Following riots in Leopoldville between 4 – 7 January 1959, and Stanleyville on 31 October 1959, the Belgians realised they could not maintain control of such a vast country in the face of rising demands for independence.

" Following the Indonesian riots of May 1998 and the resignation of President Suharto, several political reforms were set in motion via amendments to the Constitution of Indonesia, which resulted in changes to all branches of government.

Following her cremation, millions of Sikhs were displaced and nearly three thousand were killed in anti-Sikh riots.

Following the Stonewall riots, lesbian themes in literature became much more diverse and complex, and shifted the focus of lesbianism from erotica for heterosexual men to works written by and for lesbians.

Following the riots in July 1983, more than 150, 000 Tamil civilians fled the island, seeking asylum in other countries.

Following the 1976 Soweto riots – a student uprising in the township outside Johannesburg – he initiated a regular radio broadcast from Lusaka, tying ANC followers inside the country to their exiled leaders.

* April 9 – Following the death of Pope Gregory XI and riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI ( Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari ) as the 202nd Pope.

Following the riots in the GDR in October 1989, including those in East Berlin and Leipzig, on 18 October 1989, at a special Politbüro meeting, Honecker was forced to resign ; he was replaced by Egon Krenz.

Following riots in Kinshasa by unpaid soldiers, Mobutu brought opposition figures into a coalition government, but he still connived to retain control of the security services and important ministries.

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

Following the riots, the Haglers moved to Brockton, Massachusetts where Hagler soon began boxing training at the Petronelli brothers ' gym in 1969.

Following flooding and riots, a new outlet was cut from Newbridge to Goole, which was known as the Dutch River.

Following her death, thousands of Sikhs including those opposed to the Khalistan movement, were massacred in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, termed as a genocide by the Sikh groups.

Following riots at Rangoon University in July 1962, troops were sent to restore order.

Following the 2011 Nakba Day riots, when a number of Palestinian refugees were killed during clashes with Israeli security forces as they attempted to breach Israel's borders as part of protests demanding the implementation of the Palestinian right of return, Kaufman gave a speech criticizing Israeli actions, claiming that Palestinians were " slaughtered ", and said that " the way in which Israeli soldiers maltreat Palestinians is appalling ".

Following high profile race-related conflicts, and long-term underlying racial tensions between local White British and Asian communities, major riots broke out in the town.

Following the convention, eight protesters were charged with conspiracy to incite the riots, and there was a heavily publicized, five-month trial.

Following the riots, Mackenzie went into hiding.

Following the October 2000 riots and the violence of the al-Aqsa Intifada, Barak resigned from office.

Following riots in February 1994, Wade was arrested along with many others for allegedly threatening state security.

Following the riots, a five-day state of emergency was declared, the first time in Mongolia.

Following the 1929 Palestine riots, which left 133 Jews dead, the Jewish community members of Gaza and Hebron were ordered to evacuate by the British forces, in fear of their security.

Following the murder of a 27-year-old Belgian of North African descent by an allegedly mentally ill native Belgian man in Antwerp in 2002, which led to racially influenced riots in the city, the Arab European League began patrolling the streets of Antwerp with video cameras to monitor police activity.

Following the Peekskill riots, other cities become fearful of similar incidents, and over 80 scheduled concert dates of Robeson's were canceled.

Following the helper therapy principle, sponsors in AA benefit as much, if not more, from their relationship than do those they sponsor.

Following the trend of Romanticism, which greatly emphasised the role and the nature of the individual, and in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, a more intimate form of autobiography, exploring the subject's emotions, came into fashion.

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

Following the direction of the shoal is a line of 13 large blue " ship " symbols, with two more large symbols and four smaller ones inside this line.

Following these changes came the switchover to more reliable Chrysler Industrial 318 engines with the automatic Loadflite transmissions.

Following several years more of war, the IISS reported only four aircraft in 2012: one Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter, and three SA330L Puma transports ( marked as potentially unserviceable ).

Following the development of research techniques in molecular biology in the late 20th century, in particular methods for studying DNA-DNA hybridisation, a great deal of new information has surfaced, much of it suggesting that many birds, although looking very different from one another, are in fact more closely related than was previously thought.

Following this sentiment, congregationalism has evolved over time to include even more participation of the congregation, more kinds of lay committees to whom various tasks are apportioned, and more decisions subject to the vote of the entire membership.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Following this, in 1985, Daniel Schacter proposed a more general distinction between explicit ( declarative ) and implicit ( procedural ) memory With the recent advances in neuroimaging technology, there have been a multitude of findings linking specific brain areas to declarative memory.

* 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

Following his retirement, he went on to publish more than 200 articles, in a variety of journals — more than some reputable scientists publish in their entire careers ; 14 of his 25 books were published after he was 65.

" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.

Following Charles ' death, Oliver Cromwell set up the Commonwealth as a more pure form of government to replace the existing monarchy.

Following an unrealized uprising in 1846, and the more substantial but still unsuccessul uprising of 1848 ( during the Spring of Nations ), the Grand Duchy was replaced by the Province of Posen.

Following intense media attention surrounding the matter, Brundtland decided to change residence once more, back to Norway, and she also announced that she would be paying for the treatments herself.

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 Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries — more than agriculture's share.

Following the UK government's move towards opening up its data, a number of new mobile phone apps and services have been developed to help Londoners claim their refund more efficiently.