Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan became open to imports from the West, including photography, which largely replaced ukiyo-e during the bunmei-kaika ( 文明開化, Japan's Westernization movement during the early Meiji period ).

Following the abolition of the han system in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration, former Owari Domain and Inuyama Domain were transformed into short-lived prefectures, which were joined with Nakata Prefecture and the former Mikawa Province to form the new Aichi Prefecture in January 1872.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the building of a national railroad network across Japan, tourism became more of an affordable prospect for domestic citizens and visitors from foreign countries could enter Japan legally.

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Shinto and Buddhism were forcefully separated.

Following the eighteenth century, when European men west of Poland were universally clean-shaven, sideburns, like beards, began to grow in popularity during the Napoleonic period, as first among military men ( illustration, left ); the trend eventually made its way to Meiji Japan, in the first wave of Western fashion there.

Following the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Okuma was placed in charge of foreign affairs for the new Meiji government.

Following the passage of the Convertible Bank Note Regulations ( May 1884 ), the Bank of Japan issued its first banknotes in 1885 ( Meiji 18 ).

Following the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu, Kido claimed a large role in the establishment of the new Meiji government.

Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the ancient court nobility of Kyoto ( kuge ) regained some of its lost status.

Following the abolition of the feudal class in 1871, the Hosokawa clan and its branches were made part of the new nobility in the Meiji era.

Following the Meiji Restoration, the modern town of Okazaki was established on October 1, 1889 within Nukata District of Aichi Prefecture.

Following the Meiji restoration and the Abolition of the han system, Shinagawa prefecture was instituted in 1869.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system in 1871, Noto Province was renamed Nanao Prefecture and Imizu District from Etchu Province was added.

Following the Meiji Restoration, Marunouchi came under control of the national government, which erected barracks and parade grounds for the army.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system in 1871, Kaga Province was renamed Kanazawa Prefecture.

Following the Meiji restoration of 1868, the shipyard was placed under control of the new Meiji government, and the first dry dock was completed in 1879.

Following the Meiji Restoration, the leadership of the Meiji government felt the need to emphasize the common goals of rapid modernization ( westernization ) with support and legitimization of the political system centered on the imperial institution.

Following the Meiji Restoration, these various domains and tenryō territories were transformed into short-lived prefectures in July 1871 by the abolition of the han system.

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the new Imperial government of Japan set out upon a path of rapid modernization and recruited many European and American academics and military experts to help expedite the process.

Following the Meiji Restoration, in 1871, former Owari Domain was renamed Nagoya Prefecture.

Following the Restoration there arose a number of publications, including the London Gazette ( first published on 16 November 1665 as the Oxford Gazette ), the first official journal of record and the newspaper of the Crown.

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 Restoration, Harrison declined to flee and was arrested in May 1660.

Following the Restoration and the influx of European ideas, it had become popular for large houses to follow the continental fashion of a suite of state rooms consisting of a withdrawing room, dressing room, and bedroom proceeding from either side of a central saloon or hall.

Following the Restoration, Rupert returned to England, becoming a senior British naval commander during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars, engaging in scientific invention, art, and serving as the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Following the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in 1660, Rupert returned to England, where Charles had already largely completed the process of balancing the different factions across the country in a new administration.

Following the Restoration of 1660 his remains were exhumed, despoiled and finally re-buried in a common pit.

Following the Restoration of the English and Scottish monarchies, she travelled to London to visit her nephew, Charles II, and died while there.

Following the Restoration Lord Cork was appointed a Privy Councillor ; and Lord Treasurer of Ireland on 16 November 1660.

Following the English Restoration the Inner Templars welcomed Charles II back to London personally with a lavish banquet.

Following the English Restoration, the Inner Temple welcomed Charles II back to London with a lavish banquet on 15 August 1661.

Following the English Restoration, admissions fell to an average of 57 a year.

Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 in the form of Charles II, both hammered and milled coinage was produced until 1662.

Following the Restoration, Casaubon wrote supporting the traditional theories of witchcraft.

Following the Restoration of Charles II, wealthy people across England began demanding wallpaper again-Cromwell's regime had imposed a boring culture on people, and following his death, wealthy people began purchasing comfortable domestic items which had been banned under the Puritan state.

Following the first Bourbon Restoration the Musketeers were reestablished on July 6, 1814 along with the other military units of the former Royal Household.

Following the Restoration ( when Charles II returned to the throne ) in 1660, Blood fled with his family to Ireland.

Following the Stuart Restoration, on 28 December 1661, Harrington was arrested on a charge of conspiring against the government in the " Bow Street " cabal and, without a trial, was thrown into the Tower.

Following the Restoration, he sat as member of parliament, first for Newport, Cornwall and later for the University of Oxford, from 1660 to 1679.

Following the discovery of the islands by Columbus, the area was quickly colonised by several Western cultures ( initially Spain, then later Portugal, England, the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark ).

Following the colonisation of the Caribbean islands, the Caribbean Sea became a busy area for European-based marine trading and transport, and this commerce eventually attracted piracy.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

Following the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667 the area was given back to France.

Following the decline of Tarumanagara, its territories, including the Jakarta area, became part of the Kingdom of Sunda.

Following the war, 75 % of the area west of the Jordan River was controlled by the new State of Israel.

Following consolidation of post-secondary programs across Nova Scotia in the 1990s, the Mount became home to the only Education program in the Halifax area.

Following the defeat in 612 BC, the site remained largely unoccupied for centuries with only a scattering of Assyrians living amid the ruins until the Sassanian period, although Assyrians continue to live in the surrounding area to this day.

Following his mother's death, he moved house near the end of the series, but only went as far as the other side of Victor's house, into the Trenches '/ McVitie's old house claiming he'd always wanted to live in an " end house, without leaving the area ".

Following the Armistice, South Korea and the U. S. agreed to a " Mutual Defense Treaty ", under which an attack on either party in the Pacific area would summon a response from both.

Following this disturbance, on 7 October the Governor instructed Coronaro to order the Sultan to surrender ; to intimidate the people he ordered the seizure of all merchant boats in the Alula area.

Following Alexander's brief occupation, the Hellenistic successor states of the Seleucids and Greco-Bactrians controlled the area for another 200 years in what is known as the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Following the coast south there is the Southwest Australia savanna and the Swan Coastal Plain around Perth, and then farther south the Warren on the southwest corner of the coast around the wine-growing area of Margaret River.

Following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, dangerously high levels of nuclear radiation escaped into the surrounding area, and nearly 200 towns and villages in Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus were evacuated, including the cities of Chernobyl and Prypiat.

Following the settlement of the Yuezhi ( referred to by the Greeks as Tókharoi ), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan.

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 graduation from the AMSP program, officers serve on a division, corps, or Army Service Component Command staff, or in an assignment " appropriate to their functional area ".

Following their expulsion by the Yuezhi, some Scythians may also have migrated to the area of Yunnan in southern China.

Following a series of conflicts with people living in the area of modern Maputo, the Ngwane, as they then called themselves, settled in northern Zululand in about 1750.

Following an uprising by the ethnic Tutsi, sometimes referred to as a whole as Banyamulenge ( although this term only represents people from one area in eastern Zaire — other ethnic Tutsi Kinyarwanda-speaking people include the Banyamasisi and the Banyarutshuru, as an example ) people in eastern Zaire in October 1997, a huge movement of refugees began which brought more than 600, 000 back to Rwanda in the last two weeks of November.

Following the Esperanza Fire ( Cabazon, 2006 ) that resulted in the deaths of five Forest Service employees, several wildland firefighters began to try to locate the family members and written record of former Tribal Member Frank Rios who was killed in a wildfire in October 1967 in the same area, so that his story can be told and remembered, and that his family can be properly honored for their service and their loss.

Following his dialogue with community leaders and his speech, no further attacks occurred against Muslim refugees, and a wider peace and order was re-established soon over the entire area.

Following this change in status, the area around the Mission began to decay rapidly ; Santiago Argüello ( then prefect of the southern District of Los Angeles ) complained to the Commandant of the Presidio of Santa Barbara, Don José de la Guerra y Noriega, that "... the unfortunate missions of San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano been converted into brothels of the mayordomos.

Following the penetrations inland, confused hard-fought individual actions pushed the foothold out barely a mile and a half ( 2. 5 km ) deep in the Colleville area to the east, less than that west of St. Laurent, and an isolated penetration in the Vierville area.