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.

In 1853, Sherman resigned his captaincy and became manager of the San Francisco branch of a St. Louis-based bank.

As the decade turned, a shift in the Canucks ' leadership occurred as Stan Smyl resigned his captaincy prior to the 1990 – 91 season due to a reduced on-ice role with the team.

Heading into the 1997 – 98 season, Linden resigned his captaincy for Messier, who had developed a strong reputation as a leader, having captained the Rangers over the Canucks in 1994 ( he also captained the Oilers to a Stanley Cup in 1990 ).

The Croats, however, overwhelmed their ban with reproaches for neglecting them to fight for the Magyars, and the emperor simultaneously deprived him of the captaincy of Upper Croatia and sent 10, 000 men to aid the Croats, while the Magyars were left without any help, whereupon Zrinski resigned the banship ( 1561 ).

He then also took over the Test captaincy but resigned after one match in charge citing lack of form and ability to play Test cricket ; at the same time he announced his retirement from Tests.

After the match, Kim Hughes resigned the captaincy of Australia.

Capello resigned on 8 February 2012, following the FA removing the captaincy from John Terry.

He was named captain of the Hong Kong cricket team for the 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament, when Tim Smart resigned the captaincy.

At the start of the next season, Smyl resigned his captaincy and it was split throughout the season between Dan Quinn, Doug Lidster and Trevor Linden ( the captaincy would be retained by Linden ).

Smyl's all-time team records stood for more than a decade until Trevor Linden ( who was part of the Canucks tri-captaincy after Smyl resigned the captaincy ) overtook them, beginning with his goals mark in 2002 – 03.

During the 2005 – 06 campaign he had resigned the captaincy to concentrate on his football but he deputised for the frequently injured Steven Caldwell and was appointed on a permanent basis after Caldwell was sold to Burnley.

After he assumed the Kent captaincy in 1931, his career and physique declined until he resigned the position in 1936 ; he retired altogether in 1939, by which time he was drinking heavily.

" Convinced that he was fighting in an unjust cause, Mackay resigned his commission to take a captaincy in a Scottish regiment in the Dutch service.

He later resigned the captaincy during the 1992 – 93 NHL season, in favor of LaFontaine.

Umrigar resigned the captaincy on the night before the Test.

Shuter made no score above 44 that season and owing to business resigned the captaincy.

However Kim Hughes resigned the captaincy and both he and Hogg signed up for two rebel tours to South Africa in 1985 – 86 and 1986 – 87 during apartheid times.

However, he resigned the captaincy in the middle of the match against Northamptonshire in August 2004, handing over to Steve Rhodes for the remainder of the season on the grounds that he wanted to concentrate on his form with the bat.

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Dashnaksutyun, which was outlawed by Ter-Petrosyan in 1995 – 96 but legalized again after Ter-Petrosyan resigned, also usually supports the government.

* 1912 – U. S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U. S .- backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

Immediately after this, Algardi produced an interactive sculptural group representing the beheading of Saint Paul with two figures: a kneeling, resigned saint and the executioner poised to strike the sword-blow, for the church of San Paolo, Bologna.

Phillip, growing frustrated with the burdens of upholding a colony and his health suffering, resigned soon after this episode.

The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.

He also accepted the title of president after Keelty resigned in mid-December 1959.

Peter Watt resigned as the General Secretary of the party the day after the story broke and was quoted as saying that he knew about the arrangement but had not appreciated that he had failed to comply with the reporting requirements.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

Later that year, Hugh Dalton resigned as Chancellor after inadvertently leaking details of the budget to a journalist.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

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

Two weeks after Canion's ouster, five other senior executives resigned, including remaining company founder James C. Harris as SVP of Engineering.

Aptidon resigned as president 1999, at the age of 83, after being elected to a fifth term in 1997.

Su Tseng-chang resigned as DPP chairman soon after election results were announced.

He resigned following investigations into his financial activities and his successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament — the 1998 World Cup — in which England were eliminated in the second round again by Argentina and again on penalties ( after a 2 – 2 draw ).

Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance.