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A '''declaration of independence''' is an assertion of the [[independence]] of an aspiring [[Sovereign state|state]] or states. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the [[wiktionary:Territory|territory]] of another nation or failed nation, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state. Not all declarations of independence are successful and result in independence for these regions.{{Fact|date=April 2012}}
 
Such declarations are typically made without the consent of the parent state, and hence are sometimes called '''unilateral declarations of independence''' ('''UDIs'''), particularly by those who question the declarations' validity.{{Fact|date=April 2012}}
 
==List of declarations of independence==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Region!!Declaration!!Date!!Year!!Parent!!class="unsortable"|Signatories!!First recognising state
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|[[Albania]]||[[Albanian Declaration of Independence]]||November 28||1912||[[Ottoman Empire]]||||
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|[[United Provinces of South America]]<br /><small>(present day [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]] and [[Bolivia]])</small>||[[Argentine Declaration of Independence]]||July 9||1816||[[Spain]]||[[Congress of Tucumán]]|| [[Kingdom of Hawaii]]
|-
|[[Armenia]]||[[Democratic Republic of Armenia]]||May 28||1918||Russian Empire||[[Armenian Congress of Eastern Armenians]] [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]] (ARF Dashnak)|| [[Russia]]
|-
|[[Azerbaijan]]||[[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]]||May 28||1918||[[Russian Empire]]||[[Hasan bey Aghayev]], [[Fatali Khan Khoyski]], [[Nasib Yusifbeyli]], [[Jamo bey Hajinski]], Şefi bey Rustambeyli, [[Nariman bey Narimanbeyov]], [[Javad Malik-Yeganov]], [[Mustafa Mahmudov]].||[[Ottoman Empire]]
|-
|[[Azawad]]||[[Azawad Declaration of Independence]]||April 6||2012||[[Mali]]||[[National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad]]||
|-
|[[Bangladesh]]||[[Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence]]||March 26||1971||[[Pakistan]]||||[[Bhutan]]
|-
|[[Belarus]]||[[Belavezha Accords]]||December 8||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||Presidents of [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]] and Belarus||[[Turkey]]
|-
|[[Belgium]]||[[Belgian Declaration of Independence]]||October 4||1830||[[Netherlands]]||[[Provisional Government of Belgium]]||
|-
|[[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]||[[Bosnian Declaration of Independence]]||March 1||1992||[[Yugoslavia]]||||[[Bulgaria]]
|-
|[[Brazil]]||[[Brazilian declaration of independence]]||September 7||1822||[[Portugal]]||[[Pedro I of Brazil]]||[[United States]]
|-
|[[Bulgaria]]||[[Bulgarian Declaration of Independence]]||September 22||1908||[[Ottoman Empire]]||[[Ferdinand of Bulgaria]] and the [[Government of Bulgaria]]||[[Russian Empire]] (5 February 1909)
|-
|[[Carpathian Ruthenia|Republic of Carpathian Ruthenia]]||[[Carpathian Ruthenia Declaration of Independence]]||October 25||2008||[[Ukraine]]||[[Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians]]||
|-
|[[Catalonia]]||Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation||April 14||1931||[[Spain]]||Francesc Macià, Generalitat Government of Catalonia
|-
|[[Catalonia]]||Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain||October 6||1934||[[Spain]]||Lluis Companys, Generalitat Government of Catalonia
|-
|[[Central America]]||[[Central American declarations of independence]]||September 15||1821||[[Spain]]||||
|-
|[[Chile]]||[[Chilean Declaration of Independence]]||February 12||1818||[[Spain]]||[[National Congress]]||[[Portugal]]
|-
|[[Colombia]]||[[Colombian Declaration of Independence]]||July 20||1810||[[Spain]]||||
|-
|[[Croatia]]||Croatian Declaration of Independence||June 25||1991||[[Yugoslavia]]||||[[Iceland]]
|-
||[[Dominican Republic]]||Dominican Declaration of Independence||February 27||1844||[[Haiti]]||||[[United Kingdom]]
|-
||[[East Timor]]||[[East Timorese declaration of independence]]||November 28||1975||[[Portugal]]||||[[Morocco]]
|-
||[[Egypt]]||[[Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence]]||February 28||1922||[[United Kingdom]]||Unilateral grant of independence by the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]]||[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|[[Estonia]]||[[Estonian Declaration of Independence]]||February 24||1918||[[Russia]]||[[Salvation Committee]]||[[Russian SFSR]]
|-
|[[Estonia]]||[[History_of_Estonia#Regaining_independence|Estonian Reconfirmation of Independence]]||August 20||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||[[Congress of Estonia]]||[[Iceland]] (reconfirmed earlier recognition)
|-
||[[Finland]]||[[Finnish Declaration of Independence]]||December 6||1917||[[Russia]]||[[Parliament of Finland]]||[[Russian SFSR]]
|-
||[[Florida]]||[[Florida Constitution#Ordinance of secession, 1861|Florida's Constitution of 1861]]||January 10||1861||[[United States]]||[[Florida State Legislature]]||
|-
|[[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]||[[History of Georgia (country)#Georgia under the Soviet Union, 1921–1990|Georgian declaration of independence]]||April 9||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||||[[Germany]]
|-
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)]]||[[s:Georgia Declaration of Causes of Secession|Georgia's secession declaration]]||January 29||1861||[[United States]]||||
|-
|[[Greece]]||[[wikisource:Greek Declaration of Independence|Greek Declaration of Independence]]||January 1 <small>[[Julian Calendar|OS]]</small>||1822||[[Ottoman Empire]]||[[First National Assembly at Epidaurus|First National Assembly]]||[[Haiti]] <small>(1822)</small>
|-
|[[Guinea-Bissau]]||Guinea-Bissau Declaration of Independence||September 24||1973||[[Portugal]]||||
|-
||[[Haiti]]||[[Haitian Declaration of Independence]]||January 1||1804||[[France]]||[[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]]||
|-
|[[Hungary]]||[[Hungarian Declaration of Independence]]||April 14||1849||[[Austrian Empire]]||||
|-
|[[Iceland]]||Icelandic Declaration of Independence||June 17||1944||[[Denmark]]||||[[United States]]
|-
|[[Iraq]]||Iraq Declaration of Independence||October 3||1932 ||[[United Kingdom]]||||[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|[[India]]||[[Indian Independence Act 1947]]||August 15||1947||[[United Kingdom]]||||
|-
|[[Indonesia]]||[[Proclamation of Indonesian Independence]]||August 17||1945||[[Netherlands]]||[[Sukarno]] & [[Mohammad Hatta]]||[[Egypt]]
|-
|[[Ireland]]||[[Proclamation of the Irish Republic]]||April 24||1916||[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]||[[Irish Volunteers]]<br />[[Irish Citizen Army]]||
|-
|[[Irish Republic]]||[[Irish Declaration of Independence]]||January 21||1919||[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]||[[Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)|Dáil Éireann]]||[[Russian SFSR]]
|-
|[[Israel]]||[[Declaration of Independence (Israel)|Israeli Declaration of Independence]]||May 14||1948||[[United Kingdom]]||[[Vaad Leumi|Jewish People's Council]]||[[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]
|-
|[[Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus]]||[[Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence]]||February 28||1914||[[Principality of Albania]]||[[Provisional Government of Northern Epirus]]||
|-
|[[Katanga Province|Katanga]]||Katangan Declaration of Independence||||1960||[[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Congo (Léopoldville)]]||||
|-
|[[Korea]]||[[Korean Declaration of Independence]]||March 1||1919||[[Japan]]||||
|-
|[[Republic of Kosovo]]||[[Kosovo declaration of independence]]||February 17||2008||[[Serbia]]||||[[Afghanistan]]
|-
|[[Republic of Lakotah]]||[[wikisource:Republic of Lakotah declaration of independence|Republic of Lakotah declaration of independence]]||December 19||2007||[[United States of America]]||[[Lakota Freedom Delegation]]||
|-
|[[Latvia]]||[[On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia]]||May 4||1990||[[Soviet Union]]||[[Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia|Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR]]||[[Iceland]]
|-
|[[Liberia]]||[[Liberian Declaration of Independence]]||July 16||1847||[[American Colonization Society]]||Liberian Constitutional Convention||[[United Kingdom]]
|-
|[[Lithuania]]||[[Act of Independence of Lithuania]]||February 16||1918||[[Germany]], [[Russia]]||[[Council of Lithuania]]||[[Germany]]
|-
|Lithuania||[[Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania]]||March 11||1990||[[Soviet Union]]||[[Supreme Council of Lithuania]]||[[Iceland]]
