Prince Willem-Alexander has become king of the Netherlands following the abdication of his 75-year-old mother.
In 1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed two days after the abdication of King Louis-Philippe.
In 1830, Louis-Philippe formally accepted the crown of France after the abdication of Charles X on August 2.
But, away from politics, perhaps the biggest resignation in living memory was the abdication of King Edward VIII.
What set spark to tinder was the abdication of Spain's King Ferdinand VII, after a French invasion in 1808.
Yet neither liberty nor opposition to censorship vindicates the abdication of social responsibility.
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The problem of the European Union, by contrast, is not the over-assertion of state power but the abdication of it without a suitable replacement.
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At that point, the monarch is emerging as a triumphal figure, not even three years into his surprise reign on the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.
The BBC's royal correspondent Nick Witchell says she saw the abdication crisis at first hand and was fully involved in the Royal Family's efforts to maintain the nation's morale during the Second World War.
That engendered a housing bubble, which was nourished by the complete abdication of lending standards in the banking system.
But some religious Scouting leaders called the delay an abdication of the organization's values.
But while the precedent of abdication has set in the Netherlands, it hasn't yet taken hold elsewhere.
The widely expected abdication comes at a time of debate over the future of the largely ceremonial Dutch monarchy, but also as calm has descended upon the Netherlands after a decade of turmoil that saw Beatrix act as the glue that held together an increasingly divided society.
On the eve of her abdication, Queen Beatrix said that marrying the plain-spoken German nobleman had been the best decision she ever took.
The middle part of the book takes a more serious turn and some events, such as King Edward VIII's abdication and the cabinet discussions of 1938, provide good passages, but the diary stops for most of 1926-36 and in 1939-44.
But at the time of his abdication, Benedict suggested he would not try influence his successor, saying he would live out the rest of his days "hidden from the world".
The document urges him to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his first marriage. (When the pope wouldn't do so, Henry founded the Church of England, which did.) The 1654 deed of abdication of Sweden's Queen Christina, who left her Protestant nation's throne to join the church of Rome, is tied to over 300 round containers, many today empty of wax.
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The elected National Assembly now has the right to demand his abdication in a confidence vote, if that's what the Bhutanese people want.
The queen announced her abdication in January, saying it was time for a new generation to lead.
But years of judicial abdication in the economic realm should not justify more.
This latest research shows the danger of this judicial abdication: a proliferation of mandated disclaimers that harm both sellers and buyers.
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This action by the FASB was "a complete abdication of responsibility, " Carmichael says.
And with Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, clearly determined to push through a settlement, such an abdication is damaging to the interests of the Protestant majority.
That indecision came in for some criticism: it was seen in some quarters as an abdication of responsibility for the economic guidance which many people expect from the Fed.
Such an abdication of one of the Senate's most important functions might be tolerable, if reprehensible, provided the executive branch were doing its job - negotiating thoughtfully and forcefully on behalf of and toward ends that actually advance U.S. interests.
But Labour MP Geraint Davies said the bill was "tantamount to an abdication of parliamentary sovereignty".
"Responsibility for our country must now lie in the hands of a new generation, " Beatrix, one of Europe's longest-serving monarchs, said in the simple, televised speech announcing her abdication.
When we understood that the only options the USDA was open to embracing both included the planting of GMO alfalfa, we knew we had a responsibility to advocate for the most restrictive sets of regulations possible, and to have taken any other route at that juncture would have been a clear abdication of our responsibility to the our organic farmers and consumers.
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