After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

After the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia in the mid-1930s, constant border skirmishes occurred between French forces in French Somaliland and Italian forces in Italian East Africa.

After retiring as a footballer, Zoff went on to become coach for the Italian national team and several other Italian clubs.

* 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 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 his success with Messiah ( 1742 ) he never performed an Italian opera again.

After Italian unification, the Pope remains head of state of Vatican City.

After being appointed as mine manager at the age of 23, he led a major program of expansion for the Sons of Gwalia gold mine at Gwalia, Western Australia, and brought in many Italian immigrants to cut costs and counter the union militancy of the Australian miners.

After many discussions during the 1920s, in 1935 the Mussolini-Laval agreement was made and Italy received the Aouzou strip, which was united to the newly created Italian colony of Libya.

After a much-disputed truce on 3 January 1928, the Italian policy in Libya reached the level of full scale war, including deportation and concentration of the people of the Jebel Akhdar to deny the rebels the support of the local population.

After World War I, Albania was still under the occupation of Serbian and Italian forces.

After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia ( 15 March 1939 ) without notifying Mussolini in advance, the Italian dictator decided to proceed with his own annexation of Albania.

After the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941, the Italian Fascists added to the territory of the Kingdom of Albania most of the Albanian-inhabited areas that had been previously given to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

After the betting scandal of the early 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ) it was decided to clean up the image of Italian football by assigning referees randomly instead of picking them, in order to clear up all the suspicions and accusations always accompanying Italy's football life.

After the first democratic elections with universal suffrage in 1948, in which the Christian Democracy and their allies won against the Popular front of the Italian Communist and Socialists parties, the communist party never returned in the government.

After serving almost 20 years of a life sentence in prison in Italy, Ağca was pardoned by the then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in June 2000 and deported to Turkey.

After his graduation in law he collaborated with the newspaper La Nuova Sardegna and other Italian newspapers.

After the collapse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao ( 453 ), the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great first moved to Moesia ( c. 475 – 488 ) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom of the German warrior Odoacer.

After the armistice he returned to Birmingham and tried to find work as a cartoonist.

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

After the armistice, South Korea experienced political turmoil under years of autocratic leadership of Syngman Rhee, which was ended by student revolt in 1960.

After the Italian armistice with the Allies in September 1943, the German Army took control of Cagliari and the island, but soon retreated peacefully in order to reinforce their positions in mainland Italy.

After the armistice between Italy and the Allies on 3 September 1943 and the country's split into the fascist Italian Social Republic in the north and the Kingdom of Italy in the south, the Carabinieri split into two groups.

After a European armistice led to the loss of British support, Bowles was discredited.

After some further vain attempts to contain the enemy offensive, he then joined in seeking an armistice and cooperation with the German occupiers.

After the Italian armistice, in early September 1943, most of the region was liberated by Yugoslav partisan insurgency, led by the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, which established its own temporary administration, known as the Kobarid Republic.

After being forced into a disastrous retreat, the allies were compelled to request an armistice that effectively ended the War of the Second Coalition.

After a minor battle, a short-lived armistice was declared, but by early July 1386 the Habsburg army was on the move toward the Lucerne city of Sempach.

After some negotiation the parties concluded an armistice and agreed on capitulation ( onorevole capitolazione ), whereby the castles were to be evacuated, the hostages liberated and the garrisons free to remain in Naples unmolested or to sail for Toulon.

After the 1918 armistice, the D-type remained in production, along with the sporting E-type.

After the armistice, Bäke remained in the army until his demobilisation in January 1919.

After the Battle of Austerlitz, where he commanded the grenadiers in the absence of General Oudinot, he was employed in a series of important negotiations with Frederick William III of Prussia, with the elector of Saxony ( December 1806 ), in the incorporation of certain states in the Confederation of the Rhine, and in the conclusion of the armistice of Znaim ( July 1809 ).

After the Italian armistice, the Regia Aeronautica was briefly followed by two new Italian air forces.

After the southern campaign, Commonwealth had to deal with a treat from the north, as the armistice, ending the Polish – Swedish War ( 1600 – 1629 ) was expiring.

After the Italian armistice in September 1943, Cerkno was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans and became one of the most important centres of Partisan resistance in the Slovenian Littoral.

After the Battle of Wagram ( 5 – 6 July 1809 ), Dumas participated in negotiating the armistice with Austria.

After the 1953 armistice, the defense of the Korean Demilitarized Zone was handled by the South Korean and American armies.

After the armistice of 11 November the Imperial Army had split up, and the newly established German Reichswehr army according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was to be confined to no more than 100, 000 troops.

After an armistice was arranged between Antiochus and Rome, the Roman army waged a campaign against the Galatians which politically undermined the Seleucid position in Asia Minor.

After the armistice and the return of the American Expeditionary Force in 1919, the wartime squadrons were demobilized and inactivated.

After Mussolini was removed from power on 25 July 1943 and arrested, the government of Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943, which was made public only on 8 September 1943, and the Italian army collapsed.

After the Italian armistice in September 1943, the town was shortly liberated by the Slovene partisan resistance, but soon fell under Nazi German administration.