Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

Following the discovery of gold and silver in 1859 on the nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to rise.

Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in March 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.

Following the Saur Revolution Najibullah was a low profile bureaucrat, who was sent into exile during Hafizullah Amin's rise to power as Ambassador to Iran.

Following recent discoveries and oil fields currently under development, Congo's oil production is expected to continue to rise significantly in the next few years.

Following the rise of 3D graphics in the early-mid 1990s, racing games and light gun shooters would also gain considerable popularity in the arcades.

Following the emergence of the circumpolar current in the mid-Oligocene era ( some 15 MYA ), the Australian climate became increasingly arid, giving rise to a diverse group of arid-specialised organisms, just as the wet tropical and seasonally wet areas gave rise to their own uniquely adapted species.

Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative, follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons ' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.

Following this, the Saints made their first big signing under Markus Liebherr as they unveiled new striker Rickie Lambert who was purchased on 10 August 2009, for an initial £ 800, 000, which could rise to £ 1m subject to appearances, from fellow League One side Bristol Rovers.

Following Persian and Macedonian rule, the Artaxiad dynasty from 190 BC gave rise to the Kingdom of Armenia which rose to the peak of its influence under Tigranes II before falling under Roman rule.

Following the rise of Hamas in the 1987-91 First Intifada among Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jibril found an able ally in resisting the trend started by Fatah leader Yasser Arafat toward a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Following the rise of the Nazi Party and the annexation of Austria, Paul tried to persuade his sisters Helene and Hermine to leave Vienna, but they demurred: they were attached to their homes there, and could not believe such a distinguished family as theirs was in real danger.

Following her rise to fame, Lumley revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable ; her son, James, was born in 1967.

Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of the antisemitic Nazi Party, in 1933 he moved to London, England, and obtained his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge.

Following the rise of the Traditionalist Catholic movement in the 1970s, Pope Paul VI reportedly declined to liberalise its use further on the grounds that it had become a politically charged symbol associated with opposition to his policies.

Following Hayley's rise to fame in Pollyanna ( 1960 ) and the 1961 family comedy The Parent Trap, John and Hayley again starred together, in the 1965 teen sailing adventure The Truth About Spring, the 1964 drama The Chalk Garden ( with Deborah Kerr in the lead role ), and the 1966 comedy-drama The Family Way, in which John plays an insecure, overbearing father and Hayley plays his son's newlywed wife.

Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.

Following the attack, Muslim-Americans were subjected to an upsurge in harassment and discrimination, including a rise in hate crimes nationally ; 222 hate crimes against Muslims nationwide were reported in the days immediately following the bombing.

Following his rise to power, Habré created a secret police force known as the Documentation and Security Directorate ( DDS ), under which opponents of Habré were tortured and executed.

Following the withdrawal of the Soviet forces and the rise of the Western-funded and Pakistani-trained Mujahideen rebels, Afghanistan plunged into civil war.

Following the meteoric rise to popularity of NAQT, the decline into irrelevance of College Bowl, and longstanding complaints, justified or not, about the difficulty of ACF, a decision was made in 2001 to focus great effort on the accessibility of Academic Competition Federation tournaments.

Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Institute left Germany for Geneva, before moving to New York City in 1935, where it became affiliated with Columbia University.

Following the Huns invasions that broke the Gupta empire, the Ganges-Yamuna Doab saw the rise of Kannauj.

Following France's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition, Napoleon Bonaparte marched into Berlin in 1806, but granted self-government to the city.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

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 ).

* 1815: Following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo the Treaty of Vienna is signed.

Following the defeat of Napoleon, Alexander I was willing to discuss constitutional reforms, and though a few were introduced, no thoroughgoing changes were attempted.

* Following his surrender to Captain Frederick Maitland of off Rochefort in 1815, Napoleon was taken to Plymouth Sound where he remained on board, 26 July – 4 August, while his future was decided.

Following praise of St Helena ’ s coffee given by Napoleon during his exile on the island, the product enjoyed a brief popularity in Paris during the years after his death.

Following the 1870 collapse of the empire of Emperor Napoleon III, Henri was offered a restored throne.

Following this defeat, Alexander had to make peace with Napoleon at Tilsit ( 7 July 1807 ).

Following the end of the armistice, Napoleon seemed to have regained the initiative at Dresden ( August 1813 ), where he once again defeated a numerically superior Coalition army and inflicted enormous casualties, while sustaining relatively few.

Following the ousting of Napoleon I in 1814, the Coalition restored the Bourbon Dynasty in pushing Louis XVIII to the French throne.

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 defeat by Napoleon in 1805, Austria was forced to cede Tyrol to the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Peace of Pressburg.

Following the defeat of the Austrian Army on the Bavarian front, Napoleon dispatched Charles Lefebvre to Tyrol, and by May 19 Innsbruck had been seized again and the rebellion seemed quelled.

Following Napoleon ’ s orders Grouchy attacked the Prussian III Corps under the command of General Johann von Thielmann near the village of Wavre.

Following Bautzen, Napoleon agreed to a seven-week truce with the Coalition, requested by the Allies on 2 June 1813, the armistice ( Armistice of Pleischwitz ) was signed on 4 June, and lasted until 20 July, but later extended to 16 August.

Following his successes with the Six Days Campaign ( 10 to 14 February 1814 ) in smashing the Allied drive on Paris, Napoleon headed southward towards Seine River where the main Austrian Army under Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, was threatening Paris from the southeast.

Following Marmont at a short distance were further reinforcements, two Guard infantry divisions ( Friant and Curial ) under the command of Marshal Ney and with them was Napoleon himself.

Following his coronation as Emperor of the French in 1804, Napoleon made Brune Marshal of the Empire ( Maréchal d ' Empire ).

Following a pact between Alexander I and Napoleon, Russia launched a campaign against Sweden and occupied Finland in 1808.

Following the Revolution of 1848 that saw the end of the reign of King Louis Philippe, Delacroix ' painting, Liberty Leading the People, was finally put on display by the newly elected President, Louis Napoleon ( Napoleon III ).

Following its victory at Leipzig, the Coalition vowed to press on to Paris and depose Napoleon.

Following Napoleon ’ s orders Grouchy attacked the Prussian III Corps under the command of General Johann von Thielmann near the village of Wavre.