Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1739-09-23

Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade

1742-07-28

Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty

1743-08-17

Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty

1744-06-06

France & Prussia sign peace treaty

1745-04-02

Austria & Bavaria sign peace

1762-05-05

Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty, Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War

1762-05-22

Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty

1773-09-11

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

1779-09-27

John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1784-05-11

Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty

1784-05-20

Britain & Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

1788-04-15

Britain, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty

1790-08-14

Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela

1792-01-09

Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy

1795-07-27

Spain & France sign peace treaty

1795-09-05

USA and Algiers sign peace treaty

1796-05-15

France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

1797-10-17

Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France

1799-12-26

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

1801-02-09

France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville

1801-06-06

Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal

1802-03-25

France, Netherlands, Spain & Great Britain sign Peace of Amiens

1803-05-16

Peace of Amiens ends

1805-06-04

Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute

1805-12-26

France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg

1807-07-07

France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit

1807-12-22

Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France

1809-09-17

Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

1814-08-08

Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium

1815-11-20

2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies after 2nd defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1815-11-20

Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" same day as Treaty of Paris

1826-06-20

Siam and Britain sign trade/peace treaty

1828-02-22

Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai

1828-08-27

Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talks

1829-09-14

Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war

1829-09-24

Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

1831-08-12

Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty

1839-06-17

In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result

1856-03-30

Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1856-04-29

Peace between Britain & Russia

1865-01-28

Confederate President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

1865-02-03

Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse

1865-10-14

Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado

1866-08-17

Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty

1871-05-10

Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war

1878-02-10

Peace of Zanjón

1878-03-03

Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)

1881-03-23

Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war

1888-03-02

The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1896-10-26

Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty

1898-08-12

Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1899-02-06

Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1899-02-10

US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam

1899-05-18

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

1900-03-11

British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury rejects peace overtures from the Boer leader Paul Kruger (on 5 March) as demanding too-favourable terms

1900-10-31

AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace

1901-02-26

British general Kitchener confers with Boer general Louis Botha about peace conditions, which break down over the question of amnesty for some Boers

1901-09-07

Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China

1901-12-10

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

1902-05-19

Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria

1902-12-31

Boers & British army sign peace treaty

1903-01-09

Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace

1904-05-11

Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace

1905-08-05

First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York

1905-09-05

The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator

1906-12-10

Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1907-06-15

The 2nd Hague Peace Conference meets in an attempt to stop the arms race; Germany resists, but conference does make important rules around the rights of neutral powers

1911-12-10

Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace

1913-01-06

Attempting to end hostilities in the Balkans, the London Peace Conference breaks down because Turkey refuses to cede Adrianpole, the Aegean island, and Crete

1913-08-28

Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague

1913-09-21

Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople

1913-09-29

The Treaty of Constantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria restores peace; the Turks recover Adrianople and Maritza River line

1914-03-14

Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty

1914-09-04

France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace

1914-11-16

Pope Benedict XV calls for peace

1915-06-17

The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations

1915-06-26

Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace

1915-12-04

Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'

1915-12-22

Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati

1916-05-27

President Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations

1918-01-05

British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace

1918-01-08

Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after the Great War

1918-12-04

Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office

1919-01-18

WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

1919-05-06

Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa

1919-07-08

Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference

1919-07-19

Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.

1919-11-27

Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria

1919-12-10

Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson

1920-02-02

Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)

1920-02-02

Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence

1920-02-24

Peace treaty gives Estonia independence

1920-05-05

German-Latvian peace treaty signed

1920-06-04

Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary

1920-07-12

Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic

1920-08-01

Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia

1920-08-09

Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect

1920-08-11

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

1920-11-20

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson

1920-12-03

Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty

1921-01-03

Turkey makes peace with Armenia

1921-03-18

2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged

1921-08-05

Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty

1921-08-25

US signs peace treaty with Germany

1922-12-15

IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1922-12-23

Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano

1923-07-24

Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

1924-08-16

Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed

1925-10-16

Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)

1925-11-12

US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts

1926-04-26

Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty

1926-08-10

Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed

1926-08-17

Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed

1926-09-16

Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed

1926-09-19

80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague

1926-11-27

Italian & Albania sign peace treaty

1927-06-01

Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens

1927-08-07

Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated

1928-08-02

Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1931-01-26

Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty

1931-03-26

Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty

1931-04-22

Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty

1931-12-10

Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1932-05-05

Japan & China sign a peace treaty

1932-06-13

Great Britain & France sign peace treaty

1934-06-09

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

1936-11-24

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

1937-04-22

NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike

1938-07-03

President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.

1939-09-25

Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I

1939-12-24

World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

1940-02-29

Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations

1940-05-31

Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany

1940-07-22

Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks

1940-09-14

Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)

1941-06-18

Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany

1942-01-02

WWII: 28 nations at war with Axis powers, pledge no separate peace deals

1944-07-01

Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"

1944-11-09

Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize

1945-08-06

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

1945-11-12

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)

1946-05-01

The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.

1947-01-02

Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

1947-02-10

WW II peace treaties signed

1950-02-14

USSR & China sign peace treaty

1950-09-22

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

1950-09-27

Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

1950-12-10

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

1951-05-01

600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany

1951-09-04

US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

1951-09-08

Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)

1951-10-25

Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1952-03-20

Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan by US Senate

1952-04-28

WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect

1952-06-12

USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid

1953-10-12

US & Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)

1953-10-30

Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1953-12-08

Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in New York.

1954-08-11

Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh

1954-12-10

Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1955-05-07

USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain

1956-05-09

War Reparations and Peace Settlement between Philippines and Japan was finally signed at Malacañang Palace under Magsaysay administration.

1957-10-12

Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

1958-04-04

The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.

1958-10-23

De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"

1958-12-19

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

1959-06-29

Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"

1960-08-14

UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo

1960-10-14

Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK

1961-01-30

JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps

1961-03-01

President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp

1961-04-30

Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize

1961-05-28

Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1963-04-11

John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty

1963-07-20

17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC

1964-07-17

ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace

1964-10-14

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

1964-12-10

Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo

1966-01-10

India & Pakistan sign peace accord

1966-06-24

Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I

1967-03-28

UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1967-12-09

Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace

1968-04-03

N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1968-05-10

Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam

1969-01-18

Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1969-01-25

US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

1969-03-25

John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)

1969-05-31

John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"

1969-06-21

1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)

1969-07-04

"Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK

1969-07-22

Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

1970-10-20

American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1970-10-21

Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh

1971-10-20

West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1971-12-10

West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1972-07-02

India & Pakistan sign peace accord

1972-10-26

Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

1972-12-21

Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

1972-12-30

Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks

1973-01-08

Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris

1973-10-16

Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

1975-10-09

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1975-12-10

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

1976-08-10

A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People'

1976-08-14

10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast

1977-12-11

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group 'Peace People' (an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize

1977-12-14

Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference

1978-08-12

China & Japan sign peace treaty

1978-09-05

Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md

1978-09-06

Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace

1978-10-25

Israeli government approves "in principle", a draft compromise peace

1978-10-26

Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1978-10-27

Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

1978-11-03

USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty

1978-11-10

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

1978-12-10

In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1979-03-21

Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel

1979-03-22

Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

1979-03-26

Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt

1979-04-25

Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect

1979-08-05

Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario

1979-10-17

Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1980-10-08

USSR & Syria sign peace treaty

1980-11-18

Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)

1980-11-20

United Nations Gulf War mediator Olof Palme makes first unsuccessful peace shuttle between Tehran and Baghdad

1982-03-11

Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC

1983-05-16

Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel

1983-05-17

Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty

1983-10-05

Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize

1983-10-31

Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album

1983-12-10

Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1984-03-30

US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

1984-10-16

Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984-12-10

South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1985-07-24

Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

1985-12-28

Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement

1986-01-01

International Peace Year begins

1986-04-17

Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)

1986-08-02

Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran

1986-10-08

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

1986-10-14

Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize

1986-10-14

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism)

1986-12-10

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1987-08-07

5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala

1987-10-12

Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987-10-13

Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1988-09-29

UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

1990-01-14

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

1990-10-15

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize

1990-12-13

US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace

1991-01-01

Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak

1991-06-05

Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1991-06-23

A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa

1991-10-14

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

1991-10-30

Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain

1991-10-31

Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid

1991-11-04

Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain

1992-10-04

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.

