Before the opening of the Salon, the French Revolution had begun.

Before opening the play in England, Whale decided to tour the art museums of Europe.

Before the 2000 season, to coincide with the anticipated opening of new Miller Park, the Brewers changed their uniforms again.

Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.

Before the canal's opening in 1869 goods were sometimes offloaded from ships and carried overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

** 1270 – Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.

* Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.

Before the opening of the Entrances, access on land was so difficult that the Azuma Kagami reports that Hōjō Masako came back to Kamakura from a visit to Sōtōzan temple in Izu bypassing by boat the impassable Inamuragasaki cape and arriving in Yuigahama.

Before a crowd of 67, 605, Secretariat and Sham set a fast early pace, opening ten lengths on the rest of the field.

# Before the initial and last screening of films and before the opening of theater performances.

Before the opening, many residents swam in a section of the Frays River near Harefield Road, and the Colne.

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

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 the opening of the mall, the Indian Mall was the primary shopping destination in northeast Arkansas.

Before the opening of the North Coast Railway Line, the only way to transport large items of heavy but low value, such as timber, was by coastal shipping.

Before opening night, the third and fourth yeomen's couplets in the Act I finale – in which they remind " Leonard " of his brave deeds – were cut, though they remained in the vocal score until around the 1920s.

Before the opening of the 14th National Congress of the CPC in 1992, the Party's senior leaders, including Deng and Chen Yun, were to select candidates for the Politburo Standing Committee to ensure a smooth transition of power from the so-called second-generation leaders ( Deng, Chen, Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen, etc.

Before training can begin, the gelanggang must be prepared either by the teachers or senior students in a ritual called " opening the training area " ( buka gelanggang ).

Before the opening credits begin, a dedication to Yusuf Hawkins is shown, who was killed on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, New York, by neighborhood folk who believed the youth was involved with a white girl in the neighborhood, though he was actually in the neighborhood to inquire about a used car for sale in the area.

Before the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 the Government of Queensland asked John Bradfield to design a new bridge in Brisbane.

Before opening night, he insists they marry, but Joyce resists his proposal, hiding the fact she is married to Gordon Heath ( John Eldredge ), an ineffectual but devoted man who was financially ruined by their marriage.

Before the opening of the toll motorway, this section of the M6 carried 180, 000 vehicles per day at its busiest point near Wolverhampton ( between the junctions with the M54 and M5 motorways ), compared with a design capacity of only 72, 000 vehicles.

Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, General Howard held a council to try to convince Joseph and his people to relocate.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, on 10 November 1845, President James K. Polk, had sent his envoy, John Slidell, to Mexico to offer the country around $ 5 million for the territory of Nuevo México, and up to $ 40 million for Alta California ( the present State of California ).

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

Before engaging in hostilities, Philip attempted to achieve the goals of Protestant policy by peaceful means.

Before hostilities, 75 % of traffic was passenger, compared with 25 % freight ; during the war roughly the same number of passengers was carried, but freight grew to 60 % of total traffic.

Before hostilities broke out between the states, Gwin toured the South and then returned to California.

Before the hostilities of Winter War, the Finnish Army formed 25 Independent Battalions ( Erillinen Pataljoona ) from local reservists along the border area.

Before the cessation of hostilities between the UPDF and the LRA, up to 15, 000 children, known as " night commuters ", were fleeing into the city for safety every evening.

Before taking any steps to meet the wishes of Michael, Louis asked the pope's permission for a number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them.

Before the end of the 19th century, the Greeks believed that the corpses of werewolves, if not destroyed, would return to life as vampires in the form of wolves or hyenas which prowled battlefields, drinking the blood of dying soldiers.

Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.

Before the Roman conquest, Sicily was occupied by remnants of the indigenous populations ( the Sicani, Elymi, Siculi, the third arriving between the second and first millennium BC ), as well as by Phoenicians ( from between the 10th and 8th centuries BC ) and Greeks ( from the 8th century BC ).

Before 1964, the population of Imbros was 7000 Greeks, and 200 mainland Turkish officials ; by 1970 the Greeks were a minority at 40 % of the population, and there remains only a very small Greek community on Imbros today, comprising several hundred mostly elderly people.

Sicily Before the Greeks ( revised edition ; originally published in Italian, 1966 )

Before that period it was included under the general name of Oenotria, which was applied by the Greeks to the southernmost portion of Italy.

" Before the Greeks Came: A Survey of the Current Archaeological Evidence for the Pre-Greek Libyans.

Before Thales, the Greeks explained the origin and nature of the world through myths of anthropomorphic gods and heroes.

Before this, however, the ancient Greeks knew from magnetic interactions that " opposites attract " and " likes repel ".