He rose to power after uniting his Conservative party and the breakaway Action liberale nationale progressive faction of the Liberal party of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, to form a new conservative party, the Union Nationale.

While he lost that election, Duplessis was soon able to exploit a patronage scandal involving the family of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau to force Taschereau's resignation.

During his period as Lieutenant Governor, his nephew acted as Premier of Quebec, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

* March 5 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec ( died 1952 )

* Premier of Quebec: Alexandre Taschereau

* July 6 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec ( b. 1867 )

Godbout was appointed to the Cabinet by Premier Alexandre Taschereau and served as Minister of Agriculture from November 27, 1930 to June 27, 1936.

With the blessing of federal Cabinet Members, he took over Taschereau ’ s job as Liberal Leader and Premier of Quebec.

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (; March 5, 1867 – July 6, 1952 ) was the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936.

* Premier of Quebec: Alexandre Taschereau

Ferguson ( left ) with William Lyon Mackenzie King ( center ), Prime minister of Canada, and Taschereau ( right ), Quebec Premier, at the Dominion-Provincial Conference, November 23, 1927

Ferguson's reversal on Regulation 17 was a concession needed for his alliance with Quebec Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

An electoral promise made by Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau to Montmorency County for a job-creation project during the Great Depression led to the construction of this bridge in 1934.

His father, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, had been Premier of Quebec and his grandfather, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, also served on the Supreme Court of Canada as an Associate Justice.

Jean-Thomas's son Louis-Alexandre would serve as Premier of Quebec, his grandson Robert Taschereau would also serve as Chief Justice of Canada.

* Louis-Alexandre Taschereau ( 1867 – 1952 ): lawyer, Premier of Québec

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of Premier of the Republic of China in 2005.

The former Premier Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigned the month before following a protracted dispute with President Sharif over a proposed draft constitution.

The former Premier Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigned the month before following a protracted dispute with President Sharif over a proposed draft constitution.

In September, Hua Guofeng resigned, and Zhao Ziyang, another Deng ally, was named Premier.

The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005.

When Cain resigned after a collapse in his political support in August 1990, Kirner was elected Labor leader and thus became Victoria's first female Premier.

Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec Premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.

When Harcourt resigned as a result of the Bingogate scandal, Clark stood for and won the leadership of the BC NDP and therefore became BC's 31st Premier.

On 11 August, election day, every UFA MLA was defeated ; Reid himself finished third in his riding, barely ahead of the Communist candidate, and resigned as Premier effective 22 August.

On November 23, Greenfield resigned as Premier of Alberta, tearfully telling the media that he was " through with politics ".

Sifton, falling into the latter group, was chosen as Alberta's representative in that government, and resigned as Premier in October 1917.

He resigned from the bench on May 25, 1910 to become Premier.

On May 26, Rutherford resigned and Arthur Sifton became the second Premier of Alberta.

He had agreed by August 1917 to join the Unionist government, and resigned as Premier in October.

After a party leadership election chose Ralph Klein to succeed him, Getty resigned as party leader December 5 and as Premier several days later.

In 1937, Rajaji was elected Premier of the Madras Presidency and served until 1940, when he resigned due to Britain's declaration of war on Germany.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Rajaji immediately resigned as Premier along with other members of his cabinet in protest at the declaration of war by the Viceroy of India.

Chrétien gained support during the campaign from former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna and former Chrétien government minister and then the current Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Brian Tobin resigned as Premier and ran as a Liberal Party candidate in his province.

Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.

The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005.

However, Cardiff Grange Quins, who finished bottom of the Welsh Premier League resigned leaving the league to operate with an odd number of clubs for 2006 – 07.

The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

* Fulham were the last team to have standing accommodation in the Premier League, as Craven Cottage included terraces in the 2001 – 02 season – eight years after the Taylor Report outlawed terraces at this level.

Charlton's first Premier League campaign began promisingly ( they went top after two games ) but they were unable to keep up their good form and were soon battling relegation.

Yen's presidency was interim ; Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the Premier, became President after Yen's term ended three years later.

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

* 1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

The final is normally held the Saturday after the Premier League season finishes in May.

* 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

Banks had a short career in management with Alliance Premier League side Telford United, he spent the 1979 – 80 season before being sacked after losing to a cup match against a team lower down the table.

At the Central Committee plenary session on 13 February 1984, four days after Andropov's death, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Premier, and Politburo member Nikolai Tikhonov moved that Chernenko be elected general secretary, and the Committee duly voted him in.

The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished on 3 – 3.

* 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.

However, after tough bargaining on both sides, Trudeau did reach a revenue-sharing agreement on energy with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed in 1982.

At the end of his term, after winning another three elections, Askin was the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales ; his record has since been overtaken by Neville Wran and Bob Carr.

The library on the main campus is called the W. A. C. Bennett Library, named after the Social Credit Premier of B. C.

FC Volgograd and FC Rotor Volgograd are both Russian Second Division association football clubs, having been relegated after being in the Russian Premier League in the early 1990s.

* February 24 – The Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

* February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC ( Victorian Economic Development Co-operation ) Crisis.

: In Queensland in 1891 the Great Shearers ' Strike brought the colony close to civil war and was broken only after the Premier of Queensland, Samuel Griffith, called in the military.

Li was raised to the position of Premier thanks partially to the departure of Hu Yaobang, who was forced to resign as General Secretary after the Party blamed him for a series of student-led protests in 1987.

Curiously, after Zhou's death, Mao selected neither a member of the Gang of Four nor Deng Xiaoping to become Premier, instead choosing the relatively unknown Hua Guofeng.

Although Arsenal failed to retain the Premier League after being beaten on the final day of the season by Manchester United, Bergkamp was the club's second-top scorer with 16 goals.

" Their request was discussed by the UN Security Council and " territories " was adopted instead of " all territories ", after President Johnson told Premier Alexei Kosygin that the delegates should not try to negotiate the details of a Middle East settlement in the corridors and meeting halls of the United Nations, and Ambassador Goldberg stipulated that the exact wording of the resolution would not affect the position of any of the parties.

Outside of the United States, the Premier Drum Company, of London, UK, after experimenting with a variety of aluminum bar instruments more closely related to the glockenspiel that were called variations of “ harpaphone ”, moved to the production of the Schluter vibraphone design.