| 1937 | Campaign for World Government started in Chicago |
| 1938 | Federal Union formed in the United Kingdom, advocating both European and World Federations |
| 1939 | Publication of Union Now by Clarence Streit, calling for a federation of the Atlantic democracies |
| 1940 | The United Nations formed |
| 1945 | Emery Reves’ An Anatomy of Peace published. Reves argues that the causes of war are the absence of world law and world government |
| 1947 | United World Federalist formed in merger of Americans United for World Government and World Federalists, USA Montreux Meeting: The World Movement for World Federal Government established and Usborne Plan, a campaign for a Constituent Assembly of Peoples, drafted |
| 1948 | Robert Hutchins and G.A. Borgese’s Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution released |
| 1949 | Founding of the International Register of World Citizens |
| 1950 | Constituent Assembly of Peoples and Consultative Congress in Geneva |
| 1951 | Founding of the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government |
| 1955 | NEPTUNO Plan calling for United Nations sovereignty over the oceans |
| 1956 | Name of the Movement changed to World Association of World Federalists (WAWF) |
| 1957 | Congress in the Hague received by Queen Juliana Federal Union publishes Proposals for a Permanent United Nations Force |
| 1958 | World Peace through World Law published, written by Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn |
| 1961 | McCloy-Zorin Agreement reached between the United States and the Soviet Union, a joint agreement on recommended principles general and complete disarmament with verification by UN inspectors |
| 1962 | NGO round table in New York organized by WAWF discusses disarmament, decolonization, aid to under-developed countries, and structure of the UN Secretariat U Thant speech at Uppsala, Sweden calls for world government |
| 1963 | Pope John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris Encyclical released, endorsing a world authority to deal with global problems |
| 1967 | World Peace through World Economy manifesto released, authored by Finn Laursen and other young federalists with the assistance of economist Jan Tinbergen |
| 1969 | Peacemakers Academy established with General Rhkye as President. Later becomes the International Peace Academy |
| 1970s | Law of the Sea negotiation. World Federalists rally public support for the Law of the Sea treaty. Treaty adopted after a decade of negotiations |
| 1972 | World Federalists launch the Planetary Citizenship Campaign |
| 1978 | Parliamentarians for World Order established |
| 1983 | Institute for Global Policy Studies formed as an affiliated body of the Movement “to carry out research and educational projects of relevance for world order reform” |
| 1984 | Six-nation Declaration for Arms Reduction published Draft treaty establishing the European Union, written by Italian Federalist Altiero Spinelli, passes in the European Parliament |
| 1987 | Name of the Movement changed to World Association for World Federation |
| 1988 | Third Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament. World Federalists across the globe lobby their governments on positive steps towards a global security system, with special emphasis on monitoring and verification |
| 1989 | UN Declares 1990-1999 the Decade of International Law The first Global Structures Convocation “Structures for Peace” gathers hundreds of peace activists and other in Washington, DC Delegation of World Federalists present their plan for United Nations security forces to UN Under-Secretary General for Special Political Affairs Marrack Goulding |
| 1991 | Name of the Movement changed to World Federalist Movement |
| 1992 | “Earth Summit” or the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, gathering the largest number of NGOs together in history Second Global Structures convocation, organized by the World Federalist Association addresses issues of environment and development. Over 1,400 people attend |
| 1994 | The UN General Assembly adopts the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a permanent ban on nuclear testing sought by World Federalists and many other peace activists for over fifty years World Federalists around the world hold a vigil on the UN financial crisis |
| 1995 | WFM convenes the first meeting of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC). WFM Executive Director William R. Pace serves as Convenor. |
| 1997 | Earth Summit II. WFM Co-sponsors an NGO/parliamentary plenary held panel to the Summit plenary at the UN |
| 1998 | International Criminal Court treaty conference held in Rome, Italy. The movement is the Convenor for the broad-based coalition of citizen’s group advocating the creation of a permanent International Criminal Court |
| 1999 | The Hague Appeal for Peace conference. WFM helps organize the global citizens peace conference which will be the first of a series of intergovernmental, General Assembly, and Red Cross conferences which together comprise the Third Hague Peace Conference |
| 2001 | The Organization of African Unity changes its name to the African Union 53 African states are members of the new intergovernmental organization |
| 2002 | The Rome Statute on the International Criminal court enters into force with 60 signatory countries ratifying the treaty |
| 2005 | The Millenium +5 Review Summit held at the Un headquarters in New York. The reform agenda proposed in the Secretary General's report In Larger Freedom is the largest in UN history |
