The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best college football team of 1906.
Captain America was such an integral part of the group that they'd retroactively declared him a founding member, even though he'd joined several months after their charter.
Henry's second action was to declare himself king retroactively from the day before Bosworth Field.
The church retroactively declared the Beauforts legitimate by way of a papal bull the same year, confirmed by an Act of Parliament in 1397.
Or so it was decreed by the media horde that retroactively declared "moral values" the campaign's decisive issue and the Super Bowl the blue states' Waterloo.
That investigation found sufficient evidence of educator-led cheating for TEA to retroactively declare the school district "academically unacceptable" (the lowest possible ranking).
The King declared retroactively that the instrument authorising the Lords Commissioners to act was valid.
At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy retroactively declared null.
The species is known from only a handful of sightings and some retroactively declared it extinct in 1916 after a female was shot at Busan, South Korea.
However, a clause of the Treaty of Lambeth required Prince Louis to declare retroactively that he had never been the rightful king.