In England, an Oath of Abjuration was taken by Members of Parliament, clergy, and laymen, pledging to support the current British monarch and repudiated the right of the Stuarts and other claimants to the throne.

The unity that was to be symbolized in " The Tennis Court Oath " no longer existed in radicalized 1792.

The Hippocratic Oath, still taken by doctors today, was written in Greece in the 5th century BCE.

On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.

Hippocrates introduced the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, which is still relevant and in use today, and was the first to categorize illnesses as acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, and use terms such as, " exacerbation, relapse, resolution, crisis, paroxysm, peak, and convalescence ".

According to Cornwell, " the text, together with the Anti-Modernist Oath, became the means by which the Holy See was to establish and sustain the new, unequal, and unprecedented power relationship that had arisen between the papacy and the Church.

Some Traditionalist Catholics say he was the first pope to take what they call the Papal Oath as part of his inauguration.

Before production started, a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film Blood Oath ( 1990 ) ( aka Prisoners of the Sun ), which was released a month earlier than The Crossing, although actually filmed later.

On 1 January 1946, Emperor Shōwa issued the Ningen-sengen, in which he quoted the Five Charter Oath of Emperor Meiji and declared that he was not an akitsumikami.

However, this was blocked by King George III, who argued that emancipating the Roman Catholics would breach his Coronation Oath.

Shea also was chosen by fellow athletes to recite the Athlete's Oath during the Opening Ceremonies.

Indonesian was elevated to the status of official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence in 1945, drawing inspiration from the Sumpah Pemuda ( Youth's Oath ) event in 1928.

As with all dominions, provision was made for an Oath of Allegiance.

The Irish Oath of Allegiance was fundamentally different.

The Oath itself came from a combination of three sources, and was largely the work of Michael Collins in the Treaty negotiations.

Other sections were taken by Collins directly from the Oath of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, of which he was the secret head.

The Hippocratic Oath, a 500 BCE Greek text, was the first set of Western writings giving guidelines for the conduct of medical professionals.

The Oath of Allegiance in Ireland was much less royalist than in Canada or Australia.

The Oath of Eorl was sworn by both Cirion and Eorl.

The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a revision of the Oath of Hippocrates to a formulation of that oath's moral truths that could be comprehended and acknowledged in a modern way.

The Olympic Oath was first taken at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp by the fencer / water polo player Victor Boin.

The Siegfried Oath was restored in the musical version.

In 1984, the Cadet Wing voted to add an " Honor Oath ," which was to be taken by all cadets.

After some years, Diomedes became one of the Suitors of Helen and, as such, he was bound by The Oath of Tyndareus, which established that all the suitors would defend and protect the man who was chosen as Helen's husband against any wrong done against him in regard to his marriage.

The first year of the Revolution saw members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.

Prime Minister of Canada | Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first person to take the Oath of Citizenship ( Canada ) | Oath of Citizenship, from Chief Justice of Canada | Chief Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret, in the Supreme Court of Canada | Supreme Court, 3 January 1947

Letters patent to the first Governor-General Tim Healy had named explicitly Bills that if passed were to be blocked, such as any attempt to abolish the Oath.

The first reform was the promulgation of the Five Charter Oath in 1868, a general statement of the aims of the Meiji leaders to boost morale and win financial support for the new government.

An Act of Elizabeth's first parliament dissolved the refounded houses ; but although Elizabeth offered to allow the monks in Westminster to remain in place with restored pensions if they took the Oath of Supremacy and conformed to the new Book of Common Prayer, all refused and dispersed unpensioned.

The first draft of the Oath was written by junior councilor Yuri Kimimasa in January 1868, containing progressive language that spoke to the frustrations that the radical but modestly born Meiji leaders had experienced in " service to hereditary incompetents.

* These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was voiced, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and the first in which the Olympic Flag was flown.

Elected deputy from Paris to the Estates-General ( 12 May 1789 ), he was elected inaugural president of the National Assembly ( 17 June 1789 ), and led the famous proceedings in the Tennis Court ( 20 June ), being the first to take the Tennis Court Oath.

In 1828 following his victory in the election in County Clare, Daniel O ' Connell refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown, following the granting of Catholic emancipation in 1829 and the dilution of the tones of religious supremacy, O ' Connell took his seat in 1830 the first Irish Catholic to do so in the modern era.

The Tennis Court Oath () was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution.

The Oath signified the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI, and the National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions.

Following the tour in support of Don't Break the Oath, which saw them play in the United States for the first time, King Diamond split ways with the band in April 1985 as a result of frustration over creative differences with Hank Shermann.

For example, the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Tim Healy, was instructed by the British Dominions Office in 1922 to withhold the Royal Assent on any Bill passed by the two houses of the Oireachtas ( the Irish parliament ) that attempted to change or abolish the Oath of Allegiance.

Those either studying at university or wishing to take public office could not do so without first swearing the Oath of Supremacy, an act which would have compromised Catesby's Catholic faith.

The Coonan Cross Oath represented the first permanent split in the Saint Thomas Christian community.

Some scholars have assumed that the Missa was first performed in Leipzig in April, 1733 during the festival of the Oath of Allegiance to Augustus III.

* The Hippocratic Oath – an article by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( h2g2 ).

There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of more than 3, 000 foreign experts ( called o-yatoi gaikokujin or ' hired foreigners ') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy, among others ; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, based on the fifth and last article of the Charter Oath of 1868: ' Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundations of Imperial rule.