Treaty of the Danish West Indies

Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies
Signed4 August 1916 (1916-08-04)
LocationNew York
Signatories
Citations39 Stat. 1706; TS 629; 7 Bevans 56
LanguagesEnglish, Danish
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1917 money transfer after the Treaty of the Danish West Indies
$25,000,000 receipt for the Treaty of the Danish West Indies
31 March 1917, after 251 years of Danish colonial rule, Dannebrog is lowered for the last time at the Governor's mansion at Saint Croix

The Treaty of the Danish West Indies, officially the Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies, was a 1916 treaty transferring sovereignty of the Virgin Islands in the Danish West Indies from Denmark to the United States in exchange for a sum of US$25,000,000 in gold ($700 million in 2024). It is one of the most recent permanent expansions of United States territory.[note 1]

  1. ^ "Proclamation 5564—United States Relations With the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands". The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 1 September 2019.


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