Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Agreement
Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Aung San signed an agreement on 27 January 1947 promising Burmese independence within one year and providing that unification of the Frontier Areas with Ministerial Burma required the free consent of the inhabitants.
Significance here: The agreement that set a timetable for Burmese independence and the terms for the Frontier Areas' unification.
· Agreement
Aung San and representatives of the Shan, Kachin and Chin communities signed the Panglong Agreement on 12 February 1947, recognising full autonomy for the Shan and Karenni areas and autonomous status for the Kachin and Chin areas.
Significance here: The agreement setting the terms on which the Frontier Areas' ethnic communities would join a unified, independent Burma.
· Declaration
The Burma Independence Act, 1947 established Burma as an independent country, outside the British Commonwealth, with effect from 4 January 1948.
Significance here: The Act that ended British rule and established Burma as fully independent, uniquely opting to leave the Commonwealth.
· Recognition
The Security Council unanimously recommended the Union of Burma's admission to the United Nations on 10 April 1948, and the General Assembly admitted it on 19 April 1948.
Significance here: Formal international recognition of Burmese statehood shortly after independence.
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