Accession Day is the anniversary of the day a monarch succeeds to the throne upon the death of the previous monarch. Look up monarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Accession Day for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is 6 February. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born April 21, 1926) is the Queen of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth Realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...

Accession is also a term for the process by which a state becomes incorporated into a federation, for example the joining of countries into the European Union. Accession (from Lat. ... A state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules that govern a society, having internal and external sovereignty over a definite territory. ... A map displaying todays federations. ...

Accession Day marking entry into the European Union of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta was 1 May 2004.

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• Burke's Peerage and Gentry