* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

The post-war German Army ( Reichsheer ) was permitted a large proportion of cavalry ( 18 regiments or 16. 4 % of total manpower ) under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

On 4 January 1960, the Treaty on European Free Trade Association was initialed in the Golden Hall of the Prince's Palace of Stockholm.

But in the end, the committee again voted 7 – 4 on 23 February 1918 ; the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March and ratified on 15 March 1918.

However, the League was unable to provide any practical measures ; on 4 October, it turned the case over to the Nine Power Treaty Conference.

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has committed acts calculated to deprive of its object and purpose the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has acted in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

The 4 advisory opinions issued by the Court were in the Polish Postal Service in Danzig Question, the Expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch Question, the Treaty of Lausanne Question and the German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia Question.

Finally, by the Treaty of Azay-le-Rideau ( 4 July 1189 ), Henry was forced to renew his own homage, to confirm the cession of Issoudun, with Graçay also, to Philip, and to renounce his claim to suzerainty over Auvergne.

* August 4 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.

* June 4 – Treaty of Trianon: Peace is restored between the Allied Powers and Hungary.

* November 4 – The Treaty of Tripoli ( between the United States and Tripoli ) is signed at Tripoli ( see also 1797 ).

* September 4 – Thirty Years ' War: the Treaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and Pomerania, forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.

* 1259 – December 4 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe ( including Normandy ) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.

* December 4 – Treaty of Brussels: Peace is declared between France and the Empire.

By Article 4 of the secret Annex to the Treaty, Bessarabia fell within the Soviet interest zone.

* September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas ( also known as Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo ) is signed between the Catholic monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and the King of Portugal on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession.

* December 4 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe ( including Normandy ) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.

This was accomplished by the Treaty of Tordesillas ( June 7, 1494 ) which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI in two bulls issued on May 4, 1493.

He was born about 1815-16, signed together with his cousin, Mistāwasis in 1876 the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, where he agreed that his group were settled into a reserve near the present-day Prince Albert, died 4 December 1896 at the age of 81 years )

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

* Kahkewistahaw, Chief of the Rabbit Skin Cree ( Wāpošwayānak ) and Saulteaux, signed in 15 September 1874 the Treaty 4, his tribal group was hunting in the area around Wood Mountain and the Cypress Hills and went back to the Qu ' Appelle Valley once a year to get their payments and gifts until a reserve was established in 1881 )

Signed on August 12, 1980, the Montevideo Treaty is an international legal framework that establishes and governs the Latin American Integration Association.

On August 19, 1991, a day before the New Union Treaty was to be signed devolving power to the republics, a group calling itself the " State Emergency Committee " seized power in Moscow declaring that Gorbachev was ill and therefore relieved of his position as president.

The fighting concluded in August 1919 and Britain virtually dictated the terms of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, a temporary armistice that provided, on one somewhat ambiguous interpretation, for Afghan self-determination in foreign affairs.

The outcome was the Treaty of Nonsuch of August 1585, in which Elizabeth promised military support to the Dutch.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

During the ensuing conflict, the war-weary British relinquished their control over Afghan foreign affairs by signing the Treaty of Rawalpindi in August 1919.

In no small measure through the diplomatic efforts of Venizelos, Greece secured Western Thrace in the Treaty of Neuilly in November 1919 and Eastern Thrace and a zone around Smyrna in western Anatolia ( already under Greek administration since May 1919 ) in the Treaty of Sèvres of August 1920.

In August 1898, Hay was named by President McKinley as Secretary of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1898, which ended the Spanish – American War.

Because of the coup attempted by Moscow hardliners against the Gorbachev government in August 1991, the Union Treaty never was signed.

The city's defense, led by then Lieutenant-Colonel August von Gneisenau, held out until the war was ended by the Treaty of Tilsit.

Lithuania's suspension of two strongly ethnic Polish district councils on charges of blocking reform or disloyalty during the August 1991 coup had cooled relations with Poland, but bilateral cooperation markedly increased with the holding of elections in those districts and the signing of a bilateral Friendship Treaty in 1994.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

( see August coup of 1991 ) The coup leaders had attempted to overthrow Gorbachev in order to halt his plan to sign a New Union Treaty that they believed would wreck the Soviet Union.

The Treaty of Verdun ( Verdun-sur-Meuse, August 843 ) was a treaty between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.

The Treaty of the Danish West Indies was signed in August 1916, with a Danish referendum held in December 1916 to confirm the decision.

* August 6 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland is formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch Republic.

* August 7 – Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.

* August 24 – North Atlantic Treaty Organization established.

* August 10 – Macedonia is divided after the Second Balkan War, according to the Treaty of Bucharest.

* August 19 – The Central Treaty Organization ( CENTO ) is established.

* August 8 – Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

* August 23 – The Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian War.

* August 26 – Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed.