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Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.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 opening of hostilities, the Greeks dispatched a delegation to the Trojans under Odysseus and Menelaus ; they endeavored to persuade Priam to hand Helen back without success.

# 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 next Salon opened, Tanner set forth for Palestine.

Before Annales, French history supposedly happened in Paris.

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

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before the Euro, Monaco used the French franc.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before the 1997 civil war, the Republic of the Congo's system of government was similar to that of the French.

Before the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and Cavaillon, which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 to Avignon, together with the Diocese of Apt, a suffragan of Aix-en-Provence.

Before the French Revolution, France gained territory gradually through the annexation of a mosaic of independent entities.

Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union.

Before long, the French navy began to suffer shortages of coal.

Before the French revolution, prior to the integration of the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, Rennes was the capital of the duchy, with the other historical capitals of Brittany's Ducal period being Nantes and Vannes.

Before its commercial premiere in Paris, the film was shown to invited audiences in several French cities, including La Ciotat.

Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession.

Before 2001, when Gruyère gained Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée ( AOC ) status as a Swiss cheese, some controversy existed whether French cheeses of a similar nature could also be labeled Gruyère ( French Gruyère style cheeses include Comté and Beaufort ).

Before World War II, the southern third of Vietnam was the colony of Cochinchina, which was administered as part of French Indochina by a governor in Hanoi.

Before the French had properly disembarked on the south bank, Joan of Arc reportedly launched a precipitous attack on the strongpoint of the Boulevart.