Following the Second Punic War, Rome became the most important power in the western Mediterranean.

Following the end of the First Punic War in which Marcellus fought as a soldier, the Gauls of the North declared war upon Rome in 225 BC.

Following this battle ( the first among four pitched land battles fought in the First Punic War ), the Romans occupied Agrigentum and sold the whole population into slavery.

Following Jugurtha's usurpation of the throne of Numidia, a loyal ally of Rome since the Punic Wars, Rome felt compelled to intervene.

Following the First Punic War with Rome, in 237 BC, Hamilcar Barca, the famous Carthaginian general, then began the conquest of Turdetania ( the successor state of Tartessus ) and Gades to provide a springboard for further attacks on Rome.

Following the Punic Wars, the Romans replaced the Carthaginians as the dominant power in Catalonia by 206 BCE.

Following Wagram, Charles saw no more significant action in the Napoleonic Wars.

Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( including the English Civil War ), the Church of Scotland was re-established on a presbyterian basis but by the Act of Comprehension 1690, the rump of Episcopalians were allowed to hold onto their benefices.

Following the World Wars, the United Nations and its members developed much of the discourse and the bodies of law that now make up international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Following Napoleon's defeat in the Napoleonic Wars France went through several further regime changes, being ruled as a monarchy, then briefly as a Second Republic, and then as a Second Empire, until a more lasting French Third Republic was established in 1870.

Following the end of the Wars and the constitutional reforms of 2003 by which the state was renamed " Serbia and Montenegro ", the military accordingly changed its name to " Military of Serbia and Montenegro ".

Following the Balkan Wars and World War I, southern Epirus became part of Greece, while northern Epirus became part of the newly created state of Albania.

Following the Campaigns of 1794 of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Southern Netherlands were invaded and annexed by the First French Republic in 1795, ending Habsburg rule.

Following a difficult production, The Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21, 1980, and initially received mixed reviews from critics, although it has since grown in esteem, becoming one of the most popular chapters in the Star Wars saga and one of the most highly-rated films in history.

Following the Napoleonic Wars, Trieste continued to prosper as the Free Imperial City of Trieste ( Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest ), a status that granted economic freedom, but limited its political self-government.

Following the Jewish-Roman Wars, revolutionaries like the Zealots had been crushed by the Romans, and had little credibility ( the last Zealots died at Masada in 73 ).

Following the release of The Phantom Menace, some critics charged that the mannerisms and voices of a few Star Wars characters represented racial stereotypes.

Following the Napoleonic Wars, Lauenburg was ceded by Prussia to Denmark in exchange for the region of Pomerania.

Following the French Revolutionary Wars the Austrian Netherlands were invaded and annexed by the First French Republic in 1792.

Following events in the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, including the destruction of the Death Star, Ackbar helped the other Rebel leaders establish new bases of operation and manage a Rebel mobile task force in starships spread across the galaxy.

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the canning process was gradually employed in other European countries and in the US.

Following the civil conflicts of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a more complete unification was attempted following the ratification of Parliament by Oliver Cromwell during the interregnum in 1654.

Following the Wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, which ended in 1454, Northern Italy had been largely at peace during the reigns of Cosimo de ' Medici and Lorenzo de ' Medici in Florence, with the notable exception of the War of Ferrara in 1482-1484.

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 it had adopted a format which gave a number of chapters to the history of Britain and followed closely the proceedings of Parliament.

Following the Swiss victories in the Burgundian Wars the Old Swiss Confederation was nearly torn apart by internal conflict when the city cantons insisted on having the lion's share of the proceeds since they had supplied the most troops.

Following the Swiss victories in the Burgundian Wars the Old Swiss Confederation was nearly torn apart by internal conflict when the city cantons insisted on having the lion's share of the proceeds since they had supplied the most troops.

