Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
Secession may also refer to:
Political secession
edit- Liberal Union, also called Secession, a leftist break-away from the National Liberal Party in the German Empire
- Secession in the United States
- Killington, Vermont, secession movement, current court battle over the voted defection of a Vermont town to New Hampshire
- Missouri secession, a controversy over the double secession status of Missouri in the American Civil War era
- Ordinance of Secession, an ordinance ratified by the seceding states that was one of the causes of the American Civil War
- Secession in New York, movements to support the secession of New York City from the state or union
- Secession of Quebec (disambiguation), articles about the possible secession of Quebec from Canada
- Secessionism in Western Australia, a movement for political independence
- Urban secession, a movement for the quasi-secession of a city
Social secession
edit- 1857 Secession, secession from the Reformed Church in America in 1857 which led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America
- Aventine Secession (disambiguation), secessions of the Aventine district in Rome
- First Secession, from the Church of Scotland in 1733
- Secessio plebis, the original secessions of ancient Rome
- Secession of 1834 or Afscheiding, secession from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834 which led to the formation of the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken
Arts, entertainment, and media
editArts movements
edit- Secession (art), the series of secession movements in art during the late 19th and early 20th century, including:
- Berlin Secession, the 1898 break from the Association of Berlin Artists
- Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, the Düsseldorf secession of 1909
- Vienna Secession, the 1897 secession that led to the Austrian branch of Art Nouveau
- Photo-Secession, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Secession (band), a 1980s Scottish synthpop band
- Secession (magazine), a 1920s American expatriate literary magazine
- Secession, a collaboration album between Starringo & Aha Gazelle
- "Secession" (Succession), an episode of the television series Succession