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Independence Day (Grenada) Guyana: British Guiana: 26 May: 1966: Became a republic in 1970. India: British India: 15 August: 1947: Indian Independence Act 1947 [9] Iraq: 3 October: 1932: Pursuant to the British Mandate for Mesopotamia Israel: Mandatory Palestine: 14 May: 1948: End of British mandate Palestine declared independence from Israel ...
[235] [236] Throughout the 1960s, the British government took a "No independence until majority rule" policy towards decolonising the empire, leading the white minority government of Southern Rhodesia to enact the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain, resulting in a civil war that lasted until the British-mediated Lancaster ...
The United Kingdom hands Hong Kong back to China, marking the end of the British Empire. 31 August Diana, Princess of Wales, dies due to a traffic collision in Paris. 1999 6 May First elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly take place which will now be responsible for aspects of Scotland and Wales's governance. 2 December
Spanish Empire Philippines: Independence Day (Araw ng Kalayaan or Araw ng Kasarinlan) 12 June: 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence by Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine Revolution against Spain. The Philippines achieved self-rule from the United States on 4 July 1946, and celebrated 4 July as Independence Day until 1964. [69 ...
Several countries within the British Empire gained independence in stages during the earlier part of the 20th century. Much of the rest of the empire was dismantled in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War , starting with the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, and continued until the handover of Hong Kong to the ...
The British Empire Economic Conference is convened. Policy of Imperial preference adopted. 1934 16 February The self-government of the Dominion of Newfoundland is suspended, replaced by the Commission of Government. Newfoundland ceases to be in the Commonwealth. 4 August The second British Empire Games open in London, the United Kingdom. 1936 ...
The second British Empire, founded after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s, was dramatically expanded in India, other parts of Asia, and Africa. There was little friction with other colonial powers until the 1890s. British foreign policy avoided entangling alliances. [26]
In 1763, victory in the Seven Years' War led to the growth of the First British Empire. With defeat by the United States, France and Spain in the War of American Independence, Great Britain lost its 13 American colonies and rebuilt a Second British Empire based in Asia and Africa.