|-
|[[Republic of Macedonia]]||[[History of the Republic of Macedonia#Road to Republic|Independence of the Republic of Macedonia]]||September 8||1991||[[Yugoslavia]]||||[[Bulgaria]]
|-
|[[Federation of Malaya]] <br> <small>(present day [[Malaysia]])</small>||[[Proclamation of Malayan Independence]]||August 31||1957||[[United Kingdom]]||[[Tunku Abdul Rahman]], [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]]||[[United Kingdom]]<ref name="Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957">{{sourcetext|source=Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mississippi]]||[[A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union]]||January 9||1861||[[United States]]||||
|-
|[[Mexican Empire]]</br><small>(present day [[Mexico]])</small>||[[Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire]]</br><small>(real independence)</small>||September 28||1821||[[Spain]]||<small>Supreme Provisional Governmental Board</small>||[[United Kingdom]] <small>(January 4, 1825)</small><ref>{{cite web |title=Inglaterra: primer país que reconoce la Independencia de México |url=http://www.memoriapoliticademexico.org/Efemerides/1/04011825.html |publisher=Memoria Politica de México |language= Spanish |accessdate=September 18, 2011}}</ref>
|-
|[[Moldova]]||[[Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova]]||August 27||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||[[Parliament of the Republic of Moldova]]||[[Romania]]
|-
|[[Morocco]]||Moroccan Declaration of Independence||January 11||1944||[[France]]||[[Istiqlal Party]]
|-
|[[Montenegro]]||[[Montenegro#Independence|Montenegro declaration of independence]]||June 3||2006||[[Serbia and Montenegro]]||[[Parliament of Montenegro|Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro]]||[[Iceland]]
|-
|[[Moskitia]]||[[Miskito people|Moskitia declaration of independence]]||August||2009||[[Nicaragua]]|||
|-
|[[Netherlands]]||[[Act of Abjuration]]||July 26||1581||[[Spanish Empire]]||[[Union of Utrecht]]||
|-
|[[New Zealand]]||[[Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand]]||October 28||1835||&mdash;||[[Māori people|Māori]] chiefs||[[United Kingdom]]<ref>{{Citation| last=The Lord Glenelg| author-link=Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg| date=25 May 1836| contribution=EXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Lord GLENELG to Major-General Sir RICHARD BOURKE, New South Wales| title=Documents > Declaration of Independence| place=London| publication-place=Christchurch| publisher=Waitangi Associates| url=http://www.waitangi.co.nz/declarationindependence.htm#Extract| accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref>
|-
|[[Viceroyalty of New Spain|Northern America]]<br /> <small>(present day [[Mexico]])</small>||[[Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America]]||November 6||1813||[[Spain]]||[[Congress of Anáhuac]]||
|-
|[[Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]]||Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus||November 15||1983||[[Cyprus]]||||Turkey
|-
|[[Norway]]||[[Constitution of Norway]]||May 17||1814||[[Treaty of Kiel|Union according to Treaty of Kiel]]||[[Norway in 1814|Constitutional assembly]]||
|-
|[[Pakistan]]||[[Indian Independence Act 1947]]||August 14||1947||[[United Kingdom]], [[British Raj|British India]]||[[Muslim League (Pakistan)]]||
|-
|[[Palestine]]||[[Palestinian Declaration of Independence]]||November 15||1988||[[Palestinian territories]]||[[Palestinian National Council]]||[[Arab League]]
|-
|[[Papua New Guinea]]||Independence Day||September 16||1975||[[Australia]]/[[United Kingdom]]||First Prime Minister: [[Michael Somare]]||
|-
|[[Peru]]||Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru||July 28||1821||[[Spain]]||[[José de San Martín]]||
|-
|[[Philippines]]||[[Philippine Declaration of Independence]]||June 12||1898||[[Spain]]||[[Emilio Aguinaldo]], [[Katipunan]]||[[United States]]
|-
|[[Rhodesia]]||[[Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia)|Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence]]||November 11||1965||[[United Kingdom]]||[[Ian Smith]] and the rest of the Cabinet||none
|-
|[[Romania]]||[[Romanian War of Independence|Romanian Declaration of Independence]]||May 22||1877||[[Ottoman Empire]]||[[Carol I of Romania|King Carol I]]||
