Following the Islamic concept that before Islam there was the time of Jahiliya ( ignorance ), in the history books used by Maldivians the introduction of Islam at the end of the 12th century is considered the cornerstone of the country's history.

Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death.

Following the 1991 general election, the francophone Union of Moderate Parties became the dominant party in Parliament, and Maxime Carlot Korman became the country's first francophone Prime Minister.

Following in his father's athletic footsteps, John Jr. won in 1947 the James E. Sullivan Award as the country's top amateur athlete.

Following the 2001 Macedonian War, it was disarmed under the terms of the Ohrid Agreement, under which greater rights and autonomy were to be given to the country's Albanian minority population.

Following the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820, and after several battles and skirmishes were fought in Pará and in Bahia, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King John VI of Portugal, proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first emperor ( He later also reigned as Pedro IV of Portugal ).

Following the release of East German secret service files, it was revealed that many of the country's athletes were involved with a state-sponsored drug program.

Following the military junta of the 1955, he was chosen by the country's constituent assembly to serve as president and oversee the transition to democracy.

Following the eruption, many survivors were treated at the main hospital in Yaoundé, the country's capital.

Following that war he returned to France, where he held military commands in the country's northeast at the time of the French Revolution.

Following the death of Mao in September 1976 and the coup d ' état against the radical Gang of Four a month later, Chen became increasingly active in the country's political life.

Following the failure of Darien, and with the country's economy damaged, serious machinations began proposing the political union between the two realms of Scotland and England.

Following his grandfather Georgios Papandreou and his father Andreas Papandreou, he was the third member of the Papandreou family to serve as the country's prime minister.

Following a power struggle after Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the country's new leader.

Following the destruction of the Mongolian invasion of Hungary, Béla wanted to quickly revive the country's devastated vineyards.

Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists ( i. e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-King and the rule of the House of Habsburg ), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss ' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of the Nazi regime.

Following the elections leading to the country's independence in 1980, as the Republic of Zimbabwe, the RF won all 20 parliamentary seats reserved for whites.

Following the country's independence, streets named in his honor kept their designation, and his tomb in Suoi Dau was graced by a pagoda where rites are performed in his worship.

Following Colonel Busch's suicide in August 1939, conservative forces reasserted themselves, took power, and propitiated the 1940 elections in which the tradiational ( oligarchic ) parties linked to the country's big mining interests ( known as " La Rosca ") triumphed at the polls with General Enrique Peñaranda.

Following 2000 withdrawal, Lebanon's military authorities report Israeli jets have violated the UN resolution 1701 by entering the country's airspace and breaking sound barriers over several villages in southern parts of the nation.

Following these strong economic reforms, and a strong focus on developing national infrastructure such as the Golden Quadrilateral project by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister, the country's economic growth progressed at a rapid pace with very high rates of growth and large increases in the incomes of people.

Following the Revolution and Algerian independence, all but 6, 500 of the country's 160, 000-strong Jewish population left the country.

Following the two-hour gunfight between Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists based in Pakistan and Indian police, in which six terrorists were killed, opposition parties called for a nationwide strike with the country's leaders condemning the attack, believed to have been masterminded by Dawood Ibrahim.

Following independence, the country's white people lost most of their former privileges.

Following his advice and encouragement, Holbrook created a strip in the fall of that year about a college graduate working in a rundown diner.

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

Following the fall of the Derg regime in 1991, Abune Merkorios abdicated under public and governmental pressure and went to exile in the United States.

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 his military service, Stoiber studied political science and then, in the fall 1962 in Munich, law.

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, Gibraltar was occupied by the Vandals and later the Goths kingdoms.

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the Franks conquered the other West Germanic tribes.

Following the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, 539 BCE, some Judean exiles returned to Jerusalem, inaugurating the formative period in the development of a distinctive Judahite identity in the Persian province of Yehud.

Following the Allied invasion of Italy and the fall of Benito Mussolini in September, he and Joachim von Ribbentrop raised with Hitler the possibility of secretly approaching Joseph Stalin and negotiating a separate peace behind the backs of the western Allies.

Following Shaftesbury's fall from favour in 1675, Locke spent some time travelling across France as tutor and medical attendant to Caleb Banks.

Following the fall of apartheid, there have been moves to reintroduce the jury system.

Following Khrushchev's fall from power, Soviet leader Brezhnev brought Voroshilov out of retirement into a figurehead political post.

Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in August 2011 former state-affiliated dailies have closed and new titles have appeared, many short-lived.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Gaddafi decided to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion euros in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.

Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Don Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, 8 miles south of Tenochtitlán, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City.

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1992, mosques in war-torn Afghanistan saw many contributions from Saudi citizens.

Following the Pribram fall, other nations established automated observing programs aimed at studying infalling meteorites.

Following the loss, the Senators sank all the way to seventh place in 1934, and attendance began to fall.

Following 9 / 11, Mazar Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the Northern Alliance ( United Front ).

Following the fall of Achaemenid Empire, and after the fall of the Parthian Empire, the Sassanid empire ruled the northern half and at times the southern half of the Persian Gulf.

Following the " peace dividend " after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the company sold its defense and aerospace business, including what was once North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in December 1996.

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the Air Force instituted a comprehensive reorganization of its major commands.

Following the latter mode, which is of a more practical interest, the writings fall into two groups.

Following the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958, Venezuelan politics was dominated by the third-way Christian democratic COPEI and the center-left social democratic Democratic Action ( AD ) parties ; this two-party system was formalized by the puntofijismo arrangement.