when did licoln sign the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 1

As a matter of fact, there are TWO dates involved.

Lincoln signed and issued the "preliminary" version of the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/library/features/ep/

Then, as announced in that document, he issued the final form 100 days later on January 1, 1863, at which time the Proclamation actually went into effect.
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html

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(By the way, it was NOT a speech, but a very carefully drawn legal document. Many have misunderstood this, thinking somehow his heart wasn't in it. But in fact Lincoln's central purpose in this case was NOT to convince and inspire people with moving rhetoric. It was to write with legal precision something that might better withstand the Supreme Court challenge Lincoln fully expected ... before a Court whose chief justice was still Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott Decision [1857], and which had ruled against him concerning other uses of his 'war powers'.)

Answer 2

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

Answer 3

Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Answer 4

the emancipation proclamation was a speech
and he gave it new years day 1863

Answer 5

L-i-n-c-o-l-n. Don't be a laze! Get a BOOK out and read on it.