1993-02-10

US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia

1993-08-04

Rwandian Hutus & Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha

1993-08-20

After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.

1993-09-02

Day of Peace in South Africa

1993-09-13

Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord

1993-09-13

Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.

1993-09-24

1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord

1993-10-15

Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1994-01-23

Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina

1994-02-15

US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti

1994-10-26

Jordan & Israel sign peace accord

1995-10-13

Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1995-11-06

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

1996-09-02

A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.

1997-05-12

Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1998-02-20

UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

1998-10-23

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.

1999-06-09

Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

1999-09-12

Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.

2001-08-21

NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

2001-10-23

The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.

2002-04-04

The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

2002-08-16

Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg

2002-12-17

Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.

2005-01-09

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.

2005-03-03

Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.

2005-08-19

The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

2006-10-28

Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.

2008-01-18

The United Nations announce George Clooney as a UN messenger of peace

2012-10-12

The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary

2013-03-08

North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea

2013-10-11

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

2014-10-10

Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

2015-12-25

Pope calls for peace in Holy Land, end to other conflicts

2016-02-03

Syria Peace Talks Are Halted 2 Days After Starting

2016-03-15

Putin says Russia to intensify role in Syria peace process

2016-04-23

UN Urges US and Russia to Act Quickly to Save Syria Peace Talks

2016-04-23

UN envoy calls for major Syria meeting to save truce and peace talks

2016-05-20

New Taiwan president pledges peace, urges China to drop historical baggage

2016-05-23

Peace Corps Coming to Vietnam for First Time

2016-06-03

Middle East peace talks to start in Paris

2016-08-06

Olympics-Rio kicks off Games with ode to forests, call for peace

2016-12-14

China Warns Trump Ignoring One-China Policy Could Hurt Peace

2017-02-03

White House says Israeli settlement building may not help peace

2017-08-15

Dozens rally in Guam for peace amid North Korea threats

2018-02-23

South Korea says approved visit by sanctioned North Korean to pursue peace on peninsula

2018-05-24

China tells US 'now is the time' if it wants peace with North Korea

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Peace - Notable Birthdays

Ernesto Teodoro MonetaSep 20, 1833

Alfred Bernhard NobelOct 21, 1833

Woodrow WilsonDec 28, 1856

Carlos Saavedra LamasNov 1, 1878

Linus PaulingFeb 28, 1901

Mother TeresaAug 26, 1910

Henry KissingerMay 27, 1923

Cat StevensJul 21, 1948

Peace - Birthdays
Date Event
1585-03-05

Johann Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)

1826-07-24

Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)

1828-03-18

William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)

1828-09-09

Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]

1831-06-26

Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)

1833-09-20

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy, journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918)

1833-10-21

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896)

1841-12-20

Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)

1843-05-21

Charles-Albert Gobat, Tramelan, Switzerland, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)

1843-10-26

Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)

1845-02-15

Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)

1847-01-01

Ben Greet, Victory and Peace

1856-12-28

[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, 28th (D) US President (1913-21), Nobel Peace Prize 1919

1860-11-23

Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)

1861-07-12

Anton Stepanovich Arenski, Peace One Day

1862-04-02

Nicholas Murray Butler, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1866-01-15

Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)

1870-05-24

Jan Smuts, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

1878-11-01

Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)

1879-03-14

Albert Einstein, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1879-05-03

James Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1879-08-06

Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)

1880-11-26

Walter Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1881-08-10

W. Bynner, Peace

1883-05-27

George Stillwell, In the Name of the Prince of Peace

1883-07-17

Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)

