This list of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups. Border agreement between the Eannatum of Lagash and Umma in Mesopotamia, inscribed on a stone block, setting a prescribed boundary between their two states. [1]

A treaty is a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law (primarily states and international organizations). This is a list of treaties, organized chronologically by the years that they were signed.

Before the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the sovereign of the United Kingdom and the leaders of various North American colonies negotiated treaties that affected the territory of what would later become the United States. These are treaties that the United States has made with other sovereign international states.

lists multilateral treaties and other international agreements to which the United States is a party, arranged by subject. The depositary is the authoritative source for a current list of parties and information on other matters

This article contains a list of treaties by number of parties to the treaty. A "party" to a treaty is a state or other entity that ratifies, accedes to, approves, or succeeds to the treaty. [a] In general, multilateral treaties are open to ratification by any state.