Deng Xiaoping outmaneuvered Mao's anointed successor chairman Hua Guofeng, and gradually emerged as the de facto leader over the next few years.

John wanted John de Gray, the Bishop of Norwich and one of his own supporters, to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury after the death of Walter, but the cathedral chapter for Canterbury Cathedral claimed the exclusive right to elect Walter's successor.

The emperor also named Mendoza governor of Río de la Plata and granted him the right to name his successor.

The cédula granted colonists the right to elect the governor of Río de la Plata Province either if Mendoza had failed to designate a successor or if a successor had died.

In 1825 the East Indian Company provided him with two assistants: apothecary and mineralogist Heinrich Bürger ( his later successor ) and the painter Carl Hubert de Villeneuve.

It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.

The antipope Clement VII died at Avignon on 16 September 1394, but the French cardinals quickly elected a successor on 28 September: Cardinal Pedro de Luna, who took the name Benedict XIII.

* Priory of Sion ( Prieuré de Sion ), a French fringe group and its fictitious predecessor and successor organisations

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Philip's son by Isabelle de Hainaut, Louis VIII, was his successor.

The country, based in Salisbury, was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia ( which had achieved responsible government in 1923 ).

It is the direct successor of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments ( Sacra Congregatio de Disciplina Sacramentorum ) ( 1908 – 1969 ).

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

Between 1930 and 1933, the Surrealist Group in Paris issued the periodical Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution as the successor of La Révolution surréaliste.

As Valens had no successor, Gratian's appointment of Theodosius amounted to a de facto invitation for Theodosius to become co-Augustus for the East.

From 2006 to 2010 the head of the secretariat was Yvo de Boer ; on May 17, 2010 his successor, Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica has been named.

Both factories were actually founded by Tatishchev's successor, Georg Wilhelm de Gennin, in 1723.

His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.

* December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.

* February 12 – African and Malagasy Common Organization ( OCAM ) ( Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache ) formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation ( Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique ; UAMCE ), formerly the African and Malagasy Union ( Union Africaine et Malgache ; UAM )).

At Leo's death, the new Pope, Victor II, confirmed him as legate, while Victor's successor Stephen IX sent him and Anselm of Lucca to Germany to obtain recognition from the Empress Agnes de Poitou.

He named Juan Carlos de Borbón, a grandson of Alfonso XIII, his successor on 22 July 1969.

As the populace took to the streets to expel Piero, the late Lorenzo de ’ Medici ’ s son and successor, Savonarola led a delegation to the camp of the French king.

Pierre established his eldest son, Raymond Montgolfier, later Raymond de Montgolfier ( 1730 – 1772 ), as his successor.

When Eskil stepped down as Archbishop of Lund in 1177, he chose Absalon as his successor.

Abdallah instead chose as his successor his grandson, Abd al-Rahman III ( the son of his first son ).

Beatty chose Lieutenant Ralph Seymour as his successor, despite Seymour being unknown to him.

Martin Heidegger is the best known of Husserl's students, the one whom Husserl chose as his successor at Freiburg.

They believe God chose Ali to be Muhammad's successor, infallible, the first caliph ( khalifa, head of state ) of Islam.

Nur ad-Din chose a successor for Shirkuh, but al-Adid appointed Saladin to replace Shawar as vizier.

Sega eventually chose to shelve the idea and instead release the Sega Nomad, a handheld version of the Mega Drive ( Genesis ), as the successor.

Under the circumstances, a joint UAP – Country Party meeting chose Fadden to be his successor as Prime Minister, even though the Country Party was nominally the junior partner in the coalition.

On the sudden death of John XII, the populace chose Pope Benedict V ( 964 – 966 ) as his successor.

Globocnik chose Franz Stangl, who had previously been the Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp, to assume command of Treblinka as Eberl's successor.

Grand Duke William IV, however, chose to confirm the law of succession stipulated in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna to allow a female descendant in the male line to become successor to the throne ( his own daughter Marie-Adélaïde ) instead.

Ben-Gurion stepped down as prime minister for personal reasons in 1963, and chose Levi Eshkol as his successor.

The turn of events outran the messages, when Hugh captured both Charles and Arnulf and convoked a synod at Reims in June 991 which obediently deposed Arnulf and chose as his successor Gerbert of Aurillac.

The most influential man in the West, Castinus, chose as his successor Joannes, a high-ranking officer.

In the Athenian king-list, Xuthus, the son-in-law of Erechtheus, was asked to choose his successor from among his many sons and chose Cecrops II, named for the mythic founder-king Cecrops.

In essence, given the PRI's overwhelming dominance, the president chose his successor.

Fairbanks sought the Republican nomination for President but Roosevelt ( who chose to not seek reelection ) supported William Howard Taft as his potential successor in 1908, sending Fairbanks back to the practice of law.

In September 1985, the party leadership election chose Pierre-Marc Johnson as his successor.

When his father died in early 138, Hadrian chose Antoninus Pius ( 86 – 161 ) as his successor.

After Pétion rose to power in the State of Haiti in the South, he chose Boyer as his successor.

Rumors had been circulating in Washington that Black would resign in the event that Truman chose Jackson as Chief Justice Stone ’ s successor.

According to the Chronicle of Alfonso III, credited to Ramiro's grandson, the childless Alfonso II chose as his successor Ramiro, his distant kinsman and son of Alfonso's predecessor Bermudo I.

He chose the axioms ( see Peano axioms ), in the language of a single unary function symbol S ( short for " successor "), for the set of natural numbers to be:

In 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kalmykia chose to remain an autonomous republic of the successor government, the Russian Federation.