Growing resentment of Spanish-imposed trade restrictions led Chile to press for self-government.The young ChileChile formed its first independent government on September 18th 1810, which became Independence Day.
Contrary to popular belief, most historians say, the Declaration apparently was not signed on July 4, 1776, by the delegates of the 13 colonies gathered at what later became Independence Hall.
…which become independence and difference.
"If Scotland becomes independent and is seen as a success, it would change the nature of the debate and independence could become a serious mainstream option".
But what if Ireland had never achieved independence, had remained part of the British empire, had not become the confessional state it became after independence – would life have been better for Irish women?
Over the same period, 85 per cent of the oil produced in what was originally the whole of Sudan came from the region that became, on independence, South Sudan.
Writing about Mr. Achebe's memoir "There Was a Country" for The New York Times Book Review last year, Adam Nossiter said the book sounded a familiar theme: Mr. Achebe's "bitterness over what Nigeria became after independence from Britain in 1960".
Every once in a long while, a corporate sponsor takes a humdrum bowl game's name and makes it sublime — as when the Independence Bowl became the Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl, lovingly known as the Weed Whacker Bowl.
If that support can be hardened, so that these occasional nationalists become committed independence supporters, the union's prospects look bleak indeed.
The reform will see jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit merge into universal credit, and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will become personal independence payments (PIP).
The tax revolt had become an independence movement, based ideologically on the traditional Swiss founding legends, especially on the legend of William Tell.
