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

Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, the war between the KMT and the CPC resumed, after failed attempts at reconciliation and a negotiated settlement.

Following the northerly retreat of glaciers at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation over ten thousand years ago, human settlement by Native Americans or First Nations began in the Maritimes with Paleo-Indians during the Early Period, ending around six thousand years ago.

Following the Battle of Largs, the 13th century would see the Norse settlement and overlordship of Scotland end, as well as the line of David I, with the death of Alexander III.

Following the failed insurrections of 1896 – 97 the Ndebele and Shona groups became subject to Rhodes's administration thus precipitating European settlement en masse which led to land distribution disproportionately favouring Europeans, displacing the Shona, Ndebele, and other indigenous peoples.

Following the 1976 season, the leagues reached a settlement that provided for the addition of four ABA franchises to the NBA, raising the number of franchises in the league at that time to 22.

Following the settlement of the Yuezhi ( referred to by the Greeks as Tókharoi ), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan.

Following the annulment of their marriage, Anne was given a generous settlement by the King, and thereafter referred to as the King's Beloved Sister.

Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Sanrio and Mercis reached an out-of-court settlement on June 7, 2011 for Sanrio to halt production worldwide of merchandise that feature Cathy.

Following Bligh's overthrow Johnston had notified his superior officer, Colonel William Paterson, who was in Tasmania establishing a settlement at Port Dalrymple ( now Launceston ), of events.

Following the Civil War, settlement was encouraged by the Homestead Act, the transcontinental railroad, and waves of new immigrants, and cultivation increased.

Following the massacre in 1839 a police station was established and the name of the settlement became Broken River.

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 Anglo-Irish Treaty, most of the Kerry IRA units opposed the settlement.

Following the opening of the first railway station in the area in 1839 at Stratford, the focus of activity shifted northwards towards the fast-expanding Stratford, with the original settlement diminishing in significance.

Following the founding of the Bayou Sara settlement by Franciscan / Cappucin monks in the late 17th century, the area was explored further by Spain, France, and England.

Following the American Civil War the railroad began to assist Sycamore's growth and the settlement was incorporated as a city in 1869.

Following litigation settlement, the U. S. Army provided New Brighton and the surrounding northern suburbs with clean water supplies and new systems to monitor and filter pollution.

Following a short prison term for his involvement in the 1871 raid, O ' Neill became a land speculator and promoter of Irish settlement in Nebraska.

Following the initial wave of settlement in the late 19th century, an additional building boom occurred in the 1920s, when the majority of the borough's current housing stock was constructed.

Following trapper Barney Ward's lead, irrigation ditches were dug and reservoir sites identified soon after settlement.

Following European settlement, New York State and New York City were originally a Dutch colony and settlement, named Nieuw Nederland and Nieuw Amsterdam.

Following a settlement of a recording ban imposed by the American Federation of Musicians, the Orchestra switched to Columbia Records in 1944, recording some of the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor.

Following the arrival of permanent European settlement in Australia in 1788, the story of early Australian painting has been described as requiring of artists a shift from a " European sense of light " to an " Australian sense of light ".

Following the shootings, police searching Barton's home found that his second wife, Leigh Ann Vandiver Barton, and two children, Matthew David Barton ( 12 ) and Mychelle Elizabeth Barton ( 10 ), had been murdered by hammer blows before the shooting spree ; the children had then been placed in bed, as if sleeping.

Following their divorce in 1962, Leigh married stockbroker Robert Brandt in Las Vegas.

Following the fire the house remained a burnt shell until the estate was sold in 1848 to John Leigh, a Liverpool solicitor and property speculator.

Following the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England, Atherton, which is built on and around seven brooks, became part of the manor of Warrington until the Norman conquest, when it became a township or vill in the ancient parish of Leigh.

Following his tour of the UK, he wrote about his experiences in a book entitled An American Four-in-hand in Britain.

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 a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Following his conversion and remarriage, he and his wife wrote about struggles with divorce and alcoholism in Back On Course: The Remarkable Story of a Divorce That Ended in Remarriage.

Following on from his exertions in Newfoundland, it was at this time that Cook wrote that he intended to go not only:

Following the Responsio ad Sadoletum, Calvin wrote an open letter at the request of Bucer to Charles V in 1543, Supplex exhortatio ad Caesarem, defending the reformed faith.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

Following the December 29, 1890, massacre, Baum wrote a second editorial, published on January 3, 1891:

Following his lecture on laparoscopic appendectomy, the president of the German Surgical Society wrote to the Board of Directors of the German Gynecological Society suggesting suspension of Semm from medical practice.

Following each trip, Palin wrote a book about his travels, providing information and insights not included in the TV programme.

Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus.

Following the EPR paper, Erwin Schrödinger wrote a letter ( in German ) to Einstein in which he used the word Verschränkung ( translated by himself as entanglement ) " to describe the correlations between two particles that interact and then separate, as in the EPR experiment ".

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Mogadishu was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the modern Somalis.

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

Following Plath's suicide, he wrote two poems " The Howling of Wolves " and " Song of a Rat " and then did not write poetry again for three years.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed ( and also had a small acting role in ) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration ( Festen ).

Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, they wrote and produced 2006 film V for Vendetta, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

Following the announcement of the Irish general election, 2011, Adams wrote to the House of Commons to resign his seat.

Following his graduation in 1856, he wrote his dissertation on the synthesis of hippuric acid in the human body.

Following the example of Gauss, he wrote his first paper on the theory of numbers in Latin: " De compositione numerorum primorum formæ ex duobus quadratis.

Following their divorce, Claire Beck Loos wrote Adolf Loos Privat, a literary work of snapshot-like vignettes about Loos ’ character, habits and sayings, which was published by the Johannes-Presse in Vienna in 1936.

Following this, Chiang Ching-kuo wrote an editorial that harshly criticized his father's actions and was detained as a " guest " of the Soviet Union as a practical hostage.