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In the mid-to-late 19th century, a devastating civil war started, which took the lives of many Nauru. This war was ended when Germany annexed the island in 1888, and negotiations ended the fighting. In the 1900s, phosphate mining started, and the Germans built some modern facilities on the island.
The Nauruan Civil War was fought from 1878 to 1888, between forces loyal to incumbent King Aweida of Nauru and those seeking to depose him in favour of a rival claimant. The war was preceded by the introduction of firearms to the island and its inhabitants, Nauruans, as a whole. For the majority of the war, the loyalists and the rebels found ...
After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, and was bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. After the war ended, the country entered into United Nations trusteeship. Nauru gained its independence ...
Nauru's independence enjoyed bipartisan support in Australia, [9] although Senate backbencher Magnus Cormack was skeptical that Nauru would succeed as an independent country, predicting that it would become "the greatest slum in the oceans of the world" when phosphate reserves ran out. [10] The act consists of four sections. [11]
Nauru became a sovereign, independent republic on 31 January 1968, following the passage of the Nauru Independence Act 1967 by the Parliament of Australia and the end of its status as a United Nations Trust Territory. Nauru has established diplomatic relations with a number of nations, including most of its Pacific neighbors with which it ...
Gained independence as a republic outside the Commonwealth as Burma. Renamed Myanmar by the military dictatorship in 1989, but still officially known by the United Kingdom government as Burma. Nauru: 31 January: 1968: Co-trustee with Australia and New Zealand; independence effected through Australian legislation (Nauru Independence Act 1967 ...
George succeeded in expanding Georgia's borders temporarily to their former extent. [7] 1407-1502 Turkoman invasions of Georgia: Kingdom of Georgia Shirvanshah Safavid Empire (1502) Qara Qoyunlu (1407-1468) Aq Qoyunlu (1468-1502) Victory End of invasions against Georgia and consolidation of Safavids in Persia; 1463-1493 Georgian civil war of ...
South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia during the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War on 29 May 1992, with its Constitution referring to the "Republic of South Ossetia". [7] [8] [9] Abkhazia declared its independence after its war with Georgia in 1992–1993. [10] Its Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1994. [11] [12]