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This is a timeline of Commonwealth of Nations history.

1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1920s

Year	Date	Event
1926	25 October	The Balfour Declaration 1926 establishes the principle of the separate and equal status of the dominions within the British Empire, "freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth".
1927	12 April	The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 separates the title of the British monarch, creating separate thrones for each of the dominions.

1930s

Year	Date	Event
1930	16 August	The first British Empire Games, the forerunners of the Commonwealth Games, open in Hamilton, Canada.
1931	11 December	The Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises the Balfour Declaration 1926, with the Parliament of the United Kingdom renouncing legislative power over the dominions. It is adopted by Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, and the Union of South Africa. Australia and New Zealand decline to adopt it.
1932	21 July	The British Empire Economic Conference is convened.
1934	16 February	The self-government of the Dominion of Newfoundland is suspended, replaced by the Commission of Government. Newfoundland ceases to be in the Commonwealth.
1934	4 August	The second British Empire Games open in London, the United Kingdom.
1936	20 January	King George V dies, being succeeded by Edward VIII.
	10 December	King Edward VIII writes a note of abdication.
	11 December	The United Kingdom passes His Majesty\'s Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 (which, at the request of those countries\' Parliaments, equally applies to Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa), effecting Edward VIII\'s abdication and succession by George VI. Canada passes the Succession to the Throne Act to the same effect.
	11 December	The Constitution (Amendment No. 27) Act of the Irish Free State comes into effect, removing reference to the King in the Constitution.
	12 December	The Irish Free State passes the Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936, resurrecting the office of king and recognising George VI as Edward VIII\'s successor, one day after the rest of the Commonwealth.
1937	29 December	A new Irish constitution is promulgated, transforming the Irish Free State into \'Ireland\', creating the position of President, and calling into question who the Irish Head of State was.
1938	5 February	The third British Empire Games open in Sydney, Australia.
1939	1 September	Nazi Germany invades Poland, precipitating an ultimatum from the United Kingdom, which was ignored by Germany, leading inexorably to the Second World War.
	2 September	Irish Taoiseach Éamon de Valera announces his intention to remain neutral in the impending war, regardless of British policy. The government declares the Emergency.
	3 September	The United Kingdom declares war upon Nazi Germany, beginning the British Empire and Commonwealth\'s involvement in the six-year conflict.
	3 September	Australia legally joins the Commonwealth, although this is only effected by the retroactive commencement of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 three years later.
	4 September	South Africa\'s United Party refuses to accept Prime Minister Barry Hertzog\'s declaration of neutrality in the war, and vote to replace him as party leader with Jan Smuts.
	6 September	South Africa declares war upon Nazi Germany, becoming the first dominion to do so independently of the United Kingdom.
	9 September	Canada declares war upon Nazi Germany.

1940s

Year	Date	Event
1942	9 October	Australia passes the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, adopting the Statute of Westminster 1931, but back-dating it to 3 September 1939, when the United Kingdom (and therefore Australia) declared war upon Nazi Germany. Australia becomes a member of the Commonwealth.
1944	1 May	The first Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1945	4 April	A Commonwealth Statesmen\'s Meeting convenes in London.
1946	23 April	The second Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1947	14 August	Pakistan (including modern Bangladesh) joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	15 August	India joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	25 November	New Zealand passes the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and becomes a member of the Commonwealth.
1948	4 February	Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	16 June	Three European plantation managers are killed in Perak, sparking the Malayan Emergency, leading to deployment of Commonwealth soldiers to Malaya.
	11 October	The third Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1949	31 March	Newfoundland, a dominion until 1934, joins Canada as a province.
	18 April	Éire leaves the Commonwealth upon becoming a republic, after the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 comes into effect.
	22 April	The fourth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London. The agenda is dominated by the impending independence of India and its future within the Commonwealth.
	28 April	The Commonwealth Heads of Government issue the London Declaration. It allows India (and, thenceafter, all other members) to remain in the Commonwealth without having the British monarch as Head of State, creates the position of Head of the Commonwealth, and changes the name of the organisation to the \'Commonwealth of Nations\'.

1950s

Year	Date	Event
1950	26 January	India becomes a republic, being the first non-Commonwealth Realm member of the Commonwealth.
1950	4 February	The fourth British Empire Games open in Auckland, New Zealand. These would be the last under that name.
1951	4 January	The fifth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1952	6 February	George VI dies, being succeeded as monarch of the Commonwealth Realms and Head of the Commonwealth by Elizabeth II.
1952	20 October	Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, declares a state of emergency, recognising the severity of the Mau Mau Uprising.
1953	3 June	The sixth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1954	30 July	The British Empire Games are renamed the \'British Empire and Commonwealth Games\', with the opening of the 1954 Games in Vancouver, Canada.
1955	26 January	The seventh Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1956	27 June	The eighth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
1957	6 March	Ghana, previously the Gold Coast, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom, becoming the first majority-ruled African member.
	26 June	The ninth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	31 August	The Federation of Malaya joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1958	3 January	The Federation of the West Indies is formed from the British West Indies as a self-governing colony.
1958	30 July	The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games open in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.

1960s

Year	Date	Event
1960	3 February	British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan issues his \'Wind of Change\' speech to the Parliament of South Africa.
	3 May	The tenth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	1 October	Nigeria joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1961	8 March	The eleventh Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	27 April	Sierra Leone joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	31 May	South Africa becomes a republic, withdrawing from the Commonwealth.
	16 August	Cyprus joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	9 December	Tanganyika, now part of Tanzania, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1962	31 May	The Federation of the West Indies collapses. Its constituent states revert to being colonies of the United Kingdom, and preparations begin to grant them separate independence within the Commonwealth.
	6 August	Jamaica joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	31 August	Trinidad and Tobago joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	10 September	The twelfth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	9 October	Uganda joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	22 November	The 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games open in Perth, Australia.
1963	10 December	Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1963	12 December	Kenya joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1964	26 April	Two Commonwealth members, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania, which joins the Commonwealth.
	6 July	Malawi, previously Nyasaland, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	8 July	The thirteenth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	21 September	Malta joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	24 October	Zambia, previously Northern Rhodesia, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
1965	18 February	The Gambia joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	17 June	The fourteenth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	6 August	Singapore joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by Malaysia.
1966	10 January	The fifteenth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria. It was the first Conference held outside London.
	26 May	Guyana, previously British Guiana, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	4 August	The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games open in Kingston, Jamaica. It was the first time the Games were held outside the so-called \'White Commonwealth\', and the last time the Games included the British Empire in their name.
	6 September	The sixteenth Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.
	30 September	Botswana joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	4 October	Lesotho, formerly Basutoland, joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.
	30 November	Barbados joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the United Kingdom.

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