Following this, Niven gave permission to several friends to write stories taking place in the time following " The Warriors " but before " The Soft Weapon "; these stories ( including a handful by Niven ) were collected in a number of volumes of The Man-Kzin Wars, which eventually reached thirteen volumes, the first published June 1988.

Following the outbreak of the French Wars from 1793, John Coker, the manorial lord of Bicester King ’ s End, formed an ‘ Association for the Protection of Property against Levellers and Jacobins ’ as an anti-Painite loyalist band providing local militia and volunteer drafts for the army.

Following the collapse of the Star League in 2781, the league's constituent states fell into a protracted struggle for supremacy known as the Succession Wars.

Following the Wars of Independence, Galloway became the fief of Archibald the Grim, Earl of Douglas and his heirs.

Following the mysterious death of Tullus, the Romans elected a peaceful and religious king in his place, Numa ’ s grandson, Ancus Marcius.

* Following the Battle of Cape Ecnomus, the Romans land an army near Carthage and begin ravaging the Carthaginian countryside.

* Following Antiochus III's defeat by the Romans, the two Armenian satraps of Antiochus III's, Artaxias and Zariadres, declare themselves independent of the Seleucids.

* Following the peace of Apamea, Eumenes II receives the provinces of Phrygia, Lydia, Lycia, Pisidia, and Pamphylia from his Roman allies, as the Romans have no desire to actually administer territory in Hellenistic Anatolia but want to see a strong, friendly state in Anatolia as a buffer zone against any possible Seleucid expansion in the future.

Following riots, the instigators were arrested and crucified by the Romans.

Following the Greek usage, the Romans referred to the Insulae Britannicae in the plural, consisting of Albion ( Great Britain ), Hibernia ( Ireland ), Thule ( possibly Iceland ) and many smaller islands.

Following the battle between Marcellus and the king of the Gauls, the outnumbered Romans broke the siege of Clastidium, won the battle and proceeded to push the Gallic army all the way back to their primary headquarters of Mediolanum.

Following Carus's death, the Romans retreated and Carus's son, Numerian, concluded peace with the Persians.

Following their decisive victory in Spain at the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC, Iberia was secured by the Romans.

Following the defeat of Marcus Antonius, the Romans modified Laodicea's name, changing it to Laodicea-ad-Mare, and the city flourished again as an entrepôt for East-West trade, second only to Antioch.

Following the lead of its great neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans ; in 53 AD it was made a free city.

Following its capture and sack by Trajan, the Romans even occupied Edessa from 116 to 118, although its sympathies towards the Parthians led to Lucius Verus pillaging the city later in the 2nd century.

Following this intervention, the Romans conquered what they called Provincia, or the ‘ Province ’ in 121 BC.

Following the battle, the Romans landed in Sicily for repairs and to rest the crews.

Following the departure of the Romans, who had a small fort two miles to the west which guarded the crossing of the River Skell by the Great North Road, an early wooden Saxon church was established at Campsall, although nothing of this remains today.

Following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, the sole use of the blue dyed strings was in the tzitzit.

Following the example of Carthage, the Romans used combined operations extensively to expand their Empire and influence in the Mediterranean and beyond, including the Roman conquest of Britain, which was not only a temporary expeditionary operation but included long term occupation and Roman settlement of the territories.

Following the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the Romans imported " Armenian traders, artisans, Legionaries and government administrators ".

Following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, the site served as barracks for the Roman troops.

Following suppression of Boudica's revolt, the Romans simply administered the territory as part of Britannia.

Following the defeat of Boudicca the Romans restored order on the region by establishing an administrative centre at Venta Icenorum ( the present Caistor St. Edmund ), a small town built at Brampton and other settlements which were developed at river crossings or road junctions.

Following his monarch's defeat by the Romans at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, Artaxias and his co-strategos Zariadres revolted and, with Roman consent, began to reign autonomously with the title of king ; Artaxias over Greater Armenia and Zariadres over Sophene / Lesser Armenia.