1883-12-30

Marie Gevers, Peace Over the Fields

1884-04-04

Isoroku Yamamoto, Price for Peace

1884-06-18

Édouard Daladier, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1885-10-04

Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect (Peace Palace)

1887-03-16

Violet Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1887-04-15

Violet Bonham Carter, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1887-06-13

André Francois-Poncet, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1887-10-05

René Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)

1888-02-07

Anne-Marie Ferrières, Peace Over the Fields

1888-02-29

Victor Rietti, To Live in Peace

1889-07-19

Henry Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1889-07-23

Georges Bonnet, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1889-9-08

Robert A. Taft, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1889-9-21

Leonard Plugge, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1893-04-29

Harold Urey, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1893-08-20

Giorgi Tsagareli, They Wanted Peace

1895-02-08

King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)

1896-07-02

Hubert Masarík, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1898-02-11

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

1901-02-28

Linus Pauling, Portland, Oregon, American chemist/peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962)

1901-9-01

Vandéric, Peace Over the Fields

1902-01-31

Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982)

1904-04-23

Mikhail Chikovani, War and Peace

1904-07-15

Vladimir Burmeister, War and Peace

1905-01-02

Luigi Zampa, To Live in Peace

1905-05-11

Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner

1906-04-16

Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist

1906-07-02

Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker

1907-11-23

Walter Brand, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1908-02-22

John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)

1908-07-18

Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)

1908-07-18

Peace Pilgrim,

1908-08-26

Aleksandr Degtyar, War and Peace

1908-10-26

Boris Smirnov, War and Peace

1908-10-31

Muriel Duckworth, Speaking Our Peace

1909-03-22

Georgiy Kurovskiy, War and Peace

1910-06-27

Patrick Crean, War and Peace

1910-08-26

Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Skopje Ottoman Empire, nun and Founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize 1979)

1911-07-14

J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace)

1912-01-08

Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace)

1912-01-31

Ervin Knausmyuller, War and Peace

1913-08-25

Ralph Allen, Peace River Country

1913-10-18

Yu-Lan Chen, War and Peace

1914-10-01

Michael Goodliffe, Cheshire England, actor (5th Day of Peace)

1914-11-17

Mikhail Bogdanov, War and Peace

1915-06-07

Phillips Talbot, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

1915-08-22

David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)

1915-11-09

Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp

1916-10-13

Polde Dezman, Valley of Peace

1916-11-08

Norman MacDonnell, The Peace Officer

1917-01-10

Mark Farrington, Peace for a Gunfighter

1917-04-08

Aleksandr Dikhtyar, War and Peace

1918-02-17

Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner

1918-9-27

Faith Bandler, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

1919-03-11

Kira Golovko, War and Peace

1919-03-24

Rudi Vaupotic, Valley of Peace

1919-9-12

Gennady Myasnikov, War and Peace

1920-01-21

Nikolay Trofimov, War and Peace

1920-01-23

Ivan Ribic, Valley of Peace

1920-09-25

Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)

1920-9-04

Gar Moore, To Live in Peace

1920-9-25

Sergey Bondarchuk, War and Peace

1921-04-15

David Garth, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1921-05-09

Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist

1921-05-28

Tom Uren, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

1921-06-17

James W. Michaels, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

1921-12-27

Robert Lipshutz, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

1921-9-16

France Jamnik, Valley of Peace

1922-08-30

Lionel Murphy, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

1922-09-01

Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)

1922-10-12

William Sullivan, Peace Is at Hand: 1968-1973

1922-11-14

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

1923-05-27

Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)

