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.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a " proclamation of neutrality " which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.

** American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a " proclamation of neutrality " which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.

In a proclamation dated 1 March 1795, he abandoned the alliance and declared Tuscany's neutrality in the war.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Britain had issued a proclamation of neutrality on 13 May 1861.

The rejection of his advice, and the proclamation of Prussia's attitude of " benevolent neutrality ", led him in April 1854 to offer his resignation, which was accepted.

He denounced Martin Van Buren as a tool of British imperialism because his government had issued a neutrality proclamation.

The Kentucky legislature did not vote on any bill to secede, but passed two resolutions of neutrality, issuing a neutrality proclamation May 20, 1861, asking both sides to keep out.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Seward was upset with both the proclamation of neutrality and Russell ’ s meetings with the Confederates.

For example, on June 15 they tried to see Seward together regarding the proclamation of neutrality, but Seward insisted that he meet with them separately.

On May 18 the Allied high commissioners issued a proclamation regarding the neutrality of Constantinople and the Straits.

In early 1794, however, President Washington issued a proclamation forbidding Americans from violating U. S. neutrality and threatened to dispatch General Anthony Wayne to Fort Massac to stop the expedition.

President Andrew Johnson's proclamation requiring enforcement of the laws of neutrality was issued five days after the beginning of the invasion, guaranteeing that it would not continue.

In English law, a proclamation is a formal announcement (" royal proclamation "), made under the great seal, of some matter which the King in Council or Queen Regnant in Council desires to make known to his or her subjects: e. g., the declaration of war, or state of emergency, the statement of neutrality, the summoning or dissolution of Parliament, or the bringing into operation of the provisions of some statute the enforcement of which the legislature has left to the discretion of the king in the announcement.

Queen Victoria's proclamation of British neutrality referred to " hostilities ... between the Government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America ".

" But first and foremost came the question: " Should the United States issue an official proclamation of neutrality?

Britain's proclamation of neutrality was consistent with the position of the Lincoln Administration under international law — the Confederates were belligerents — giving them the right to obtain loans and buy arms from neutral powers, and giving the British the formal right to discuss openly which side, if any, to support.

The King of Prussia issued a proclamation saying that Louis XVIII would have to leave Prussian territory, which meant leaving Warsaw.

Though infallibility was not a political concept, some of Pius's critics thought its proclamation was meant to bolster his moral authority as the Vicar of Christ, perhaps discouraging Italian nationalists from attacking the Pope's own Rome.

He proceeded to comfort his associates and in January 1826 made a proclamation to Central American states – it was written in French and primarily meant to affect French opinion.

Implicitly, this proclamation meant the end of the USSR's advocacy of the spread of communist revolution through insurrectionist violence, which some communists around the world saw as a betrayal of the principles of revolutionary communism itself.

For some time prior to proclamation, the aerodrome had been used by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Aero Club ( renamed the Royal Victorian Aero Club ), having initially been based at Point Cook.

Thus, on 21 May, by proclamation of the Lord High Commissioner, the Ionian Islands were united with Greece.

The proclamation was published four months after the signing of the Treaty, in the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay Of Islands Gazette issue of 19 June 1840, the proclamation " asserts on the grounds of Discovery, the Sovereign Rights of Her Majesty over the Southern Islands of New Zealand, commonly called ' The Middle Island ' ( South Island ) and ' Stewart ’ s Island ' ( Stewart Island / Rakiura ); and the Island, commonly called ' The Northern Island ', having been ceded in Sovereignty to Her Majesty.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

Fleming persuaded Abraham Chalwill, the acting Lieutenant Governor of the British Virgin Islands ( who had coincidentally lead the search for the treasure on Norman Island ) to issue a proclamation whereby the treasure would be returned and the people who had dug it up would receive a one-third share as a reward.

This was likely because al-Andalus was a land besieged by many different loyalties, and the proclamation of caliph would have likely caused much unrest.

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.

Upon many suggestions, the date of the Emperor's proclamation on January 18th would be established as day of remembrance.

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.

" The helots were invited by a proclamation to pick out those of their number who claimed to have most distinguished themselves against the enemy, in order that they might receive their freedom ; the object being to test them, as it was thought that the first to claim their freedom would be the most high spirited and the most apt to rebel.

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.

King Louis arrived at Cambrai on 26 June, where he released a proclamation stating that all those who served the Emperor in the Hundred Days would not be persecuted, except for the " instigators ".

A proclamation was made at the Cross of Edinburgh on 28 July that government would be in the joint names of the king and queen of Scots, thus giving Darnley equality with, and precedence over, Mary.

On January 14, 1803, the Governor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, issued a similar proclamation defining the boundaries as beginning at a point where an east and west line passing through the southernmost extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect a north and south line, passing through the westernmost extreme of the lake, then north to the territorial boundary, then along said boundary line to a point where an east and west line passing through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect the same, then along this last mentioned line to the place of beginning.

British officials hoped the proclamation would reconcile Aboriginals to British rule and thus help to prevent future hostilities.

" Indeed, the act was passed by Parliament on 21 May, the same day as a royal proclamation against seditious writings was issued, and more libel cases would be brought by the government in the following two years than had been in all the preceding years of the eighteenth century.

On August 7, Washington issued a presidential proclamation announcing, with " the deepest regret ", that the militia would be called out to suppress the rebellion.

Both the British and Irish Acts provided that the Constitution would be brought into force by a royal proclamation, which was accordingly issued on 6 December.

On January 17, 1868, Yoshinobu declared " that he would not be bound by the proclamation of the Restoration and called on the court to rescind it.

The trio decided to create their own series in reaction to a proclamation by the children's cable network Nickelodeon that they were to launch their own line of animated shows, which would be later called Nicktoons.

It depicts a seminal moment of the French Revolution, when, on 20 June 1789, deputies of the Estates-General met at the court and vowed that they would not disband before the proclamation of a formal Constitution for France.

The Declaration of Breda ( issued on 4 April 1660 ) was a proclamation by Charles II of England in which he promised a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum for all those who recognised Charles as the lawful king ; the retention by the current owners of property purchased during the same period ; religious toleration ; and the payment of pay arrears to members of the army, and that the army would be recommissioned into service under the crown.

Immediately after the deputy king's death in 1865, King Mongkut made known his fear that Lao musical culture would supplant Siamese genres and therefore banned Lao musical performances in a proclamation in which he complained that, " Both men and women now play Lao khene ( mo lam ) throughout the kingdom ... Lao khene is always played for the topknot cutting ceremony and for ordinations.

On 12 June, Gage issued a proclamation, believed to have been authored by Burgoyne but distributed in Gage's name, granting a general pardon to all who would demonstrate loyalty to the crown — with the notable exceptions of John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

On April 3 the same year, the mayor and the city council of Eckernförde issued an official proclamation about the auctioning off of the Count's remaining effects in case no living relative would appear within a designated time period to lay claim on them.