Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.

Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the city expanded and had a population of 8, 000 by the end of the 13th century.

Following the unexpected death of the Bahá ' í Faith's first Guardian Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the 27 living Hands of the Cause, having the responsibility to acknowledge any appointment of a successor, gathered and decided that he had died " without having appointed his successor ," and that the Universal House of Justice would decide on the situation after its first election.

Following Baryshnikov's appointment as artistic director of American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp.

Following Bildt's appointment as EU's special envoy to Yugoslavia, Tom Warrick from the Coalition for International Justice described Bildt as " dangerously misinformed about his own job description " and largely ignorant about the region.

Following the assassination of Hasdrubal, Hannibal, the son of the Carthaginian general, Hamilcar Barca, is proclaimed commander-in-chief by the army and his appointment is confirmed by the Carthaginian government.

Following a brief appointment at West Point in 1861, with the South's secession, he became the first Confederate brigadier general.

Following William A. F. Browne's appointment at the Crichton hospital his son, James Crichton-Browne was educated at the Academy.

Following his appointment to the cabinet Mr. Gallatin determined to withdraw from the glass firm and advertised on May 7, 1803 in a Pittsburgh newspaper, " Sale by Auction ... One undivided half of the New Geneva Glassworks, a ferry across the Monongahela River, sundry lots and dwelling houses in the town of Greensboro ..

Following a campaign of protest in New York he felt unable to take up the appointment.

Following his appointment to this command, he marries Maria, the daughter of his landlady while living on half-pay in Portsmouth.

Following that appointment he became Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1958 before becoming Under Secretary of State the following year.

Following the announcement of his appointment as Canadian ambassador to Washington, he resigned his position as counsel at law firms as well as all positions on corporate boards including his role as interim chairman of the board of CanWest Global Communications, a post he assumed upon the death of its founder and chairman Israel Asper.

Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, IG Farben cooperated with the Nazi regime, profiting from guaranteed volumes and prices, and from the slave labor provided by the government's concentration camps.

Following the appointment of Hitler as Reichskanzler on 30 January 1933, Todt became ( in July ) Generalinspektor für das deutsche Straßenwesen (" Inspector General for German Roadways ") and was involved in the new construction company for the motorways ( Reichsautobahnen ).

Following the expiration of the Committee's term in September 2007, the government of Bihar delayed the appointment of a new Committee.

Following his exchange, Horn received his appointment as Vice President of War department of the government.

Following an approach from the New Zealand government, Freyberg offered his services and subsequently gained appointment as commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force and of the New Zealand 2nd Division.

Following the appointment of General Bernard Montgomery to the command of the 21st Army Group, the plan underwent a number of further revisions, and on 21 January 1944 a revised Overlord plan was presented to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had been chosen as the Supreme Allied Commander for the invasion.

Following on that of Vincent Massey, an Anglophone, the appointment of Vanier established the tradition of rotating between French and English speaking persons.

Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, he was promoted to Reich Regent of Thüringia and Reichstag member.

Following their appointment, the First Minister may then nominate ministers to sit in the Scottish Cabinet and Junior Ministers to form the Scottish Government.

Following this appointment many Royal Engineer officers superintended engineering works at Naval Dockyards in various parts of the world.

Following that appointment, he served as Republican chief counsel and staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.

Following suggestions by Francis W. Webb, the Mechanical Engineer for the London and North Western Railway at Crewe Works, rails were laid along a stretch of the towpath near Worleston, and a small steam locomotive borrowed from Crewe Works was used to tow boats.

* April 4 – Following his circumnavigation of the world, Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I of England.

Following in the footsteps of Charles of Egmond, Duke William formed an alliance with France, an alliance dubiously cemented via his political marriage to French King Francis I's niece Jeanne d ' Albret ( who reportedly had to be whipped into submission to the marriage, and later bodily carried to the altar by the Constable of France, Anne de Montmorency ).

Following Louis ' death, the new King Francis I made attempts to arrange a second marriage for the beautiful widow.

Following the accidental death of Henry II in 1559, his son succeeded as King Francis II along with his wife, the Queen Consort also known as Mary Queen of Scots.

Following the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805, The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, following a crushing defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz by the French under Napoleon resulting in the Treaty of Pressburg, and sixteen of France's allies among the German states ( including Bavaria and Württemberg ) established the Confederation of the Rhine in July 1806.

Following another idea of her father, Francis traveled to London in August 1959 to record an Italian album at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios, entitled " Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites ".

Following this success, Francis recorded seven more albums of " Favorites " between 1960 and 1964, including Jewish, German and Irish Favorites, among others.

Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son James Francis Edward Stuart (" The Old Pretender "), the English establishment determined to avoid the possibility of a Catholic dynasty on the English throne by engineering the Glorious Revolution, when the throne was offered to the older of James's two Protestant daughters from his first marriage and her husband, the Stadhouder of Holland, who uniquely reigned as co-monarchs, William III ( 1688 – 1702 ) and Mary II ( 1688 – 1694 ).

Following the death of her husband Francis II of France, Mary, Queen of Scots ( Vanessa Redgrave ) returns to her native land.

Following a recommendation to King Henry by King Francis I of France, whom Herbert had served as a soldier of fortune, Herbert was granted arms after only two years.

Following Constantine's conversion, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos recounts that Christian pacifism and anarchism were submerged for nearly a millennium until the emergence of thinkers such as Francis of Assisi and Petr Chelčický.

Following the invasion of southern Italy by revolutionary forces led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, Francis II of the Two Sicilies fled from Naples and took up a defensive position on the south bank of the Volturno, near S. Maria di Capua Vetere.

Following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell led the charge of insurgency in the Yorkist Stafford and Lovell Rebellion against Henry VII of England, attainted Earl of Richmond.

Following further tours of Australia and the UK, Francis Monkman left the band in 1980 to concentrate on his own projects ( having scored a great success with his soundtrack to the film The Long Good Friday ).

Following the ascension of Francis Spellman to Archbishop of New York in 1939, McIntyre was also named to the archdiocesan board of consultors.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, the Abbey was granted by Henry VIII to Francis Goodere of St Albans, Hertfordshire in 1544.

Following the death of Cardinal John Francis O ' Hara, Krol was appointed the sixth Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Pope John XXIII on February 11, 1961.

Following service in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Francis earned a Master of Arts ( MA ) and doctorate ( Ph. D ) in economics, and lectured in the discipline from 1948 to 1951 at the University at Buffalo.

Following the confiscation of the possessions of Jacques d ' Armagnac, duke of Nemours, to which the countship of Castres had passed, it was bestowed in 1476 by King Louis XI on Boffille de Juge ( Boffillo del Giudice ), an Italian nobleman and adventurer serving as a diplomat for Louis XI, but the appointment led to so much disagreement ( family feud between Boffille de Juge, his only daughter, and his brother-in-law ) that the countship was united to the crown by King Francis I in 1519.

Following a funeral Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, he was buried in St. Francis Chapel at St. Matthew's Cathedral.

Following the death of Mary's husband Francis II of France in 1560, and the apparent failure of the English marriage plan, his father tried to arrange for his marriage to the Queen of Scots, first suggested in their infancy.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, the priory and its land were granted to Sir Francis Bryan, a close ally of Henry VIII.