* Republic of Minerva, another libertarian project that succeeded in building a small man-made island on the Minerva Reefs south of Fiji in 1972 before being invaded by troops from Tonga, who formally annexed it before destroying the island.

She was succeeded by Mahendra Chaudhry as leader of the Fiji Labour Party.

The Ryders were succeeded by the Borron family who ran a successful copra plantation on the island for many years and donated Borron House, an historic mansion in the Fiji capital city Suva, to the Fiji Government.

In 1871, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu ( Warlord / Paramount Chief ) of Bau, succeeded in unifying the previously warring tribes throughout the Fiji Islands by establishing the Kingdom of Viti, with the support of foreigners.

The present Roko Tui Dreketi is Ro Teimumu Vuikaba Kepa, who succeeded her late sister, Ro Lady Lala Mara, a former First Lady of Fiji, in 2004.

Taniela ( Daniel ) Vafo ' ou Fatiaki CF ( born 1954 ) was the Chief Justice of Fiji from 1 August 2002, when he succeeded Sir Timoci Tuivaga, till 5 December 2008.

Supplied with weapons by Swedish mercenary Charlie Savage, Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa, the Vunivalu ( a chiefly title meaning Warlord, often translated also as Paramount Chief ) of Bau Island, defeated the much larger Burebasaga Confederacy and succeeded in subduing much of western Fiji.

He succeeded but was barred from returning to Fiji, having been declared persona non-grata.

During his first administration, Bienville succeeded in keeping Carolina traders out of the Alabama country and the Choctaw country.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G procaine in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside Allied military before 1945.

* 1080 – King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

After Nedeljko Čabrinović's first unsuccessful attack, Princip succeeded in killing the Archduke.

The first Archdeacon was Reginald Hobhouse and he was succeeded by Archdeacon du Boulay in 1892.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, lasting from million years ago ( mya ) ; it is succeeded by the Ordovician.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

The Roman commanders, the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, hindered Roman coordination and so the Cimbri succeeded in first defeating the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus and later inflicted a devastating defeat on Caepio and Maximus at the Battle of Arausio.

By 1971, Brezhnev had succeeded in becoming first amongst equals in the Politburo and the Central Committee.

Its first chairman was Nikita Khrushchev, and he was succeeded in 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev.

The Eneolithic was never part of the Stone Age, which ended conclusively the moment the first smelterer succeeded in obtaining copper from copper ore for the first time.

He was succeeded as team president by his daughter, Marguerite, the first ( and as of the 2006 – 07 season, only ) woman to head an NHL franchise.

The Democratic Front succeeded the National Liberation Front in August 1945 and the first elections in post-war Albania were held on 2 December.

He was succeeded first by one of his brothers, Emperor Yōmei, then by another, Emperor Sushun, and then Empress Suiko, his sister and wife, before his grandson, Emperor Jomei, eventually took the throne.

Emperor Mommu ruled until his death in 707, at which point he was succeeded by his mother, Empress Gemmei, who was also his first cousin once removed and his first cousin twice removed.

The first Secretary-General was Dr. Kim Hak-su from Korea ( January 1995 – March 1999 ) who was succeeded by Dr. Sarat Chandran, India ( April 1999 – June 2003 ) and Mr. Kittipan Kanjanapitkul from Thailand ( June 2003 – August 2007 ).

On December 31, 1981, Pérez de Cuéllar succeeded Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General and was re-elected for a second term in October 1986.

He was Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1945 to 1946 and British Ambassador to France between 1954 and 1960. the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1996.

He succeeded Diallo Telli of Guinea, who had served as Secretary-General of the OAU for 8 years.

He was succeeded by Mohamed Sahnoun, formerly Senior Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

He was succeeded by Dr Chee Soon Juan, who has remained the Secretary-General since the SDP's Ordinary Party Conference in 1995.

In June 1972, Telli was succeeded by Nzo Ekangaki of Cameroon as OAU Secretary-General.

As new Secretary-General ( after Mahmud al-Ma ' ayta, who had recently succeeded Yusuf Zu ' ayyin ), al-Assad chose Zuhayr Muhsin, a Palestinian Ba ' thist who had come to Syria as a refugee from Jordan.

Egeland was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and succeeded Kenzo Oshima.

On 3 December 2003, Bot succeeded current NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second Balkenende cabinet.

He was elected the Secretary-General of his Party in 2005 after Pedro Santana Lopes and was succeeded in September 2007 by Luís Filipe Menezes.

He was Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Japan ( DPJ ) before he succeeded Ozawa as party leader following Ozawa's resignation on 11 May 2009.