|-
|[[Russia]]||[[Belavezha Accords]] (''[[de-facto]]'')<br>Officially never declared "independence", to become successor to the Soviet Union.||December 8||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||Presidents of [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]] and Belarus||
|-
|[[Kingdom of Scotland]]||[[Declaration of Arbroath]]||April 6||1320||[[Kingdom of England]]||Scottish leaders||
|-
|[[Serbia]]||[[The Proclamation|The Proclamation (Proglašenije/Проглашеније)]]||February||1809||[[Ottoman Empire]]||[[Karađorđe Petrović]] and [[Serbian revolution|Serbian MPs]]||
|-
|[[Singapore]]||[[Singapore in Malaysia#Separation|Proclamation of Singapore]]<ref>Singapore was forced out of Malaysia by the Malaysian parliament, and the proclamations were then agreed by the two governments. See the [http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_retrieve.pl?actno=REVED-INDEP Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965] (1985 Rev. Ed.) and [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/29/contents the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom].</ref>||August 9||1965||[[Malaysia]]<ref name="Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia">{{sourcetext|source=Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state}}</ref><ref name="proclamation of singapore">{{sourcetext|source=Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state/proclamation of singapore}}</ref>||[[Lee Kuan Yew]], [[Prime Minister of Singapore]]||[[United Kingdom]] (confirmed earlier recognition)<ref name="Singapore Act 1966">{{sourcetext|source=Singapore Act 1966}}</ref>
|-
|[[Slovenia]]||[[History of Slovenia#The Independence of Slovenia|Slovenian Declaration of Independence]]||June 25||1991||[[Yugoslavia]]||||[[Croatia]]
|-
|[[Somaliland]]||[[History of Somaliland#Separatism|Somaliland Declaration of Independence]]||May 18||1991||[[Somalia]]||||none
|-
|[[South Carolina]]||[[Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union]]||December 24||1860||[[United States]]||South Carolinians in Charleston||
|-
|[[Southern Cameroons]]||Southern Cameroons Declaration of Independence||December 31||1999||[[Cameroon]]||||none
|-
|[[Sri Lanka]]||Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka (Then known as "Ceylon")||February 4||1948||[[United Kingdom]]||||none
|-
|[[Republic of Texas|Texas, Republic of]]||[[Texas Declaration of Independence]]||March 2||1836||[[Mexico]]||||[[France]]
|-
|[[Texas]]||[[A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union]]||February 1||1861||[[United States]]||Texas Legislature||
|-
|[[Tibet]]||[[History of Tibet (1912–1949)#Declaration of independence|Tibet's Declaration of Independence]]||&nbsp;||1913||[[China]]||[[13th Dalai Lama]]||none
|-
|[[Turkmenistan]]||Declaration of independence||&nbsp;||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||none||[[Turkey]]
|-
|[[Ukraine]]||[[Declaration of Independence of Ukraine]]||August 24||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||[[Verkhovna Rada]]||[[Poland]]
|-
|[[United States]]||[[United States Declaration of Independence]]||July 4||1776||[[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]||[[Second Continental Congress]]||Morocco<ref name="Congressional Record">{{cite book|title=Congressional Record|publisher=United States Congress|date=20 June 2000|pages=11461|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cT1BOgQ2Ys8C&lpg=PA11461&dq=%22Whereas%20Morocco%20was%20the%20first%20country%20to%20recognize%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20United%20States%22&pg=PA11461#v=onepage&q=%22Whereas%20Morocco%20was%20the%20first%20country%20to%20recognize%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20United%20States%22&f=false|accessdate=28 April 2011}}</ref>
|-
|[[Uzbekistan]]||Declaration of Independence||August 31||1991||[[Soviet Union]]||Supreme Council of [[Uzbekistan]]||[[Turkey]]
|-
|[[Venezuela]]||[[Venezuelan Declaration of Independence]]||July 5||1811||[[Kingdom of Spain]]||Representatives of the States of Venezuela||
|-
|[[Vietnam]]||[[Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam]]||September 2||1945||[[Japan]]||[[Hồ Chí Minh]]||[[Soviet Union]]
|-
|[[Lower Canada]]||[[Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada]]||February 22||1838||[[Great Britain]]||[[Robert Nelson]]||none
|}
 
