Independence, Partition and State Formation

Specific dated events marking a state's independence, partition, reunification or dissolution, including Ghana Independence Day, the Partition of India, the Division of Korea, German Reunification, the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that precipitated German Reunification. Belongs here: a dated event that changed a state's territorial or sovereign status. Does not belong here: an uprising or revolutionary act aimed at a ruling government rather than a change in territorial or sovereign status, grouped under Revolutions and Popular Uprisings.