What's the oldest treaty still being enforced?
score:25
Historical
Both Parties Sovereign and Remain Sovereign
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance (or Aliança Luso-Britânica), ratified at the Treaty of Windsor in 1386, between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world that is still in force – with the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373.
English aid to Portugal went back much further to the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.
"Constitutional"
Sovereign Parties create a new Sovereign entity
The Federal Charter or Letter of Alliance documents the Eternal Alliance or League of the Three Forest Cantons, the union of three cantons in what is now central Switzerland. It is dated in early August 1291.
One can argue that this document is not in force today, being superseded by many other documents defining Switzerland.
Between Sovereign and his Subjects
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta, is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
It is hard to argue that it is still in force, because
the original 1215 charter had concerned the medieval relationship between the monarch and the barons, rather than the rights of ordinary people, but the charter remained a powerful, iconic document, even after almost all of its content was repealed from the statute books in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Neither Party Sovereign
Paréage of Andorra was a feudal charter signed in Lleida on 8 September 1278. It codified a lay and ecclesiastical agreement between the Count of Foix, Roger-Bernard III, and the Bishop of Urgell, Pere d'Urtx, establishing their joint sovereignty over the territory of Andorra.
Intra-religious
The decisions of ...
The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now Iznik, Bursa province, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
... are still binding on Christendom.
Traditional
Between People
The Pact of Umar, is an apocryphal treaty between the Muslims and the Christians of either Syria, Mesopotamia or Jerusalem that later gained a canonical status in Islamic jurisprudence... attributed to 9th century Mujtahids ... the pact contains a list of rights and restrictions on non-Muslims (dhimmis).
I highly recommend a careful reading of the long list of the "rights and restrictions" (e.g., non-Muslims are not permitted any weapons and are required to wear a distinctive dress - cf.).
Note that the current enforcement of the treaty is limited by Edict of Gülhane and Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.
Between People and God
Covenant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with God (~3,500 years ago). Still fully in force - see Judaism.SE.
More post
- 📝 Have there been instances of a monarchy being reintroduced after being abolished?
- 📝 Did any carriage manufacturers make the transition to automobile building?
- 📝 When and where did socks become common?
- 📝 When did the practice of formally "declaring war" cease and why?
- 📝 Could a person get from the outer districts of Vienna into the city center via the sewage system?
- 📝 Was Latin widely spoken by European diplomats in the late 19th century?
- 📝 Did Archimedes spend time in Alexandria, Egypt?
- 📝 Were the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs ever discovered really found in Qustul in Ancient Nubia?
- 📝 In multimember constituencies of the House of Commons, how many votes did each voter have?
- 📝 Where is the Hindu law/instruction of Cremation?
- 📝 Why was the last battle of the War of 1812 fought fully half a year after the official end of the war?
- 📝 Was Senegal involved in the 1918 Russian Revolution?
- 📝 Since the inception of the United States, has the term "America" ever referred to something more than simply "the United States"?
- 📝 How and when did Jews get to the shores of the Baltic?
- 📝 Ratio of population to military size throughout European history?
- 📝 Was a direct telegraph line between America and Australia ever created?
- 📝 Is it true that Plato travelled till Ganges river?
- 📝 The most awesome army: 80 men left and 81 returned. Is it true?
- 📝 Why were ancient cities protected by walls?
- 📝 How did British aircraft fare against Japanese aircraft during the Second World War?
- 📝 Could Thomas Jefferson have ever heard Mozart's Symphony No. 40, KV. 550?
- 📝 Which texts/works were lost due to the Mongol invasions of Baghdad?
- 📝 How many troops would the White Armies have had at their peak during the Russian Civil War?
- 📝 Who are all the people in this photo of the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964?
- 📝 Why do schools in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea use the Westminster Quarters as school chime?
- 📝 Which was the official position of the Catholic Church on the Atlantic Slave Trade?
- 📝 In the 1920's, why did the German government fire working women if their husband was employed?
- 📝 Did German citizens need a visa to enter Switzerland in 1945?
- 📝 Was it impossible for the Germans to arrange a plane to East Asia for Subhas Bose?
- 📝 How many defensive lines did China build for the Second Sino-Japanese War?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What's the oldest treaty still being enforced?
- 📝 What is the oldest building in the world still in use?
- 📝 What is the oldest musical composition that can still be listened to today?
- 📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
- 📝 Why does the United States keep using "old" date representations and imperial system, while being in the minority?
- 📝 Aside from the Pyramids, what is the tallest man-made structure still standing in Europe & the Near East from ancient times?
- 📝 When did "&" stop being taught alongside the alphabet?
- 📝 Was there ever a treaty between 2 entities with significantly different translations to the detriment of one party?
- 📝 How were smallpox vaccines enforced in the US?
- 📝 What is the oldest authentic example of people complaining about modern times and the young?
- 📝 Why did Bayer lose aspirin and heroin trademarks under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles?
- 📝 Why does the King of Spain still claim defunct titles like the King of Hungary?
- 📝 Why was the Treaty of Versailles so harsh?
- 📝 What is the oldest European royal house?
- 📝 Are there historical instances of the capital of a colonising country being temporarily or permanently shifted to one of its colonies?
- 📝 What was the longest a World War II submarine stayed at sea without being resupplied at a port?
- 📝 What is the oldest known work of fiction?
- 📝 What is the oldest road tunnel in the world?
- 📝 Japan is known for being isolationist, so what cultivated its history of interventionism in the 20th century?
- 📝 Why does Japan celebrate the Gregorian New Year but China still celebrates Chinese New Year?
- 📝 What was the policy on academic research being published beyond the iron curtain?
- 📝 Are steam engines still in regular use anywhere in the world?
- 📝 What did other European powers say when Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- 📝 What is the historical reason for 18 years being the most commonly accepted age of adulthood?
- 📝 What happened to all the nuclear material being smuggled after the fall of the USSR?
- 📝 Why are most of the world's oldest buildings in Europe and not in the Fertile Crescent?
- 📝 What is the oldest recorded cat name?
- 📝 Which country traces its roots back to the oldest civilization?
- 📝 Was being in the KKK politically/socially acceptable in early 1900's American South?
- 📝 Why did the Spanish take the island of Annobon in the Treaty of El Pardo in 1778?