==See also==
* [[Florida and the Declaration of Independence]]
* [[List of countries by Independence Day]]
* [[List of sovereign states by date of formation]]
* [[Separatism]]
 
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
 
[[Category:Declarations of independence| ]]

Latest revision as of 02:37, 20 September 2012

This article uses content from the Wikipedia article on Declaration of independence (edition) under the terms of the CC-by-SA 3.0 license.
This article is about the type of document. For the short film, see Declaration of Independence (film).

A declaration of independence is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another nation or failed nation, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state. Not all declarations of independence are successful and result in independence for these regions.[citation needed]

Such declarations are typically made without the consent of the parent state, and hence are sometimes called unilateral declarations of independence (UDIs), particularly by those who question the declarations' validity.[citation needed]

List of declarations of independence

Region Declaration Date Year Parent Signatories First recognising state
Albania Albanian Declaration of Independence November 28 1912 Ottoman Empire
United Provinces of South America
(present day Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia)		 Argentine Declaration of Independence July 9 1816 Spain Congress of Tucumán Kingdom of Hawaii
Armenia Democratic Republic of Armenia May 28 1918 Russian Empire Armenian Congress of Eastern Armenians Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnak) Russia
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Democratic Republic May 28 1918 Russian Empire Hasan bey Aghayev, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Jamo bey Hajinski, Şefi bey Rustambeyli, Nariman bey Narimanbeyov, Javad Malik-Yeganov, Mustafa Mahmudov. Ottoman Empire
Azawad Azawad Declaration of Independence April 6 2012 Mali National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
Bangladesh Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence March 26 1971 Pakistan Bhutan
Belarus Belavezha Accords December 8 1991 Soviet Union Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Turkey
Belgium Belgian Declaration of Independence October 4 1830 Netherlands Provisional Government of Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Declaration of Independence March 1 1992 Yugoslavia Bulgaria
Brazil Brazilian declaration of independence September 7 1822 Portugal Pedro I of Brazil United States
Bulgaria Bulgarian Declaration of Independence September 22 1908 Ottoman Empire Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Government of Bulgaria Russian Empire (5 February 1909)
Republic of Carpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia Declaration of Independence October 25 2008 Ukraine Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians
Catalonia Declaration of the Catalan Republic as a state of the Iberian Federation April 14 1931 Spain Francesc Macià, Generalitat Government of Catalonia
Catalonia Declaration of the Catalan state within the Federal Republic of Spain October 6 1934 Spain Lluis Companys, Generalitat Government of Catalonia
Central America Central American declarations of independence September 15 1821 Spain
Chile Chilean Declaration of Independence February 12 1818 Spain National Congress Portugal
Colombia Colombian Declaration of Independence July 20 1810 Spain
Croatia Croatian Declaration of Independence June 25 1991 Yugoslavia Iceland
Dominican Republic Dominican Declaration of Independence February 27 1844 Haiti United Kingdom
East Timor East Timorese declaration of independence November 28 1975 Portugal Morocco
Egypt Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence February 28 1922 United Kingdom Unilateral grant of independence by the British government United Kingdom
Estonia Estonian Declaration of Independence February 24 1918 Russia Salvation Committee Russian SFSR
Estonia Estonian Reconfirmation of Independence August 20 1991 Soviet Union Congress of Estonia Iceland (reconfirmed earlier recognition)
Finland Finnish Declaration of Independence December 6 1917 Russia Parliament of Finland Russian SFSR
Florida Florida's Constitution of 1861 January 10 1861 United States Florida State Legislature
Georgia Georgian declaration of independence April 9 1991 Soviet Union Germany
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia's secession declaration January 29 1861 United States
Greece Greek Declaration of Independence January 1 OS 1822 Ottoman Empire First National Assembly Haiti (1822)
Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Declaration of Independence September 24 1973 Portugal
Haiti Haitian Declaration of Independence January 1 1804 France Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Hungary Hungarian Declaration of Independence April 14 1849 Austrian Empire
Iceland Icelandic Declaration of Independence June 17 1944 Denmark United States
Iraq Iraq Declaration of Independence October 3 1932 United Kingdom United Kingdom
India Indian Independence Act 1947 August 15 1947 United Kingdom
Indonesia Proclamation of Indonesian Independence August 17 1945 Netherlands Sukarno & Mohammad Hatta Egypt
Ireland Proclamation of the Irish Republic April 24 1916 United Kingdom Irish Volunteers
Irish Citizen Army
Irish Republic Irish Declaration of Independence January 21 1919 United Kingdom Dáil Éireann Russian SFSR
