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A political party campaigning for English Independence was formed in February 2008, the Free England Party, it achieving some minor electoral success before disbanding in December 2009. An English Parliament within the UK was the (3.2.2) 2016 Manifesto pledge of the English Democrats. [39] An English Independence party was registered in 2016. [40]
A movement called Wir Shetland was launched in October 2015 [11] to secede from the rest of Scotland in favour of becoming either a Crown Dependency or a British Overseas Territory, as a means of achieving greater autonomy for the Shetland Isles. [12]
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.
Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona in October 2019 Scottish independence supporters in Glasgow.Scotland held an independence referendum on 18 September 2014. This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe.
The "Home Rule" movement for a Scottish Assembly was first taken up in 1853 by the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, a body close to the Conservative Party. A key element in this movement was the comparison with Ireland. The original movement broadened its political appeal and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing.
After capturing a British invasion army in 1777, the new nation formed an alliance with France (and in turn Spain aided France), equalizing the military and naval balance and putting Britain at risk of invasion from France. The British army controlled only a handful of coastal cities in the U.S. 1780–1781 was a low point for Britain.
The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal.
Political party: People’s Progressive Movement; British Virgin Islands [136] Ethnic group: people of the British Virgin Islands. Proposed: Independence or autonomy [137] for the British Virgin Islands or unification with the United States Virgin Islands