After the long pontificate of Pope Pius XII, the cardinals chose a man who – it was presumed because of his advanced age – would be a short-term or " stop-gap " pope.

After a brief pontificate of eight months, Benedict XI died suddenly at Perugia.

After this failure in dabbling in imperial politics, Gregory by and large focused his attention for the rest of his pontificate in dealing with internal church matters.

" After the deaths of some pontiffs, Osporco, a Roman, succeeded to the papacy ; but on account of his unseemly appellation, he took the name of Sergius, and this was the origin of that change of names which the popes adopt upon their election to the pontificate.

After being elected Pope in 1181, he lived at Rome from November 1181 to March 1182, but dissensions in the city compelled him to pass the remainder of his pontificate in exile, mainly at Velletri, Anagni and Verona.

After John Paul I's sudden death, Pope John Paul II told the congregation at the solemn inauguration of his pontificate:

When, in his 1996 Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, he revised the rules on the election of Popes, he removed all mention of a papal coronation, replacing it with a reference to an " inauguration ": " After the solemn ceremony of the inauguration of the pontificate and within an appropriate time, the pope will take possession of the Patriachal Archbasilica of the Lateran, in accordance with the prescribed ritual.

After a pontificate of little more than a year, John V died in bed and was succeeded by Pope Conon.

After a short but dramatic pontificate during which he convoked the Second Vatican Council which resulted in wide ranging changes in the church, the surprise John was replaced by the widely expected choice Giovanni Batista Montini, who many believed would have been elected in 1958, had he been a cardinal then.

After only five months of pontificate, he issued a solemn decree declaring it permissible for a Pope to resign, and then did so himself.

After the pontificate of Publius, the practice of compiling annals was carried on by various unofficial writers, of whom Cicero names Cato, Pictor, and Piso.

After the elevation of Giulio de ' Medici to the pontificate, the office of the piombo ( or leaden seal ) that is, the office of sealer of briefs of the apostolic chamber became vacant ; two painters competed for it, Sebastiano Luciani, hitherto a comparatively poor man, and Giovanni da Udine.

After fifteen minutes of traffic driving he turned to the left.

After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.

After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

After the popularity of Adam Bede, she continued to write popular novels for the next fifteen years.

After an exhaustive and divisive debate with the non-Hindi speakers, Hindi was adopted as the official language of India in 1950 with English continuing as an associate official language for a period of fifteen years, after which Hindi would become the sole official language.

After fifteen years of battles and sieges, Pisa was reconquered in 1509 by the Florentine troops led by Antonio da Filicaja, Averardo Salviati and Niccolò Capponi.

He has written over fifteen books, the most well-known being " The Mechanics Doomsday and Life After Death ", which is an analysis of the events leading to doomsday in light of scientific theories and Quranic knowledge.

After a late start, he was ordained priest, and Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, sent him as an appropriate ambassador to Pope Pius V, a position which he held for fifteen years.

After recovering from his illness, he went to Constantinople, where he served for fifteen years as domesticus under the generals Ardaburius and Aspar.

After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school.

After draws in games fifteen and sixteen, Korchnoi won the next two games to clinch the match by the score of 10½ – 7½.

After an unusually long pre-production period of fifteen months, due to the Navy's indecision, The Caine Mutiny went into production from 3 June to 24 August 1953, under the initial working title of Authority and Rebellion.

After a daring attack by Jonathan on the Philistine garrison at Michmash, they pursued the Philistines to Aijalon, a distance of fifteen miles ().

After two minutes and fifteen seconds, six seconds short of the planned flight, the rocket was destroyed as it was thought ( by an impact predictor ) to be veering west of the planned trajectory.

After fifteen rounds, most thought that Hagler had won.

After fifteen years of peace Mug Nuadat broke the treaty and declared war, along with the kings of Ulster and Leinster.

After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released three albums as an adult ( 5: 55, IRM and Stage Whisper ) to commercial and critical success.

After fifteen more years it moved to an even bigger location at 91 Valley Street where it is now.

After spending the 1932 – 33 pre-season training intensely by himself ( as opposed to playing golf with his teammates ), Mather selected Matthews in fifteen games, enough to earn him in a winners medal after Stoke were crowned Second Division champions, one point ahead of Tottenham Hotspur.

After two years, he was transferred to a carpenter ’ s shop followed by a blacksmith ’ s forge, where at the age of fifteen he began training as a blacksmith.

After sentencing Mrs Kelly to three years with hard labour, Barry said, ' if your son Ned were here I would make an example of him for the whole of Australia-I would give him fifteen years '.

After a single, disastrous year as an accountant, which she describes as " like being trapped in a Terry Gilliam movie ", she trained as a teacher at Sheffield University, and for fifteen years she taught modern languages, mostly at Leeds Grammar School, a boys ' independent school in Yorkshire.

After imprisonment for fifteen months, Dolet was released by the advocacy of Pierre Duchatel, Bishop of Tulle.

After his family business moved to New York City, Chin spent some fifteen years running a Jamaican restaurant in Queens.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

After all, where else can the public see a wagon these days??

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

-- After 52 rainless days, moisture finally came to Del Mar, resulting in but one workout during the week for most of the horses, and leaving us with less than half our total average rainfall during the season.

After all, his wife had written most of his letters for him in those first lean days of Partlow Products.

After three days, the soul crosses Chinvat bridge which is the Final Judgment of the soul.

After Lane's departure, Alcott fell into a depression and could not speak or eat for three days.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.

After seven days and nights in agony, Alcmene stretched out her arms and called upon Lucina, the goddess of childbirth ( the Roman equivalent of Eileithyia ).

* 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.

After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.

After a month and two days of fighting, the war ended as a moral disaster for Bulgaria, in the same time its economy was ruined and the military – demoralized.

After several days of negotiation, the Liberal Democrats agreed to join the Conservatives as part of a coalition government.

After fasting for four days, Dr. Berris Wink, president of the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association, urged her to stop the test.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

After several days, one of the crew, a seventeen year old cabin boy, fell unconscious due to a combination of the famine and drinking seawater.

After having ruled for just 80 days, Cuitláhuac died of smallpox that had been introduced to the New World by the Europeans.

After the war, Eisenhower reverted to his regular rank of captain and a few days later was promoted to major, a rank he held for 16 years.

After his three days in the pillory, Defoe went into Newgate Prison.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

After an incident in Washington state in 1993, most US and other pool builders are reluctant to equip a residential swimming pool with a diving springboard so home diving pools are much less common these days.