The first Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.Ģ3 April 1946 The second Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference convenes in London.ġ4 August 1947 Pakistan (including modern Bangladesh) joins the Commonwealth upon being granted independence by the UKġ5 August 1947 India joins the Commonwealth on being granted independence by the UKĢ1 October 1947 India and Pakistan begin the first Indo-Pakistani War, over Kashmir and Jammu.
Newfoundland ceases to be in the Commonwealth.Ĥ August 1934 The second British Empire Games open in London.ĥ February 1938 The third British Empire Games open in Sydney, Australia. Australia and New Zealand decline.ġ6 February 1934 Self-government of the Dominion of Newfoundland is suspended, and replaced by the Commission of Government. It is adopted by Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland and the Union of South Africa. Parliament renounces legislative power over the Dominions. The ‘British’ was dropped from the title, which became the ‘ Commonwealth of Nations’, a free and equal association of independent states. This project focuses on the period after 1965, when the Commonwealth Secretariat was established as the main intergovernmental agency of the association.ġ926 Imperial Conference: The UK and its Dominions agree they are ‘equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations’.ġ6 August 1930 The first British Empire Games (the forerunners of the Commonwealth Games), Hamilton, Canada.ġ1 December 1931 The Statute of Westminster formalises the Balfour Declaration (1926). This declaration changed membership from one based on common allegiance to the British Crown, allowing India to remain a member of the Commonwealth whilst becoming a republic. Credit: Commonwealth Secretariat a j040Īlthough the Commonwealth finds its roots in the late nineteenth century, the ‘modern’ Commonwealth was formed in 1949 with the London Declaration.
Sir Shridath Ramphal and staff of the Commonwealth Secretariat at Marlborough House on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Secretariat’s founding.
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