- — North America:
Commonwealth established
Muñoz Marín proclaims the Constitution of the Commonwealth (Estado Libre Asociado), giving Puerto Rico self-government within U.S. sovereignty.
Era: The Commonwealth and the Status Question
Sources: Puerto Rico: The Commonwealth · Encyclopædia Britannica, Guide to Law Online: Puerto Rico — Constitution · Library of Congress
- — Africa:
Republic of Egypt proclaimed
The monarchy is formally abolished and Egypt is declared a republic, with Muhammad Naguib as its first president.
Era: The Modern Republic
Sources: Egyptian revolution of 1952 · Wikipedia
- — Europe:
Fifth Republic founded
De Gaulle's new constitution creates the strong presidency that governs France today.
Era: The Republics & the Modern Nation
Sources: France — The Fifth Republic · Encyclopædia Britannica
Formation in the 1950s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 1950s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1952 to 1958. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1952
- Latest
- 1958
- Africa
- 1
- Europe
- 1
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.