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 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 Francis McNeirny to the Diocese of Albany, Farley became secretary to Archbishop John McCloskey in 1872.

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 the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

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 the purchase of of prime pampas wheat fields, Bunge & Born established Centenera, their first food processing plant, in 1899.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

Following a two year campaign by women to change their circumstances, in 1959 Cayman received its first written constitution which, for the first time, allowed women to vote.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 – 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.

Following its first reading the Parliament may propose amendments.

Following in the footsteps of legendary English Joseph Grimaldi, Fox popularised the Humpty Dumpty stories throughout the land in the first half of the 19th century.

Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.

Following the first successful kidney transplant in 1953, in the United States, Barnard performed the first kidney

Following the death of her first husband she had entered the court of Bohemia in Prague as a lady-in-waiting.

Following the Seven Years ' War, empty Acadian lands were settled first by New England Planters and then by immigrants brought from Yorkshire.

Following the restoration of independence from the Soviet Union, Russia was one of the first nations to recognize Estonia's independence ( the first country to do so was Iceland on 22 August 1991 ).