2014 Event The U.K. recognizes people of Cornish heritage as minorities in accordance with the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities; people of Scottish, Welsh and Irish heritage already have minority standing 2011 Event The U.K. government recognizes the National Transitional Council and expels Libyan diplomats loyal to Muammar Gaddafi 1993 Event Vatican recognizes Israel 1993 Event PLO recognizes state of Israel 1993 Event Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal 1992 Event Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia 1991 Event Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 1991 Event U.S.S.R. recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics 1991 Event U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1991 Event Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence 1988 Event PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1986 Event Spain recognizes Israel 1980 Event Polish government recognizes Solidarity 1980 Event Polish government recognizes Solidarity 1976 Event 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law 1974 Event U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty 1974 Event Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau 1974 Event Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh 1973 Event Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine 1973 Event France recognizes North Vietnam 1973 Event Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam 1973 Event Netherlands recognizes East Germany 1972 Event Belgium recognizes East Germany 1971 Event Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam 1970 Event Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation 1969 Event Cambodia recognizes East Germany 1969 Event Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam 1968 Event Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler 1961 Event NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio 1959 Event President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination 1959 Event U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government 1956 Event France recognizes Tunisia's independence 1956 Event Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China 1954 Event International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China 1950 Event East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland 1950 Event Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR 1950 Event Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China 1950 Event Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1949 Event India recognizes People's Republic of China 1949 Event Burma recognizes People's Republic of China 1949 Event Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state 1949 Event U.S.S.R. recognizes People's Republic of China 1949 Event British government recognizes Republic of Ireland 1949 Event Turkey recognizes Israel 1948 Event Canada recognizes Israel 1946 Event U.S. recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government 1946 Event France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation 1945 Event Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance 1944 Event U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle 1944 Event U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government 1942 Event Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1940 Event Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile 1939 Event U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1939 Event Great Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain 1939 Event France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain 1939 Event Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain 1938 Event Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain 1938 Event Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia 1937 Event Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia 1937 Event Japan recognizes Franco government 1937 Event Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1935 Event Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 1933 Event U.S. recognizes U.S.S.R., opens trade 1933 Event Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R. 1928 Event U.S. recognizes Nationalist Chinese government 1925 Event Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage 1924 Event Canada recognizes U.S.S.R. 1924 Event New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. 1923 Event Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader 1922 Event Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt 1920 Event 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia 1920 Event Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate 1920 Event U.S.S.R. recognizes Georgia's independence 1920 Event League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland 1920 Event International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard 1920 Event Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: U.S.S.R. recognizes Estonian independence 1917 Event Lansing-Ishii Agreement; U.S. recognizes Japan's privileges in China 1909 Event Colombia recognizes Panama's independence 1887 Event Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao 1884 Event Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event U.S. recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1862 Event Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar 1861 Event Brazil recognizes Confederacy 1859 Event U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform 1842 Event U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii 1837 Event U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas 1836 Event Spain recognizes independence of Mexico 1783 Event Sweden recognizes U.S. independence 1783 Event Spain recognizes U.S. independence 1782 Event Netherlands recognizes U.S. 1778 Event France recognizes U.S., signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st U.S. treaty 1777 Event France recognizes independence of English colonies in America 1668 Event Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal 1595 Event Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France 1562 Event Edict of St. Germain recognizes Huguenots in France 1544 Event German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1540 Event Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits 1540 Event Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary 1479 Event King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilie 311 Event Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire
