After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.

After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.

After Stalin declared that he was going to " solve the Baltic problem ", by June 1940, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were merged into the Soviet Union, after repressions and actions therein brought about the deaths of over 160, 000 citizens of these states.

After his death, the German orders finalized their conquests of Baltic tribes and they could concentrate on Lithuania.

After settling along the Baltic coast, through contact with other Germans they adopted the cult of the Aesir gods, a shift that represented a cultural change from an agricultural society into a warrior society.

After 1919, many Baltic Germans felt obliged to depart for Germany, which was as foreign to them as any other country, bar the language they spoke.

After Estonia regained independence from the Soviet Union on August 20, 1991, the exiled association of the German Baltic nobility sent an official message to the president-to-be Lennart Meri that no member of the association would claim proprietary rights to their former Estonian lands.

After the abolition of serfdorm, a new national identity was forming and authors sought to prove that Baltic cultural traditions were as deep as those of other nations.

" After the defeat of the Danes at the Battle of Bornhoved in 1227 ," explains Udolph, " the region south of the Baltic Sea, which was then inhabited by Slavs, became available for colonization by the Germans.

After the Migration Period of the Early Middle Ages, Holstein was a borderland between Nordalbingia ( part of Old Saxony ) at the coast of North Sea, the land of the Slavic Wagrians belonging to the Obotrites at the coast of the Baltic Sea and the land of the Danes in Jutland.

After a period of intensive touring throughout Europe and the US they were the most experienced Baltic band, and probably the best known in the West.

After the Soviet Baltic Offensive and re-occupation of Estonia in 1944, nearly all the Estonian Swedes fled to Sweden proper.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states saw a revival of scientific and cultural interest in extinct Baltic languages and tribes, including Yotvingian, Curonian, and Old Prussian.

After gaining also the Duchy of Bavaria, Henry's realm covered more than two thirds of Germany from the Alps to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, making him the mightiest ruler in central Europe.

After World War II, the Baltic States had been fully incorporated into the USSR after military occupation and annexation first in 1940 and then again in 1944.

After taking command of the Baltische Landeswehr in mid-July 1919, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Alexander ( the future Alexander of Tunis ), gradually dismissed the Baltic German elements.

After their separation from the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries now commemorate the end of WWII on 8 May, the Victory in Europe Day.

After World War II Rebane joined the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) where he played a key role in assisting the armed resistance to Soviet rule in Estonia and other Baltic countries.

After Germany's surrender, Höss completed his secondary education, following which joined nationalist paramilitary groups that were forming in the post-war chaos, first the East Prussian Volunteer Corps and then the in the Baltic area, Silesia, and the Ruhr.

After officially complaining about his dreary commanding officer Daniel Jacob Wilster in Norway, Wessel was transferred to the Baltic Sea command of Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, who appreciated and utilized Wessel's courage.

After the Continuation War where the Soviet Union forced Finland to sue for peace, but failed in its goal of conquering and annexing the country ( in a manner similar to the Baltic States ), Finland became neutral and retained democratic government and market economy.

After the Saxon War of 808, the victorious Charlemagne bestowed on the Slavic tribes allied with him ( such as the Obotrites ) part of the Saxon lands between the Elbe and the Baltic Sea.

After King Valdemar II of Denmark had conquered the southern coast of the Baltic Sea with Gdanzk

After 1180 BC, the Hittite empire disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " states, subsequent to losing much territory to the Middle Assyrian Empire and being finally overrun by the Phrygians, another Indo-European people who are believed to have migrated from The Balkans.

After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.

After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

After further political consolidation, seven prominent states remained by the end of 5th century BC, and the years in which these few states battled each other are known as the Warring States Period.

After Confucius's resignation, he began a long journey or set of journeys around the small kingdoms of northeast and central China, traditionally including the states of Wei, Song, Chen, and Cai.

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

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 Enco brand was discontinued in Ohio, it was moved to other non-Esso states.

The Epistle to the Colossians states " After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France.

After much political and military intrigue in Rome and the southern Italian states, Gregory VIII was formally deposed and Callistus II was generally recognized as the legitimate Pope in 1121.

After the Convention, his support convinced many to vote for ratification ; the new Constitution was ratified by all thirteen states.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Germany and Italy unified into nation states, and most European states had become constitutional monarchies by 1871.

After the Macedonian conquests of the 4th century BC, the hoplite was slowly abandoned in favour of the phalangite, armed in the Macedonian fashion, in the armies of the southern Greek states.

" After reflecting more on Kurtz, Marlow states " I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him.

After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that first German Empire, Prussia, and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through polices such as those of Metternich.

After Prussia unified the other states into the second German Empire, its long-time leader Otto von Bismarck ( 1862-90 ) had long opposed colonial acquisitions, arguing that the burden of obtaining, maintaining and defending such possessions would outweigh any potential benefit.

) After some time, the composite system will have an equal probability of occupying each of the states available to it.

After two years of imprisonment, Davis was released on bail of $ 100, 000, which was posted by prominent citizens of both Northern and Southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith.

After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Ribbentrop expanded on this idea for an Axis alliance to include the Soviet Union to form a Eurasian bloc that would destroy maritime states such as Britain.