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2013 Event - Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf

2012 Event - Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo

2012 Event - Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street

2012 Event - Amidst controversy over the anti-doping scandal, Lance Armstrong resigns as chairman of LIVESTRONG, his anti-cancer charity

2012 Event - Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

2012 Event - Less than three years after accepting the position of Chairman of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, resigns

2012 Event - Greece Prime Minister Lucas Papademos resigns, calling for a new election within a month

2012 Event - Following the News International phone hacking scandal, James Murdock resigns as Chairman of BskyB

2012 Event - After a power struggle within his government, Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns

2012 Event - Co-founder of Yahoo!, Jerry Yang, resigns from the position of chief executive officer

2011 Event - Boris Gryzlov, ally to Vladimir Putin and speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, resigns from his position

2011 Event - Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt resigns after protests; Kamal Ganzouri takes is appointed as the new Prime Minister

2011 Event - In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns, as an emergency government takes his place to deal with the country's economic crisis

2011 Event - After losing a referendum on free school lunches, Seoul's mayor, Oh Se-hoon, resigns

2011 Event - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO

2011 Event - Chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, resigns as a result of the News International phone hacking scandal

2011 Event - In Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party's central committee

2011 Event - National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigns after a scandal involving NPR executives

2010 Event - The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, resigns

2010 Event - Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns

2010 Event - Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns

2008 Event - Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan

2008 Event - Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work

2008 Event - Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected

2006 Event - Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense

2000 Event - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns

1998 Event - New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position

1998 Event - Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach

1997 Event - 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year

1996 Event - Bob Dole, Senator-R-Kansas, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president

1995 Event - Senator Bob Packwoord R-Oregon resigns rather than face expulsion

1995 Event - Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist

1995 Event - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns

1995 Event - Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns

1995 Event - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns

1994 Event - Bangladesh government of Zia resigns

1994 Event - Italian government of Berlusconi resigns

1994 Event - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments

1994 Event - Irish government of Reynolds resigns

1994 Event - Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti

1994 Event - Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns

1994 Event - Swedish government of Bildt resigns

1994 Event - Kirgizie government resigns

1994 Event - Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns

1994 Event - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns

1994 Event - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns

1994 Event - Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns

1994 Event - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns

1994 Event - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

1994 Event - Italian government of Ciampi resigns

1993 Event - Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns

1993 Event - Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense

1993 Event - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns

1993 Event - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns

1993 Event - Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns

1993 Event - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns

1993 Event - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns

1993 Event - Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns

1993 Event - Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns

1992 Event - WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR

1992 Event - Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns

1992 Event - New York City police commisioner Brown resigns

1992 Event - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns

1992 Event - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns

1992 Event - Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns

1992 Event - P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica

1992 Event - Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox

1991 Event - NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns

1991 Event - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns

1991 Event - Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee

1991 Event - Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1991 Event - Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia

1991 Event - Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea

1991 Event - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns

1991 Event - Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns

1991 Event - CIA director William H. Webster resigns

1991 Event - Mo Udall, Representative-D-Arizona, resigns due to Parkinson disease

1990 Event - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns

1990 Event - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors

1990 Event - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns

1990 Event - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe

1990 Event - Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion

1990 Event - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years

1990 Event - Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti

1989 Event - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns

1989 Event - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns

1989 Event - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia

1989 Event - Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns

1989 Event - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns

1989 Event - Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson

1989 Event - President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns

1989 Event - Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football

1989 Event - Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns

1988 Event - Mario Biaggi, Representative-D-New York, convicted of racketeering resigns seat

1987 Event - Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns

1987 Event - Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns

1987 Event - Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time

1987 Event - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1987 Event - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns

