2015 Event Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen, resigns in the midst of a scandal in which the company confessed to installing software in its cars for the last 7 years in order to fool emissions test devices while violating U.S. clean air standards 2015 Event Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns after a warrant is issued for his arrest on bribery charges; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado will take Perez Molina's place 2015 Event Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigns five days after his re-election to a fifth term; several FIFA officials were recently arrested in a corruption scandal, but Blatter has not been charged 2014 Event U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns; the resignation may be due to disagreements over current U.S. strategy concerning Islamic State militants and the conflict in Syria 2014 Event Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife 2014 Event Frustrated with the lack of progress in resolving the Syrian conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi resigns from his post as United Nations mediator 2014 Event Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union 2014 Event Italy's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party 2013 Event Following a corruption scandal, the Petr Necas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, resigns 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
