- — Africa:
Self-determination referendum
In a week-long vote, 98.83% of southern Sudanese choose independence on a turnout of about 99%.
Era: Peace, Referendum and a New State
Sources: Referendum in Southern Sudan · United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), History of South Sudan · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Independence of South Sudan
At midnight on 9 July 2011 South Sudan becomes an independent state, the world's newest widely recognised nation, recognised the same day by the United States and others.
Era: Peace, Referendum and a New State
Sources: U.S. Relations With South Sudan · U.S. Department of State, History of South Sudan · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Admission to the United Nations
South Sudan is admitted as the 193rd member state of the United Nations, and soon after joins the African Union.
Era: Peace, Referendum and a New State
Sources: History of South Sudan · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
South Sudan secedes
After a referendum, South Sudan becomes independent, taking most of the former Sudan's oil with it.
Era: Darfur, Secession and the War of the Generals
Sources: Sudan · Wikipedia, Referendum in Southern Sudan / Independence of South Sudan · United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
- — Africa:
Jasmine Revolution ousts Ben Ali
Ben Ali flees the country; the uprising sparks the wider Arab Spring and a Tunisian democratic transition.
Era: The Republic & the Jasmine Revolution
Sources: Jasmine Revolution · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jasmine Revolution · Wikipedia
- — Asia:
UN recognition as non-member observer state
The UN General Assembly, by resolution 67/19, recognised the State of Palestine as a non-member observer state by 138 votes to 9 with 41 abstentions.
Era: Occupation, Dispossession, and the Present
Sources: General Assembly Resolution 67/19: Status of Palestine in the United Nations · United Nations (Security Council Report archive), United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 · Wikipedia
- — Oceania:
First independence referendum
In the first Nouméa Accord referendum, voters chose to remain part of France by about 56.7% to 43.3%, with the independence vote concentrated among the Kanak.
Era: Three Referendums and an Unsettled Future
Sources: New Caledonia — The United Nations and Decolonization · United Nations, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Independence in the 2010s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged independence — declarations, recognitions and transfers of sovereignty, narrowed to the 2010s — 7 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 2011 to 2018. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 7
- Nations
- 5
- Earliest
- 2011
- Latest
- 2018
- Africa
- 5
- Asia
- 1
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.