Israel Israeli Declaration of Independence May 14 1948 United Kingdom Jewish People's Council Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence February 28 1914 Principality of Albania Provisional Government of Northern Epirus
Katanga Katangan Declaration of Independence 1960 Congo (Léopoldville)
Korea Korean Declaration of Independence March 1 1919 Japan
Republic of Kosovo Kosovo declaration of independence February 17 2008 Serbia Afghanistan
Republic of Lakotah Republic of Lakotah declaration of independence December 19 2007 United States of America Lakota Freedom Delegation
Latvia On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia May 4 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR Iceland
Liberia Liberian Declaration of Independence July 16 1847 American Colonization Society Liberian Constitutional Convention United Kingdom
Lithuania Act of Independence of Lithuania February 16 1918 Germany, Russia Council of Lithuania Germany
Lithuania Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania March 11 1990 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Lithuania Iceland
Republic of Macedonia Independence of the Republic of Macedonia September 8 1991 Yugoslavia Bulgaria
Federation of Malaya
(present day Malaysia)		 Proclamation of Malayan Independence August 31 1957 United Kingdom Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia United Kingdom[1]
Mississippi A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union January 9 1861 United States
Mexican Empire
(present day Mexico)		 Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
(real independence)		 September 28 1821 Spain Supreme Provisional Governmental Board United Kingdom (January 4, 1825)[2]
Moldova Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova August 27 1991 Soviet Union Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Romania
Morocco Moroccan Declaration of Independence January 11 1944 France Istiqlal Party
Montenegro Montenegro declaration of independence June 3 2006 Serbia and Montenegro Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro Iceland
Moskitia Moskitia declaration of independence August 2009 Nicaragua
Netherlands Act of Abjuration July 26 1581 Spanish Empire Union of Utrecht
New Zealand Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand October 28 1835 — Māori chiefs United Kingdom[3]
Northern America
(present day Mexico)		 Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America November 6 1813 Spain Congress of Anáhuac
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus November 15 1983 Cyprus Turkey
Norway Constitution of Norway May 17 1814 Union according to Treaty of Kiel Constitutional assembly
Pakistan Indian Independence Act 1947 August 14 1947 United Kingdom, British India Muslim League (Pakistan)
Palestine Palestinian Declaration of Independence November 15 1988 Palestinian territories Palestinian National Council Arab League
Papua New Guinea Independence Day September 16 1975 Australia/United Kingdom First Prime Minister: Michael Somare
Peru Act of the Declaration of Independence of Peru July 28 1821 Spain José de San Martín
Philippines Philippine Declaration of Independence June 12 1898 Spain Emilio Aguinaldo, Katipunan United States
Rhodesia Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence November 11 1965 United Kingdom Ian Smith and the rest of the Cabinet none
Romania Romanian Declaration of Independence May 22 1877 Ottoman Empire King Carol I
Russia Belavezha Accords (de-facto)
Officially never declared "independence", to become successor to the Soviet Union.		 December 8 1991 Soviet Union Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Kingdom of Scotland Declaration of Arbroath April 6 1320 Kingdom of England Scottish leaders
Serbia The Proclamation (Proglašenije/Проглашеније) February 1809 Ottoman Empire Karađorđe Petrović and Serbian MPs
Singapore Proclamation of Singapore[4] August 9 1965 Malaysia[5][6] Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore United Kingdom (confirmed earlier recognition)[7]
Slovenia Slovenian Declaration of Independence June 25 1991 Yugoslavia Croatia
Somaliland Somaliland Declaration of Independence May 18 1991 Somalia none
South Carolina Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union December 24 1860 United States South Carolinians in Charleston
Southern Cameroons Southern Cameroons Declaration of Independence December 31 1999 Cameroon none
Sri Lanka Declaration of Independence of Sri Lanka (Then known as "Ceylon") February 4 1948 United Kingdom none
Texas, Republic of Texas Declaration of Independence March 2 1836 Mexico France
Texas A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union February 1 1861 United States Texas Legislature
Tibet Tibet's Declaration of Independence   1913 China 13th Dalai Lama none
Turkmenistan Declaration of independence   1991 Soviet Union none Turkey
Ukraine Declaration of Independence of Ukraine August 24 1991 Soviet Union Verkhovna Rada Poland
United States United States Declaration of Independence July 4 1776 Great Britain Second Continental Congress Morocco[8]
Uzbekistan Declaration of Independence August 31 1991 Soviet Union Supreme Council of Uzbekistan Turkey
Venezuela Venezuelan Declaration of Independence July 5 1811 Kingdom of Spain Representatives of the States of Venezuela
Vietnam Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam September 2 1945 Japan Hồ Chí Minh Soviet Union
Lower Canada Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada February 22 1838 Great Britain Robert Nelson none

