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Around 10200 BC, the first fully developed Neolithic cultures belonging to the phase Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) appeared in the fertile crescent.
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Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!
Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.
Around 500 BC the Ur-Parthenon was dismantled to make place for a newer and grander building, the " Older Parthenon " ( often called Pro-Parthenon, " early Parthenon ").
Around 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).
Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.
Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.
Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.
Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.
Around the 17th and 16th centuries BC most of the older centres had been overrun.
Around 300 BC, they were pushed inland by the Deutero-Malays, an Iron Age or Bronze Age people descended partly from the Chams of Cambodia and Vietnam.
Around 1500 BC Fiji was settled by Polynesian seafarers.
Around 900 – 600 BC Moturiki Island was settled.
Around 3000 BC, iron was a scarce and precious metal in the Near East.
Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).
Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians.
Around 10, 700 to 9400 BC, a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of Aleppo.
Around 9000 BC during the PPNA, the world's first town, Jericho, appeared in the Levant.
Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.
Around 700 BC, they appear to have developed systems of social organization that were the precursors of the Inca civilization.
Around this time, Hasdrubal became Carthaginian commander in Iberia ( 229 BC ).
Around 340 BC, the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia ventured from Greece to Western Europe and Great Britain.
Around 500 BC Sri Lankans
Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.
Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.
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Around this time, Alcott also first expressed his public disdain for slavery.
Around this time, he started to share a home with Heather Stoney, an actress he had first met ten years earlier.
Around 1503 – 1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.
Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.
Around the same time, in France, Charles-Louis Havas extended the services of his news agency, Havas to include advertisement brokerage, making it the first French group to organize.
That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.
Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.
He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".
The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.
" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.
Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.
Carson City's first modern bus system, Jump Around Carson, or JAC, opened to the public.
Around two million years ago the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation.
Around the late 14th century AD, European powdermakers first began adding liquid during grinding to improve mixing, reduce dust, and with it the risk of explosion.
Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.
Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Around 1. 8 million years ago, Homo ergaster first appeared in the fossil record in Africa.
Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.
His second album, 1986's The Secret Value of Daydreaming was panned by critics, but reached number 32 on the Billboard Magazines album chart, and produced the single " Stick Around ", which was his first # 1 single on the U. S. Album Rock Tracks chart.
Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.
It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.
( Exception: the first book, Around the World in 80 Days, contains some pictures by Pao but most are by other photographers.
* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
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