1987 Event - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn

1987 Event - Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training

1986 Event - Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns

1986 Event - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

1986 Event - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan

1986 Event - British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns

1984 Event - Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain

1984 Event - West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption

1984 Event - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

1984 Event - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France

1984 Event - Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO

1983 Event - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns

1983 Event - Israel premier Begin resigns

1982 Event - Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels

1982 Event - Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns

1982 Event - Bolivian government resigns

1982 Event - Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. resigns, replaced by George Schultz

1982 Event - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

1982 Event - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war

1982 Event - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands

1981 Event - 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns

1981 Event - Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air

1981 Event - Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

1981 Event - Poland premier Jagielski resigns

1981 Event - Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns

1980 Event - Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns

1980 Event - Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns

1980 Event - Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend

1980 Event - Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns

1980 Event - Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns

1980 Event - Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns

1980 Event - Belgium's Marten's government resigns

1979 Event - Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns

1979 Event - Iran government of Bazargan resigns

1979 Event - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

1979 Event - India premier Charan Singh resigns

1979 Event - Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador

1979 Event - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India

1979 Event - Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns

1979 Event - South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal

1979 Event - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power

1978 Event - CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past

1978 Event - Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

1978 Event - Belgium government of Tindemans resigns

1978 Event - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson

1978 Event - Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair

1977 Event - Portugal's premier Soares resigns

1977 Event - Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns

1977 Event - U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns

1977 Event - Israel premier Rabin resigns

1977 Event - Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

1976 Event - Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns

1976 Event - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

1976 Event - Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976, resigns after scandal with Elizabeth Ray

1976 Event - Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England

1976 Event - British premier Harold Wilson resigns

1975 Event - Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms

1975 Event - Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns

1975 Event - Gunsmoke resigns the air

1975 Event - Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1974 Event - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president

1974 Event - Rumor's government in Italy resigns

1974 Event - West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns

1974 Event - Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns

1973 Event - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns

1973 Event - Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager

1973 Event - Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina

1973 Event - Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal

1973 Event - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam

1972 Event - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns

1971 Event - Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns

1971 Event - Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO

1971 Event - Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark

1970 Event - Italian Rumor government resigns

1969 Event - Italian Rumor government resigns

1969 Event - French government of Couve de Murville resigns

1969 Event - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar

1969 Event - Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns

1969 Event - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

1969 Event - Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France

1969 Event - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

1969 Event - Suriname government of Pengel resigns

1968 Event - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns

1968 Event - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia

1968 Event - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

1968 Event - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers

1967 Event - Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns

1967 Event - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam

1966 Event - Harmel government in Belgium resigns

1965 Event - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets

1965 Event - Dutch Marijnen government resigns

1964 Event - President Segni of Italy resigns

1964 Event - Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns

1964 Event - Suriname governor A Currie resigns

1964 Event - U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns

1964 Event - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam

1964 Event - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns

1963 Event - British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns

1963 Event - Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary

1963 Event - Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville

1963 Event - Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns

1963 Event - Greek government of Karamanlis resigns

1963 Event - British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler

1961 Event - Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns

1961 Event - Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns

1961 Event - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns

1961 Event - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO

1961 Event - David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel

1960 Event - George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees

1960 Event - Italian Government Tambroni, resigns

1960 Event - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns

1960 Event - South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

1959 Event - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League

1959 Event - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns

1959 Event - U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns

1959 Event - Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns

1959 Event - Italy government of Fanfani resigns

1958 Event - Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns

1958 Event - Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns

1958 Event - Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank

1958 Event - Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank

1958 Event - French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

1957 Event - Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns

1957 Event - French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria

1957 Event - Anthony Eden resigns as British PM

1957 Event - Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

1957 Event - French government of Mollet resigns

1957 Event - Italian government of Segni resigns

1957 Event - Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns

1957 Event - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

1957 Event - Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain

1957 Event - British premier Anthony Eden resigns

1956 Event - Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns

1956 Event - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him

1956 Event - Singapore government of Marshall resigns

1956 Event - Jordan government of Samir resigns

1956 Event - Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns

1956 Event - Indonesian government of Harahap resigns

1955 Event - Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party

1955 Event - Turkish government of Menderes resigns

1955 Event - Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees

1955 Event - Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia

1955 Event - Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

1955 Event - Dutch Government of Drees resigns

1955 Event - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1955 Event - Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him