See also

References

  1. ↑ Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957
  2. ↑ "Inglaterra: primer país que reconoce la Independencia de México" (in Spanish). Memoria Politica de México. http://www.memoriapoliticademexico.org/Efemerides/1/04011825.html. Retrieved September 18, 2011. 
  3. ↑ The Lord Glenelg (25 May 1836), "EXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Lord GLENELG to Major-General Sir RICHARD BOURKE, New South Wales", written at London, Documents > Declaration of Independence, Christchurch: Waitangi Associates, http://www.waitangi.co.nz/declarationindependence.htm#Extract, retrieved 22 May 2010 
  4. ↑ Singapore was forced out of Malaysia by the Malaysian parliament, and the proclamations were then agreed by the two governments. See the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 (1985 Rev. Ed.) and the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
  5. ↑ Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state
  6. ↑ Agreement relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state/proclamation of singapore
  7. ↑ Singapore Act 1966
  8. ↑ Congressional Record. United States Congress. 20 June 2000. pp. 11461. http://books.google.com/books?id=cT1BOgQ2Ys8C&lpg=PA11461&dq=%22Whereas%20Morocco%20was%20the%20first%20country%20to%20recognize%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20United%20States%22&pg=PA11461#v=onepage&q=%22Whereas%20Morocco%20was%20the%20first%20country%20to%20recognize%20the%20independence%20of%20the%20United%20States%22&f=false. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
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