Sovereignty Timeline of Events

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...

Timeline of Events

1776

9.9.1776

The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.

1927

5.20.1927

Treaty of Jedda: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1955

5.5.1955

West Germany gains full sovereignty.

1997

6.30.1997

The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.