* U. S. Agent Harold H. Koh during Kosovo Oral Hearings, ICJ President Hisashi Owada, 1 – 11 December 2009 and Agent Koh's Statement of December 8, 2009, at pp. 22 – 39 and Overview of International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence and USA-Russia Clash in the ICJ over Kosovo's Independence of December 10, 2009 and December 9, 2009 and UN World Court Ends Public Hearings of December 11, 2009 and ICJ Kosovo Advisory Opinion Rules Kosovo's Independence Legal of July 22, 2010 and Legal Adviser Koh briefs on ICJ Kosovo Opinion of July 22, 2010 and Kosovo Did Not Violate International Law and ASIL Insight on Kosovo Advisory Opinion of August 17, 2010 and ICJ Kosovo Independence Ruling Watched Around the World of August 25, 2010

* " Kosovo's Ceasefire Crumbles As Serb Military Retaliates ", Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1999

On 21 February 2008, following Kosovo's declaration of independence, Koštunica made an emotional speech in Belgrade, which included the following:

On February 17, 2008 Kosovo's Parliament declared independence, as the Republic of Kosovo, with partial recognition of that declaration.

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo's Parliament declared independence, to mixed international reactions.

There are 38 municipalities in Kosovo, although because of the continuing dispute over Kosovo's political status, Serbia does not recognise the legality of those created since Kosovo's independence in February 2008.

The party also won 17 seats in the Kosovska Mitrovica-based Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija consisting of Kosovan Serb municipalities who defied Kosovo's declaration of independence.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

The Independence Day celebration will be properly observed with a big military and civic parade from West Warwick to the Greene Homestead in Anthony ; ;

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Central African Republic from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.

* Independence Day of India, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Gabon from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the proclamation of Indonesia's independence from Japan in 1945.

* Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaysia from the United Kingdom in 1957.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from United Kingdom in 1980.

* Independence Day ( Conch Republic, Key West, Florida )

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burkina Faso from France in 1960.

Since 1975, Niger has celebrated Arbor Day as part of its Independence Day: 3 August.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.

* Independence of Sri Lanka: February 4

* Independence Day in Saint Lucia: February 22

* Independence Day in Estonia: February 24

* Dominican Republic Independence: February 27

On 24 February 1918, the Independence Manifesto was proclaimed in Tallinn, followed by Imperial German occupation and a war of independence with Russia.

At the end of Estonian War of Independence following World War I, a peace treaty between the Bolsheviks and Estonia was signed on 2 February 1920 in Tartu.

The Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuanian independence from any affiliation to any other nation, was issued in the city on 16 February 1918.

February 16: The Act of Independence of Lithuania

February 23: Estonian Declaration of Independence

* February 16 – The Council of Lithuania adopts the Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuania's independence from the Russian Empire.

* February 28 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

* February 26 – Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1746 )

* February 3 – Greece is liberated from the Ottoman forces as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.

* February 15 – John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1794 )

* February 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1794 )

Also there, on February 21, 1859, together with 151 republicans he signed a manifesto against the alliance between Piedmont and the King of France which resulted in the Second War of Italian Independence and the conquest of Lombardy.

* February 10 – before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian revolutions, the Estonian Declaration of Independence was issued in February 1918.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

Charles Lee ( February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782 ) was a British soldier who served as a General of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

During the American War of Independence, the British were defeated for a second time, in this instance by a combination of French and Spanish forces, which regained the island after a long siege of St. Philip's Castle in Port Mahon on 5 February 1782.

Today, tamales are often eaten during festivities, such as Christmas, the Day of the Dead, Las Posadas, La Candelaria Day ( February 2 ) and Mexican Independence Day.

The flag was made official on 18 October 1817 by a decree, of which only indirect references to the absence of a copy thereof, which was officially presented during the Pledge of Independence ceremony on 12 February 1818, a ceremony in which the bearer was Tomás Guido.

Some of the major events include the Cochise Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering in February, the Festival of the Southwest in the spring, Independence Day celebration, the Southwest Wings Festival in August for bird watching enthusiasts, and Arizona's longest-running holiday parade in December.