Also shown are the churches in full communion with the Anglican Communion: the Nordic Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion ( Green ) and the Old Catholic Church | Old Catholic churches of the Utrecht Union ( Red ).

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

Roman Catholics recognize the validity of the apostolic successions of the bishops, and therefore the rest of the clergy, of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, and the Old Catholic Church ( Union of Utrecht only ).

* 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.

These churches are not in communion with the Holy See of Rome, but their Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches is in full communion with the Anglican Communion and a member of the World Council of Churches.

Later Catholics who disagreed with the doctrine of Papal Infallibility as made official by the First Vatican Council ( 1870 ) had no bishop and so joined with Utrecht to form the Union of Utrecht.

The churches of Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Switzerland created the Union of Utrecht after Vatican I ( 1871 ) over the Dogma of Papal Infallibility.

The American affiliate of the Union of Utrecht until recently was the Polish National Catholic Church which ceased to belong to the Union in opposition to the ordination of women by other member churches.

Later the Dutch were united more formally with many of these groups under the name " Utrecht Union of Churches ".

Bishop Mathew later declared his autonomy from the Union of Utrecht, finding it too " protestant oriented ".

In the area of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Joseph René Vilatte began working with Catholics of Belgian ancestry and with the knowledge and blessing of the Union of Utrecht and under the full jurisdiction of the local Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac, WI — See C. B.

* Union of Utrecht, treaty signed in 1579, regarded as the foundation of the Dutch Republic

* Union of Utrecht ( Old Catholic ), a federation of Old Catholic Churches

** The Northern Netherlands ( Union of Utrecht ) proclaim their independence from Spain in the Act of Abjuration.

* January 23 – The Union of Utrecht unites the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the United Provinces.

The schism resulted in the Union of Atrecht and the Union of Utrecht.

Utrecht is also the see of the archbishop of the Old Catholic church, titular head of the Union of Utrecht ( Old Catholic ), and the location of the offices of the main Protestant church.

In 1579 the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule.

The Union of Utrecht is seen as the beginning of the Dutch Republic.

In 1579 a number of the northern provinces of the Netherlands signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they promised to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army.

The Union of Utrecht is regarded as the foundation of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, which was not recognized by the Spanish Empire until the Twelve Years ' Truce in 1609.

Agriculture accounted for only 20 % of net material product and 10 % of employment before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

More than 50 % of its trade is with the rest of the European Union, especially Greece and the United Kingdom, while the Middle East receives 20 % of exports.

In 1962, the Soviets had only 20 ICBMs capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States from inside the Soviet Union.

In the U. K. and Ireland milk chocolate must contain a minimum of 20 % total dry cocoa solids ; in the rest of the European Union the minimum is 25 %.

On 20 October the Finnish Labour Union proclaimed the need to establish Worker's Guards in the country.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

Among the first were the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, initiated in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and the future International Telegraph Union, which was founded by the signing of the International Telegraph Convention by 20 countries in May 1865.

After World War II, the Soviet Union installed socialist regimes modelled on those it had installed in 1919 – 20 in the old Tsarist empire in areas its forces occupied in Eastern Europe.

Most of the Line Islands including Christmas Island, the Phoenix and even the Union ( Tokelau ) islands ( until 1925 ) were incorporated piecemeal into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands over the next 20 years.

Relations between the two countries were established on 20 December 1991 shortly after Kyrgyzstan became independent from the Soviet Union.

On 20 September 2003, Latvia voted to join the European Union in a referendum.

On 20 September 2003, in a nationwide referendum, the Latvians voted to join the European Union and Latvia's EU membership took effect on 1 May 2004.

On the night of 20 – 21 August 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary — invaded the ČSSR.

In the 1920s and 1930s, almost 20, 000 White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai.

She was sentenced to 20 years, but was eventually released after Stalin's death in 1953 and in 1974 left the Soviet Union.

Estonian independence was regained on 20 August 1991, in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

However, on July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ).

The bomb was hidden in a box marked " candles " and placed aboard a barge containing Union ammunition ( 20, 000 – 30, 000 artillery shells and 75, 000 small arms rounds ) moored at City Point, Virginia, on the James River.

UEN was formed on 20 July 1999, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe.

* September 20 – Petrozavodsk phenomenon was observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.

* July 20 – Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union ( the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt ).