To many a Frenchman -- they came 95 years ago, colonized, and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 -- the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti.

Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.

Armenia became independent from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 28 May 1918 as the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ).

It became an independent degree-granting institution in 1975 under the name École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ).

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

He helped to initiate the first independent legal political organizations and became prominent in the Soviet Union's growing political opposition.

After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.

Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in 1962: the British Railways Board.

The Counts of Barcelona became increasingly independent and expanded their territory to include all of Catalonia.

In 1998, it became an independent public organisation, wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.

It became easier to lend objects, the constitution of the Board of Trustees changed and the Natural History Museum became fully independent.

Some became independent companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange, others were acquired by larger financial groups.

With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.

After the communists took over mainland China, the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao became independent of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, and continued to use the edition issued in Shanghai in 1938 with a revision in 1959.

The reception of English law occurred long before Canada became fully independent, and reception statutes in Canada were not part of the decolonisation process.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Kampuchea forces became stronger and more independent of their Vietnamese patrons.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

The country became independent on 7 August 1960.

The Venetians gained control over most of Dalmatia by 1428, with exception of the city-state of Dubrovnik which became independent.

In 2003, Castro cracked down on independent journalists and other dissidents, which became known as the " Black Spring ".

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

In May 2010, Chile became the first South American nation to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

El Salvador became the last and longest serving Latin American nation in the Iraq War.

The concept of the nation state became increasingly important.

Language became increasingly linked to nation as opposed to culture, and was also used to promote religious and ethnic identity ( e. g. different Bible translations in the same language for Catholics and Protestants ).

Most of these nations agreed at first though some became unwilling to fulfill their end of the bargain after the end of the Scourge, wanting to have nothing to do with the bureaucratic nation run on political conflict and powered by slavery.

Madero became president in November 1911, and, intending to reconcile the nation, appointed a cabinet which included many of Porfirio Díaz's supporters.

The Compact went into effect on November 3, 1986, and the FSM became a sovereign nation in free association with the United States.

The evolution of the German Empire is somewhat in line with parallel developments in Italy which became a united nation state shortly before the German Empire.

In 1791 France became the first nation to decriminalise homosexuality, probably thanks in part to the homosexual Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès who was one of the authors of the Napoleonic code.

Germany became Europe's leading steel-producing nation in the 1890s, thanks in large part to the protection from American and British competition afforded by tariffs and cartels.

It was during Edward's reign that England became a Protestant nation as opposed to a Catholic one in schism from Rome.

After Morgan began singing, the crowd joined in, and Wales became the first nation to sing a national anthem at the start of a sporting event.

On 10 March, France became the first nation to recognise the National Transitional Council of the anti-government rebels as the sole representative of Libya.

The nation thus became one of the first to be occupied by the Axis Powers in World War II.

The concept of nationalism became increasingly important as people began to see themselves as citizens of a particular nation with a distinct national identity.

Promoting the concept of America as a Judeo-Christian nation became a political program in the 1920s, in response to the growth of anti-Semitism in America.

It consistently portrayed him as a member of the sect, and as a traitor to the Jewish nation — a view which became known as the classical concept of Josephus.

The islands formally became an independent nation on 12 July 1979 under the name of Kiribati.

Kirbati became a member of the United Nations in 1999 ; however, the nation does not maintain a resident ambassador in New York, and its vote is typically cast by New Zealand in a proxy arrangement.

Essen became a large company town, and Krupp became a de facto state within a state, with " Kruppianer " as loyal to the company and the Krupp family as to the nation and the Hohenzollern family.