The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

On June 20, 1868, Governor General the Viscount Monck issued a royal proclamation asking for Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.

Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

Uncomfortable with the workings of democratic ststem, unruliness in the East Pakistan parliamentary elections and the threat of Baloch separatism in West-Pakistan, Bengali President Iskandar Ali Mirza issued a proclamation that abolished all political parties in both West and East Pakistan, abrogated the two-year old constitution, and imposed the first martial law in the country on October 7, 1958.

The word ' hockey ' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: " oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Virtually alone, on 17 September 1895, Emperor Menelik issued a proclamation calling up the men of Shewa to join his army at Were Ilu.

Cyrus issued a proclamation granting subjugated nations ( including the people of Judah ) religious freedom.

The first recorded use of the word " hockey " is found in the text of a royal proclamation issued by Edward III of England in 1363 banning certain types of sports and games.

A month later, on 18 February, Liam Forde, O / C of the IRA Mid-Limerick Brigade, issued a proclamation stating that: " We no longer recognise the authority of the present head of the army, and renew our allegiance to the existing Irish Republic ".

Davis issued his last official proclamation as president of the Confederacy, and then went south to Greensboro, North Carolina.

Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

Upon the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the government of Luxembourg observed its neutrality and issued an official proclamation to that effect on September 6, 1939.

On 2 December, the Soviet issued a proclamation which included the following statement about the Tsarist government and its foreign debts:

* 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.

In the month following her accession, Mary issued a proclamation that she would not compel any of her subjects to follow her religion, but by the end of September leading reforming churchmen, such as John Bradford, John Rogers, John Hooper, Hugh Latimer and Thomas Cranmer were imprisoned.

In January 1951, Shoghi Effendi issued a proclamation announcing the formation of the International Bahá ' í Council ( IBC ), representing the first international Bahá ' í body.

Andries Hendrik Potgieter, after the flight of the Ndebele, issued a proclamation in which he declared the country which Mzilikazi had abandoned and forfeited to the emigrant farmers, but also denying land rights to the Sotho-Tswana who had saved him and assisted in the defeat of Mzilikazi and the Ndebele.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

* July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.

** The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

* May 18 – Civil War gold hoax: The New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400, 000 more soldiers.

The next day she issued a proclamation that there would be no alteration in the current state of religion and that her servants should not be molested or troubled.

On August 23 he issued a proclamation declaring the colonies to be in a state of " open and avowed rebellion.

On July 8 833, Gregory wrote to the bishops of “ Gaul, Europe and Germany ” declaring that Aldric had every right to appeal to the pope, and that until the pope had issued a judgement one way or the other, no-one could pass a sentence against him.

In response to repeated Greek requests for return of the Elgin Marbles and similar requests to other museums around the world, in 2002, over 30 of the world's leading museums — including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City — issued a joint statement declaring that " objects acquired in earlier times must be viewed in the light of different sensitivities and values reflective of that earlier era " and that " museums serve not just the citizens of one nation but the people of every nation ".

On 31 August 1896 a Proclamation was issued in the Colony declaring that territory to be a British " Protectorate ".

The Swiss Government in November 2001 issued an ordinance declaring illegal the terrorist organisation Al-Qaida as well as possible successor or supporting organisations.

The Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuanian independence from any affiliation to any other nation, was issued in the city on 16 February 1918.

On July 12, 1934, an adventurer named Boris Skossyreff issued a proclamation in Urgel, declaring himself Boris I, sovereign prince of Andorra, simultaneously declaring war on the Bishop of Urgell.

Perceiving this group as a threat, the government issued a proclamation pursuant to the Corresponding Societies Act 1799 declaring such an association " unconstitutional and illegal ," and commanding all loyal subjects to shun it.

As soon as they learned that Berlin had been occupied by Marinebrigade Ehrhardt on the morning of 13 March 1920, Trotha and Raeder issued a proclamation declaring that the Weimar Republic had ended, declared their loyalty to Kapp " government ", and ordered the Navy to seize Wilhelmshaven and Kiel for the putsch.

The duke then issued on 25 July a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by Louis's émigré cousin, the Prince de Condé, declaring the intent of the Austrians and Prussians to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

The pope agreed and thus issued four briefs, declaring the four bishops ' agreement to the formulary was acceptable, thus instituting the " Peace of Clement IX " ( 1669 – 1701 ).

On 27 January 2005, in a letter published by Il Corriere della Sera, Vittorio Emanuele issued an apology to Italy's Jewish leadership asking forgiveness from the Italian Jewish community, and declaring that it was an error for the Italian Royal Family to have signed the racial laws of 1938 .< ref >

In 1549, Charles issued a Pragmatic Sanction, declaring the Low Countries to be a unified entity of which his family would be the heirs.

The leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa declaring sex reassignment surgery permissible for " diagnosed transsexuals.

In April 2001, Shigenobu issued a statement from detention declaring the Japanese Red Army had disbanded.

William Heard issued a proclamation declaring the site The Village of Kinder.

On October 21, 1902, Governor William Wright Heard issued a proclamation declaring that Section 16, Township 4, North Range 10 West was incorporated as Hornbeck ; with W. M.

In 2002, the Maryland legislature issued a proclamation declaring Catonsville to be " Music City, Maryland ", due to a concentration of musical retail stores, venues and educational facilities in the area.

Starting with President Carter in 1978, the U. S. Congress and President have issued proclamations each year, declaring that Rabbi Schneerson's birthday — usually a day in March or April that coincides with his recognized Hebrew calendar birthdate of 11 Nissan — be observed as Education and Sharing Day in the United States.

Even if he doesn't actually sin physically, his impure thoughts are sin in themselves .” However, apparently at the insistence of some of their husbands, a rabbinical authority quoted as saying “ There is a real danger that by exaggerating, you are doing the opposite of what is intended in severe transgressions in sexual matters ,” issued an edict declaring burka-wearing a sexual fetish, that is as promiscuous as wearing too little.

Feeling strong with these veteran officers and soldiers around him — and the presence of several ships-of-war under Admiral Graves — the governor issued a proclamation, declaring martial law, branding the entire Continental Army and supporters as " rebels " and " parricides of the Constitution.

He recognised the failure of the attempt to govern on the lines of the treaties with the Griquas and Basutos, and on 3 February 1848 he issued a proclamation declaring British sovereignty over the country between the Orange and the Vaal eastward to the Drakensberg.