Separation Day (Panama)
Separation Day refers to different holidays celebrating a territory or country's separation: * Separation Day (Delaware), the 1776 separation of Delaware from Pennsylvania * Separation of Queensland, the 1859 separation of Queensland from New South Wales * Secession of Panama from Colombia The secession of Panama from Colombia was formalized on 3 November 1903, with the establishment of the Republic of Panama and the Costa Rica-Panama border, abolition of the Colombia-Costa Rica border. From the Independence of Panama from Spain i ...

Separation Day (Delaware)
Separation Day is a holiday in the state of Delaware dating back to 1776, which commemorates the Delaware Colony's independence from the United Kingdom and from Pennsylvania. The first Separation Day occurred on June 15, 1776, when representatives from the Lower Counties on the Delaware met at the New Castle Court House in New Castle, Delaware. The representatives voted to establish the State of Delaware and to declare independence from the United Kingdom. In the current day, the holiday is celebrated annually in New Castle with historical reenactments and parades, although there was a hiatus in the festivities for 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December .... References {{reflist Culture of Delaware ...
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Separation Of Queensland
The Separation of Queensland was an event in 1859 in which the land that forms the present-day state of Queensland in Australia was excised from the Colony of New South Wales and proclaimed as a separate crown colony. History European settlement of Queensland began in 1824 when Lieutenant Henry Miller, commanding a detachment of the 40th Regiment of Foot, founded a convict outpost at Redcliffe. The settlement was transferred to the north bank of the Brisbane River the following year and continued to operate as a penal establishment until 1842, when the remaining convicts were withdrawn and the district opened to free settlement. By then squatters had already established themselves on the Darling Downs, far distant from the seat of the New South Wales government in Sydney. Agitation soon commenced for the creation of a separate northern colony which could look after local interests, with the clamour being no less apparent in the fledgling township of Brisbane. In the vanguar ...
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