After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would reestablish its authority over the lost territories of the Portuguese Empire.

After the Spanish and Portuguese ports were closed to the Dutch ships, the Republic began to show interest for trading in the Atlantic region.

After the fall of Napoleon I and the Liberal revolution in Portugal, the Portuguese Royals returned to Europe ( 1820 ).

After arriving in Portuguese Malacca in October of that year and waiting three months in vain for a ship to Makassar, he gave up the goal of his voyage and left Malacca on 1 January 1546, for Ambon Island where he stayed until mid-June.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Portuguese forces retreated without achieving most of their goals.

After the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese overseas territories in the 1830s, the slave trade definitely went into serious decline.

After achieving independence from Portugal in 1974, the Força Aérea de Guine-Bissau or FAGB was formed with former Portuguese Douglas C-47's, North American T-6s, two Dornier Do-27s and two Aloutte III's.

After the 16th century, Benin mainly exported pepper, ivory, gum, and cotton cloth to the Portuguese and Dutch who resold it to other African societies on the coast.

After years of failed negotiations, Nehru authorized the Indian Army to liberate Goa in 1961 from Portuguese occupation, and then he formally annexed it to India.

After decades of small-scale conflict the Portuguese were defeated in Kenya by Arabs from Oman.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

After the Portuguese set up posts for trading in China and committed piratical activities and raids in China, the Chinese responded with the complete extermination of the Portuguese in Ningbo and Quanzhou Pires, a Portuguese trade envoy, was among those who died in the Chinese dungeons.

After the Portuguese raided and pillaged villages around the trading posts in those two cities, the Emperor ruled that all Portuguese encountered everywhere should be killed on the spot.

After Portuguese permanent settlement in Macau, both Chinese and Portuguese merchants flocked to Macau, although the Portuguese were never numerous ( numbering just 900 in 1583 and only 1, 200 out of 26, 000 in 1640 ).

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

After the Portuguese arrival in the area in the 16th century, the next significant Western contact was the arrival of David Livingstone along the shore of Lake Malawi in 1859.

After the 16th century, when European colonial powers took over much of the trade in the Indian Ocean, first the Portuguese, and then the Dutch, and the French occasionally meddled with local politics.

After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal's Estado Novo regime headed by António de Oliveira Salazar issued a decree officially renaming Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions as overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared ( Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese resident population was about 300, 000 in 1973, which excludes the Portuguese military sent from the mainland and mulatto population ).

After the demise of the Second Triumvirate, Augustus restored the outward facade of the free Republic, with governmental power vested in the Roman Senate, the executive magistrates, and the legislative assemblies.

After being delayed several times, legislative elections were held in April 2004.

After the triumph, Caesar set forth to passing an unprecedented legislative agenda.

After taking power, Rajoelina dissolved both the National Assembly and the Senate, leaving the nation without a constitutional legislative body.

After both criteria are satisfied the court additionally checks whether formalities related to the legislative requirements are followed and only then makes decision.

After numerous failures in securing legislative sovereignty in the early 19th century many Poles simply gave up trying to attain a degree of independence from their foreign master-states.

After the death of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá ' í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with executive and legislative branches, the head of each being the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice.

After the May 1981 presidential election, the right also lost the subsequent legislative election that year.

After coming under pressure from within the country and the United States, Diệm agreed to hold legislative elections in August 1959 for South Vietnam.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

After a brief absence Laird returned to the Nixon administration in June 1973 as counselor to the president for domestic affairs, concerning himself mainly with legislative issues.

After a referendum and a bitter legislative fight, the county seat moved from Springer to Raton in 1897.

After a stormy series of boundary changes caused by legislative acts, Spokane County was created with a permanent county seat still to be selected.

After putting in force amendments to the constitution, legislative action, and securing his sweeping powers and with the Batasan under his control, President Marcos lifted martial law on January 17, 1981.

After the Austrian legislative election, 1999, the People's Party formed in 2000 a coalition government with the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria of its then-leader Jörg Haider.

After Alexander's death, Venizelos ' defeat in the 1920 legislative elections, and a plebiscite in favor of his return, Constantine was reinstated.

After describing the legislative history of the 1933 Banking Act, this article deals with the narrow meaning of the Glass – Steagall Act as the four provisions of the 1933 Banking Act separating commercial and investment banking.

After approval of the journal the members recite the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the start of legislative business.

After the Clerk of the House receives the bill it is then assigned a legislative number, enrolled in the House Journal and printed in the Congressional Record and the Speaker of the House refers the bill to the Committee ( s ) with jurisdiction by sending the bill to the Office of the Chairman of the committee ( s ), and the Clerk of the Committee will add the bill to the Committee's calendar.

After 1987, the place of residence ( or, for councilors who were previously members of the Federal Assembly or of a Canton's legislative or executive body, the canton from which they were elected ) became the determinant factor.

After assuming temporary control over the presidency, Raúl Castro was elected as the new president during a legislative session held at Cuba's Palace of Conventions in Havana.

After the court ruling, as the 2010 legislative session drew to a close, Pawlenty vetoed a budget which would fix a $ 2. 9-billion deficit by adding a new tax bracket for six-figure incomes.

After a history of procedural wrangling, and sustained lobbying and publicity efforts from both sides, the Directive, which had largely been supported by the European Commission and most member-state governments in contrast with their national parliaments, was overwhelmingly rejected by the European Parliament on 6 July 2005, terminating the legislative procedure.

After the state gained its independence from Britain, the state constitution deliberately weakened the executive branch of state government and strengthened the legislative branch.