January 3 - A decree in Germany outlaws the use of Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of Antiqua.

Aside from economic unavailability of luxuries such as spices, decrees outlawed consumption of certain foods among certain social classes and sumptuary laws limited conspicuous consumption among the nouveau riche.

Antiochus's decree also outlawed Jewish circumcision, and parents who violated his order were hanged along with their infants.

Prestigious graves of local nobility appears to have resisted the Christianization of burial customs into the eighth century, possibly until the 786 decree of Charlemagne outlawing pagan burial.

In "Ode to the Maggot," he writes: No decree or creed can outlaw you As you take every living thing apart.

After Franco's decree outlawing masonry, Franco's supporters were given two months to resign from any lodge they might be a member of.

The decree "On Separation of Church from State and Schools from Church" outlawed connection of any public and social acts with religious ceremonies.

The company signed the decree after a November 1988 Court decision outlawed quotas at Starrett that favored whites over minority families.

In the next few years some thirteen decrees supplementing the Nuremberg Laws would outlaw the Jew completely.

This decree effectively outlawed competitive outdoor mourning, which could have had a devastating psychological impact upon the survivors.