1923-10-18

Richard Ellison, Vietnam: Parts IX & X - Peace Is at Hand/Homefront USA

1923-12-31

Jack Starr, The Peace Killers

1924-02-16

Mikhail Khrabrov, War and Peace

1924-02-25

Peg Ridge, peace campaigner

1924-05-01

Dennis Main-Wilson, Peace and Goodwill

1924-11-30

Godfrey A. Godar, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1925-01-15

Vasiliy Solovyov, War and Peace

1925-02-17

Rodion Aleksandrov, War and Peace

1925-11-09

Alistair Horne, Right Is More Precious Than Peace

1925-12-13

Everett King, Peace for a Gunfighter

1925-9-18

Piero Palermini, To Live in Peace

1926-01-04

Yuliya Dioshi, War and Peace

1926-11-26

Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner

1926-9-16

John Knowles, A Separate Peace

1927-08-22

Irina Skobtseva, War and Peace

1928-02-12

Marion Dewar, Speaking Our Peace

1928-02-14

Jack Lucas, Price for Peace

1928-04-13

Aleksey Bakhar, War and Peace

1928-04-21

José María Font, Dialogues of Peace

1930-07-09

Don Schultz, A Separate Peace

1930-12-15

Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace)

1931-01-05

John Carlyle, Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet

1931-02-19

Meir Rosenne, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

1931-06-07

Mirella Monti, To Live in Peace

1931-06-24

Leslie Cochran, Miami, Florida, peace activist and police critic, (d. 2012)

1931-10-07

Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)

1931-11-26

Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)

1931-12-14

Anatoliy Petritskiy, War and Peace

1932-04-27

Pik Botha, Plot for Peace

1932-06-23

Rudi Kosmac, Valley of Peace

1932-07-16

Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)

1933-08-20

George Mitchell, Principles of Peace

1934-01-16

Vasiliy Lanovoy, War and Peace

1934-02-14

Merl Saunders, Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet

1934-03-17

Mario Cardoni, War and Peace

1934-04-14

Arun Gandhi, A Quest For Peace: Nonviolence Among Religions

1936-02-09

Franco Serpilli, To Live in Peace

1936-05-14

Charlie Gracie, Pipes of Peace

1936-05-20

Rufus Harley, Pipes of Peace

1936-9-26

Winnie Mandela, Plot for Peace

1937-04-03

Richard Sutphen, Destiny of Peace

1937-10-14

Viktor Murganov, War and Peace

1938-04-08

Kofi Annan, Peace One Day

1938-10-24

Odean Pope, Pipes of Peace

1939-07-02

Michael Castle, Keeping the Peace

1940-03-03

Irina Gubanova, War and Peace

1940-04-01

Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1940-05-30

David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)

1940-06-28

Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1940-07-09

Dave Frohnmayer, Oregon's War at Home and the Man Who Brought the Peace

1940-09-13

Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1941-07-04

Brian Willson, American peace activist

1942-01-24

Lyudmila Saveleva, War and Peace

1942-06-17

Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1942-06-17

Mohamed el Baradei, Nobel Peace Prize Concert

1942-06-18

Thabo Mbeki, Plot for Peace

1942-08-06

Byard Lancaster, Pipes of Peace

1942-9-28

Otto Olejár, True Stories: Peace in Our Time?

1943-01-15

Stuart Eizenstat, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

1943-04-19

Janet Lees-Price, Not Peace, But a Sword

1943-05-22

Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1944-01-27

Mairead Maguire, Rooted in Peace

1944-05-27

Chris Dodd, Honk for Peace

1944-08-15

Larry Aubrey, The Fifth Day of Peace

1944-12-19

Anastasiya Vertinskaya, War and Peace

1945-01-27

Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)

1945-03-03

Michael S. Berg, Keeping the Peace

1947-06-21

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

1947-06-22

David Landau, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

1947-08-30

Allan Rock, John & Yoko's Year of Peace

1948-01-20

Natan Sharansky, Relentless: Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

1948-02-03

Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate

1948-07-21

Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam], London, rock vocalist (Peace Train)

1949-02-18

Jess Walton, The Peace Killers

1950-10-09

Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1953-03-30

J. Stephen Peace, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

1954-01-02

Ned Lamont, Honk for Peace

1954-02-19

Francis Buchholz, Moscow Music Peace Festival

1955-05-29

Sut Jhally, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

1957-06-17

Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love), (d. 2013)

1958-12-10

Tara Sutphen, Destiny of Peace

1959-01-09

Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

1959-04-14

Mark Pillow, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1959-12-23

Teri Gibson, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding

1960-10-23

Dorota Zieciowska, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1962-01-11

Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy

1962-12-24

David Cobb, Keeping the Peace

1963-04-02

Matthew Freeman, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1963-07-31

Brian Skrudland, Peace River, NHL center (Florida Panthers)

1963-12-16

Robb Warren, Emissaries of Peace

1964-10-01

Fred Zeytoonjian, Wedding Advice: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

1964-11-30

Karen Sosnoski, Wedding Advice: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

1965-01-12

Rayson Tan, The Price of Peace

1966-04-09

Angus Mackechnie, The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace

1967-10-19

Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist

1969-02-04

Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)

1969-9-24

Tai Parquet, Keeping the Peace

1970-01-15

Ali Amadi, Peace? Off!

1970-02-18

Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)

1970-07-04

Jonathan Wallace, Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace

1970-12-24

Camilla Peace Sundvoll, Episode #2.12

1972-06-12

Chad Ford, Hold Your Peace

1972-9-07

Harper Simon, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding

1974-08-24

Kiblena Peace, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

1974-12-09

Carlos Agulló, Plot for Peace

1974-9-11

Katina Parker, Peace Process

1975-06-16

Heather Peace, 31 North 62 East

1976-06-13

Ghazi Albuliwi, Peace After Marriage

1978-03-02

Jeff Bass, Peace Out

1978-05-28

Paul Bontenbal, Peace and Quiet

1979-05-11

Nick Mastromarco, Peace of Mind

1980-03-26

Kelly McKenzie, Winning the Peace

1982-01-16

Rohan Bader, Peace TV

1982-03-10

Amir Azimi, Cambodia: Peace by Piece

1982-05-20

Tyler Brockington, Hold Your Peace

1984-06-12

Oliver Peace, Playing with Trains

1984-10-10

Soma O. Szabó, Peace? Off!

1986-10-29

Shivam Bhargava, Siddhartha: Love, Lust, Peace

1989-05-29

Carmenn Massa, Peace

1989-10-08

Robert Sciulla, Winning the Peace

1991-05-29

Saori Hayami, Short Peace

1993-02-13

Olivia Atkinson, Peace for the Wicked

1994-06-05

Christopher Theobald, Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

Peace - Notable Weddings

Yoko OnoNov 28, 1962

Peace - Weddings
Date Event
1862-09-23

Russian writer ("War and peace") Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician

1946-04-26

Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

1962-11-28

Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox

Peace - Deaths
Date Event
413

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

BC
AD
1490-06-12

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

1630-07-26

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

1656-10-08

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

1702-09-22

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

1862-09-30

Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40

1904-04-13

Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies

1906-02-25

Anton Stepanovich Arenski, Peace One Day

1906-12-07

Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)

1908-07-22

William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)

1910-11-20

Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]

1914-03-16

Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

1914-06-21

Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

1920-06-13

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

1925-02-24

Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)

1925-12-01

James Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1930-07-14

George Stillwell, In the Name of the Prince of Peace

1936-05-17

Ben Greet, Victory and Peace

1943-04-18

Isoroku Yamamoto, Price for Peace

1943-05-14

Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)

1947-12-07

Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)

1947-12-07

Nicholas Murray Butler, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1950-09-11

Jan Smuts, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

1951-04-23

Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)

1953-07-31

Robert A. Taft, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1953-09-20

Walter Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1954-04-28

Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)

1955-04-18

Albert Einstein, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1955-04-25

Giorgi Tsagareli, They Wanted Peace

1957-12-04

Anthony Ireland, Peace and Quiet

1961-01-09

Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1962-03-15

Arthur H. Compton, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy

1963-12-03

Victor Rietti, To Live in Peace

1966-12-02

Ralph Allen, Peace River Country

1968-11-16

Robert Westerby, War and Peace

1972-12-10

Mark A Van Doren, US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78

1976-12-24

Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79

1978-01-08

André Francois-Poncet, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1979-03-21

