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| 1782 | Peace
Franklin, Benjamin |  |
| April 12th | American-British Peace talks begin when Benjamin Franklin meets Richard Oswald |
| 1782 | Treaty of Peace
Franklin, Benjamin | |
| Nov 30th | Puts his signature to the preliminary peace treaty |
| 1783 | Peace
Jay, John | |
| | With Benjamin Franklin & John Adams, concludes the American revolution |
| 1783 | Peace
Washington, George | |
| April 11th | Congress formally proclaims end to War against Britain |
| 1784 | Treaty of Peace
Washington, George | |
| Jan 14th | The US Congress ratifies the treaty of Paris |
| 1865 | Peace
Lincoln, Abraham | |
| Mar 2nd | Rejects General Lee's plea for peace talks & demands unconditional surrender |
| 1898 | Peace
McKinley, William | |
| Aug 7th | Spain accepts McKinley's peace terms |
| 1905 | Peace
Roosevelt, Theodore | |
| | Presides over the Peace negotiations |
| 1916 | Peace
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| | Offers to mediate war aims of the Allies & Central Powers, the Germans fail to answer |
| Aug 5th | Offers the good offices of the US in the interests of peace |
| Jan 8th | "a general association of nations..under specific covenants", League of Nations |
| Jan 8th | Includes redrawing of Italian frontiers according to nationalities |
| Jan 8th | Includes settlement of the Alsace-Lorraine question |
| Jan 8th | Includes the establishment of an independent Poland |
| Jan 8th | Includes the preservation of Belgian sovereignty |
| Jan 8th | Include Turkish control only of their own peoples |
| Jan 8th | Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points peace program |
| Oct 3rd | Germany requests an armistice |
| Oct 23rd | Says that military rulers & autocratic monarchs in German are an obstacle to peace |
| 1921 | Treaty of Peace
Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| Aug 25th | The US signs a peace Treaty with Germany in Berlin |
| 1942 | Peace
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| Jan 2nd | Britain, the USA, China & 22 Allies agree not to make a separate peace with Germany |
| 1951 | Treaty of Peace
Dulles, John Foster | |
| | Concludes the US peace Treaty with Japan |
| 1951 | Treaty of Peace
Truman, Harry S | |
| Sep 8th | The US & 49 other powers sign a peace treaty with Japan, Russia boycotts the session |
| 1951 | Peace
Truman, Harry S | |
| Nov 12th | Peace negotiations take place at Panmunjon |
| 1953 | Peace
Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| | Signs a truce ending the Korean War |
| 1953 | Atoms For Peace
Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| Dec 8th | President Dwight D Eisenhower envisioned the creation of this international body to control and develop the use of atomic energy, in his "Atoms for Peace" speech before the United Nations General Assembly |
| 1961 | Peace
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Jan 28th | Announces plans for a corps of volunteers to improve conditions in undeveloped nations |
| Mar 1st | Announces the Peace Corps has been created |
| Sep 22nd | Signs a law making the Peace Corps permanent |
| 1965 | Peace
Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| Dec 22nd | Announces a 36 hr cease-fire commencing Christmas eve to negotiate with North Vietnam |
| Dec 27th | Agrees to extend the cease-fire indefinitley to promote negotiations with North Vietnam |
| Feb 2nd | A Harris poll supports this & an increase in US troop levels to 500,000 |
| Feb 2nd | At a National Security Council decides to end the cease-fire |
| 1966 | Peace
McNamara, Robert | |
| June 23rd | Proposes Johnson negotiate with because a military solution is impossible |
| 1968 | Peace
Vance, Cyrus | |
| | Sent as representitive to forward proposals to cease bombing, conditions are rejected |
| Oct 11th | Preconditions to cease bombing are made informal, they are still rejected |
| 1968 | Peace
Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| Oct 31st | Announces negotiations will begin, 5 days before the Presidential Election |
| 1968 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Dec 20th | A message is sent to Hanoi indicating an interest in a peace settlement |
| Jan 25th | The first substantive peace talks in Paris |
| June 8th | Announces the withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from Vietnam |
| June 8th | Meets President Thieu on Midway Island who supports the US peace proposals |
| Aug 2nd | Meets President Ceausescu who agrees to help set up the peace talks with North Vietnam |
| 1970 | Peace
Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| | An international conference reaches a settlement |
| | Nixon & Kissinger support a cease-fire |
| Feb 20th | Begins secret talks in Paris with Le Duc Tho |
| 1970 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| April 20th | Announces the withdrawal of 60,000 troops in 1970 & 90,000 in 1971 |
| Oct 7th | Cease-fire proposals are rejected by North Vietnam |
| Oct 7th | Proposes "standstill cease-fire" on TV as part of five point peace plan for Indochina |
| Oct 7th | The standstill cease-fire is supported by McGovern, Hatfield & the press |
| Oct 8th | Says standstill ceasefire depends on "mutual withdrawal", unacceptable to the Vietcong |
| 1971 | Peace
McGovern, George | |
| | Senate defeats a bill co-sponsored by McGovern to bring all the GIs home by Dec 31 |
| 1972 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Jan 25th | The 8 point peace proposal to nth Vietnam is made public |
| Nov 12th | Announces US troop reduction to 45,000 in Vietnam |
| 1973 | Peace
Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| | Kissinger negotiates the end to the Yom Kippur War, which had begun with an attack against Israel by Egyptian and Syrian forces |
| 1973 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| | Conclusion of peace negotiations by Henry Kissinger & an end of US involvement |
| Jan 15th | Halts the US offensive in Vietnam |
| 1973 | Accords of Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Jan 23rd | Peace Accords are signed with North Vietnam |
| 1973 | Peace
Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| Jan 23rd | Hanoi & Washington impose an agreement on Saigon |
| Jan 23rd | The Paris Peace Agreement is signed |
| 1973 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Jan 23rd | Hanoi & Washington impose an agreement on Saigon |
| 1973 | Peace
Kissinger, Henry Alfred | |
| Jan 27th | Makes provision for the release of US POWs & withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam |
| Jan 27th | Provides for talks between Hanoi & Saigon which break up in April 1974 |
| Jan 27th | Makes a peace agreement with Le Duc Tho |
| 1973 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Jan 27th | Signs a cease-fire in Paris & calls it "peace with honor" |
| 1973 | Peace
Rogers, William | |
| Jan 27th | Signs the Paris Peace Agreement which allows South Vietnam its political sovereignty |
| 1973 | Peace
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Mar | The last ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam |
| 1998 | Peace
Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| May 23rd | Says of North Ireland, "Peace is no longer a dream. It is a reality" |
| | Visited by leaders of Nothern Ireland political parties |
