Following the failed Pisonian conspiracy against Nero in 65, he had been forced to commit suicide.

Following Huerta's overthrow Francisco Cardenas fled to Guatemala where he committed suicide in 1920 after the new Mexican government had requested his extradition to stand trial for the murder of Madero.

Following the Reichswehr purge of 1938, Hitler could be described as the absolute dictator of Germany until his suicide in 1945.

Following that disgrace and humiliation, Newton initially contemplated suicide.

Following his father's March 1963 suicide, Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise.

Following a 1986 show, Richard Manuel was found dead of suicide.

Following the death of their husband, Heruli women were expected to commit suicide by hanging.

Following almost 200 studies of 11 anti-seizure drugs, the FDA has also warned of an increased suicide risk for any patients treated with certain anti-seizure drugs.

Following a suicide attempt involving a handgun that failed to go off, he eventually rallied and returned to filmmaking.

* Following the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Drepana of Roman forces, Publius Claudius Pulcher is fined 120, 000 asses and his colleague, Lucius Iunius Pullus, commits suicide.

Following Nurhaci's death, his wife, Lady Abahai, and his two lesser consorts committed suicide.

Following the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide, although doubts about the attempt were raised in the media following the declassification of MI5 government documentation.

Following his attempted suicide by ingesting a full ounce of cocaine in 1979, Gaye turned to freebasing.

Following the suicide of her son Rudolf, she withdrew from public life.

Following an argument with Haber over the subject, she committed suicide.

Following two high-profile murder-suicides from the bridge in 2011 and 2012, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced plans to install free telephones linked to suicide prevention hotlines.

Following the apprehension of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, an alleged suicide bomber who is reported to have been trained and equipped in Yemen, Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, published excerpts of an interview she conducted with Bodine.

Following the 1971 suicide of his lover George Dyer, Bacon's art became more personal, inward looking and preoccupied with themes and motifs of death.

Following his suicide, filmmakers Andrew Moore and John Walter ( in conjunction with Frances Beatty of Richard L. Feigen & Co .) spent six years probing the mysteries of Johnson's life and art.

* September 1822 – Following the suicide of Lord Londonderry, George Canning becomes Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons

Following the death of Valentinian II, Arbogast, who had probably been the cause of Valentinian II's murder or suicide, elevated Eugenius to the purple ( 22 August 392 ).

Following their executions on October 16, 1946, the ashes of the Nazi war criminals Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Frick, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Fritz Sauckel and Julius Streicher were scattered in the Isar, as were those of Hermann Göring who had committed suicide the previous night.

Following his death, major officials publicly accused Le Canard enchaîné of the moral responsibility for Boulin's death, and there were broad hints the government might use the reaction to the Boulin death to seek stricter libel laws, as was done in the 1930s after the suicide of Roger Salengro.

Following the war he essentially deserted his family, and he travelled to Africa where he committed suicide after a stay of six or seven years.

Following his tour of the UK, he wrote about his experiences in a book entitled An American Four-in-hand in Britain.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Following his conversion and remarriage, he and his wife wrote about struggles with divorce and alcoholism in Back On Course: The Remarkable Story of a Divorce That Ended in Remarriage.

Following on from his exertions in Newfoundland, it was at this time that Cook wrote that he intended to go not only:

Following the Responsio ad Sadoletum, Calvin wrote an open letter at the request of Bucer to Charles V in 1543, Supplex exhortatio ad Caesarem, defending the reformed faith.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

Following the December 29, 1890, massacre, Baum wrote a second editorial, published on January 3, 1891:

Following his lecture on laparoscopic appendectomy, the president of the German Surgical Society wrote to the Board of Directors of the German Gynecological Society suggesting suspension of Semm from medical practice.

Following each trip, Palin wrote a book about his travels, providing information and insights not included in the TV programme.

Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus.

Following the EPR paper, Erwin Schrödinger wrote a letter ( in German ) to Einstein in which he used the word Verschränkung ( translated by himself as entanglement ) " to describe the correlations between two particles that interact and then separate, as in the EPR experiment ".

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Mogadishu was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the modern Somalis.

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed ( and also had a small acting role in ) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration ( Festen ).

Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, they wrote and produced 2006 film V for Vendetta, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

Following the announcement of the Irish general election, 2011, Adams wrote to the House of Commons to resign his seat.

Following his graduation in 1856, he wrote his dissertation on the synthesis of hippuric acid in the human body.

Following the example of Gauss, he wrote his first paper on the theory of numbers in Latin: " De compositione numerorum primorum formæ ex duobus quadratis.

Following their divorce, Claire Beck Loos wrote Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of snapshot-like vignettes about Loos ’ character, habits and sayings, which was published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna in 1936.

Following this, Chiang Ching-kuo wrote an editorial that harshly criticized his father's actions and was detained as a " guest " of the Soviet Union as a practical hostage.