Violet Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace

1979-08-01

Vandéric, Peace Over the Fields

1979-10-05

Mark Farrington, Peace for a Gunfighter

1980-12-24

Walter Brand, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1981-07-06

Leonard Plugge, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1981-07-07

Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist

1981-07-07

Peace Pilgrim,

1981-09-29

Rudi Kosmac, Valley of Peace

1981-11-29

Aleksandr Degtyar, War and Peace

1982-02-12

Ivan Ribic, Valley of Peace

1982-11-01

King Vidor, director (War & Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment

1982-11-01

King Vidor, War and Peace

1982-12-19

Boris Smirnov, War and Peace

1983-04-13

Christmas Humphreys, The Case of Charles Peace

1985-11-03

Gar Moore, To Live in Peace

1986-02-01

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

1986-07-31

Nikolay Sibeikin, War and Peace

1986-10-21

Lionel Murphy, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

1987-01-04

Lea Seidl, War and Peace

1988-05-03

David Garth, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1988-12-09

Maria De Matteis, War and Peace

1988-12-21

Matthew Freeman, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1989-04-12

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

1989-08-06

Hubert Beuve-Méry, Munich or Peace in Our Time

1990-01-30

Dmitrij Bogolepov, Atoms for Peace

1991-03-02

Georgiy Kurovskiy, War and Peace

1991-04-24

J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies

1991-08-16

Luigi Zampa, To Live in Peace

1992-08-22

France Jamnik, Valley of Peace

1992-08-30

Anne-Marie Ferrières, Peace Over the Fields

1994-05-08

Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88

1994-10-20

Sergey Bondarchuk, War and Peace

1994-11-24

Ivo Perilli, War and Peace

1995-01-08

Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68

1995-08-17

Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90

1995-09-20

Mikhail Bogdanov, War and Peace

1995-09-28

Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77

1996-01-28

Piero Palermini, To Live in Peace

1996-03-09

Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner, dies at 42

1996-04-19

Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72

1996-09-16

Aleksandr Shelenkov, War and Peace

1997-01-20

Dennis Main-Wilson, Peace and Goodwill

2000-01-04

Ervin Knausmyuller, War and Peace

2000-04-15

Irina Gubanova, War and Peace

2001-03-10

Don Schultz, A Separate Peace

2001-11-29

John Knowles, A Separate Peace

2002-08-09

Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist

2003-05-27

John Carlyle, Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet

2003-12-13

Jack Starr, The Peace Killers

2003-12-22

Patrick Crean, War and Peace

2004-10-08

Richard Ellison, Vietnam: Parts IX & X - Peace Is at Hand/Homefront USA

2005-04-16

Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)

2005-08-31

Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)

2005-11-07

Nikolay Trofimov, War and Peace

2006-08-01

Rufus Harley, Pipes of Peace

2007-10-02

James W. Michaels, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

2007-11-02

Godfrey A. Godar, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

2008-06-05

Jack Lucas, Price for Peace

2008-09-15

Marion Dewar, Speaking Our Peace

2008-10-24

Merl Saunders, Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet

2009-08-15

Everett King, Peace for a Gunfighter

2009-08-22

Muriel Duckworth, Speaking Our Peace

2010-10-01

Phillips Talbot, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace

2010-11-06

Robert Lipshutz, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

2011-04-15

Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)

2011-09-25

Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies from ovarian cancer at 71

2012-03-01

Vasiliy Solovyov, War and Peace

2012-03-08

Leslie Cochran, American peace activist and police critic, dies from head trauma at 60

2012-05-22

Janet Lees-Price, Not Peace, But a Sword

2012-08-23

Byard Lancaster, Pipes of Peace

2013-10-11

William Sullivan, Peace Is at Hand: 1968-1973

2015-01-26

Tom Uren, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

2015-01-27

David Landau, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

2015-02-13

Faith Bandler, Or Forever Hold Your Peace

2015-03-09

Dave Frohnmayer, Oregon's War at Home and the Man Who Brought the Peace

2015-04-14

Meir Rosenne, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace


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