- Asia
Restoration of independence
UNTAET hands over sovereignty; Timor-Leste restores its independence with Xanana Gusmao as first president and soon joins the United Nations.
Era: The Referendum and UN Transitional Administration
Sources: A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Timor-Leste · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, UNTAET Background · United Nations Peacekeeping
- North America
Act on Greenland Self-Government in force
The Self-Government Act came into force on Greenland's National Day, recognising the people of Greenland as a people under international law with the right to self-determination and a legal path to independence.
Era: Home Rule and Self-Government
Sources: Act no. 473 of 12 June 2009: Act on Greenland Self-Government · Prime Minister's Office of Denmark (Statsministeriet), Greenland: The Unity of the Realm · Prime Minister's Office of Denmark (Statsministeriet), Greenland's National Day, the Home Rule Act (1979), and the Act on Self-Government (2009) · Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis (Law Library blog)
Formation in the 2000s
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 2000s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 2002 to 2009. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 2002
- Latest
- 2009
- Asia
- 1
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.