Administrative change
Formal separation of Anguilla, 1980
Anguilla was formally separated from Saint Kitts-Nevis, becoming a distinct British dependency.
What happened
On 19 December 1980, Anguilla was formally separated from Saint Kitts-Nevis.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: Anguilla was formally separated from Saint Kitts-Nevis on 19 December 1980, becoming a distinct British dependency (today a British Overseas Territory); no current independence campaign from the United Kingdom is documented in the sources reviewed.
- Republic of Anguilla (Wikipedia) link, 1980 formal separation section. Source record