This is a BIG website. It might help you to use the interactive Alphabetical Index (597 links).
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I tried to find an image related to time to introduce this section & finally chose Ozymandias, the 1818 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792-1822]. It's about the vanity of monument builders & warns that monuments (and the "works" they represent) often secumb to the ravages of time. History speculates that Shelley was inspied by the imminent arrival in London of a 7.25-ton fragment removed in 1816 from the from the mortuary temple of Ramesses in Thebes (Eqypt).
As someone familiar with peace monuments, I prefer to think that Shelley was poking fun at the 6 sovereigns & 5 heads of government who gathered in Oxford in 1814 to celebrate Napoleon's first defeat. They & their institutions have long since disappeared, but -- unlike Ozymandias' "trunkless legs of stone & shattered visage" -- the two small peace monuments they planted in 1814 are still intact & stand where the sovereigns intended for them to be in the City of Oxford (England).
Listed below are links to all of the chronological pages of this web site -- separate files for recent years (1981-2017) & collective files for all earlier years. These files name & describe all peace monuments & show WHEN they were dedicated throughout history.
Theoretically, there should be the same number of peace monuments in the BY YEAR section of this website as in the BY NATION section. (Most monuments have just one location & one year of dedication.) But the number of monuments shown here BY YEAR (about 2,000) falls far short of the number of monuments in the BY NATION section (about 3,300). This is due to a number of reasons. One reason is the sheer amount of labor required to obtain the date of dedication & to insure that every monument description contains both its place & its date of dedication. But the biggest reason, I think, is the fact that many on-line monument descriptions omit the monument's date but rarely omit its location. I have estimated many years of dedication, but additional research & editing are required.
3 MULTIPLE YEAR GROUPS:
Before 1800 | 1800-1849 | 1850-1899
16 FIVE YEAR GROUPS:
1900-1904 | 1905-1909 | 1910-1914 | 1915-1919
1920-1924 | 1925-1929 | 1930-1934 | 1935-1939
1940-1944 | 1945-1949 | 1950-1954 | 1955-1959
1960-1964 | 1965-1969 | 1970-1974 | 1975-1979
38 SINGLE YEARS:
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017
FUTURE:
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 1807Abolition of Slave Trade Wm.Wilberforce Monu- ment, Hull (England)
 1814
Abdication of Napoleon Two Peace Stones Oxford (England)
1833Abolition of Slavery Buxton Memorial Foun- tain, London (England)
 1863Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Memorial Washington, DC (USA)
 1863Intl.Cte.of the Red Cross Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum,Geneva(Switzerland)
1872Alabama Arbitration, Alabama Room, City Hall,Geneva(Switzerland)
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 1889"Lay Down Your Arms!" by Bertha von Suttner Bust in Peace Palace(Neth.)
 1899Permanent Court of Arbi- tration, Peace Palace The Hague (Netherlands)
 1901 First Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize Museum Oslo (Norway)
1902First Anti-war Museum Opened by Jan Bloch Lucerne (Switzerland)
 1906Gandhi's Satyagraha Satyagraha House Johannesburg(S.Af.)
1915Fellowship of Reconciliation (UK/USA) |
  1919 Women's Intl. League for Peace & Freedom, Hull House, IL (USA)
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Treaty of Versailles Hall of Mirrors Versailles (France)
1920League of Nations Palais des Nations Geneva (Switzerland)
1921War Resisters' Interna- tional, Anti-War Statue Berlin (Germany)
 1928-1933,1982Anti-Kriegs-Museum Anti-War Museum Berlin (Germany)
 1930
Gandhi's Salt March Statue of Gandhi Dandi (India)
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 1932First Intl. Peace Park WatertonLakes/Glacier Man./N.Dak.(Canada/USA)
1935Monuments Protection Nicholas Roerich Museum New York City (USA)
1941"Four Freedoms" of Franklin D. Roosevelt FourFreedomsPark,NYC
 1945Liberation of Auschwitz Memorial & Museum Auschwitz (Poland)
 1945United Nations Charter War Memorial Building San Francisco (USA)
 1945Surrender of Japan Aboard USS Missouri Pearl Harbor (USA)
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1948 Marshall Plan Statue of Gen. Marshall Lexington, VA (USA)
1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights Paris (France)
1952UN Headquarters Secretariat Building New York, NY (USA)
1955Peace Poles & World Peace Prayer by MasahisaGoi (Japan)
1958"Phoenix of Hiroshima" protests A-bomb tests MokelumneRiver,CA(USA)
1963 "I have a dream" speech by MartinLutherKing,Jr. Washington,DC(USA)
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1969Bed-Ins by John Lennon & Yoki Ono (Netherlands/Canada)
 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Broken Chain Sculpture Berlin (Germany)
1989 German Reunification "Reconciation" Berlin (Germany)
1992UN Peacekeeping "Reconcilation" Ottawa (Canada)
2002
Rome Statute of the ICC Intl. Criminal Court The Hague (Netherlands)
  2005Bansky Satire on Israel's Separation Wall Bethlehem (West Bank)
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Invitation
If you find these web pages interesting, you are cordially invited to help create & maintain them.
Almost anyone could submit information about a peace monument (or peacemaker) known to YOU.
A STUDENT in need of a research project or a RETIREE in search of an interesting avocation could take on one or more parts of this website. No one has all of the skills (research, photography, travel, database management, writing, fund-raising, social media & website creation -- among others) needed to make this website achieve its full potential. But YOU could contibute what you do best, and others could contribute what they do best.
Together, we could make this website BLOOM -- and help save the world from war & violence. Is this too big an ambition? I don't think so. Everyone has to do what he or she can. That's the only way we can make progress toward our goal of a world without violence & injustice, i.e. toward PEACE.
Eventually -- possibly in just a few months or years -- the time & attention of the guy who started "Peace Monuments Around the World" will fade, and his creation will EITHER disappear OR live on in the hands of one or more successors. Which shall it be?
If any of this interests you (even a small part), please contact Ted Lollis in any of the ways shown on the CONTACT page. Start a low-key dialogue. No obligation. Don't delay! Do so TODAY!
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