Two months later, the AL declared itself a competing major league.

Two days later on 11 July, Moise Tshombe declared the independence of Katanga province in the south-east, closely backed by remaining Belgian administrators and soldiers.

Two years of revolution and anarchy followed, until in 1870 the Cortes declared that Spain would again have a king.

Two days after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, nationalist leader, Sukarno, declared independence and was appointed president.

Two years later, under the pressure of Allies ( especially France desperate to open a new front ), on August 14 / 27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.

Two famous transfers connected with the history of France are the expulsion of the Jews, 1308, and of the Huguenots who were declared illegal by the Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685.

Two days later, Antonescu forced the king to abdicate and installed the king's young son Michael ( Mihai ) on the throne, then declared himself Conducător (" Leader ") with dictatorial powers.

Two months later, on 22 June 1483, Edward IV's marriage was declared invalid ( Edward, it was claimed, had at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville already been betrothed to Lady Eleanor Butler ); this made the children of the marriage bastards and ineligible for the succession.

Two days later on July 22, the PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs outlawed the Falun Dafa Research Society as an illegal organization " engaged in illegal activities, advocating superstition and spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating disturbances, and jeopardizing social stability ", and the Ministry of Public Security declared it a crime to practice Falun Gong in groups, to possess Falun Gong's teachings, to display Falun Gong banners or symbols, or to protest the ban.

Two years later, the Papal States as a whole were invaded by French forces, who declared a Roman Republic.

Two months after the 2009 election, Karzai was officially declared the winner.

Two days later, the government of Northern Ireland declared the UVF illegal.

Two federal courts later declared that the ordinance was an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights of free association, and an unwarranted intrusion on the privacy of the groups subject to the ordinance.

Stage Two was declared on 28 February 1984.

Two weeks later, Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests making it the newest declared nation with nuclear weapons.

Two years later, in 1700, Jean de Bar and his accomplices were arrested, and after a long and searching inquiry were declared guilty in 1704.

The Kingdom of Sardinia decided to exploit the apparently favourable moment, and declared war on Austria, with the alliance of the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Two federal courts later declared that the ordinance was an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights of free association, and an unwarranted intrusion on the privacy of the groups subject to the ordinance.

Two natural areas: the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Two days after the Japanese surrender in the Pacific, independence leaders Sukarno and Hatta declared Indonesian independence, and were appointed President and Vice-President respectively of the new Republic.

Two years later, in 1834, Austrian ships were having scheduled arrivals and in 1837, Galați was declared a free port ( this was revoked in 1882 ).

It was long believed in the noble Russell family, certainly by the 2nd Earl of Bedford, that the family was descended from the ancient family of Russell of Kingston Russell in Dorset, three miles northeast of Berwick, which descent was declared unproven by Gladys Scott Thomson, FRHist. Soc., in her Two Centuries of Family History, London, 1930, an exhaustive and scholarly work on the early pedigree of the Earls of Bedford.

Two years later liberty of conscience was proclaimed by the National Assembly, of which Rabaut Saint-Etienne was vice-president, and it was declared that non-Catholics might be admitted to all positions.

Two of the first president's most positive achievements were the establishment of the National Treasury and the abolition of slavery, which were declared on 16 September 1825, when he held for the first time El Grito de Dolores.

Two days after the Turkish Caliphate was abolished by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 3 March 1924, Hussein declared himself Caliph at his son Abdullah's winter camp in Shunah, Transjordan.

Two ancient monuments, at some little distance from the town, have, however, fared rather better.

Two giant bucket monuments have since been constructed and erected in town to commemorate the event.

Two mounds on Leith Links, known as " Giant's Brae " and " Lady Fyfe's Brae ", identified as Somerset's Battery and Pelham's Battery respectively, are Scheduled monuments as artillery mounds created for the siege in April 1560.

Two or three others are devoted to the illustration of Bourges, a city in which the old wooden houses were as attractive to him for their own sakes as were the stonebuilt monuments of Paris.

Two other similarly financed monuments on Broadway include those to writer Dante Aligheri in Dante Park between 63rd and 64th Streets at Columbus Avenue, now heralds Lincoln Center ; and composer Giuseppe Verdi anchors Verdi Square, girded by 72nd and 73rd Streets at Amsterdam Avenue.

Two additional monuments can be found in Franklin, Ohio at the intersection of the Old Dixie Highway and Hamilton-Middletown Road, and near Bradfordville, Florida on US 319.

Two monuments near the lake honour its creators.

Two small monuments to the west of the main mausoleum commemorate Ranjit Singh's son Maharaja Kharak Singh and grandson Nau Nihal Singh, and their wives.

Two monuments at the crash site commemorate the death of the two men and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1998 saw the release of Cope's long-awaited and widely acclaimed bestseller The Modern Antiquarian, a large and comprehensive full-colour 448-page work detailing stone circles and other ancient monuments of prehistoric Britain, which sold out of its first edition of 20, 000 in its first month of publication and was accompanied by a BBC Two documentary.

Two important ancient monuments are maintained by Historic Scotland and bring many visitors to the area in summer.

Two grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals are outstanding: to General John A. Logan, atop a tumulus in Chicago, 1894 – 1897, and to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of Central Park in New York, 1892 – 1903, the first use of Robert Treat Paine's pointing device for the accurate mechanical enlargement of sculpture models.

Two monuments to Australian winger and world record try scorer Brian Bevan, who played for Warrington RLFC 1948 – 62 ( scoring 740 tries for the Wire ), are featured at the stadium.

Two notable monuments in this province are the Hatuniye Medrese of the 15th century, built by Sultan Bayezid II, and a Seljuk bridge spanning the Yeşilırmak River, belonging to the 12th century.

Two of Britain's earliest antiquarians, John Aubrey ( 1626 – 97 ) and William Camden ( 1551 – 1623 ), visited Cumbria with an interest in studying the area's megalithic monuments.

Two medieval bridges span the branches of the River Wey and are listed as ancient monuments.

Two ancient monuments, a small distance from the city, have aged well.

Two monuments by Craig also survive ; the Fullerton monument in St Michael's churchyard, Inveresk, and a obelisk at Killearn commemorating the writer George Buchanan ( 1506 – 1582 ).

* Two monuments to Louis XV, in bronze, one for the Place de Reims, the other for the Rond Point of the Champs-Èlysées.

Two other Bartolini monuments in Santa Croce can be compoared with it ; in the Capella Giugni is his monument to Carlotta Buonaparte ( died 1839 ), but when the occasion required a more formal approach, as in the monument to Leone Battista Alberti, the result could be chilly.

Historical monuments include: I. Altynsarin monument, the Bust to Two Heroes of Soviet Union ( I. F. Pavlov and L. I. Beda ), the A. Baitursynov monument, the Memorial complex of memory of victims of the Second World War, A. Imanov bust, L. I.

* Two monuments for members of the Perutz family at the New Jewish Cemetery