Within rounding error the US are the only nation on Earth that can be dated to a moment in time and they assume everyone else can, but just look up the weird and continuous process of Canadian sovereignty
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Did Canada com to exist by 1867 in Confederation? 1931 with the Statute of Westminster? 1982 when all links to the House of Commons were finally severed?
Matter of fact is it or isn't it a knock against the Commonwealth realms that the monarch of the UK is still their ruler (and appropriately present in currency)?
And this case is pedestrian compared to every possible incarnation of Serbia you could find throughout the ages - I was born only a year after Montenegro severed from us, our national day calls to 1804 and Vidovdan is about events from 1389
A mental exercise I like to do sometimes is trying to identify the first leader of "Germany". Arminius? Henry the Fowler? Otto the Great? Frederick the Great? Wilhelm I? Bismarck? Adenauer? Kohl?
I’m on team Kohl here I think but Adenauer is a strong contender
side note—I’ve always liked the little circumlocution that the German official holiday calendar uses to avoid the question of whether 1990 was a unification or a reunification
It's great because you can weed out people with midwit opinions on history instantly by the fact that they always have A Strong Opinion on this at all.
I do enjoy the weird little circumlocutions and pageantries arising from the pretence that the sovereign of Canada is separate and extricable from being sovereign of UK.
(King in Right of Canada, Canadian versions of royal arms and standards, separate federal and provincial representatives etc.)
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side note—I’ve always liked the little circumlocution that the German official holiday calendar uses to avoid the question of whether 1990 was a unification or a reunification
(King in Right of Canada, Canadian versions of royal arms and standards, separate federal and provincial representatives etc.)