After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.

After the Emperor had deposed the Guelph rulers of Saxony in 1180, Ascanians returned to rule the Duchy of Saxony, which had been reduced to its eastern half by the Emperor.

After 128 years of Bithynian rule, Nicomedes IV, the last King of Bithynia, bequeathed the entire kingdom to the Roman Empire in 74 BC.

After Duke Eudes's defeat, Aquitaine pledged allegiance formally to the new rising Carolingian dynasty, but still remained out of Frankish central rule until 768 ( Duke Waifer defeated ).

After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.

After the failed rebellion against the British in 1857, the British Parliament took over the reign of India from the British East India Company, and British India came under the direct rule of the Crown.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

After the fall, the rule of God was expressed through the Law, the Judges, the King of Israel and finally the promise that God would write his law on his people's hearts ( Jer 31: 33 ).

The Carolingian dynasty ceased to rule France upon the death of Louis V. After the death of Louis V, the son of Hugh the Great, Hugh Capet, was elected by the nobility as king of France.

After Khrushchev's consolidation of power, the number of Central Committee meetings decreased yet again, but it increased during his later rule, and together with the Politburo, the Central Committee voted to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964.

" After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, Francis continued to rule as Austrian Emperor.

After Amanullah travelled to Europe in late 1927, opposition to his rule increased.

After the end of Roman rule in Britain, the Imperator Cunedda forged the Kingdom of Gwynedd in northern Wales, but all his successors were titled kings and princes.

After Gallienus was assassinated outside Milan in the summer of 268 in a plot led by high officers in his army, Claudius was proclaimed emperor and headed to Rome to establish his rule.

After eight months of liberal rule, the October Revolution brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union in place of the disintegrated Russian Empire.

After the tumult of the First Spanish Republic, Spaniards were willing to accept a return to stability under Bourbon rule.

After more than a century of rule by its neighbors, Poland regained its independence in 1918, internationally recognized in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles.

After Sher Shah's death, his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, who had won 22 battles against Afghan rebels and forces of Akbar, from Punjab to Bengal and had established a secular Hindu rule in North India from Delhi till 1556.

After the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the company acquired the rights of administration in Bengal from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II ; this marked the beginning of its formal rule, which within the next century engulfed most of India and extinguished the Moghul rule and dynasty.

After a series of invasions and conquest by the Mongols and Turks, Iraq fell under Ottoman rule in the 16th century, intermittently falling under Mamluk and Safavid control.

* 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.

After the collapse of the Ottoman empire at the end of World War I, Jericho came under the rule of the British Mandate.

After the Elector and his Calvinist court officials drew up plans for mass conversion of the population to the new faith in February 1614, as provided for by the rule of Cuius regio, eius religio within the Holy Roman Empire, there were serious protests, with his wife backing the Lutherans.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

After three years of war against Urraca and other rival claimants to the throne of León, Count Henry himself died in 1112, leaving his widow Theresa to govern Portugal north of the Mondego during the minority of her infant son Afonso: south of the Mondego the Moors were still supreme.

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors ' - giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

After the campaigns of Alfonso I of Asturias ( 739-757 ) against the Moors, the city was abandoned, being in the largely empty buffer zone between Moors and Christians known at the time as " The Desert of the Duero ", and was part of the Repoblación (" repopulation ") effort carried out a century later during the reign of Ordoño I of Asturias ( 850-866 ).

After running various Open Weekends and Steam Galas during the early 1970s ( by permission of British Railways ) the NYMRPS transformed itself into a Charitable Trust ( to ensure the future of the railway ) and became The North York Moors Historical Railway Trust Ltd. Purchase of the line was completed and the necessary Light Railway Order obtained, giving powers to operate the railway.

After the period of Visigothic domination the city was conquered by the Moors and stayed under Arab control from the 8th to the 12th century, although Christians were allowed to live in Lisbon and its surroundings.

After the Romans, Ourense was part of the Suebi ( Suevi ) kingdom during most of the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries and was destroyed by the Moors in 716.

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors '- giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

After your Highnesses ended the war of the Moors who reigned in Europe, and finished the war of the great city of Granada, where this present year on the 2nd January I saw the royal banners of Your Highnesses planted by force of arms on the towers of the Alhambra, which is the fortress of the said city, I saw the Moorish sultan issue from the gates of the said city, and kiss the royal hands of Your Highnesses …

After 711, the Moors occupied the Iberian peninsula ; Lisbon () is taken in 716 by Berbers under the command of Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ( who received the governorship of Al-Andalus, in the name of the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus ), who also captured the region of Sacavém.

After withdrawal it was preserved on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

After the campaigns of Alfonso I of Asturias ( 739-757 ) against the Moors, the city lay an abandoned in the largely empty buffer zone between Moors and Christians known at the time as " The Desert of the Duero " and was part of the " Repoblación " ( repopulation ) effort carried out a century later, during the reign of Ordoño I of Asturias ( 850-866 ).

After the campaigns of Alfonso I of Asturias ( 739 – 757 ) against the Moors, the town lay abandoned in the largely empty buffer zone between Moors and Christians, being later part of the " Repoblación " ( repopulation ) effort carried out a century later, during the reign of Ordoño I of Asturias ( 850 – 866 ).

After some campaigns against the Moors in Spain, and against Toulouse in France he again accompanied the duke of Bourbon, this time to Spain, which had become a secondary battlefield of the Hundred Years ' War.

After the end of the Reconquista and the expulsion or conversion of Muslim Mudéjars ( Moors ) and Sephardic Jews, the population of Portugal and Spain was all nominally European Christian.

After their expulsion, the Moors continued to attack Spain.

After the song was re-released as the B-side of the single, " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now ", the Manchester Evening News reported that relatives of the Moors murder victims had taken exception to the lyrics, in which three of the victims are mentioned by name.

After the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon to Queen Isabella I of Castile, the Moors were finally forced out of Granada in 1492, completing the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.

After Wappenshall junction the canal dropped down through the two Eyton locks, which were widened when the Newport Branch was built, passing to the north of Eyton upon the Weald Moors and through Sleapford, before crossing the River Tern on the aqueduct at Longdon-on-Tern.

After the invasion of the Moors a farmstead was created very close to where the ancient village of Pollentia had been.

After 800 years of warring, the Catholic kingdoms gradually became more powerful and sophisticated and eventually expelled all the Moors and any converted Muslims from the peninsula.