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The last time the city took up a large-scale update of the charter was in 1999, amid an effort by some San Fernando Valley civic leaders to secede from Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

It’s not that Greenlanders don’t want to secede from Denmark—they just don’t want to become a U.S. state in turn.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

In 1896, barely seven years after statehood, some Eastern Washington residents were already looking to secede from their western counterparts.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

With Belgian support, the mineral-rich Katanga province was encouraged by Belgian mining interests to secede, and the white-dominated Force Publique, the Belgian colonial army, revolted.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

The boxers, under Jerry’s leadership, threatened to secede from the club and start their own.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

If Scotland secedes, the UK itself could be the next to change what it calls itself.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2016

By a popular referendum attended by some 80 percent of eligible state voters, Maloney’s Texas secedes on April 1, 2013.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2013

Q. Will the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans still be eligible to play in the NFL once Texas secedes from the United States?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2013

It is a countdown to January 9th, the day a referendum is scheduled to decide whether the southern part of this country secedes from the north and becomes its own nation.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010

New Eritrea entry added after it secedes from Ethiopia .

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In 1860, though, an election nearly destroyed the nation when Abraham Lincoln became president and, in response, seven Southern states seceded from the Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In December, Israel became the first to recognise Somaliland's independence since it seceded from Somalia in 1991, drawing angry condemnation from the federal government in Mogadishu, even though it has been self-governing for 35 years.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

After a decades-long battle for independence, Eritrea officially seceded from Ethiopia in 1993, leaving the latter landlocked.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Southerners seceded to protect slavery and fought to preserve it.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

To pay the soldiers, the seceding government and its president, Jefferson Davis, printed reams of Confederate dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

South Sudan is the world's newest nation, after seceding from Sudan in 2011.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

A Latin inscription on the monument cites the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause” rationale for seceding.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Secession: Voters in San Bernardino County will soon get to say whether they want the county to study options that include seceding from the state, The Associated Press reports.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“Secession means the Southerners are breaking away, or seceding, from our present Union of thirty-three states to form their own confederacy of sorts.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan