Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

* 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

Following the lead of President Roosevelt's New Deal in the United States, Bennett, under the advice of William Duncan Herridge, who was both Canada's ambassador to the United States and Bennett's brother-in-law, the government eventually began to follow the Americans ' lead.

Following several years of work, Louis Essen from the National Physical Laboratory ( Teddington, England ) and William Markowitz from the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) determined the relationship between the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium atom and the ephemeris second.

Following the battle of Tinchebray in 1106, Henry confiscated the County of Mortain from William, the Count of Mortain, and the Honour of Eye, a large lordship previously owned by Robert Malet.

Following the death of his friend the painter William Green in 1823, Wordsworth mended relations with Coleridge.

Following the success of his double first, William travelled with his brother John on a Grand Tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, France, Germany and Italy.

Following the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by William of Orange en route to Dublin city.

Following the death of Braddock, William Shirley assumed command of British forces in North America.

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

Following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the earldom of Hereford was given to William fitzOsbern of Breteuil, Normandy, one of King William's closest allies, who was responsible for defending the area against the Welsh.

Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England, when the Catholic King James II of England was deposed and the Protestant William III ascended the throne, a rebellion of Maryland Puritan Protestants overthrew Calvert's rule.

Following his capture, William de Braose decided to ally himself to Llywelyn, and a marriage was arranged between his daughter Isabella and Llywelyn's heir, Dafydd ap Llywelyn.

Following bitter conflict with the Rio Grande Western during lease disagreements and continued financial struggles, the D & RG went into receivership in July 1884 with court appointed receiver William S. Jackson in control.

Following the resignation for health reasons of President pro tempore William P. Frye, a Senate divided among progressive Republicans, conservative Republicans, and Democrats reached a compromise by which each of their candidates would rotate holding the office from 1911 to 1913 ( see Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate, 1911-1913 ).

Following this, the company started to rapidly divest its under-performing divisions under CEO William Anders.

Following Bligh's overthrow Johnston had notified his superior officer, Colonel William Paterson, who was in Tasmania establishing a settlement at Port Dalrymple ( now Launceston ), of events.

Following this disaster, he was persuaded by Malcolm to make peace with William and return to England as his subject, abandoning any ambition of regaining his ancestral throne.

" Following Stanton, Thomas M ' Clintock read several passages from Sir William Blackstone's laws, to expose for the audience the basis of woman's current legal condition of servitude to man.

Following the advice of conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of Bill Clinton, remarking, " There is no crisis in health care.

Following the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, King William I of the Netherlands fortified the city heavily.

Following a tour to promote Ask Rufus, Fischer finally left the group.

Following Masterjam, one of the contractual albums, and another Khan-less album, Party ' Til You're Broke, which bombed, the factions of Rufus and Khan reunited for their last MCA album, Camouflage in 1981.

Following this success, Rufus went their separate ways for good with Khan continuing her solo career, becoming one of the most revered R & B artists of her generation with the release of the single, " I Feel for You ", cementing her reputation.

Following Rufus Buck's death a picture of Buck's mother was found in his cell along with a poem written on the back.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.

Following his accession to the papacy, Urban VIII is reported to have said, " Your luck is great to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope, Cavaliere ; but ours is much greater to have Cavalier Bernini alive in our pontificate.

Following its accession to power in 1975, the communist government imposed a dogmatic Soviet-style command economy system, replacing the private sector with state enterprises and cooperatives ; centralizing investment, production, trade, and pricing ; and creating barriers to internal and foreign trade.

Following the accession of Irene, the priest Joseph was stripped of his office, and Theodoros was received in the imperial palace.

Following Charles ' accession to the Spanish throne in 1759 he was required, by the Treaty of Naples of 3 October 1759, to abdicate Naples and Sicily to his third son, Ferdinand, thus initiating the branch known as the Neapolitan Bourbons.

Following his father's death and the accession of his elder brother, Edward, to the throne, George was created Duke of Clarence in 1461 and invested as a Knight of the Garter.

Following the defeat of the House of York, the earldom ( and kingdom ) were restored to the Tudors with the accession of Henry VII.

Following the accession of the Catholic Mary I in 1553 and her marriage to Philip, Prince of Asturias in 1554, Pope Paul IV issued the papal bull " Ilius " in 1555, recognizing them as Queen and King of Ireland together with her heirs and successors.

Following his accession, King Andrew I had to face the attacks of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor whose supremacy had been acknowledged by King Peter.

Following the accession of King James I of England, this policy was abandoned.

Following the restoration of the Portuguese Royal House, and her father's accession to the throne on 1 December 1640, she was proposed as a bride for John of Austria, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Louis XIV and Charles II, She was seen as a useful conduit for contracting an alliance between Portugal and England, after the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in which Portugal was arguably abandoned by France.

Following his father's accession to the throne of England in 1603, Henry became automatically Duke of Cornwall, and was invested Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1610, thus uniting the six automatic and two traditional Scottish and English titles held by heirs-apparent to the throne ( s ) ever since that date.

Following Gordon Brown's accession to the position of Prime Minister, Falconer was replaced as Minister of Justice.

Following her accession in 1553, the Roman Rite was restored and compositional style reverted to the elaborate writing prevalent early in the century.

Following his accession, King Andrew I had to face the attacks of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor whose supremacy had been acknowledged by King Peter.

Following the death of George II and the accession of his grandson George III in 1760 Shelburne was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the new King.

Following the accession to the throne of her brother in law Septimius Severus, Julia Maesa moved to Rome to live with her sister.

Following the accession of Emperor Karl to the throne in November 1916, Conrad was elevated to the rank of field marshal, one of only three men in Austria-Hungary to hold that rank at the time.

Following Ed Miliband's accession to Labour Leader, Eagle was elected to his shadow cabinet, finishing tied 4th in the vote and was subsequently appointed to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury briefing, shadowing Danny Alexander.

Following Robert's accession to the throne, Alexander was formally made Lord of Badenoch on 30 March 1371.

Following Qaitbay's death, the Mamluk state descended into a prolonged succession crisis lasting for five years until the accession of Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri.

Following the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in January 2007, this clause took effect for the following commission ( appointed after the 2009 European elections ).