After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.

After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, Ben Chifley, and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years.

After returning to Mississippi to live, in 1972 Meredith ran for the US Senate against the Democratic senator James Eastland, who had been the incumbent for 29 years.

After winning four terms to the Massachusetts House of Representatives between 1962 and 1970 ( and winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970 ), Dukakis was elected governor in 1974, defeating the incumbent Republican Francis Sargent during a period of fiscal crisis.

After a pointed sermon from the incumbent rector, Thomas Rotherham was compelled to give his support and effectively re-founded it in 1478, with a new charter from King Edward IV.

* After an incumbent Prime Minister loses an election, it is expected that they will advise the Governor-General to appoint the leader of the larger party as Prime Minister so the Governor-General does not need to act on their own initiative.

In 1972, Kucinich ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, losing narrowly to incumbent Republican William E. Minshall, Jr. After Minshall's retirement in 1974 Kucinich sought the seat again, this time failing to get the Democratic nomination, which instead went to Ronald M. Mottl.

After the Carnation revolution in 1974 and the fall of the incumbent Portuguese authoritarian regime, almost all the Portugal-ruled territories outside Europe became independent.

After the incumbent Texas State Treasurer, Warren G. Harding ( no relation to the former U. S. president of the same name ), became mired in legal troubles in 1982, Richards won the Democratic nomination for that post.

After the incumbent Speaker, Douglas Clifton Brown, retired at the 1951 general election, there was a great demand from the Labour Party for Major James Milner to become the first Labour Speaker after he had served as Deputy Speaker for eight years.

After a hard-fought primary victory against Illinois Comptroller Loleta Didrickson, in which the latter had the support of most national and state-level Republican leaders, Fitzgerald defeated first-term Democratic incumbent U. S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun in 1998, and served for one term in the U. S. Senate.

After the riots, Yorty challenged incumbent Democratic Governor Edmund G. ( Pat ) Brown in the 1966 gubernatorial primary.

After only one term, he won the Republican nomination for the 4th District and was elected to the House in an upset over 18-year Democratic incumbent Dan Glickman.

After redistricting following the 1990 United States Census, incumbent Republican U. S. Representative William Dannemeyer decided to retire and run for the 1992 U. S. Senate election.

After redistricting, incumbent Democrat U. S. Congressman Sam M. Gibbons decided to run in the newly redrawn Florida's 11th congressional district.

After incumbent Democrat U. S. Congressman Claude Pepper died on May 30, 1989, there was a special election scheduled for August 29, 1989.

After returning to New Mexico Cargo won the Republican nomination for Congress, but was badly defeated by the incumbent, Democrat Bill Richardson in 1986.

After a lengthy scandal and investigation during his first term involving alleged abuses of the state's merit-based hiring system, many believed incumbent governor Ernie Fletcher, who sought re-election, no longer had sufficient support from either the Republican Party leadership or voters.

After redistricting, incumbent Democrat U. S. Congressman Gus Yatron decided to retire.

After winning a three-way Republican primary by 4 votes over his closest opponent, he was defeated by incumbent Democrat Scotty Baesler by just over 25, 000 votes.

After working for Studds for a year, Hoeffel challenged four-term Republican incumbent Daniel Beren for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 153rd legislative district, in 1974.

After the death of incumbent Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office was replaced by a collective head of state, the State Council.

After being elected to the TRNC parliament on 14 December 2003, Talat formed another RTP-DP coalition government on 13 January 2004, at the behest of the then-TRNC President Rauf Denkta &# 351 ;, when the incumbent Prime minister Derviş Eroğlu was unable to do so.

After the death of the incumbent president Manuel Roxas in 1948, he succeeded the presidency.

* After failing to receive the Republican Party's 1990 Wilson Pakula nomination, incumbent and registered Conservative New York State Senator Serphin Maltese won the party's nomination as a write-in candidate.

After the Battle of Plassey in 1757, during which the East India Company's Bengal army under Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, the Company established itself as a major player in Indian affairs, and soon afterwards gained administrative rights over the regions of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765.

After this swift defeat the Nawab urgently sought peace and the war came to an end.

After consenting to the siege, the Nawab unsuccessfully sought to assist the French.

After Wahid Bux's untimely and mysterious death at the age of 33, his younger brother Nawab Nabi Bux Bhutto contested from the same seat and remained undefeated until retirement.

After ten days of research, they came up with a kebab so soft and so juicy it won the praise of the very British officer who had scorned the Nawab.

* in Afghanistan, a kingdom entitled to a gun salute of 21 guns ( the highest rank among princely states, not then among Sovereign monarchs ): the first British Residents were Sir Alexander Burnes ( 1837 – 2 November 1841 ); William Hay McNaghten ( 7 August 1839 – 23 December 1841 ); Eldred Pottinger ( December 1841 – 6 January 1842 ). After that, four native Vakils acted on behalf of the British government: Nawab Foujdar Khan ( 1856 – April 1859 ), Ghulam Husain Khan Allizai ( April 1859 – 1865 ), Bukhiar Khan ( February 1864 – January 1868, acting ), Attah Muhammad Khan Khagwani ( January 1868 – 1878 ); then there were two more British Residents Louis Napoleon Cavagnari ( 24 July 1879 – 3 September 1879 ), Henry Lepel-Griffin ( 1880 ); next came two Military Commanders ( 8 October 1879 – 11 August 1880 ) and until 1919 ten native British Agents, one of whom served two non-consecutive terms.

After a long exile the Khalsa regrouped under Nawab Kapur Singh, who gathered local Khalsa leaders and created Dal Khalsa, a coalition army.

After the death of Nawab Mahommed Anwar-ud-din ( 1744 – 1749 ), the succession was disputed between Mahommed Ali and Husein Dost.

* After the French under Joseph François Dupleix supported Chandra Sahib as the heir to the Nawab of the Carnatic, Britain supported the successor named by the Mughal Nazim of Hyderabad, Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan.

After the sad demise of Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayum in 1937, the college was left more or less an orphan in the hands of others.

After death of Fatehkhan in 1474, Jalalkhan became the Nawab of Fatehpur.

After five years and no stories, Nawab comes across an unconventional muse, Meenaxi ( Tabu ).

After his death his son Muhammad Ali Khan took over, but he was killed by the Rohilla leaders after 24 days, and Ghulam Muhammad Khan, the brother of the deceased, was proclaimed Nawab.

After negotiations assuring peace Shah Alam II was escorted by the British to meet Mir Qasim the new Nawab of Bengal, who was nominated after the sudden death of Miran.

After 1754, the Rohilla Nawab, Najeeb-ul-Daula started living in Saharanpur and made Gaunsgarh his capital.

After, her husband was exiled to Calcutta, she took charge of the affairs of the state of Awadh despite her divorce from the Nawab which then was a large part of the current state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

After 1765 overthrowing the Bengali Nawab this land started to be ruled by the tax collectors of East India Company, Lalmonirhat was under the authority of Ghoraghat in 1793, there had been 22 thana in then greater Rangpur district.

After this Maratha promised never to cross the boundary of the Nawab of Bengal's territory.

After the Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah ( the last independent ruler of Bengal ) was defeated by the British forces of Sir Robert Clive in the Battle of Plassey in 1757, the Nawabs became puppet rulers, being dependent on the British.

After it was not resolved the Nawab renounced his styles and titles of Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa and abdicated in favour of his eldest son at St. Ives, Maidenhead, on November 1 1880.

After Mansur Ali Khan's abdication, his son, Hassan Ali Mirza succeeded as the first Nawab of Murshidabad with the lesser title of Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad after the title of Nawab of Bengal was abolished in 1880.