After his death, the throne was passed to his wife and niece, Princess Takara and then to her younger brother, Emperor Kōtoku, before eventually being inherited by two of his sons, Emperor Tenji and Emperor Temmu.

After Kōtoku's death Kōgyoku took the throne once more as Saimei ( r. 655-661 ), before Naka no Ōe himself finally took the throne as Emperor Tenji ( 661-672 );.

After Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996, King Letsie III ascended to the throne again.

After Ichijō retired because of illness, Emperor Sanjō ascended the throne.

After he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers to rule.

After Magdalena's death which occurred well before Joachim ascended the electorate, Joachim II Hector married Hedwig Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland.

After his father's death in 1516, the minor Louis II ascended to the thrones of Hungary and Bohemia.

After a rigorous approach including several hundred feet of granite stairs, the final pitch up the peak's steep but somewhat rounded east face is ascended with the aid of a pair of post-mounted braided steel cables originally constructed close to the Anderson route in 1919.

After Mal Evans started work for The Beatles, Aspinall was promoted to become their personal assistant, and eventually ascended to the position of CEO for Apple Corps ( a position he held until 10 April 2007 ).

After Caray was fired by the Cardinals following the 1969 season, Buck ascended to the team's lead play-by-play role.

After the city's incorporation into Muscovy ( 1392 ), the local princes took the name Shuisky and settled in Moscow, where they were prominent at the court and briefly ascended the throne in the person of Vasili IV.

After Muhammad's return, he called all who would believe him to join with him and be Muslim. Other Islmaic scholars believe that the Prophet ascended to the Heaven from Al-Aqsa Mosque.

After Elendil fell in the War of the Last Alliance, his eldest son Isildur ascended to the throne.

After the death of his brother Herebeald, Hygelac ascended the Geatish throne.

After he had given instructions as to which groups would have political and spiritual leadership, he began to dance and slowly ascended into heaven.

After reigning for a period of only four months, Bahram III was either captured or more likely killed during a campaign by Narseh who then ascended to the throne in Bahram's place.

After the passenger train ascended into the tunnel shortly after 9: 00am, the electric heater in the unattended conductor's cabin at the lower end of the train caught fire, due to a design fault.

After Frederick William I ascended to the throne in 1713 he proceeded to decrease expenses of the court and strengthen his military.

After the death of King Ananda Mahidol ( Prince Mahidol's elder son ), the present monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej ( the Prince's younger son ) ascended the throne in 1946.

After 1956, Hill's career ascended to new heights.

After Gustav's death, his oldest son Eric XIV ascended the throne.

After his twenty-seven years of pilgrimage, King Mongkut ascended the throne in 1851, aged 47.

After the Perón ascended to the presidency in 1946, Borges spoke before the Argentine Society of Writers ( SADE ), saying " Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty ; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy.

After Liu Bei's death, Liu Shan ascended to the throne of Shu Han.

After the death of William IV, Mary Adelaide's cousin, Princess Victoria of Kent ascended the throne in 1837.

After the 8th Duke had ascended the royal throne, he elevated his son and heir Teodósio to the newly-created rank of Prince of Brazil in 1645, but granted the Duchy of Braganza to his brother, the Infante Duarte, who died in 1649 in Spanish captivity.

After the death of Fulk in a hunting accident in 1143, the throne passed jointly to Melisende and Amalric's older brother Baldwin III, who was still only 13 years old.

After months of chaos in Kabul, Mohammad Akbar Khan secured local control and in April 1843 his father Dost Mohammad, who had been released by the British, returned to the throne in Afghanistan.

After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the legitimate heir to the throne, Andreas Palaiologos, willed away his claim to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1503.

After India was invaded by the Mongol Khans and Turkic Muslims, the rulers of their major states on the subcontinent were titled Sultān, In this manner, the only empress-regnant ever to have actually sat on the throne of Delhi was Razia Sultan.

After the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians who were assisted by soldiers from Britain in 1941, Haile Selassie was restored to the throne but Victor Emmanuel did not relinquish his claim to the title until 1943.

After the short reigns of Elizabeth's half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.

After a brief struggle within the Soga clan in which one of Prince Yamashiro's main supporters was killed, Prince Tamura was chosen and he acceded to the throne as Emperor Jomei in 629.

After his death, Naka no Ōe would not ascend to the throne.

After Junna stepped down from the throne, two former Emperors were alive.

After the death of his father, Seinei won the fight against Prince Hoshikawa, his brother, for the throne and so succeeded his father.

" After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concludes that Honorius " himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.

After World War II, Belgium voted in a referendum to allow him back on the throne, but because of the ongoing controversy he ultimately abdicated.

After defeating, but not subjugating, the Kingdom of Scotland, he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1338, starting what would be known as the Hundred Years ' War.

After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

After David II's death, Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, came to the throne in 1371.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

After these lines ended in extinction, the electors began to elect kings from different families so that the throne would not once again settle within a single dynasty.

After much rivalry, Muhammad Ture's last son Askiya Daoud ( 1529 – 1582 ) assumed the throne.

Another youth Mehmed found attractive, and who was presumably more accommodating, was Radu III the Fair, the brother of the famous Vlad the Impaler, “ Radu, a hostage in Istanbul whose good looks had caught the Sultan ’ s fancy, and who was thus singled out to serve as one of his most favored pages .” After the defeat of Vlad, Mehmed placed Radu on the throne of Wallachia as a vassal ruler.

After King Abdullah II's accession to the throne in 1999, liberal economic policies were introduced that resulted in a boom lasting for a decade, continuing through 2009.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.

After his exile, Tarquin made a number of attempts to regain the throne.