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The simple transfer of sovereignty from the defeated Japanese authorities to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government that ruled Mainland China was accomplished in a single day, 25 October 1945. The transfer of sovereignty was, however, much more complex than an official ceremonial task
The brewing tensions finally erupted in the 2.28 Incident, which lasted from February 27 until mid-March 1947.
Following the failed August 1991 putsch, Russia did not declare independence from the USSR, and Russia Day (the name of the holiday since 2002) is celebrated each year to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR on June 12, 1990.
On June 12, 1990, the President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), Boris Yeltsin, signed a declaration of the RSFSR's Congress of People's Deputies that held the constitution and laws of the RSFSR took priority over the legislation of the USSR.
25 October: Declaration on state sovereignty by Kazakhstan
10 December: Law on renaming the Kazakh SSR to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1991 (March 31st) 89.7 percent of eligible electors - including non-Georgians (most Abkhazians and South Ossetians boycotted the vote) vote in a national referendum for independence.
As a result of the 1991 referendum, which endorsed independence by 98.9 percent of vote...
1991 (April 9th) Independence of Georgia is declared.
1991 (7 September) Referendum in Macedonia leads to vote of 74 percent in favour of independence.
On 9 September 1991, the Government of Tajikistan declared independence. The communist era in the history of Tajikistan came to an end.
Amid the crisis of central authority in the U.S.S.R. in the early 1990s, the Belorussian S.S.R. declared sovereignty (July 27, 1990) and independence (August 25, 1991).
On October 26, 1991, Turkmenistan held a referendum on independence. Over 97 percent of eligible voters turned out to answer "Yes" or "No" to two questions, the first dealing with the republic's independence, the second seeking approval of President Saparmurad Niyazov's political and economic program. Over 94 percent of participants voted for independence; almost as high a percentage of voters voiced backing for Niyazov. On October 27, an extraordinary session of Turkmenistan's Supreme Soviet declared independence.
The first stage in the unfolding conflict involved the emergence and radicalization of the Chechen national movement in the late 1980s, the election of Dudayev to the presidency, and the adoption of the law on state sovereignty of November 1, 1991
On May 15, 1955 the Austrian State Treaty was signed among the Allied occupying forces and re-established a free, sovereign, and democratic Austria by July 27, 1955. As a result of this treaty, the Allies left Austrian territory on October 25, 1955.
The first stage in the unfolding conflict involved the emergence and radicalization of the Chechen national movement in the late 1980s, the election of Dudayev to the presidency, and the adoption of the law on state sovereignty of November 1, 1991
August 31, 1991 - The Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 27, 1991.
Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union on December 16, 1991.
