In February 1840, he resigned and returned to Kentucky, where he married Eliza Griffin in 1843.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

On 11 February, following weeks of determined popular protest and pressure, Mubarak resigned from office.

Senior members of the military can convene for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, so during the course of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, when Mubarak resigned and transferred power to this body on February 11, 2011.

In February 2012, Fabio Capello resigned from his role as England manager, following a disagreement with the FA over their request to remove John Terry from team captaincy after accusations of racial abuse concerning the player.

The UDSG cabinet ministers resigned, and M ' Ba called an election for February 1964 and a reduced number of National Assembly deputies ( from 67 to 47 ).

The UDSG cabinet ministers resigned, and M ' Ba called an election for February 1964 and a reduced number of National Assembly deputies ( from 67 to 47 ).

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.

De Búrca resigned in February 2010, and was replaced by Mark Dearey.

As of 1 February 2011, Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai resigned and King Abdullah asked Marouf Bakhit, a former prime minister, to form a new more democratic government.

On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool ( on health grounds ) on 22 February 1991, two days after a 4 – 4 draw with rivals Everton in an FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park, in which Liverpool surrendered the lead four times.

On February 28 the government of pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned, calling for a new election to take place.

Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " ( February 24, 303 ).

In result of criticism in his own party, the Democratic Left Alliance, in February 2004, Leszek Miller resigned from chairing the party.

The current President of the Maldives is former Senior Member of UNICEF, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who was sworn into office on 7 February 2012 when his predecessor, Mohamed Nasheed resigned following weeks of protests led by police.

Three days later on March 10, the Vikings hired new head coach Bud Grant to replace Van Brocklin, who had resigned on February 11, 1967.

Menzies resigned as Prime Minister on Australia Day 1966, and retired from Parliament on 16 February, ending 38 years as an elected official and 32 years in Parliament.

This brought him into direct conflict with Utzon and in February 1966, after a bitter standoff and the suspension of progress payments by Hughes, Utzon resigned, sparking a major public outcry.

In response, Faure Gnassingbé agreed to hold elections and on 25 February, Gnassingbé resigned as president, but soon afterward accepted the nomination to run for the office in April.

On February 25, Gnassingbé resigned as president, soon after accepting nomination to run for the office in April.

In February 1742, following poor election results and the disaster at Cartagena, Walpole was at last forced to succumb to the long-continued attacks of opposition, resigned and took a peerage.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

In October 1991, after a series of conflicts over the boundaries between Christian Science teachings and his journalistic independence, John Hart resigned.

He resigned after the creation of a linguistic committee in 1991.

In 1986 he resigned from Somerset, in protest against the sacking of his friends Sir Viv Richards and Joel Garner, and joined Worcestershire, playing for that county between 1987 and 1991.

NeXT's original investor Ross Perot resigned from the board of directors in June 1991 to dedicate more time to Perot Systems, a Plano, Texas-based systems integrator.

In December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president and the Soviet Union dissolved relatively peacefully into fifteen sovereign republics, all of which rejected communism and most of which adopted democratic reforms and free-market economies.

All its constituent republics declared their independence in 1991, and on Christmas, Gorbachev resigned from office.

Peters was fired by his partner Guber in 1991, but Guber later resigned in 1994 to form Mandalay Entertainment the following year.

Vander Zalm resigned as premier in 1991 when a provincial conflict of interest report by Ted Hughes found he had mixed private business with his public office in the sale of the gardens.

When Vander Zalm resigned on April 2, 1991, Johnston was named interim leader of the party.

Manager Brian Talbot resigned in November 1991 to be succeeded by Ian McDonald.

She resigned in 1991 in opposition to Charles Haughey's leadership of the party.

After the collapse of a coalition government in December 1991 and the Democratic Party of Albania's ( DPA ) landslide victory in the spring 1992 general election, he resigned as president on 3 April 1992.

Sacked in January 1990, he was appointed Wimbledon manager in the summer, before he resigned in October 1991.

The New York Times reported on September 4, 1991 that Coverdell had resigned as director of the Peace Corps and was considering a run for the Senate.

After Gies had to resign already in 1991 Münch was elected as second Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from 4 July 1991 to 28 November 1993, when he resigned after criticism over alleged overpayments.

Shevardnadze returned briefly as Soviet Foreign Minister in November 1991 but resigned with Gorbachev the following month when the Soviet Union was formally dissolved.

Following the failed August coup of 1991, Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary.

He derived an increasingly greater share of his power from his position as president until he finally resigned as General Secretary after the Soviet coup d ' état attempt of 1991.

The JSP took a record high number of seats in 1990, when it won 136 seats in the House of Representatives, partly because of Doi's popularity, but she resigned her party post in 1991, in the wake of the Gulf War.

He was appointed chairman of the board of Aer Rianta in 1990 under the Haughey government, but resigned in October 1991 amid the scandal over the purchase of the Johnston Mooney & O ' Brien site by Telecom Eireann.

Aliyev subsequently resigned from the CPSU and after the failed August 1991 coup against Gorbachev, he called for complete independence for Azerbaijan and denounced Ayaz Mütallibov for supporting the coup.