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    The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, later...
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    The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but not...
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    The Signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to...
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  • Thumbnail for Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence
    The physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence spans from its original drafting in 1776 into the discovery of historical documents...
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    placed in the United States Capitol rotunda in 1826. The painting is sometimes incorrectly described as depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
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  • Thumbnail for Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
    The Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a memorial depicting the signatures of the 56 signatories to the United States Declaration...
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  • Thumbnail for Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence
    The 27 grievances is a section from the United States Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress's Committee of Five drafted the document...
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  • A declaration of independence, declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is...
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  • The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was...
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    was to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial...
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  • Philadelphia, voted for the independence of the United Colonies by passing the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776. The Declaration of Independence, mainly written...
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  • 1776 (disambiguation) (category Lists of ambiguous numbers)
    based on the events leading to the writing and signing of the United States Declaration of Independence 1776 (film), a 1972 film adaptation of the above...
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    The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Акт проголошення незалежності України, romanized: Akt proholoshennia nezalezhnosti Ukrainy)...
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  • Thumbnail for Founding Fathers of the United States
    framework of government for the new nation. America's Founding Fathers include those who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation...
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  • Thumbnail for Texas Declaration of Independence
    The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted...
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  • Thumbnail for Liberian Declaration of Independence
    The Liberian Declaration of Independence is a document adopted by the Liberian Constitutional Convention on 26 July 1847, to announce that the Commonwealth...
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    Syng inkstand (category United States Declaration of Independence)
    The Syng inkstand is a silver inkstand used during the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the United States Constitution...
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    Convention. The principal author of the Declaration was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who modeled it upon the United States Declaration of Independence. She was...
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  • Thumbnail for Philippine Declaration of Independence
    The Philippine Declaration of Independence (Filipino: Pagpapahayag ng Kasarinlan ng Pilipinas; Spanish: Declaración de Independencia de Filipinas) was...
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  • Thumbnail for Independence Day (United States)
    Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which...
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    Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution...
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  • Thumbnail for Catalan declaration of independence
    The Catalan declaration of independence (Catalan: Declaració d'independència de Catalunya; Spanish: Declaración de Independencia de Cataluña) was a resolution...
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  • Thumbnail for German declaration of war against the United States
    after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United...
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  • celebrated in the United States as the official beginning of the nation, with the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies from the British Empire...
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  • Thumbnail for Somaliland Declaration of Independence
    The Somaliland Declaration of Independence was made on 18 May 1991 by Somali sultans from the Isaaq, Dhulbahante, Issa, Gadabursi, Warsangali clans, as...
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  • number of later documents, including the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United States Bill of Rights (1789). The Declaration was...
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  • Thumbnail for Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
    preceded the United States Declaration of Independence by more than a year. Professional historians have maintained that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence...
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  • with the UK. Prominent examples of a unilateral declaration of independence other than Rhodesia's UDI in 1965 include that of the United States in 1776...
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  • Thumbnail for List of states and territories of the United States
    13 states became sovereign in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between...
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  • Thumbnail for Declaration of war by the United States
    considered a "declaration of war" nor does the Constitution itself use this term. In the courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...
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