After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

After 2000 years Sima Qian's model still dominates scholarship, although the dynastic cycle is no longer used for modern Chinese history.

After many vicissitudes, resulting from political and dynastic changes, he was invited to Paris ( 1802 ) by Napoleon, whose favor he had won five years previously by composing a march for the funeral of General Hoche.

After dynastic quarrels however, there was a Christian reconquest in 1072.

After the dynastic change to the Tudors in 1485, Henry VII made him Archbishop of Canterbury on October 6 of 1486, and appointed him Lord Chancellor of England in 1487.

After the Burgundian regime in the Low Countries ( 1363 – 1477 ), the Southern Netherlands ( whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) as well as the northern provinces ( whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands ) had dynastic links with the Austrian Habsburgs and then with Spain and the Austrian Habsburgs together.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu ( present-day Beijing ) in 1368.

After World War I the heads of some formerly reigning dynasties continued the practice of rejecting or, increasingly, recognising dynastic titles and / or rights for descendants of " morganatic " unions, effectively de-morganatizing the latter.

After the English Restoration, Charles II tried to serve his dynastic interests by attempting to make Prince William III of Orange, his nephew, stadtholder of The Republic, using some military pressure.

After various preliminaries, his nephew was forced to abdicate the throne to Charles IX as regent in 1595 by the Riksens ständer, which eventually kicked off nearly seven decades of sporadic warfare as the two lines of the divided House of Vasa both continued to attempt to remake the union between the Polish and Swedish thrones with opposing counter-claims and dynastic wars.

" Sarah Macauley notes, " After the Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley was the strongest dynastic claimant to Elizabeth's throne.

After the dynastic union of England and Scotland in 1603 ( the so-called " Union of the Crowns "), a combined British flag was created in 1606, initially for maritime display, later restricted to the King's ships, by combining St George's Cross with the St Andrew's Cross ( the flag of Scotland ).

After the dynastic struggles in the 12th century, Shkodër became part of the Nemanyid Zeta province.

After the initial dynastic chaos, a series of longer reigning, better attested kings ruled for about fifty to eighty years.

After Samaratungga married princess Tara, the daughter of Dharmasetu, Samaratungga become his successor and the house of Sailendra was promoted to become the dynastic lineage of later Srivijayan kings, and for a century period the center of Srivijaya was shifted from Sumatra to Java.

After the death of Časlav, the last dynastic member, the principality disintegrated, and the provinces were annexed by the Bulgars and Byzantines.

After forming an association with Poland — including both the dynastic union ( 1385 – 1569 ) and the confederated Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 )— the Lithuanian Statutes were the Grand Duchy's greatest expression of independence.

After the English Restoration, Charles II of England became king, and tried to serve his dynastic interests by putting pressure on the States-General to make his nephew, the later William III of Orange, stadtholder.

After the death of Agrippa, Augustus sought to promote his stepson Tiberius, believing that this would best serve his own dynastic interests.

After thirty-two years of relative stability, Astyages lost the support of his nobles during the war to his grandson Cyrus, as attested to at length in the Cyropaedia of Xenophon, resulting in the formation of the Persian empire, which can be considered therefore a dynastic successor of the Medes.

After the death of his granduncle, Marye of Yejju, Ali was appointed Ruler of Begemder and Imperial Regent at the age of 12 in a meeting of the chief nobles of the Yejju Oromo at the dynastic capital of Debre Tabor in July 1831 ,-and for himself, a minor, a council of regents was appointed from these nobles.

After the Kingdom of Man was ended by dynastic feuding, the people of Daggerford built a town proper near the shores of Delimbiyr, the Shining River.

After the collapse of the Sanhaja union, Awdagust passed over to the Ghana empire and the trans-Saharan routes were taken over by the Zenata Maghrawa of Sijilmassa.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

After the dissolution of the Gran Colombia, Ecuador named Don Pedro Gual as plenipotentiary minister with the main task of resolving the debt acquired while part of the Gran Colombia union as well as to establish diplomatic relations with the New Granada and Venezuela.

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 a brief war with Sweden the peace terms of the Convention of Moss recognized Norwegian independence, but forced Norway to accept a personal union with Sweden.

After the deaths of Jogaila and Vytautas, the Lithuanian nobility at times attempted to break the union between Poland and Lithuania, independently selecting Grand Dukes from the Jagiellon dynasty.

After occupation by Revolutionary France, the 1815 Treaty of Paris transformed Luxembourg into a Grand Duchy in personal union with the Netherlands.

After Dubcek assumed power, however, the scholar Eduard Goldstucker became the chairman of the union and thus editor-in-chief of the paper.

After representatives of the government met with leaders of the Jiu Valley coal miners union, thousands of miners were organized and arrived in Bucharest June 14.

After the dissolution, Serbia continued to be the legal successor of the union, while Montenegro re-applied for membership in international organizations.

After the federation was reconstituted as a state union, the new Assembly of the State Union was created.

* 1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

After the Union of Lublin in 1569, the Kingdom of Poland became, through personal union with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and thus the Sejm was supplemented with new envoys from among the Lithuanian nobility.

After 69 years as part of the Soviet Union ( including 67 years as a union republic ), Turkmenistan declared its independence on 27 October 1991.

After the dissolution of the Dano-Norwegian union in 1814, close academic ties between the countries were nevertheless maintained.

After divorcing Rissone in France in 1954, he married Mercader in 1959, again in Mexico, but this union was not considered valid under Italian law.

** After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1946 by Congress, which called for the removal of Communist union leadership, the IWW experienced a loss of membership as differences of opinion occurred over how to respond to the challenge.

After almost seven years of childless union, the Duke of Wroclaw obtain the annulment of his marriage under the grounds of sterility, although this fact is disputed by modern historians.

After its last war in 1814, Sweden entered into a personal union with Norway which lasted until 1905.

The Swedish Crown Prince Charles XIV John of Sweden | Charles John ( Bernadotte ), who staunchly opposed Norwegian independence, only to offer generous terms of union After brief fighting, the peace established a personal union between the two states.

After the Government of Barbados officially exited from the Windward Island union in 1885, the seat was moved from Bridgetown to St. George's on the neighbouring island of Grenada, where it remained until the territory of the Windward Islands was dissolved.

After he became King of Poland, as a result of Union of Krewo, the newly formed Polish-Lithuanian union confronted the growing power of the Teutonic Knights.

After union, the Cape Province was permitted to keep a restricted version of its multi-racial qualified franchise, and thus became the only province where coloureds ( mixed-race people ) and Black Africans could vote.