Cameroon Independence Day
Cameroon Independence Day is held on January 1. 1960. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. 
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January 1 is a very important holiday for the Republic of Cameroon because this day marks gaining independence from France.
Cameroon is one of the wettest countries on Earth. It is very geographically and culturally diverse.
From 1884, Cameroon was a German colony, German Kamerun, with its borders drawn through negotiations between the Germans, British, and French.
The United Nations Trust Territory known as French Cameroun achieved independence from France on 1 January 1960, and British Southern Cameroons changed status from a Trusteeship under British administration to a federated state within Cameroon on 1 October 1961.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Children's Day in Cameroon on December 25 (also Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo);
Youth Day in Cameroon on February 11
National Day in Cameroon on May 20
Cameroon Unification Day on October 1