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1947: Muhammad Ali Jinnah's 11 August Speech on the eve of independence from Britain about the struggle for Pakistan, injustices in partition, future road map for running the country, justice, equality and religious freedom for all.
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: North Carolina establishes strong anti-British resolutions. 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: The United States proclaims its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1791: Declaration of Pillnitz: Calls on European powers to intervene if Louis XVI of France is threatened.
Various states have never declared independence throughout their formations and hence are not included in the main list on this page, including states that were formed by the unification of multiple independent states, such as the United Kingdom, United States, and Tanzania, including states that did declare independence, but whose most recent ...
By the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Kingdom of Great Britain had been at war for over a year. Relations had been deteriorating between the colonies and the mother country since 1763.
Independence re-declared from Haiti in 1844, after a 22-year occupation. Start of the Dominican War of Independence. Restoration Day: 16 August: 1863 Spanish Empire: Day of Grito del Capotillo on August 16, 1863. Independence officially restored from Spain on July 11, 1865, after victory in the Dominican Restoration War. East Timor
August 28, 2025, will mark the 62nd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 in Washington, D.C.
The days event's included speeches from the likes of John Lewis, a civil rights activist who currently serves as a U.S. congressman more than 50 years later, Mrs. Medgar Evers, whose husband had ...
British government recognized independence in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Vanuatu: New Hebrides: 30 July: 1980: Independence from United Kingdom and France in 1980. Vanuatu is a Commonwealth republic. Zambia: Northern Rhodesia: 24 October: 1964 Zanzibar: 10 December: 1963: Zanzibar became independent on 10 December 1963.