- — North America:
Albizu Campos leads the Nationalists
Pedro Albizu Campos becomes president of the Nationalist Party, intensifying the campaign for outright independence.
Era: Under the United States: Citizenship and a New Order
Sources: Pedro Albizu Campos · Encyclopædia Britannica
- — North America:
Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster granted Canada legislative independence from the British Parliament, a landmark in its evolution toward full sovereignty.
Era: The World Wars and growing autonomy
Sources: Statute of Westminster, 1931 · The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canada · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
Independence and entry into the League of Nations
The British mandate ends and the Kingdom of Iraq is admitted to the League of Nations as an independent state — the first League mandate anywhere to achieve independence.
Era: Ottoman Rule, the British Mandate and the Kingdom
Sources: Iraq — Independence (1932–39) · Encyclopædia Britannica, A Guide to the History of Recognition: Iraq · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
Independence in the 1930s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged independence — declarations, recognitions and transfers of sovereignty, narrowed to the 1930s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1930 to 1932. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1930
- Latest
- 1932
- North America
- 2
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.