Following the Proclamation of Brazil ’ s Independence ( 1822 ) the Imperial Government continued a policy of populating the nation by attracting European colonisation.

Following a series of failures, they abandoned the island in 1794, another colonisation attempt in 1814 also being quickly ended.

Following Bermuda's colonisation by the English, introduced species like rats, cats and dogs, and mass killings of the birds by early colonists decimated numbers.

Following World War I, an upsurge of political consciousness throughout the Caribbean led to the formation of the representative government association.

Following the evacuation of U. S. Marines in 1925, another violent conflict between liberals and conservatives known as the Constitutionalist War took place in 1926, when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies, Bermuda was also used as a stop-over point between Canada and Britain's Caribbean possessions, and assumed a new strategic prominence for the Royal Navy.

Following the French Revolution, French privateers became a menace to British and American shipping in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, resulting in the Quasi-War, a brief conflict between France and the United States, fought largely at sea, and to the Royal Navy's procuring Bermuda sloops to combat the French privateers.

Following the post World War II arrival of immigrants from the Commonwealth group of nations into Britain, a sizeable Black Caribbean and Indian / Pakistani community grew up in this small market town, and now represents 7 % of the population in the Borough and to 11 % within the town.

Following the success of the Disney-branded PG-13 rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, and other films that in the 1980s and ' 90s would have been assigned to the Touchstone ( or Hollywood Pictures ) label, Disney has decided to weigh distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone films, though not entirely disbanding them as it is continues to regularly employ the Touchstone label for R and most PG-13 rated fare.

Following independence in 1981, Bird gained the external affairs portfolio and was the first chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States in 1982.

Following incidents in the Caribbean, Trueman did not play for England again under Hutton's captaincy, although he was still regarded as an England prospect.

Following intensification into a tropical storm the next day, Gilbert steadily strengthened as it tracked west-northwestward into the Caribbean Sea.

Following a tour as a test pilot instructor, he reported in 1984 to the, on Caribbean and Mediterranean deployments.

Following Van's studies in history at Yale, from which he received a Master's degree in 1948, and a stint in the Navy stationed in Hawaii, the young couple spent considerable time sailing Grey Goose around Chesapeake Bay, the Florida Keys, and the Caribbean.

Following a trademark law dispute between the original operators of the festival, who still owned the Caribana name, and the current organizers, the festival was renamed Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival in May 2011.

Following defeat in the Seven Years War, France lost its possessions in North America and India, but it did manage to keep the wealthy Caribbean islands of Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, and Martinique.

Following the 2004 tsunami that affected more than forty countries in the Indian Ocean, many more people now fear of the consequences that such an event would bring to the Caribbean.

Following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearls success in 2003, the cast and crew signed on for two sequels to be shot back-to-back.

Following the 2010 general election Browne was appointed Minister of State with the responsibility for South East Asia & Far East, Caribbean, Central & South America, Australasia & Pacific, human rights, consular, migration, drugs and international crime, public diplomacy and the Olympics at the Foreign Office as a member of the coalition government.

Following an investigative visit to the Caribbean by Major E. F. L.

Following the discovery of America and the colonial expansion in the Caribbean and Continental America, valuable agricultural products and mineral resources were introduced into Spain through regular trade routes.

Following the passage of Hurricane Baker through the Caribbean Sea, a trough of low pressure persisted across the western Caribbean Sea.

Following the season, he would play for his hometown Elefantes de Cienfuegos competing for the Caribbean World Series.

Following several unsuccessful attempts, permanent settlement of the islands began in the 1730s.

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 departure of the Spanish settlers, the Falkland Islands became the domain of whalers and sealers who used the islands to shelter from the worst of the South Atlantic weather.

Following this ill-fated expedition, all rights that the Norwegian crown " had of old therein " in relation to the islands were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.

Following a shipwreck of a Ryūkyūan vessel on the southeastern tip of Taiwan in winter of 1871, in which the heads of 54 crew members were taken by the aboriginal Taiwanese Paiwan people in Mutan village ( 牡丹社 ), the Japanese sought to use this incident as a pretext to have the Qing formally acknowledge Japanese sovereignty over the Ryuku islands as a Japanese prefecture and to test reactions to potential expansion into Taiwan.

Following papal mediation and German compensation of $ 4. 5 million, Spain recognized Germany's claim in 1885, which established a protectorate and set up trading stations on the islands of Jaluit and Ebon to carry out the flourishing copra ( dried coconut meat ) trade.

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 regular illegal shooting of the birds there during the early and mid 20th Century, the population using the islands was subject to a long protection campaign and monitoring program by conservation activists Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne.

Following Viking expeditions to the islands they called the Suðreyjar in the eighth century, Raasay became part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles and for much of the period religious observance came under the jurisdiction of the Bishopric of the Isles.

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force seized the islands in 1914 and Australia later received a League of Nations mandate for the islands.

Following the downfall of the Minoans, the islands were ruled by the Mycenaean Greeks from circa 1400 BC, until the arrival of the Dorians circa 1100 BC.

Following the death of Alexander, the islands, and even Rhodes itself, were split up among the many generals who contended to succeed him.

Following the war, the Tittoni – Venizelos agreement, signed on July 29, 1919 called for the smaller islands to join with Greece, while Italy maintained control of Rhodes.

Following the outbreak of World War I, Australian troops captured Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and the nearby islands in 1914, after a short resistance led by Captain Carl von Klewitz and Lt. Robert " Lord Bob " von Blumenthal, while Japan occupied most of the remaining German possessions in the Pacific.

Following World War II, the islands were controlled by the United States Navy, which expelled all residents except those descended from the original settlers and / or related to them by marriage.

Following a £ 250, 000 safety improvement project ( including a pavement, traffic islands, 20 mph flashing speed-limit signs and width restrictions ) the road was reopened in September 2007.

Following Islamization of Java, they spread Islam in the islands, with Ternate being a Muslim sultanate circa 1484.

Following these events Vernet resigned as Governor, in 1832 the Argentine Government appointed as governor, Esteban José Francisco Mestivier, and sought to establish a penal colony in the islands ( Mestivier's appointment was in fact the only Argentine appointment to follow the norms of the time and was properly gazetted ).

Following the Falkland War, Britain increased its military presence on the East Falkland and invested heavily in improving facilities in Stanley and transportation around the islands, tarmacking many roads.

Following eighth grade, students must choose to study on one of the larger islands: Lopez, Orcas, or San Juan.

Following his disappearance, the Infanta D. Beatriz, in the name of her son the Infante D. Diogo ( who inherited the islands of Terceira and Graciosa following the death D. Fernando, the adopted son of the Infante D. Henrique ) divided the island of Terceira into two captaincies: Angra ( which was given to João Vaz Corte Real ) and Praia ( which was given to Álvaro Martins Homem ).

Following the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the islands of New Zealand became a British colony.

Following these four islands, Columbus next visited a string of seven or more islands in a line running north-south ( which historians generally agree must be the modern Ragged Island Range ) before landing on the north coast of Cuba.