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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
Independence Day: 2 October: 1958 France Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day: 24 September: 1973 Portugal Guyana: Independence Day: 26 May: 1966 United Kingdom Haiti: Independence Day: 1 January: 1804 France Spain: Haitian Declaration of Independence. Honduras: Independence Day: 15 September: 1821 Spanish Empire: Act of Independence of Central America.
The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games open in Kingston, Jamaica. It was the first time the Games were held outside the so-called 'White Commonwealth', and the last time the Games included the British Empire in their name. 6 September The 16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in London. [2]
Her rise to power was seen as the symbolic end of the time in which the British economy had become the "sick man" of western Europe. [212] Inflation also fell during this period and trade union power was reduced. Miners' strike rally in London, 1984. However the miners' strike of 1984–1985 prefigured the end of most of the UK's coal mining.
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]