Before the handover of power, some 300, 000 Kosovars, mostly Serbs, left the province, many had been expelled by the Albanians.

Before the handover, the SS had managed to destroy the camp's administrative files, thereby eradicating most written evidence.

Before the handover he also founded and is an active element at the Jorge Álvares Foundation ( Fundação Jorge Álvares ), named after the first Portuguese who is said to have arrived to China and Hong Kong, and thus also Macau.

Before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, Henry Fok was a member of the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( SAR ), the vice-chairman of the Preliminary Working Committee of Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong SAR, and the vice-chairman of the Preparatory Committee of Hong Kong SAR.

Before and during the handover of power, an estimated 100, 000 Serbs and other non-Albanians, mostly Serbs, fled the province for fear of reprisals.

Before the handover some pro-democracy Hong Kong politicians, such as Margaret Ng, Emily Lau and Christine Loh attempted to use their British Citizen passports to enter mainland China because they were denied from applying for a Home Return Permit.

Before the handover, the naval base was moved to Stonecutters Island next to the Government docks.

Before the British handover of Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the airbase was used by the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong, and was then an Royal Air Force station known as RAF Sek Kong.

Before the 1997 handover to China, the position was known as the Attorney General (), and the department was known as the Legal Department (; also known as the Attorney General's Chambers ()).

Before the handover, they were not eligible for any kinds of PRC passports.

Before the legislation of the Electrical Products Regulation ( a few years prior to the handover in 1997 ), British standard extension cables, plugs and adaptors were seldom found in the market.

Before the handover of Hong Kong, all the domestic telephone sockets installed were BS 6312 British telephone sockets but there was no stipulation on commercial telephone sockets.

Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Carbon 14 dating of a cave at Laang Spean in northwest Cambodia reveals people who made pots were living in Cambodia as early as 4200 BCE ( Before the Common Era ).

Before the early 1840s, the cane toad had been introduced into Martinique and Barbados, from French Guiana and Guyana.

Before the early 18th century, the East India Company paid for its tea mainly in silver.

Before the advent of rock and roll, concept albums had their original heyday in jazz of the early to mid ' 50s with artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, the latter of whom would record numerous concept albums for Capitol throughout the last half of the ' 50s such as In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Where Are You?

Before the 1960s ( and in some cases decades after ), many materials science departments were named metallurgy departments, from a 19th and early 20th century emphasis on metals.

Before the early 1960s, computers were mainly used for number-crunching rather than for text, and memory was extremely expensive.

Before the development of practical electronic TV, there were patents on mechanically scanned color systems as early as 1889 in Russia.

The pre-history of Sri Lanka dates back over 125, 000 years Before Present ( BP ) and possibly even as early as 500, 000 BP.

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was common for many smaller cities to have their own operators.

Before Origen's time, the evidence is inconclusive ; there is a lack of definite early quotations from the letter in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, though possible use or influence has been located in the works of Clement of Alexandria ( d. c. 211 ), Theophilius ( d. c. 183 ), Aristides ( d. c. 134 ), Polycarp ( d. 155 ), and Justin ( d. 165 ).

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail listsThe term " e-log " has been used to describe journal entries sent out via e-mail since as early as March 1996.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Before the Apollo XI moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs.

Before that, the earliest known proto-frog was Triadobatrachus massinoti, from the 250 million year old early Triassic of Madagascar.

* Eugene N. Borza: Before Alexander: constructing early Macedonia.

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Former Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry was brought in to replace Marr, and the band recorded some new material with him which was never completed, including an early version of " Bengali in Platforms " that was originally intended as the B-side of " Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before ".

Before the TCDD risk was well understood, early production facilities lacked proper temperature controls.

Before the widespread use of Unix, TOPS-10 was a particularly popular system in universities, and in the early ARPANET community.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before leaving, in a meeting with all the Papal vicars held on April 29, 1357, Albornoz issued the Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, which regulated all the matters of the Papal States and its division into provinces.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Before the parliamentary decision to join the EU, a consultative referendum was held on April 16, 1994 in which 56. 9 % of the votes were in favour of joining.

Before his production, it had a short run ( 11 – 23 April ) at the University Theatre, Manchester.

Before his accession to the throne, Edward was the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, until surpassed by his great-great-grandson Charles, Prince of Wales, on 22 April 2011.

Before 1970, the date chosen was 17 April.

Other guests included Betty White, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond, Tim Conway and Roz Kelly as Happy Days ' Pinkie Tuscadero ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( April 23, 1977 ) with Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall ; T ' was the Night Before Christmas with Alice Ghostley, Martha Raye, George Gobel and Foster Brooks ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( May 20, 1978 ) with Juliet Prowse, Brenda Vaccaro and Harry Morgan of MASH.

Before the February 1917 Russian revolution, Lenin had formulated a slogan calling for the ' democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry ', but after the February revolution, through his April theses, Lenin instead called for " all power to the Soviets ".

Before they divorced in 1984, the couple had two children: Joseph ( born 23 November 1976 ) and Fuchsia Catherine ( a. k. a. " Kate ", born 17 April 1982 ).

Before that, the most noticeable was during April 2007, when the lava flow was estimated at per day.

Before the close of the war Custer received brevet promotions to brigadier general and major general in the regular army ( March 13, 1865 ) and major general of volunteers ( April 15, 1865 ).

Before becoming incorporated on April 12, 1828, the town went by several different names.

Before the single was released, he made his television rock and roll debut on April 10, 1957 lip-synching " I'm Walkin '" in the Ozzie and Harriet episode, " Ricky, the Drummer ".

This was followed on April 30, 2008, by an appearance on American Idol when he sang " Pretty Amazing Grace " from his album Home Before Dark.

Before leaving for Cuba, Martí wrote his " literary will " on April 1, 1895, leaving his personal papers and manuscripts to Gonzalo de Quesada, with instructions for editing.

Before leaving Spain, he was lecturer in theology at Ocana, and in April 1569, was sent to Lima, Peru, where the Jesuits had been established in the proceeding year.

Before 1 April 2006, all regulatory powers rested with the Director General of Water Services.

Before any official announcement, reports began running during April 1965 within the automotive press that Chevrolet was preparing a competitor to the Ford Mustang, code-named Panther.

Before leaving, however, Chunn gave a crucial piece of parting advice, suggesting that the replacement for Phil Judd should be Tim Finn's younger brother Neil, who officially joined on 7 April 1977.

Before the civilian government was established, Afghan air force colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal was the official ruler of Afghanistan for three days, starting from 27 April 1978.

Before his assassination in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln had announced moderate plans for reconstruction to reintegrate the former Confederates as fast as possible.

Before April 1974, the war in Africa was consuming as much as 40 % of the Portuguese budget and there was no end in sight.

In his appearance on the " Where No Fan Has Gone Before " episode of the animated science-fiction TV series Futurama, aired on April 21, 2002, Shatner recited Eminem's hit " The Real Slim Shady " during a feast, both raising and answering the question of how one can perform a spoken word rendition of a rap song.

Before the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Summer of 2005, annual events included the Spring Pilgrimage in March, Confederate Memorial Day in April, the Fall Muster in October, and Candlelight Christmas in December.