After his father died in battle with the Normans in 1047, he fled from an arranged marriage and, though brought back by force, eventually fled again.

After celebrating Easter of 1087 in his monastery, Victor proceeded to Rome, and when the Normans had driven the soldiers of the Antipope Clement III ( Guibert of Ravenna ) out of St. Peter's, he was consecrated and enthroned on 9 May 1087.

After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily often changed hands, and during the early Middle Ages it was ruled in turn by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans.

After Harold's death, the Normans were quick to point out that in accepting the crown of England, Harold had perjured himself of this alleged oath.

After the Roman, Vandal, Byzantine and ( from the 9th century ) Arab dominations, Trapani was conquered by the Normans of Roger I, flourishing under their dominations and having also a role in the Crusades as one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean Sea.

After the settlement of the Normans in Apulia, Matera was ruled by William Iron-Arm from 1043.

" After a fourth Easter synod in 1053, Leo IX set out against the Normans in the south with an army of Italians and Swabian mercenaries.

After some costly failures the Normans managed to construct a pontoon to reach the Isle of Ely, defeated the rebels at the bridgehead and stormed the island, marking the effective end of English resistance.

After 1075 all earldoms were held by Normans, while Englishmen were only occasionally appointed as sheriffs.

After the recall of Maniakes most of the Sicilian conquests were lost throughout 1041, and a subsequent expedition against the Normans suffered several defeats, although Bari was recaptured.

After the 1066 invasion, the local people put up fierce resistance against the Normans.

After a period of Viking control, it passed to the Cerdic dynasty who unified England and then the Normans who destroyed much of the city.

After Harold's defeat at the battle of Hastings later that year, Edgar was proclaimed King of England, but when the Normans advanced on London, the Witenagemot presented Edgar to William the Conqueror who took him to Normandy before returning him to England in 1068, when Edgar, Margaret, Cristina and their mother Agatha fled north to Northumbria.

After the fall of the Normans and of their heirs, the Hohenstaufen, Taormina followed the history of Sicily under the Angevins and then the Crown of Aragon.

After this first success, many other Normans looked for gainings in Southern Italy.

After moving across the plain, they arrived in front their opponents, who broke formation and fled without even trying to resist ; the Normans killed many of them and moved further towards the Papal field-camp.

After this devastation wrought by the Normans the region was left out of the Domesday Book ; there was little left to record, and the region was by then being run from Durham by the Prince-Bishops so held little interest for London.

" After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror replaced the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy with Normans and the new Norman French ruling class replaced the Anglo-Saxon terminology with Norman French.

After the conquest of England, the Normans built a castle on the banks of the River Frome, at the site now known as Castle Close.

After being owned by the Counts of Flanders, Lillers, which had been fortified against the Normans was given as a dowry in 1179 to King Philip II Augustus of France.

After the Norman conquest of England, Wulfstan was the only English-born bishop to retain his diocese for any significant time after the Conquest ( all others had been replaced or succeeded by Normans by 1075 ).

After the Norman Invasion, Earl Edwin's lands were forfeited and came under the control of the Normans.

After the Norman invasion of north Pembrokeshire led by Robert fitz Martin, the Normans built a rabbit farm on the island, later revived during the Victorian era.

After this victory, the Normans took Dyrrhachium in February 1082 and advanced inland, capturing most of Macedonia and Thessaly.

After the Turks conquered the city in 1453 they converted it to a mosque, adding the stubby minarets.

After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.

After the Mongols conquered China and founded the Yuan Dynasty, they used the Chinese gunpowder-based weapons technology in their invasion of Japan ; they also used gunpowder to fuel rockets.

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

After Alexander's death, his generals fought over the territory he had conquered.

After the death of both Fulk and Emperor John in separate hunting accidents in 1143, Zengi invaded and conquered Edessa in 1144.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

After the fall of the Ostrogoths, the Franks also conquered Provence.

After Burma was conquered by British, it became the wealthiest country in Southeast Asia.

After the Order's acquisition of the area, Poles began to settle in the south-east part of the conquered region.

After capturing Belgrade in 1521, Suleiman conquered the southern and central parts of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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 region of Veraguas was conquered, the two regions settled for a mutual dislike of each other.

After the death of Emperor Henry VI, who had recently also conquered the Kingdom of Sicily, the succession became disputed: as Henry's son Frederick was still a small child, the partisans of the Staufen dynasty elected Henry ’ s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, whereas the princes opposed to the Staufen dynasty elected Otto, Duke of Brunswick, of the House of Welf.

After expelling the Muslims from Narbonne in 759 and driving their forces back over the Pyrenees, the Carolingian king Pepin the Short conquered Aquitaine in a ruthless eight year war.

After 1792 they conquered the region and made it part of the French Republic.

After a short period of Genoese rule ( 1205 – 1220 ), which favoured a rise of trades, Syracuse was conquered back by emperor Frederick II.

After World War II, he conquered it from a group of pirate radio broadcasters with the intention to set up his own station from the base.

After conquering some parts of the Balkans, the Ottoman Turks conquered Skopje in 1392 beginning 520 years of Ottoman rule.

After Germany conquered the Balkan states, and the Axis ( Germany and Italy ) became neighbours with Turkey in the Aegean Sea, Turkey signed a Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression with Germany on June 18, 1941.

After the Soviets conquered these republics, the territory under Armenian control, by and large, went to Turkey ; whereas the territory under Georgian control mostly reverted to the Soviet Union after Georgia's fall in March 1921.

After Timur the state began to split, and by 1510 Uzbek tribes had conquered all of Central Asia.

After the United States purchased the islands due to fear that if Denmark were conquered by Germany, Germany would attempt to take over Denmark's overseas dependencies.

After a siege, the Vikings conquered Lisbon ( at the time, the city was under Muslim rule and known as Al-Ushbuna ).

After war had broken out, he warned that America could not be conquered.