- — North America:
Dominican independence from Haiti
The Trinitarios rise in Santo Domingo, expel the Haitian garrison, and proclaim the Dominican Republic, the date still marked as national independence day.
Era: Haitian Rule and Dominican Independence
Sources: History of the Dominican Republic · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Juan Pablo Duarte · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
The Republic of Liberia is proclaimed
Delegates issued the Liberian Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Republic of Liberia under a U.S.-modelled constitution, making it the first modern republic in Africa.
Era: The republic and the True Whig order
Sources: Liberian Declaration of Independence · Wikipedia, Liberia Proclaims Its Independence · EBSCO Research Starters, Liberian independence proclaimed, 26 July 1847 · HISTORY (A&E Television Networks)
- — North America:
Costa Rica declares itself sovereign
A decade after leaving the federation, the republic formally declares independence and notifies Washington on 5 September.
Era: Independence and a Coffee Republic
Sources: A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition: Costa Rica · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
Independence in the 1840s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged independence — declarations, recognitions and transfers of sovereignty, narrowed to the 1840s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1844 to 1848. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1844
- Latest
- 1848
- North America
- 2
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.