1954 Event - Japanese government of Joshida, resigns

1954 Event - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily

1954 Event - Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns

1954 Event - Belgian Van Houtte government resigns

1954 Event - Italy's Fanfani government resigns

1953 Event - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel

1953 Event - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees

1953 Event - Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr

1953 Event - French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy

1953 Event - French government of Mayer resigns

1952 Event - French government of Pinay, resigns

1952 Event - Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president

1952 Event - Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN

1952 Event - Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns

1952 Event - Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns

1952 Event - Belgian Pholien government resigns

1951 Event - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns

1950 Event - British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns

1950 Event - Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president

1950 Event - French government-Bidault resigns

1950 Event - Belgian government of Eyskens resigns

1948 Event - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns

1948 Event - 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns

1948 Event - French government of Schuman, resigns

1948 Event - Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India

1948 Event - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns

1948 Event - Queen Wilhelmina resigns

1948 Event - Belgian government of Spaak resigns

1948 Event - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns

1947 Event - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series

1947 Event - Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns

1947 Event - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns

1946 Event - French government of Bidault, resigns

1946 Event - Belgian government of Acker, resigns

1946 Event - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns

1945 Event - Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish

1945 Event - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister

1945 Event - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister

1945 Event - Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki

1944 Event - Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns

1944 Event - Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves

1943 Event - Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns

1943 Event - William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 Event - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system

1942 Event - French government of Reynaud resigns

1941 Event - British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns

1940 Event - Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia

1938 Event - U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany

1935 Event - Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer

1935 Event - 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns

1934 Event - W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

1932 Event - German government of von Papen, resigns

1932 Event - New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)

1932 Event - John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants

1930 Event - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

1930 Event - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

1926 Event - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager

1926 Event - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager

1926 Event - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage

1926 Event - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup

1926 Event - Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator

1925 Event - German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption

1924 Event - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt

1924 Event - British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns

1924 Event - German government of Marx resigns

1924 Event - Baldwin government resigns in England

1923 Event - Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns

1923 Event - Germany's Stresemann resigns

1923 Event - Dutch Premier de Geer resigns

1922 Event - Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns

1922 Event - Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini

1922 Event - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball

1919 Event - German government of Scheideman resigns

1918 Event - Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns

1918 Event - Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns

1918 Event - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army

1917 Event - Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar

1912 Event - Caillaux government in France resigns

1909 Event - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns

1908 Event - British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns

1907 Event - Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns

1907 Event - De Master's Dutch government resigns

1906 Event - British government-Balfour resigns

1906 Event - Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore manager to take over at Detroit in 1907

1905 Event - British government of Balfour resigns

1905 Event - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request

1905 Event - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns

1902 Event - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns

1900 Event - General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy

1897 Event - Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns

1896 Event - Italian premier Crispi resigns

1896 Event - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony

1895 Event - French president Casimir-Perier resigns

1894 Event - 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns

1891 Event - Dutch Mackay government resigns

1889 Event - King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns

1887 Event - French president Grevy (80) resigns

1886 Event - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class

1886 Event - 1st British government of Salisbury resigns

1885 Event - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns

1881 Event - French government-Ferry resigns

1879 Event - Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns

1879 Event - Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt

1879 Event - French President MacMahon resigns

1877 Event - Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns

1868 Event - 1st British government of Disraeli resigns

1867 Event - 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan

1866 Event - French Government of De Putte resigns

1862 Event - Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns

1861 Event - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns

1860 Event - Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns

1858 Event - Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns

1856 Event - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns

1853 Event - Thorbecke government resigns

1849 Event - De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns

1848 Event - Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns

1840 Event - Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands

1830 Event - Charles X of France resigns by force

1826 Event - Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies

1814 Event - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance

1810 Event - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands

1783 Event - Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief

1776 Event - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns

1766 Event - English premier Rockingham resigns

1755 Event - English minister William Pitt Sr resigns

1746 Event - English Pelham government resigns

1744 Event - English premier John Carteret resigns

1742 Event - British Walpole government resigns

1737 Event - French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns

1730 Event - Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns

1720 Event - Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns

1710 Event - Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance

1690 Event - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal

1673 Event - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral

1668 Event - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France

1668 Event - King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France

1660 Event - English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns

1659 Event - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector

1654 Event - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism

1645 Event - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander

1644 Event - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

1644 Event - Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil

1619 Event - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader

1617 Event - Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies

1564 Event - Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns

1556 Event - Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over

1532 Event - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor

1451 Event - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne

1449 Event - Anti-pope Felix V resigns

1356 Event - Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns

887 Event - Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns













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