* April 1 – A Proclamation, signed " By order of the Committee of Organisation for forming a Provisional Government ", begins the " Radical War " in Scotland.

Governor Lynch signed the legislation on August 17, 2010, and issued the first Governor's Proclamation for September 5, 2010.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862, which ended slavery in the District of Columbia and freed about 3, 100 enslaved persons, nine months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Marcos declared martial law on September 22, 1972, by virtue of Proclamation No. 1081 which he signed on September 21, 1972, extending his rule beyond the constitutional two-term limit.

He would later tell historians that he signed Proclamation No. 1081 as early as September 17.

In the Philippines, Eid ul-Fitr, known to the Christian majority and other non-Muslims as " Wakás ng Ramadán " (" End of Ramadan ") or incorrectly as " Ramadan ", has been recognised by the Philippine Government as a regular holiday by virtue of Republic Act No. 9177 and it is also according to Presidential Proclamation No. 1083, signed into law on November 13, 2002 – the only Christian country worldwide to have done so.

This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations.

The Alaska Statehood Act became law with Eisenhower's signature on July 7, 1958, and Alaska formally was admitted to statehood on January 3, 1959, when Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Proclamation.

* April 22, 1793: George Washington signed the Neutrality Proclamation

He was called before the Board, took the Oath and was dismissed ( It is noted that Stockton did not turn in any protection papers as was required if you signed Howe's Proclamation and were given a pardon ).

More protection was provided by Proclamation No. 1037 signed by then President Fidel V. Ramos upon the recommendation of the DENR on July 1, 1997 which establish the Chocolate Hills and the areas within, around, and surrounding them located in the Municipalities of Carmen, Batuan and Sagbayan, Bilar, Valencia and Sierra Bullones, Province of Bohol as a natural monument to protect and maintain its natural beauty and to provide restraining mechanisms for inappropriate exploitation.

Twelve members of the Cabinet signed the Proclamation:

There were fourteen copies of the Proclamation document made which were signed again by original signatories who each received a copy.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, less than eight percent of the African American population lived in the Northeastern or Midwestern United States.

The Council's Proclamation of Accession, which confirms the name of the heir, is signed by all the attendant Privy Counsellors.

On March 29, 1975, President Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18 – 25 year old male citizens.

On July 2, 1980, however, President Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18 – 26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960.

She was the first child in her family born into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

In 1929, she and Harry both signed poet Eugene Jolas ' The Revolution of the Word Proclamation which appeared in issue 16 / 17 of the literary journal transition.

Imee, her brother Ferdinand Jr. ( Bongbong ) and sister, Irene had been studying in England before Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081 on September 21, 1972.

On October 2, President Clinton signed the Proclamation implementing the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA – Title II of the Trade and Development Act of 2000 ).

The Proclamation was signed by Kay Boyle, Whit Burnett, Hart Crane, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, Martha Foley, Stuart Gilbert, A. Lincoln Gillespie, Leigh Hoffman, Eugene Jolas, Elliot Paul, Douglas Rigby, Theo Rutra, Robert Sage, Harold J. Salemson, and Laurence Vail.

President John F. Kennedy signed Proclamation No. 3467 that added approximately containing an additional archaeological site, known as the TJ site, as well as additional wilderness.

In the Easter Rising in Dublin on 24 April 1916, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic read by Patrick Pearse was headed and signed as being issued by the ' Provisional Government of the Irish Republic '.

The Proclamation is signed as follows:

* April 17 – By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, gaining full political independence from the United Kingdom ; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.

By June 29, 1892, Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin Harrison to announce a proclamation making the public school flag ceremony the center of the Columbus Day celebrations ( this was issued as Presidential Proclamation 335 ).

By the Declaration of Independence the Dáil ratified the earlier Easter Proclamation of 1916.

Now Therefore, We The Government of Rhodesia, in humble submission to Almighty God who controls the destinies of nations, conscious that the people of Rhodesia have always shown unswerving loyalty and devotion to Her Majesty the Queen and earnestly praying that we and the people of Rhodesia will not be hindered in our determination to continue exercising our undoubted right to demonstrate the same loyalty and devotion, and seeking to promote the common good so that the dignity and freedom of all men may be assured, Do, By This Proclamation, adopt, enact and give to the people of Rhodesia the Constitution annexed hereto ;

By the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada ( part of New France ) was renamed the Province of Quebec.

By the January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, his brother John ( Mease ) Butler lost nearly 500 slaves to freedom.

By Presidential Proclamation 4313, President Ford created a procedure for those military personnel who resisted against the Vietnam War to receive a Presidential Pardon and have their punitive discharges changed to a Clemency Discharge.

By the Haldimand Proclamation of October 25, 1784, the government granted a reserve of land to the Mohawk Nation and Six Nations Indians in appreciation of their support for The Crown during the revolution.

By Proclamation No. 1 ( 1945 ), the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia established the British Military Administration which assumed full judicial, legislative, executive and administrative powers and responsibilities and conclusive jurisdiction over all persons and property throughout such areas of Malaya as were at any given time under the control of forces under his command.

By Proclamation No. 23 ( 1945 ), the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the Singapore Division provided that every conviction of any offence by a tribunal established by the Japanese Military Administration was quashed, and any judgment convicting or purporting to convict any person or any offence was set aside.

By May 1865, Eppes had taken the Amnesty Oath, but found that his wealth excluded him from benefits of the Amnesty Proclamation.

' By that time any special claims that the Port Phillip Association may have had to the land at Port Phillip Bay were dashed by Governor Bourke's Proclamation of 26 August 1835.

By tradition, a copy of the Royal Proclamation is delivered by hand from the Privy Council Office to Mansion House in the City of London and is then read out by the Serjeant-at-Arms of the City on the steps of the Royal Exchange in the heart of the City, ahead of it also being read out in the London boroughs.

By virtue of said law, President Manuel A. Roxas issued Presidential Proclamation No. 44 on October 20, 1947, thus making Tubay regain its township status.

By 1773, Virginia was still searching for land to satisfy grants and bounties, and was still struggling with the details of the Proclamation of 1763.

By the morning of Sunday 2 April copies of the Proclamation were displayed throughout Glasgow.