Before being shot, Dragutin Dimitrijević made a written confession to the court that he had ordered Rade Malobabić to organize the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Before Ferdinand VII died in 1833, Zumalacárregui was marked out as a natural supporter of the absolutist party which favoured the king's brother, Carlos.

Before being consolidated in his throne and being able to hand on power to his son John, Henry had to defeat Ferdinand I of Portugal.

Before the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, Pangasinan was not a part of the region.

Before Region 1 was modified by Ferdinand Marcos, Pangasinan was not part of the region.

Before his death Ferdinand II had already taken some corrective steps by attempting to ease the debts of the Bohemian towns and to put limits on some of the land-holding nobility ’ s commercial rights.

Before the French Revolutionary Wars, Naples was ruled by the Bourbon King Ferdinand IV.

" Before long he took up a position with Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, who treated him more as a friend and colleague than as an employee.

Before Marie could find someone else suitable to marry, her mother found Ferdinand of Romania.

Before he was ten, Hodler received training in decorative painting from his stepfather, and was subsequently sent to Thun to apprentice with a local painter, Ferdinand Sommer.

Before the investigation got far, news arrived that Gavrilo Princip had shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and Sophie while they were on their way to visit the wounded in the hospital.

Before this the Count of Barca had obtained him a commission from the Portuguese government to translate the De Rebus Emanuelis of Jerónimo Osório ; the assistance of some fellow-countrymen in Paris carried him through his last years, which were cheered by the friendship of his biographer and translator Alexandre Sane and of the Lusophil Ferdinand Dénis.

Before his death, Ferdinand III had long planned the invasion of North Africa, and at the beginning of his own reign, Alfonso X appealed to Pope Alexander IV to endorse such an incursion as a religious crusade, and even built shipyards at Seville for that purpose.

Before Magellan discovered the Philippines in 1521, the locality was only a small village of little over a hundred natives who were called " Tirongs.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he can sell the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, he is discovered by the British and is killed by members of MI5 who stage his death as a heart attack.

Before them, in 1784, the English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish had discovered that air contains a small proportion of a substance less reactive than nitrogen.

Before the FMR1 gene was discovered, analysis of pedigrees showed the presence of male carriers who were asymptomatic, with their grandchildren affected by the condition at a higher rate than their siblings suggesting that genetic anticipation was occurring.

Before the connection between magnetism and electricity was discovered, electrostatic generators were used.

Before the novel's opening, " hyper-assistance ", a technology allowing travel at a little slower than the speed of light, is used to move a reclusive space station colony called Rotor from the vicinity of Earth to the newly discovered red dwarf, Nemesis.

Before oil was discovered in Signal Hill, there were large homes built on the hill itself, and in the lower elevations was an agricultural area where fruits, vegetables, and flowers were grown.

Before Laurel became a city or a community, people passed through the site during the gold rush period, when gold was discovered at the Clarks Fork headwaters.

Before the Franks family could pay the ransom, Tony Minke, a Polish immigrant, discovered the body.

Before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, it was common in country districts for shepherds to apply this cheese to wounds in order to avoid gangrene.

Before the trial began, it was discovered that Honora Rieper had never married Herbert Rieper, the man known as her husband.

Before dying, Gurgenidze states that according to Madison's last transmission, the duo had discovered " something big ," and she had said that gaining proof could lead to war.

Many years later a second series, Before the Fact, originally published in 1901, was discovered and published in book form edited and introduced by detective fiction scholar Douglas G. Greene.

Before that, he jumps over a fence to get away, ending up looking in a window where a fat man is having rough sex with his lady, and when he is discovered, Kid runs away, and the three punks are shot at.

Before its discovery, the taxon was believed to have become extinct during the Miocene ; when it was discovered, it was heralded as a " living fossil ".

Before Alex can fully understand and dispute his induction, Xur appears ( via a holographic projection ) inside of the Starfighter base and reveals he has discovered an infiltrator in his ranks and proceeds to broadcast his death by torture to the entire base, including his father, Ambassador Enduran ( Kay E. Kuter ), the Starfighter commander.

Before leaving Italy, Carlo had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel.

Before the technique of injecting air into molten iron was discovered by Kelly and by Bessemer, iron was available as cast iron, a strong but brittle metal made in a blast furnace by treating iron ore with coke derived from coal, and wrought iron, a more malleable and flexible metal made by heating iron ore in a low oxygen environment in a bloomery heated by charcoal and producing " blooms ", which were 100 to 200 pound lumps of very low carbon iron mixed with slag.

In 2009, a German film collector discovered a print of it and brought it to the attention of CBS / Paramount, which then released it under the title " Where No Fan Has Gone Before "-The Restored, Unaired Alternate Pilot Episode as part of the TOS season 3 box set on Blu-ray ; it has not yet been released on DVD.

Before the bad cheque is discovered, the perpetrator goes on a spending spree or obtains cash advances until the newly -" raised " available limit on the card is reached.

Before the 1990s historians could only speculate about its existence and content until in 1997, during a joint Finnish-Russian project, the Russian professor Oleg Rzesevski discovered the protocol in the Moscow Kremlin.

" Before, Richards stated " Further cracks appeared when Richards discovered that H had been secretly dating the band's manager Tim Byrne.

* February 27 — Before rescheduled launch, a piece of detached foam was discovered, which prompted a round of technical inspections.

Before the advent of telescopic photography, eight moons of Saturn were discovered by direct observation using optical telescopes.

Before the Naggarok was fully assimilated, the drives of the ship were destroyed by the crew, but the ship released a distress beacon, which the Kuun-Lan discovered.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

Before World War II, there were an estimated three million carabaos in the Philippines.

Before 1770, Pateros was only a barrio of Pasig until the Spanish Governor-General in the Philippines issued a decree making Pateros an independent municipality.

Before Khadafi Janjalani was born, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines.

Before this, messages had to travel across the Atlantic to the Far East via Cape Town and the Indian Ocean, or via London to Russia, then across the Russian landline to Vladivostok, then by submarine cable to Japan and the Philippines.

Before the war ended, 1, 500 civilian contract nurses were assigned to Army hospitals in the US, Hawaii ( not a state at that time ), Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, as well as to the hospital ship Relief.

Before the end of World War II the Catholic Church had a very minor presence in Taiwan based mainly in the south of the island and centred around Spanish Dominican priests who came here from the Philippines in the 1860s.

Before arriving in the Philippines, Bouchard and his crew passed by the Sunda Strait.

Before the city was merged with New Taipei and became a district, it had the highest population density in Taiwan and second in the world ( after Manila in the Philippines ), with over 41, 300 people per square km.

Before he made his famous trip up the northwest coast of the North American continent, he sailed to China, the Philippines and Mexico.

Before the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, the groups now included under the term did not consider themselves as belonging to one cohesive ethnic group.

Before leaving for the Philippines, the men received further instructions and physical examinations in Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California, in March 1945.

Before the Spanish Conquest of the Philippines, Moro raiders following the Islamic faith were in control, so one of the tasks of the Spanish was to pacify and clear the country of these pirates.

Before the coming of the Spaniards to the Philippines, the area which comprises the municipality of Rizal, at present, is covered with forests.

Before, in its early years, some dramas were delayed up to a month but as time passed, it receded and as of 2011, the ratio is early primetime & primetime dramas in the Philippines are two-days delayed and afternoon dramas are three-days delayed.

Before their eventual disbandment in 1999, Dream Kitchen with mella recorded five original songs at Purple Studios in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Before the fighting ended, MacArthur summoned a provisional assembly of prominent Filipinos to Malacañan Palace and in their presence declared the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be permanently reestablished.